Teaching is the process that turns a dilettante into an expert on a particular topic . So give yourself a break from teaching and overseeing your child ’ s virtual learning , and ask your child to teach something to you , a sibling , or even a friend online . Besides , Kids love to learn from each other because it immediately makes their learning relevant and expands the common ground from which friendships are formed .
Break out in song . Is your child having difficulty remembering his multiplication tables or state capitals ? Put it in a familiar song . Music helps us remember things better through a process called chunking . Chunking takes individual pieces of information and groups them together into larger units , or chunks . Our short-term memory can only hold about seven units of information at a time . Melody and rhythm provide a great framework that helps us cram more material into each unit by linking words and phrases in a tune . The alphabet song is a great example of chunking . Without the song , kids would learn 26 letters as 26 disparate units of information . This is a lot harder to remember than letters grouped together into melodic and rhythmic phrases like “ L , M , N , O , P .” One caveat is that music is useful as a memory aid only when the song ’ s melody and rhythm are already familiar to you . So encourage your child to attach historical facts to a familiar melodies she already knows .
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