Gadget-Free Learning: This Singapore School Shares 4 Home Activities For Kids

In the time of COVID-19 when classes have moved from desks to screens, how will the kids stay engaged without being glued to a gadget? Singapore-located Canadian International School understands that besides online classes, kids also require to indulge in personal, off-screen activities to develop observational skills.

Keeping that in consideration, the school has come up with fun and educative learn-while-playing activities that will not only keep them engaged but also encourage their observational, questioning, and creative skills. Take a look at these gadget-free activities:

1.  Pattern Hunt

This activity will help boost kids’ observational and creative skills. Here, you need to ask them to go around the house and porch/garden and observe different patterns. They can either draw or record them and further use it to design a new item – can be a dress, table covers, cushion covers, anything.  

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2.  Let’s Get Interviewing

At a time where they are unable to meet teachers and friends, help them build their oration and connection-building skills with this activity. They can pick any object in and outside the house and frame questions that they would want to ask the object. And, finish with answers written as the object. 

3.  Alter Your Reality aka Create their own stage-play 

Let them imagine and create a fun world of their own. Give them a pair of glasses and ask how would it change the objects around them? Let the glasses work like a magic wand that converts objects as they wish. For example, when they wear those glasses, objects around them can be musical instruments that they’d want to play.

4.  100 Things

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This one is to keep them busy as they rack their brains. Ask them to choose an object and notice 100 things about it. Pattern, colour, shape, existence, purpose, and many more and list them down.

ScooNews recommends and champions this idea of engaging kids in off-screen activities as they trigger them to think out of the box, learn beyond the lines of textbooks, and develop a connection with nature. Moreover, they bring a sense of normalcy with online classes balanced with offline activities.
Source: ScandAsia