While walking through the school cafeteria today, I stopped to chat with a second grader. Playfully, I pretended to take away her fruit bowl.
“You can have it… I don’t like fruit,” she gladly told me.
I Don’t Need Breakfast to Learn (Or Do I?)
Tag Archives: Children
Learning and The Visual Memory Effect – Do You See What I See?
What did you eat for dinner one week ago today?
Like most people, you probably can’t remember.
If I had asked you the same question 5 minutes after leaving the table, you would, most likely, have been able to answer accurately.
Learning and Visual Figure-Ground Discrimination
If your child cannot distinguish a shape or a printed character from its background, she is having trouble with visual figure-ground discrimination.
Yesterday, we looked at visual discrimination. Today, we’re going to take a brief look at this slightly different visual processing skill.
How can you tell your child is having this kind of dilemma?
Visual Processing and learning (What’s the Big Deal?)
Mrs. Smith walked into my office.
“Johnny said you want to talk to me about his visual processing.
“What does visual processing have to do with learning?
“My child can see…he passed his vision test and has 20/20 vision.”
“Excellent!” I responded, “Now let me clarify my message.”
How Our Environments Can Impact Upon Learning
This is a guest post from Healthy Life and Safe Living Consultant, Lucinda Curran, who integrates Chinese medicine and Building Biology to provide truly holistic healthcare. Can your home be sabotaging your child’s learning? Read on to find out.
Our modern conveniences and products make our lives easier to manage, but have you ever considered that they might impact on our health?
Questions…Questions…and More Questions?
“How was school today?”
“Good.” (monotone)
“What did you do?”
“Nothing.” (same monotone)
“Wow! You spent 6 hours doing nothing?”
“Oh mom!” (melodramatic sigh)
Multi-Sensory Reading?
If you’ve been around the educational scene for any length of time you would have heard these statistics:
Dreaming…About Children Learning and Mothers/Teachers Teaching
“When you have the privilege of changing someone’s brain, you not only change his or her life, you have the opportunity to change generations to come.” ~ Dr. Daniel Amen
“No! You can’t have her. She is mine,” I screamed, and grabbed on to my daughter’s ankles. With super-human strength, I pulled her down into my arms…away from the woman who had snatched her.
With a baleful glance, the evil-looking woman slinked away.
Learning Styles – Myth of Reality?
If you had to learn something new, which would you prefer? To watch a video about it, listen to someone explain how to do it, or have someone show you what to do while you did it? What about your child…do you know? The 1st method is visual; the 2nd is auditory; and the 3rd tactile or kinesthetic. Each person acquires and processes information in a different way.
