1. It covers the first month. The baby takes the food by touch and asks for love and attention.
2. It covers second and third month. It seems that babies are interested in their own activities. They start to persuade results by their own interest.
3. it covers the fourth month. Babies concentrate on getting results from their own actions.
4. It covers until the tenth month. There is not new progress or new patrons in their behavior but they are consolidate old habits by exploring with new things.
5. It covers from the tenth to the eighteenth month. The experimentation is more active. Babies seem more interested in the process and the desire of something new. For example, they can build a tower and then throw it down.
6. It covers from the eighteenth to the twentieth month. Babies experiment on new existent abilities. They start to coordinate situations "in their mind". There are no logical reasoning: they can try to fix a truck with a screwdriver because they have seen somebody doing it, but it is purely pragmatic interlinking of concurrent or remembered experiences.
Next time, I will talk about how the language enters in action.
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( 3 / 129 )According to Piaget, there are five periods of intellectual growth.
1. The sensory-motor period. Use of the sense to explore and interact with his/her immediate environment. That's why children dribble everything.
2. The preconceptual period (until 4 years old): A preconcept is an essence left in the mind and body from a group of experiences that have a common demand.
3. The intuitive period: uses preconcepts as the basis of illogical and intuitive reasoning (5 years old or more)
4. The concrete Operational Period (8-11 years old)
5. The period of Abstract Thinking or of Hypothetical reasoning (12-14 years old)
Next time, I will focus on the first and second period and how to use this knowledge to help your child to learn a second language.
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( 2.9 / 112 )I am going to teach you numbers from 1 to 10 today.
1=uno
2=dos
3=tres
4=cuatro
5=cinco
6=seis
7=siete
8=ocho
9=nueve
10=diez.
Done.
Do you expect something else from me? For a year or so, I worked at a preschool that wanted numbers every class. EVERY CLASS!!!! I thought (and knew) that numbers from 1 to 10, one after another, didn't work. And it doesn't (Let me tell you: I didn't last long there).
Last week I was reading Piaget, a guy from Switzerland who wrote about psychology and learning in children. According to him, numbers are a very abstract thinking. If you say the phrase "three red strawberries", children can see and taste "strawberries", can see "red" and they can't taste or sense "three". So, if you teach numbers to your child like a list, your child will recite number after number but he/she will not count.
Another thing that children sense is the idea of "enough". "Three strawberries" are "enough" for mom, "enough" for dad and "enough"for me. If somebody else come to your house, your child might be worry if he/she doesn't see "enough" ice cream for everybody (so when my daughter's cousins came to our house, I was sure to have "enough" for everybody)
So, how really to teach numbers? Children have to sense them and the only way is to have a physical activity, something that they can do.
A good example could be to count the jumps from your child's bedroom to the main hall or any place inside your house.
Something like that:
¿Cuántos saltos hay? Salta
Un salto, dos saltos, tres saltos, cuatro saltos.
¡¡Cuatro saltos!! Hay 4 saltos.
Moving the body and counting at the same time will make them "sense" the numbers in less abstract way.
¡Feliz Año Nuevo!!!
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( 3 / 112 )I found this website with online games in Spanish. What I really like is that it has sound. Every word in every game is pronounced and you know what means in English because of the picture. In some cases, it can be two players. It can be a family activity, between meals during Christmas!
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( 3 / 148 )I like this website because it has a little of everything: articles, activities, tips, book recommendation, etc. All done it by age.
I hope you enjoy it!
Feliz Navidad!
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