Can I leave my child to get on with these things themselves?

What is the level of parental interaction required?

November 12, 2024•1 min read

What is the level of parental involvement required?

Most of the resources available consist of games, so your child will need someone to play against. However, games like hangman could be adapted so that you give your child a bag of scrabble letters or similar and ask them to make the words themselves out of the letters. You could also ask them to make the words out of playdough. Ask to see the finished results once they are done and praise them for what they have achieved.

There are games for each of the times tables, you could ask them to make bright colourful posters of the times tables to help them to remember each of them.

The goal is to keep the activities as creative and active as possible so that your child is creating stronger neuro pathways in their brain making it easier to recall the information.

Additionally, by using as many senses as possible they will again make these pathways stronger. Sitting quietly with a worksheet has its place, but the ability to recall the information that they learned on that worksheet will be much harder than the memories created by chatting, laughing, and interacting with another person.

I think, most parents enjoy spending time with their children. They want to give their children all the support and encouragement that they can and playing games like this gives the perfect opportunity.

Dawn Strachan

For the past 20+ years I have been a firm believer that learning should be an enjoyable experience. I appreciate that traditionally education has revolved around worksheets, textbooks, listening to teachers. But a grounding in early years and working with children who had a variety of learning styles from I learned that it is an individual activity that is personal to all of us. We don’t all learn in the same way. Our influences, our experiences, our capabilities all influence how we retain information. But through it all, I believe that if we can make it enjoyable and engaging, they will want to participate. With participation comes practice which in turn boosts skill and confidence. With an increase in skill and confidence comes a willingness to have a go. This in turn leads to more practice which leads to a positive spiral of success. The moral, we need to make learning fun, engaging, use a range of techniques.

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