There are different types of learners. Some learn through listening to lectures, for example, older people/students can learn simply through listening to the lectures being delivered in the classroom. Some learn through reading. But, normally, if we observe little kids, they are not interested in any one of the traditional styles/methods of teaching learning processes.
Also, each child is unique. So we should take into consideration the differences in their learning styles/skills.
Little kids love to learn by doing (kinesthetic). We must not expect small kids to sit seriously reading a book or listening to a teacher for an hour. Their attention span is too short.
Children learn better through a combination of two or more teaching-learning styles/types.
Children mostly benefit from a combination of visual, kinesthetic and auditory stimulation. For small kids, kinesthetic or, (hands-on) activity based learning is most important.
For example, they will easily learn how to count the numbers and identify them, know their value, provided they get enough opportunities repeatedly to count the numbers, say 1 to 5, along with his/her parents/teacher (auditory and visual) seeing the numbers, count with objects (kinesthetic) and match the numbers.
Thus, we saw, there is a combination of auditory (hearing), visual and kinesthetic (doing activities) involved in the learning process of the child.
In this way, there can be several interesting activities for learning initially.Children can learn various other concepts like, colors, shapes, sizes, (pre-math) concepts and prewriting skills.
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Yes, nice presentation of way of teaching
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