Innovative Ideas for Kindergarten Learning

Are you worried your child is not learning enough in the classroom? Rather than dreading each day, start thinking about how you can boost your child’s interest and make learning more fun with these innovative ideas for kindergarten learning.

First of all, kindergarten is a time for children to learn life skills such as cooperation, sharing, and taking turns. Let your child learn how to work in small groups or pairs (or even solo) by doing things like making art projects together. For example, have your child design a shared picture book while you act as a model. Or have her color with crayons a model of her favorite toy.

Have your child learn to share by taking turns “helping” you fold a paper towel into animals. Let your child practice cooperation and sharing by placing objects on chairs for others to take their turn with the item.

If you’re a parent who’s looking for innovative ideas to help your kindergarten-aged child learn, this is the blog post for you! The following are five of our favorite innovative ideas for math kindergarten learning. After reading, you’ll be able to get your child excited to go to school and come home with a smile on his or her face each day.

1) Natural habitats

Let your child create a natural habitat using things found around the house and then let him bring it outside. For example, place pine cones on a shrub in your yard, add leaves and grass around the cones, and stick some twigs into the ground to make a small forest area. Let him take it outside and cover the cone with moss, leaves, and dirt.

The next day, you can help your child decorate the habitat with pine cones, twigs, and other items. In addition, you can encourage your child to explore the habitat by touching it, listening, and smelling it as well.

2) Math Kindergarten

Let your child learn about math by creating a block tower or another construction project that involves stacking blocks on a base. Have them start with the blocks and then progress to working with smaller objects.

For example, your child could fill balloons with water and then place small plastic items into the water to make a miniature scene for the tower. In addition, see if you can find some toys that are also miniaturized versions of themselves to use for filling in larger items.

Your child can also make different shapes, such as cubes and pyramids, by arranging the blocks on a base.

3) Transforming Water

Children often have a difficult time learning about mathematics when they don’t understand the actual concepts involved. However, this does not have to be so difficult if you expose your child to the different properties of water in kindergarten! For example, if your child thinks water is an “ocean,” see if you can arrange some plastic cups connected with string on a table or floor. Then, ask her to use the cups, string, and other materials to make a “river,” “ocean,” “sea” and “lake” out of the cups.

4) Drawing

Your child can practice how to draw with crayons by using his or her imagination and making a picture of something from nature, a toy, or another object. Alternatively, let your child create pictures out of objects found around the house such as felt tip markers, pasta shapes, or toilet paper rolls.

5) Playing with Words

Children can learn about reading and pronunciation by experimenting with different letter combinations that make words. For example, let your child combine the letter “a” with the letters “h” and “e” to make the sound of the word “ah.” Then, have him make the combination sound with a variety of sounds to see how well he can read individual letters.

The more your child experiments with new sounds, the more his or her vocabulary will grow.

If you’re looking for creative ways to enrich your child’s kindergarten learning, read on! The following one is a favorite among many of my readers.

6) Researching Music

Have your child sit quietly and listen to records or CDs while you explain what they are hearing. For example, ask your child if he can guess the name of the song from it. If he can guess the name of the song, give him a toy to play with while you continue to answer his questions.

Then, see if you can create the same sounds on your own by tapping on the floor, furniture, or your hands.