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Explore effective multisensory learning strategies for hearing-impaired students, combining touch, visuals, and kinesthetic methods to enhan
Multisensory learning means engaging multiple senses to improve understanding & retention, Read how reading skills can be improved through m
Multisensory Learning
Multisensory instruction is experiential learning and is one important aspect of the reading program offered at Elevated Academic Language Therapy. Multisensory learning involves the visual, auditory and kinesthetic pathways simultaneously for enhanced learning and retention.
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Multi-sensory Teaching Technique- How they are helpful to kids
We always use our sensory systems to learn anything. Some of us use our auditory sense, while others rely on visual senses. However, to optimize the learning potentials of the kids, it is better to use multi-sensory experiences. For multi-sensory teaching activities, there is a need of involving two or more senses simultaneously.
What do the kids learn with multi-sensory teaching?
Multi-sensory activity is highly effective at triggering different parts of the kids’ brain. The brain would have more pathways to retain what kids have learned. Multi-sensory teaching processes engage students on a number of levels and help in stimulating the learning process. The special Montessori teaching process prompt the kids in using senses for-
Linking their own ideas to information
Gathering information on any task
Identifying the logic to solve issue
Learning various problem-solving activities
Knowing the relationships of concepts
Storing information to recall it later
Getting advantages from stronger sensory systems
In most of the preschools in Singapore, the teachers rely on auditory and visual senses of kids to help them in learning something new. For instance, the kids use their sight to read anything and to look at pictures. They also use their hearing sense for listening to the words of their teacher.
Some children have very weak auditory processing capability. The best solution to it is to use other senses, like kinetic (movement) and tactile (touch). Kids, having some learning difficulties, may face challenges while reading books, doing math or writing spelling. Multisensory teaching techniques helps those students in using only their strong senses for learning anything.
Let us briefly tell you why the infant care centers and Montessori preschool in Singapore have to adopt multi-sensory teaching method.
Kids need various stimuli for learning differently
You know that the capability of processing information is different for every child. Kids, having stronger auditory senses, understand anything easily, while they listen to what their teachers are saying. However, for teaching some other kids, there is a need of using paper and pencil for drawing out concepts. Lots of other children track information, using their eyes. Regardless of style of learning, preferable to your kids, multisensory-teaching process is acceptable to everyone.
Faster development of cognitive skills
Multisensory learning helps in faster development of brain. Every sensory organ targets the brain, stimulating cognitive ability. To promote motor skills, tactile learning is the best choice. Similarly, for body movement, kinesthetic learning is the right option. Olfactory system also ensures strong feelings, which have a real connection to the relevant information.
Multisensory teaching style fuels the brain functions in various ways. That is why every sensory system turns out to be more developed.
Multisensory teaching make the kids more involved
Whether it is a preschool or infant care center, the kids need to spend a number of hours at this place. Some kids lose their attention while they are continuously taking information in every class. Multisensory teaching process is the best option to restore the attention of these children.
When the kids are doing anything physically or tactically while focusing on instructions, there is no chance to be distracted.
Some common ways, in which teachers incorporate multi-sensory teaching style-
Getting outdoors-
Most of the preschool teachers give the kids a freedom to play outdoor games. The lighting and varied colors of nature will refine the sensory processing skills of kids. Moreover, outdoor games also strengthen motor skills.
Arranging dance and song session
Movement and music together help in stimulating two sensory systems simultaneously. Thus, it is one of the multi-sensory learning style to the kids.
Chewing crunchy foods-
When the kids are doing their work in their own seats, they can continue chewing the foods. It can stimulate the oral motor system of those kids.
Thus, for Montessori education in Singapore, multi-sensory teaching style is highly preferable option, as it lets the senses work together. This teaching method develops a connection of kids’ senses, and hence, the kids can receive the information very easily.
White Fields Nursery wishes Baby. Layan Ansari a very happy and a blessed 4th Birthday.
Group – Skittles
Senses theme!
What a great learning adventure for the Skittles during this theme!
Learning about the five senses offers a lot of great opportunities for hands-on exploration.
Today they were exploring the sense of smell.It was great sniffing on different items like spices, flowers, cologne and fresh herb leaves. Kids have had an awesome time knowing more about their bodies.
During circle time, the kids had a little boy’s picture on the a chart and they helped him find his five senses on his body. Clever little Skittles.
Crazy designers !
Grapes building.
Kids made an awesome 3 dimension building using grapes and sticks.
Well! It was nice having them improve their fine motor skills as well as cognitive skills because they put their little brains to work.
Physical exercises!
Kids enjoyed floor stretching exercises whilst breathing in and out and stretching their hands simultaneously.
This exercise which originated from Asia is commonly known as YOGA. It is believed to help in relaxing the body as a whole.
Ball tossing game was also good for kids to learn how to identify colors and also to their physical, social and emotional skill.
Group-pollys
Kids are creative in their small world they live in. During their Lego hour,kids made their own towers by putting different kind of shapes together and they built an amazing structure. This was a great and interesting sensory play for the little ones as they enjoyed playing with tangible items. This activity provided children a wonderful opportunity to learn, interact and stimulate their creativity.
