Category Archives: General Information
The Value of Being Creative
Screen Time on Children’s Eyes
I wanted to address the topic of screen time because it has come up a few times. A number of parents have asked if it is okay for young children to look at the computer? Will it harm their eyes? What are the concerns that we should be aware of? This was a topic ofContinue reading “Screen Time on Children’s Eyes”
Puzzle Play for Spatial Intelligence
Early Development for 0-3 Year Olds
The Purpose of Manipulatives for Learning Maths
“Manipulatives can be important tools in helping students to think and reason in more meaningful ways. By giving students concrete ways to compare and operate on quantities, such manipulatives as pattern blocks, tiles, and cubes can contribute to the development of well-grounded, interconnected understandings of mathematical ideas.” Stein and Bovalino (2001) The use of manipulativesContinue reading “The Purpose of Manipulatives for Learning Maths”
Right Brain Education in Infancy by Makoto Shichida
Understanding the Right Brain Education Potential from an Austistic Point of View
In a quest to understand more about the potential of the right brain, I often come back to individuals such as autistic savants. It is the impediment on their left brain that unveils the true potential of the right brain. We can observe the true ability of the right brain in autistic savants with theirContinue reading “Understanding the Right Brain Education Potential from an Austistic Point of View”
The Purpose of Flashcards in Early Learning
How to Increase Your Child’s Spatial Intelligence
Spatial intelligence (spatial reasoning or visual-spatial ability) is a subgroup of reasoning skills that allow us to visualise spatial images in our heads and mentally manipulate them. This ability helps us to think about objects in three dimensions and to make inferences about those objects from the limited information available to us. “Spatial thinking, or reasoning, involves theContinue reading “How to Increase Your Child’s Spatial Intelligence”