Circle Time Tips & Techniques for Homeschooling Preschool & Kindergarten the Montessori Way - By Learn And Play Montessori School
00:0-1 | high ground up . It's Miss Emily from learning plane | |
00:02 | once a sorry school , we've just gone for a | |
00:04 | really challenging year trying to adapt to home schooling , | |
00:08 | which may be new to some of us but may | |
00:10 | not be new to all of us . Now , | |
00:12 | I'm here to talk to you today about some Circle | |
00:15 | Time techniques that can help you to start your home | |
00:19 | schooling day off right now . Circle Time is really | |
00:23 | important as it just introduces the child into the day | |
00:27 | , it gets their mindset ready to know that they're | |
00:29 | going to be doing some learning . It's also an | |
00:32 | excellent time to recap on some topics or some special | |
00:37 | areas that you have been learning about previously and it's | |
00:40 | a great conversational time . I use this time at | |
00:44 | school generally to also get to know the Children a | |
00:46 | little bit better as it's a time that I feel | |
00:49 | they are more willing to share . As it's generally | |
00:52 | first thing in the morning when they just arrived at | |
00:54 | school and our fresh and this will be the same | |
00:57 | at home . They'll be feeling a little bit more | |
00:59 | fresh . Their attention spans will be a little bit | |
01:02 | more focused as it is the first activity that they | |
01:05 | will be taking part in during the day . Mm | |
01:13 | Buying a comfortable area for circle time is a great | |
01:17 | idea and ideally you should stick to the same area | |
01:20 | every time you do your Circle time . That will | |
01:22 | help your child to understand the signal that this is | |
01:26 | where we're going to sit and we're going to listen | |
01:28 | and typically during a circle time you do similar activities | |
01:32 | . So this is where you may be reading a | |
01:34 | story . This is where you may be looking at | |
01:37 | the calendar . This is where you may be introducing | |
01:40 | a new topic . And so generally Children begin to | |
01:43 | understand that Circle Time involves some aspects of sitting down | |
01:48 | and listening . The beginning of Circle Time should always | |
01:56 | draw the Children in . That should be quite exciting | |
01:59 | . And so you might want to have some fun | |
02:02 | songs as a warm up that you do every day | |
02:04 | . You may want to bring out a few instruments | |
02:07 | as it is your warmup time . It's just a | |
02:09 | nice easy way to ease into the debate so that | |
02:12 | the Children feel excited to be there and will then | |
02:15 | be ready to listen . Once you have done your | |
02:17 | warm up now , you can do some warm ups | |
02:19 | in different ways . You might start your day off | |
02:22 | with a riddle depending on how old your Children are | |
02:26 | . You may start your day off with a few | |
02:28 | yoga poses to do some stretches . Alternatively , you | |
02:32 | may want to get your heart pumping and you may | |
02:34 | want to do a few exercises just to get them | |
02:36 | in the mood . However , if you wish to | |
02:39 | start off a little bit slower , you may even | |
02:41 | start with the story that is fine too . Now | |
02:45 | in my circle times I generally cover three topics and | |
02:49 | that will be the day , the month and the | |
02:53 | weather and most days we will also talk about how | |
02:56 | we are feeling . However , I sometimes like to | |
02:59 | keep feelings as a topic that I look at specifically | |
03:02 | so that we can read related stories to it and | |
03:05 | talk about what the feelings actually mean . But in | |
03:08 | a general passing we may just talk about how you're | |
03:11 | feeling if we're feeling a little bit sleepy that morning | |
03:14 | or if we're feeling quite excited , maybe we're doing | |
03:18 | something later that afternoon and this is a great way | |
03:21 | to get to know the Children , even though it | |
03:23 | may be your child at home . It's a great | |
03:25 | way to know what they're thinking about or how they | |
03:28 | feel about things you may even decide to talk about | |
03:31 | if they had any dreams last night . It's just | |
03:34 | a great conversation time and it really helps the Children | |
03:37 | to feel a little bit more at ease and relaxed | |
03:40 | and also attentive as they begin to understand the process | |
03:43 | of talking back and forth and taking turns within a | |
03:46 | conversation . Once we have sung our Hello or Good | |
03:55 | Morning song and we briefly looked at how we are | |
03:58 | feeling that deli . I move on to the calendar | |
04:01 | . Now you may choose to keep it really simple | |
04:03 | and depending on how old your child is , you | |
04:06 | could verbally just talk about the weather by doing things | |
04:09 | practically like looking outside . You could even use a | |
04:12 | calendar of your own just to show them the different | |
04:15 | days of the week and months of the year for | |
04:18 | younger Children . However , I do suggest that you | |
04:21 | use some pictures as that does help them to relate | |
04:24 | the information . For example , for the weather , | |