Gingerbread cookie in a jar! This Bean masters class made them very excited, as the little ones had a jar with numbers and they filled it with gingerbread cookies. The kids took a cookie with a gingerbread and droped it on the written number following the instructions of the teacher. This was a good physical interaction play for the advancement of motor skills. They were so much involved in order not to put the cookie on a different number other than one shown by the teacher. This activity required a lot of concentration and it helped to improve focus a lot.
During their Phonic class kids traced letter “r”. They all started by choosing their favorite color. Their fine motor, literacy, language and communication skills were enhanced. This was great to practice pencil control on paper.
Identifying the senses and placing it in the right position was a fun game for kids for reviewing the five senses. Kids reviewed what the nose, eyes, mouth, ears and hands is being used for. In order to this, pictures of all five senses were given to the kids and they used their tiny hands to find the same sense on the paper. Here they develop their Science skills as well as their PSED.
What an awesome week to learn more about five senses.
Group-Seattles See It! Hear It! Do It! Touch It!
The use of Multisensory instruction was fun for kids today! The most effective way for children to learn is to engage the visual, auditory, kinesthetic and tactile pathways to their little brains. This helps them connect ideas and retain information. Kids had their various senses displayed and were led to act one after the other.
What’s that smell?
Kids were further enlightened on the sense of smell. They had some lotion with a beautiful smell as well as some paint to mix with in order to make a flower. Over time, they will recognize certain smells as comforting, yummy, scary, exciting, to help them in their world.
Pre-numeracy the skills!
Through play, children develop their creativity skills as well as imaginative skills. They were led to bawl down some numbers. They tried so hard to get a number down after which they had to call out that number. Through this, they exercised key skills and qualities for daily living.
Pre-Numeracy Skills White Fields Nursery wishes Baby. Layan Ansari a very happy and a blessed 4th Birthday. Group - Skittles…
Group Name: Skittles.
Sense of taste!
Did you ever wonder why your favorite foods taste so good?
Well, you can thank your taste buds for letting you appreciate the saltiness of pretzels and the sweetness of ice cream.
Teacher today demonstrated how the tongue uses taste buds for them to enjoy yummy tastes.
Taste buds are sensory organs that are found on the top of the tongue and allows us to experience tastes that are sweet, salty, sour, and bitter. How exactly do your taste buds work? Well, stick out your tongue and look in the mirror. There you will see the magic tongue that does a lot of work with our sense of taste. Such an awesome way of exploring science.
Kids further went ahead and experimented different tastes of amazing edibles like, lemon, orange, candy, salt and candy. Indeed with the Skittles class Science has taken a simple turn because they learn through play and use their practical skills.
Numeracy class!
Kids traced numbers one to six.Here they counted their favorite ice cream, traced and colored them after. They expressed their creative skills and fine motor skills.
Outdoor games!
Kids enjoyed playing hopscotch with friends , jumping and improving their numeracy skills.
They were also given a rope pulling challenge ,boys against girls. Here they exhibited team work as well as developing their PSED.
Sound mystery tubes!
Kids had sensory numbered sound tubes , that the teacher used to motivate them to learn numbers and the sense of hearing.
Kids were tasked to identify which tube would make a sound and which one wouldn’t, using their cognitive skills they were able to identify the tubes. Great way to learn about the world they live in.
Group Name: Pollys.
During their circle time kids had a chance to dance, jump and wiggle. This was an awesome way to kick off the day with smile.
There are many ways to encourage and help the kids to learn about numbers It is easy to play and get kids more well versed with the concept as it helps to solidify their understanding.Kids had a number 9 craft and they enjoyed doing this activity. It was a beautiful creative craft journey for the little ones.
Little Pollys learnt about sense of touch today. A lot of toys were presented to the kids in order to sort them. Some of them were soft and some of them were hard and they used their sense of touch to discover it.This was good for their fine motor skills as well as their communication and language development as they tried to explain what did they find.
Five senses puzzle was great activity for the little ones. This activity encouraged their imaginative play, eye and hand coordination because they were watching and doing.Here their little hands were put to exercise and extra concentration was required for every child as they wanted to perfect their puzzles. Well done kids!!
They also enjoyed racing game. They used their little bodies to run as fast as they can. A great way to exercise their bodies and most importantly to develop physically, socially and emotionally.
Group Name: Seattles
Fun project! Identifying the parts of a clip art person and placing it in the right position was a fun project for kids for reviewing the five senses. Kids reviewed what the ear, eyes, nose, hands and mouth is being used for. They had a clip art given to them to make it look like a real image.
Multisensory learning! It was great fun combining two sensory activities in this activity. Kids had some animal pictures placed in front of them. There was an audio recorder of various sounds of those animals. When the sound is played? Kids are to identify with their eyes the animal with the corresponding sound and give it to the teacher. Here we had the combination of auditory and visual and tactile learning.
Cornstarch mixture! A sensory activity like this facilitates exploration and naturally encourages the kids to use scientific processes while they play, create, investigate and explore. Kids were allowed to mix cornstarch, glue and some paint. The addition of each substance gives another texture for them to feel.
Texture walk! How do you feel your feet? Some feet were made with different textures. Kids were allowed to move bare feet on the different textures and notice how different it was. Was it fluffy? Smooth? Soft? Rough? This activity is an exploration of the sense of touch and was fun for the kids.A great long weekend everyone…
Texture Walk Group Name: Skittles. Sense of taste! Did you ever wonder why your favorite foods taste so good?