The Best Ways to Choose Extra-Curricular Activities for Your Kids

In today’s world, the average parents are hit with a barrage of choice on how to ensure their child grow up to the most well round, secure, smart, intelligent and loving person that every parent their child to be. Education is very important for the children’s, but extra-curricularactivities for kids, school clubs, time with family and friends are very important to make your child mentally and physically strong.

How to choose the best extra-curriculum activity for your child? Here are some tips to consider when choosing extra-curriculum activities for your child.

•    What they like to do?

Before you start thinking about the activities for your kids, try to understand what he/she truly interested in. Don’t push your child to some particular games and sports without his/her consent. You want your son to play football when he’d much rather learn to play guitar.

Try to find out what are the things him/her fond of and then choose the activities which best suits to his/her abilities. Give them different options: the active child might enjoy anything from soccer, basketball or tennis etc. whereas an artistic child might enjoy animation and pottery or drama and singing class.

•    Find the activities around you

Once have decided about the activities, now it’s time to find out the place where your child learns those activities perfectly. You can start at your child’s school. There are some after school activities such as a local dance studio, gymnastic clubs, track and field, chess club, math club, martial arts, sports, music, art businesses and much more. Apart from that, you can check community and recreation centers.

•    Choose the best place

 When you visit to find the best place for your child’s activities, make sure the connection between student and instructor is nice. You want to give your child a positive, friendly and healthy environment; you expect good staffs who are experts in their field, so check for credentials. Ask about hidden costs for uniform, costumes, and equipment. They should be trained and experience to understand his/her capabilities and get the best out of your child.

•    How often you child goes for classes

You should know how many days a week you child goes for classes. You know your child best but one or two activities might be just enough. Your child first priority should be school and homework and if extra-curricular activities are interfacing with academic performance, it would be time to make some decisions. If your children’s choose one activities each, they will give their 100% and also get the time to cover their school stuff.

There are different options for that; you can choose activities that are seasonal i.e. swimming, hockey, soccer etc or you can schedule your children’s activities during the weekend so they can enjoy with family. 

How to Teach 6 Essential Mathematical Skills to Kids

Most of the kids start learning the two very basic mathematics operations –addition and subtraction. They perform some little additions and subtraction on a regular basis. The mother tells her child that she has two chocolates. One chocolate is given to the child. Now, how many chocolates do the mother has? The kid immediately calculates and says “one”. The development of the ability to perform these operations is essential when the kid is ready for preschool. However, these are just basic operation.

Top 6 Preschool and Home Games and Fun Activities for Kids.

There are only a few kids who love to reading books. Most of the kids find it boring. People find reading books boring because they lack imagination. Kids have the power of creative visualization. Still, they don’t like reading books. Their love for games and fun activities overweighs their visualization and imagination required for reading books. However, education is necessary. Problem-solving, social, leadership and all necessary skills are developed through education. It shapes their futures. So, if you cannot educate with books, let them learn through what they love to do. Subjects like mathematics, science, English etc can be taught through games and extracurricular activities for kids.

How Early Childhood Education Can Shape the Future of Your Child – Part 2

In the first part of the blog, we have stressed on the importance of early childhood learning. You can click here to read how early childhood education can help in the development of the sense of socialization, cooperation, holistic development and lifelong learning, and the value of learning through experience.

How Early Childhood Education Can Shape the Future of Your Child – Part 1

Learning is a nonstop and important process that helps in evolving and improving throughout the life. However, the importance of learning in childhood is obvious to understand. Every single word kids learn, every behavior and every experience they are going to have effects on their future. Whatever they learn is the most valuable investment in their future. The first three years shape the kid’s brain architecture. And, the first half decade of life shapes future growth, happiness, health, development, achievements at school, college and the entire life. Early learning is the base of organizational development and functioning of the brain. So, early childhood education is extremely important. Here is what teachers have to say:

A Guide for Parents and Teachers to Develop Social Skills in Preschool Kids -2

In this second part of the blog “A Guide for Parents and Teachers to Develop Social Skills inPreschool Kids”, we are going to highlight some more tips for the development of social skills in kids.

Display Warm and Positive Emotions At Home 

 

Setbacks and troubles are bound to happen. Therefore, parents cannot always remain in the state of cheer. A trouble can be an opportunity for kids as they can learn to deal with disappointment. However, your attitude should be positive. Do not show signs of despair or anger. It has been shown in researches and it is natural also, when parents, mothers in particular, suffer, kids are also likely to suffer. When kids are experiencing positive emotions at home, they are likely to develop more preschool social skills.

A Guide for Parents and Teachers to Develop Social Skills in Preschool Kids -1

Are you science-minded parents who want to develop preschool social skills in your kids? Preschool social skills play an important role in shaping the career and future of a kid. Education and career have always been the major concern of parents. Since the preschool is the starting point of the education, we will cover some useful tips for developing and improving social skills in kids going to preschool. A kid’s ability to develop any kind of skill depends on three skills:

Why Nurseries Should Focus On Naturalizing the Indoor and Outdoor

Outdoor Learning Environments (OLEs) is the new term coined a few years ago. Till now, childcare centers have used OLEs for adding diversity to the playing experience of kids. OLEs connects kids to nature and promote healthy development. This is a practice that incorporates flowers, grasses, trees, shrubs, vegetables and edible fruits. It also brings them close to the Mother Nature and they learn to care about the environment.

The Five Stages of Cognitive Development in Children

The development of an individual starts right from the birth and continues to the adulthood. An individual can reach the apex of his potential and caliber only when the childhood development is successful. In the real life, you might have seen someone in your neighborhood struggling due to lack of development in the early childhood. Researchers call it the critical age.

This is called critical age because the human brain in this age is strongly adaptable to new things. The brain quickly grabs what the body touches, hears, tastes, sees, smells and feels.

During decades of research, many times it is shown that the brain undergoes some permanent changes that will assist in the future functionality. Therefore, the overall development is necessary for this critical age. However, learning or development is possible only in the presence of adults. In nurseries and preschools, it is the responsibility of teachers to ensure the overall development of children. And, it is the responsibility of parents to find the right nursery school for kids in Dubai.When parents are exploring a Dubai school list, they have to make sure that the teachers are qualified and capable enough.

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The overall development of a child is divided into following five domains:

•         Cognitive 
•         Physical
•         Social
•         Communicative, and
•         Adaptive 

Swiss clinical psychologist and the pioneer of child 
development Jean Piaget have defined following four
stages of cognitive development.

The Sensory motor Stage

This is two years long stage that starts with the birth. During this state, the baby learns through manipulating objects and sensory experiences. It learns to see different objects as different entities. The ability to attach names and words to objects is developed in this age as it learns to build mental pictures of objects. The baby learns to process the information received from senses and begins movements of limbs and muscles. These developments are also called ‘action schema’.

The Pre-Operational Stage

This stages starts at the age of 2 years and ends at 7. Kids in this stage learn to process thoughts but struggle with logic. The dictionary is expanded in this stage. They consider things from their own perspective only. They believe that everybody in the world shares the same perspective.

The Concrete Operation Stage

The stage expands from the age of 7 to 11. In this stage, the thought processing becomes mature, rational and more operational. This happens when the child begin to think logically. They start thinking about what others feel and think. They now know that their views and thoughts are unique and different from others.

The Formal Operational Stage

This is the stage of adolescence, from 15 to 16. Logic, reasoning and the understanding of abstract ideas is increased. When they encounter a problem, they think about all potential solutions to the problem. In simple words, they learn to think scientifically.  

A child needs a strong foundation for bright future and this foundation is laid in early age.