04:27 | you could have a cartoon image of the sun . | |
04:29 | You may even choose to use a real image or | |
04:33 | even better . You could take pictures together when you | |
04:36 | do come across these different kinds of weather and you | |
04:39 | could look back at these when it is that kind | |
04:41 | of weather the next day . For example , if | |
04:44 | you're taking a walk and it's a really nice hot | |
04:47 | , sunny day , why don't you get your child | |
04:49 | to help you take a picture of the beautiful son | |
04:53 | or the Seascape , whatever you may be looking at | |
04:57 | . And then you can use that in your calendar | |
04:59 | . Now I have a calendar here that I use | |
05:02 | which has everything on it , including days of the | |
05:05 | week . It has some numbers . It has seasons | |
05:09 | , weather and months of the year . But like | |
05:12 | I said , you could keep it simple , you | |
05:14 | could also make these things at home and generally if | |
05:17 | your child is younger , you do not want to | |
05:19 | bombard them with too much information Completing this whole board | |
05:24 | for a 2-3 year old , maybe a little bit | |
05:26 | more challenging . And of course they may not completely | |
05:28 | understand it as it is an abstract concept . However | |
05:32 | , for all the Children , of course this can | |
05:35 | help them to understand the whole date . So you | |
05:38 | may even get them to write it up . For | |
05:40 | example , 28 of December and it is a monkey | |
05:44 | . They could write that on a white board for | |
05:46 | you . Yeah . Now , as I mentioned earlier | |
05:53 | , I like to use circle Time . You also | |
05:55 | recap previous concepts that we have been looking at . | |
05:59 | That is things like numbers 1 to 10 , which | |
06:02 | we can easily incorporate into our date colors . For | |
06:06 | example , looking at the weather , what kind of | |
06:08 | colors do you see in the sky ? What do | |
06:11 | you see after it rains a rainbow ? Right , | |
06:15 | let's go through the colors of the rainbow . I | |
06:18 | wonder if you know a song about the rainbow . | |
06:20 | There's so many things that you can incorporate into circle | |
06:24 | time to really stretch it out . But I do | |
06:27 | recommend that you keep circle times relatively small , Nowhere | |
06:31 | longer than 20 minutes , I would say for younger | |
06:34 | Children may even be as little as 10 minutes , | |
06:37 | that is perfectly fine as it is an introduction to | |
06:39 | the day . Their attention spans will not stretch that | |
06:42 | long typically , especially at the beginning if they are | |
06:45 | younger and you do really not want to force that | |
06:48 | . So also if you're at home , go along | |
06:50 | with their attention span and you will see a progress | |
06:53 | as they mature Now , last of all in a | |
07:00 | circle time . I know you also use some time | |
07:03 | to introduce the concept and this could be anything from | |
07:08 | colours to animals , any particular theme that you were | |
07:11 | looking at , a new letter of the alphabet , | |
07:14 | but you may introduce weekly , a new number , | |
07:17 | It could be anything , and generally I would introduce | |
07:20 | this using a game and this will be our focus | |
07:24 | for the day . So we will then incorporate other | |
07:27 | activities that are centered around this new information that we | |
07:30 | just learned at circle time . So for example , | |
07:34 | if we're learning about farm animals , I may introduce | |
07:37 | some farm animals in a row . Hopefully you could | |
07:40 | have some toys and Children could actually physically touch them | |
07:43 | when you look at them . But if you only | |
07:45 | have pictures , of course that's no problem . You | |
07:48 | can also introduce the animals using pictures , introduce them | |
07:51 | with lots of sound effects to make it fun introduce | |
07:55 | it with a song singing Old Macdonald and then we | |
07:59 | could play a game for example , we could line | |
08:02 | are animals up in a road , ask our Children | |
08:05 | to close out their eyes and then we will take | |
08:08 | one animal or anything . Now this also improves our | |
08:11 | memory so they can try to test their knowledge . | |
08:15 | Do they know the farm animals and you can test | |
08:18 | their memory . Can they remember which farm animals we | |
08:21 | had and which farm animal is missing ? And this | |
08:24 | really gets them excited for learning more about that topic | |
08:28 | . So I hope I've given you a few tips | |
08:30 | on how you may decide to run your morning when | |
08:32 | you are at home and looking for something for your | |
08:35 | child to do while still trying to feed into their | |
08:38 | academics and into their learning . Everyone Atlanta Play Montessori | |
08:42 | School . Goodbye mm |
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Circle Time is a wonderful way to start your child's day. Miss Emily shares her tips, techniques, and secrets as to how to use Circle Time for homeschooling preschool / kindergarten the Montessori way. For example, you should start with Circle Time each and every day. You can recap what you've
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