Teaching Your Preschooler At Home

Teaching Your Preschooler At Home

 The Most Important Thing to Be Teaching Your Preschooler  At Home Is

One of the most important things you must be teaching your preschooler is how to be a critical thinker. This will help your child all through life and will pass it on to their children.

You should try to get your child to become a person who wants to learn, who want to know why everything works a certain way and how it works. 

Here a few tips on how to obtain this goal for your child.

Just like reading and writing brings a world of knowledge to your child so does critical thinking, problem solving and a desire to learn more.

1. No unanswered questions. With a world of info at your finger tips, you should be able to get to the answer for your child. If your child asks a "I wonder why" question, you and your child can look it up.

Youtube has a broad range of videos that should be able to answer the question. Ask other questions around the subject such as "Is it like that all around the world? Does it change in the seasons?" This teaches your child to not only find answers but to ask questions as well.

2. Cultivate your child's natural interests. If they love reptiles, find ways to use it in maths, science and language. E.g A crocodile starts with a "C" sound, it has 4 legs and can run fast. Let your child count the legs. Your child can run fast, then slow, try to run on their hands and feet (Great for gross motor activities).

For art you can make a Crocodile Craft Paper Bag Puppet, or use egg boxes. There are a lot of places you can find ideas such as First School. Just google what you are looking for. As they say seek and you shall find.

You do not have to put it in every task, but you should incorporate it when you can.

3. Expose your child to as many appropriate experiences as possible. Go on field trips, take them to the park to meet other children. Take them to various restaurants to taste different foods or prepare foods from other countries if you can.

Let them listen to different types of music from classical to rock. Music from other countries. I always put that in with my themes. If we are having a look at Japan, include Japanese music and food. Try eating with chopsticks. Use chopsticks to pick up fuzz balls to count, or when matching colors. There are many ways of introducing other cultures and tastes to your child. 

Take your child to the post office so they can see how mail gets to you. Take them to the sweet factory if you can, look around and see how you can give them hands on knowledge to the questions they ask.

Take them to the library and let them take out books. Books may be outdated but they still are part of our world. Cultivating a love for books is opening a world of experiences that will never go away.

4. Have a place for everything. There must be a place just for school and a place to play. Your child will learn this is learning time and give their attention to learning. Make the place of learning interesting with pictures and books. 

It does not have to be a room, it can be a corner that is just for learning. It must not be in their bedroom as this just does not add to the atmosphere of learning. I have a section in my study that is divided for working and learning.

You will need children, a place to move, color, sing, dance, and work, Lots of paper, crayons, and a good format.

Learning is not always just done in the classroom. Baking is a great way to learn measurements, science, and art. Science is in the mixing of different ingredients, how you do not bake a cake with veggies and meat. Heat - to cold and the cake will not bake, to hot and the cake burns. 

Gardening is great for learning about how things grow, about bugs and shadows. Do we plant flowers up or down? (Spacial) How deep must the hole be? (Measurement) How is the sand, hard or soft, cold or warm, solid or liquid? (Tactile) 

How do bugs help? How do bugs harm? Why do we need bugs? You can even get an ant farm, or a  Live Butterfly Garden if you do not have a garden. You can plant herbs and flowers in small pots. There is a lot you can teach your child if you put your mind to it. 

Teaching Your Preschooler At Home can be fun and an adventure you both can enjoy. There are a lot of ideas for you all over the internet.

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