A year ago we commented that children never stop learning, even if we choose not to pressure them to do homework on vacation. They show us their preferences and learning needs: for example, my little daughter is lately very interested in investigating the meaning of complex words for her, and in develop ideas from the events you see around you or in the media.
My son has been researching the Pacific 'belt of fire' for a few months (the volcanic mountain range submerged in the great ocean), so don't be surprised that I feel like it is absurd to suggest homework books for vacations, it won't be that contributes to quench your curiosity.
But when executing knowledge in practice, the older one prefers to face the letters, and the small one ... to the numbers. I show you a very simple activity that we have developed and will serve as entertainment for no more than a week. The idea is of a proposal of decomposition of numbers that I have seen in Learning Mathematics, from there, I have also developed the task for words.
Let's go with the numbers
With only cards, wooden clothespins and markers or pensWe can help stimulate appreciation for mental calculation, advancing in the practice of subtraction.
The process begins with the writing of incomplete sums that result in 10 rectangular pieces of cardboard: we must ignore one of the addends, but we will include the result. Then we write about the tweezers the addends that we have 'eaten' on the paper so that we have enough to complete the operation.
Subtraction is practiced because the child must decompose and find out the sum that remains, if we indicate that this is obtained from the result and subtracting the number they did know, it is an advance to enter the subtractions.
Malena (from AM) presents the prepared materials in a tray, on the one hand the cards, on the other the tweezers. I have developed two parallel sets (one with results 10, another with 20) changing the color of cardboard and marker for each group), hooking tweezers that did not correspond to the cards, with the intention that they should be changed.
And now with the letters
My son liked to play Intelect (I know that many of you will prefer Scrabble instead, it seems more complex) last year, not now ... but he is a very good reader and this facilitates the approach to words. With the cards in hand, and after preparing the previous activity, it occurred to me to make two more with letters.
Discover the meaning
When it comes to words that we do not use daily, many times we do not know how to place them well in context, and many others, we do not even know exactly what they mean, and this happens to children and adults. This game is intended match stated with content, and for this we need a dictionary that will help us select 'difficult' words (but not to the point that they are unlikely to be used in their conversations).
The words are written on pieces of cardboard of one color, the meanings in a different color, and two columns are formed in which they do not correspond to each other, so that the child tries to match them accordingly. Or they are placed in two baskets so that you can select from one or the other.
Do we dare with more than one language?
Now we can try the same thing but with three or four columns that include statements in Spanish, Catalan (or Basque, or Galician), English, and of course the meaning. So we move forward a little and we will all be able to remember words in other languages.
Surely many of you invent similar activities that serve to entertain and stimulate knowledge, here we had already counted some of our favorite games with pencil and paper, do you tell us your proposals?
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