The last part to enabling your child to create meaningful relationships throughout their lives is to explore a different way to teach academis skills. We will explore how real-life experiences can be used as opportunities to teach academic skills, such as reading, writing and maths.
Below are the lessons that will help you generalize academics effectively. Make sure to download the supporting PDF workbook.
Math and counting
Play and Math
Different Reading Inputs
How to teach Reading
What school can look like
Math and counting
Lynette and Krystel talk about how money solidies math and the concept of numbers and counting.
Play and Math
Watch how Lynette uses a boardgame as a way to teach math and counting while playing with Maria and Chris.
Different Reading Inputs
Watch Karim, Krystel and Lynette hang out and show you different ways of integrating reading skills into daily activities and games.
How to teach Reading
Krystel and Lynette talk about how we can creatively teach reading.
What school can look like
Krystel and Lynette talk about what school can potentially look like if we were to allow flexibility.
Lesson Takeaways
- Play can be used to generalize academics
Money is math:
- Using real life motivation and real life experiences tied to having to pay will help understand numbers
- Create relationship between paying and wallet: Let them be responsible for knowing if they have money with them or if they need to go home, while giving choices and control, in simple things
Reading:
- Make up games that offer a variety of reading and spelling opportunities
- Let them see the word in different ways: separating the word makes it easier to read then word after word
- Who believes they read? It’s hard to get people to believe in your child reading and their abilities. If they can’t read in one way correctly, it doesn’t mean that they can’t read
- Give them lots of choices on which way to type
- Use motivators for why they should type and read, give it meaning
Flexibility at school:
- The worry of “If I allow this now, he will do it forever”: There is nothing to worry about as long as you give a meaning of why, be clear of what is the goal at the moment
- If we let them be comfortable doing the things they want to do, they will be happier, more comfortable and independent: with this power at school, they get to want to go to school, vs having to go to school
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