Circle Time Tips & Techniques for Homeschooling Preschool & Kindergarten the Montessori Way - Free Educational videos for Students in K-12

Circle Time Tips & Techniques for Homeschooling Preschool & Kindergarten the Montessori Way - By Learn And Play Montessori School

Transcript


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

Summarizer

DESCRIPTION:

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

OVERVIEW:

Circle Time Tips & Techniques for Homeschooling Preschool & Kindergarten the Montessori Way is a free educational video by Learn And Play Montessori School.

This page not only allows students and teachers view Circle Time Tips & Techniques for Homeschooling Preschool & Kindergarten the Montessori Way videos but also find engaging Sample Questions, Apps, Pins, Worksheets, Books related to the following topics.