You are probably already familiar with the concept of active learning \u2013 learning through play and hands-on activities. This can take the form of exploring different materials, learning through guided group activities and crafts, and interacting a lot with classmates.<\/p>\n
But with the pressures on academics that the Hong Kong school system creates from a very young age, activity-based learning can sometimes get left behind.<\/p>\n
Young children learn through using their senses; they learn and remember through experience rather than memorisation. It can be a common misconception to think that this kind of learning is only relevant for children that struggle with focus and paying attention. But taking learning off of the page and into a kinetic and engaging activity is extremely beneficial for early childhood development.<\/p>\n
A lot of active learning revolves around problem solving and fosters independent learning behaviour.<\/strong> What this means is that a child who learns actively<\/strong> will then be more likely to pursue their interests, ask questions, interact with others, and want to learn. It’s about creating an environment that will help your child gain a sense of curiosity, responsibility and social skills.<\/p>\n Help your child build important hand muscles needed for writing with cutting-and-sticking crafts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Talk while you draw<\/strong> together as a great way of building up everyday vocabulary, especially words related to colours, shapes and animals.<\/p>\n Develop hand-eye-coordination<\/strong> with interactive vocabulary ball-games, both throwing and rolling a soft ball.<\/p>\n Explore the senses with sensory boxes<\/strong> where you let your child freely play with flour, sand, jelly, slime or cotton balls and beads.<\/p>\n Join our K-clubs<\/a> to experience lots of activities like this and give your children a dynamic learning opportunity! Every Monday and Tuesday in TST and every Tuesday and Friday in Wan Chai. Take a look at our Clubs and Activities<\/a> to see what we offer for older students too!<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You are probably already familiar with the concept of active learning \u2013 learning through play and hands-on activities. This can take the form of exploring different materials, learning through guided group activities and crafts, and interacting a lot with classmates. But with the pressures on academics that the Hong Kong school system creates from a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":13353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[774],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13298,"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13296\/revisions\/13298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www23.i-learner.com.hk\/studiowebsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What can you do to encourage active learning?<\/strong><\/h3>\n