How many times do you have to get the children to recite their numbers? How many times do we say, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten? After a while, the learning has taken place. After a while, the excitement diminishes.
Time to move out of the box! (the worksheets have been thrown in the bin!)
- What does the number eight look like?
- Two fat circles? Yes
- A long balloon squeezed in half? Yes
- One ball on top of another? Yes
Now to keep your creative thinking working overtime. You have the children thinking. You have their attention (and I am talking about three year olds too). So keep going and it’s so easy to let your mind explode with a rainbow of numbers!
- What number did we begin with?
- What number did we end with?
- Two numbers on from two?
- The number that is half way?
Now it is time to get your beads, buttons or jelly tots out.
- Five in one hand five in the other. How many?
- Two jelly tots balancing on my nose.
- How quickly can I get them into my mouth
- How many green hearts in a spinning wheel?
- Can you see any circles? How many? Two? No!! Three? YES
- Can you see any other shapes?
But we are on the right track of teaching with an inspired mind.
So turn over your hourglasses and be an inspiration to your learners.
Time to think out of the box.
Caversham Institute encourages creative thinking and we all owe it to each other to share inspire and have others say WOW!