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Especially for the KINESTHETIC/TACTILE LEARNER

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 ■ Kinesthetic learners need to move. They wiggle, tap, swing their leg, bounce, and
    sometimes just don't seem able to "stay in their seat"
■ They will struggle with focus unless their hands are working on the learning
■ They will benefit greatly from motions that are directly tied to learning
■ They will do better if given actual objects to manipulate in learning to replace pencil and paper
■ Their attention follows their hands. If their attention wanders, pointing to the next math problem to
   be solved will focus their minds on their immediate task
■ As with visual learners, kinesthetic learners learn best in a way that is highly automatic: that
   of body motions stored in the body and cerebellum
■ Kinesthetic learners are often gifted performers as athletes, dancers, and any skill that uses their
   hands
■ Kinesthetic learners generally are very coordinated and have an excellent sense of body timing
■ Kinesthetic learners will learn and remember best when allowed to move
■ They can be taught to not disturb those around them while they move during learning

   In traditional classrooms, often children are expected to sit quietly in their seats, listen, and then learn what they are hearing. Many times there is not the opportunity for students to experience the learning with their bodies and hands, apart from writing with a pencil on paper. While some people believe that a teacher would have to teach several different ways in order to accommodate the various learning styles, we don't think so.   
   Teachers will be successful in reaching all their learners at one time if they will develop a teaching style that is a synthesis of methods that target the whole brain. Child1st exists to help provide teaching materials that are multisensory; materials that make this task of teaching to the whole brain easier for the parent and teacher!
   Learners who need body movement and hands-on work include tactile, kinesthetic learners, and children who have been labled dyslexic, ADD, and ADHD.

What does it mean if my child is a kinesthetic or tactile learner?
Kinesthetic learners learn best when they are moving. If they are using their hands and bodies in learning, their attention will be focused right on the learning they are doing. Conversely, if they are expected to sit very still and pay attention and listen, success will not follow. The more they have to sit still, the less they can focus and learn!

HOW WE CAN HELP YOU
 Our products are multisensory which simply means that we have created materials that will utilize as many avenues to the brain as possible:

ABCs taught through visuals, jingles, body motions, stories & hands-on activities so that all those left brained symbols are surrounded in wonderful right brained elements

Easy-For-Me® Books provide children with practice in reading decodable books that combine explicit phonics instruction with learning sight words through visuals and motions.

WhisperPhone® is an acoustical voice-feedback headset that enables learners of all ages to focus and hear the sounds that make up words (phonemes) more clearly as they learn to read, spell, or process language aloud. Great for those childen who must hear sounds clearly in order to learn.

Stylized Sight Words allow the mental camera to snap a picture of the word, sentence on reverse lends meaning to the word, while the body  motion grabs those children that need movement in order to learn! (kinesthetic learners).

The Kid Friendly series incorporates a variety of learning styles within the math curriculum. Visual learners will see numbers and computations through pictures, auditory learners will hear concepts put to music, and kinesthetic learners will be involved in hands-on activities. All of these activities connect learning to concepts in a meaningful and concrete way for children.

■ Tactile learners are closely related to kinesthetic learners ■ The tactile style is more moderate, involving fine motor 
    movements, rather than the whole-body movements
■ Tactile learners take in information through the sense of 
    touch and feeling
■ Tactile learners may feel like they have to touch, and
    explore objects in order to know them
■ Tactile learners learn best with hands-on activities 

Tactile learners enjoy manipulatives, using different media such as finger-paints, art materials, building projects, blocks or objects for math, hands-on science experiments, lap-booking (making their own books), games, making models, dioramas, etc. If your child is a tactile-based learner, you will find a project-oriented method of learning will probably appeal to your child's need to have active hands. Their motto? "Don't TELL me, let me DO it!"

Multisensory, explicit phonics instruction that includes DAILY:

 ■ Body motions combined with auditory exercises, and visual elements all at one time.
■ Phonics and phonemic awareness taught systematically
■ Patterns, stories, cartoons, visuals are utilized to maximize the learning benefit for childen who are not left brain learners.
■ Hands-on activities that will provide practice, books that provide the "goal" for learning sounds and words, and so much more!

True story of a kinesthetic learner:
      I taught a child in first grade and then looped with him to second grade. He'd acquired a school-wide reputation for being very naughty as early as kindergarten, and he arrived in my room very far behind. I noted that his worst noticeable behavior was that he could not stay in his seat. I tried a few times reminding him to sit down to which he responded with a lot of "attitude," but then rearranged the desks in my room so that he could be on the edge of the class. I told him that he could stand as often as he wanted as long as he did all his work, did not block the view of other students, and as long as he did not distract the others from their learning. Amazingly enough, this student quieted right down and did his work, and spent most of the next two years standing up all day. During class, he would simply lean over his desk and write. By the end of second grade, he was one of my top readers and not a behavior problem at all -- unless there was a substitute teacher who did not allow him to stand up! On those rare occasions, he spent most of the day acting up and talking back.

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