Home-Schooling can sound extremely intimidating to new parents. While parents may choose to put their child in a play school, some parents prefer to explore the home-schooling option.
Play-school have super short hours most of the times and toddlers spend a lot of time at home. Hence one can offer a lot of learning opportunities at home as well.
If you think you would like to home-school your child, this can be your guide to know what all one can cover during the early developmental years of your child.
1. Grooming Motor Skills
Start with grooming gross motor (large muscles) and fine motor (small muscles) skills. This will form the basis of your homeschooling progress. For this you can refer to early activities one can do on my page.
2. Visual Understanding and Differentiation:
This includes size differentiation – big/small, shapes and color recognition. You can do this through worksheets, matching activities, building block games and so on.
3. Building Memory:
Play memory games like show a picture with 5-7 objects and talk about them. Then remove the picture and ask them to rename objects. This will help increase attention span and focus.
4. Audio Skills:
Developing the child’s audio skills are important too. This would mean making them understand different sounds like that of animals, different music notes, rhyming words and rhymes, clapping in patterns and asking your child to repeat and so on. This will help build language skills faster.
5. Taste and Smell:
Play games where you introduce sweet, sour, salty and bitter tastes. Similarly make them smell different things and put a name to it- floral, fruity, pungent, smelly and so on.
6. Building Trust:
Trusting your child’s ability to learn is very important. It will help them establish a healthy relationship with academics and a natural liking towards teachers and studies.
7. Establish a suitable routine:
Choose a suitable time for both of you and follow it. Routine always helps children learn better.
Remember to make it fun and not tedious. If either of you are not in a mood, take a break or change the game/activity.
90% of the brain development happens in the first 5 years of a child’s life and the right kind of exposure can really aid the development.
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