Dear Edusmart Parents
Although we create ample time slots at Edusmart to recap on the term's work with our learners during assessments, we do require our Intersen Phase learners to also prepare at home. We know how much stress you had to endure during lockdown in 2020, and we certainly don't want you to become instant teachers at home! Here are a few pointers to guide you during the next few weeks in order to assist your child at home.
Just breathe! Assessments end on 22 June 2022!
The complete assessment timetable is available on D6 CONNECT.
Many experts will tell you that your child has to sit up straight in front of a neatly organised desk. However, our Edusmarties physically differ like a box of smarties ,and therefore have different learning and study needs.
Embrace your child's unique personality and learning style and allow him or her to learn the way he or she is wired. If your child learns best reading out loud, it means that he/she is an auditory learner. These learners need to hear their own voices in order to learn; they need to talk about the work. Let them make a mind-map and tell you what they have written in each block. Don't tell this type of learner to be quiet! Visual learners need to be stimulated by making colourful blocks, designs and pictures on their mind-maps in order to make the content their own, while kinesthetic learners need to MOVE in order to learn. Don't tell this type of learner to sit still - give them a stress ball or tennis ball to throw against the wall; tell them to jump from one floor tile in the house to another while they learn the water cycle or the food pyramid, for instance; let them make rhymes, anagrams, stories and songs about the content; let them even make a rap-song and rap it out! Embrace the unique human being that is your child!
According to Gardner there are 8 different intelligences, and since 2011 Digital Intelligence was added. Here is an interesting read should you be interested.(https://www.simplypsychology.org/multiple-intelligences.htmls).
Learners who are auditory sensitive need external sounds to be blocked out when they learn. Allow them to listen to Baroque music or Music for Studying, or even the Minecraft soundtrack, and to use their headphones. However, CHECK on them with regular and unexpected intervals... our learners are tech-savvy and Mozart or Bach could instantly be replaced by their favourite music! Here are two links to calming music that is conducive to studying. I prefer the second one. https://youtu.be/BjnnUCmNREI or https://youtu.be/4fezP875xOQ
Good luck@Edusmart Family!
Marianne.
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