Your 3-Year Old: Using Your Sences

Using Your Senses

One of the reasons kids are discouraged from watching much TV in the early years is that they learn best from handling three-dimensional objects. Seeing a flower on TV is not nearly the same as holding one, feeling how soft and lightweight it is, smelling it, and noticing the gradations in color. Scientists now know that the best way to learn something is to take it in through multiple senses at the same time.
最近真的開始擔心小馨電視看太多，其實不只是電視，還有ipad、iphone、DVD...，而且住在大樓內的我們，平常也很少帶她出去活動，更別說老公太忙帶我們出去接觸綠色。現在四月了，想買部腳踏車給她，希望能讓她多出去活動一下，不要變成四眼田雞啊！！
現在即使ipad上的app遊戲做得再逼真，都比不上她直接接觸大自然，以前王大師說他女兒有一陣子迷上ipad上雨滴的遊戲，結果他讓女兒拿荷葉加上水滴，那種互動與經歷，是電子遊戲模擬不來的！
Your 3-year-old now
Did you ever find it easy to learn a new scientific principle or rule of grammar because it was set to music, a la "Schoolhouse Rock"? Research has shown that children may learn best when more than one sense is engaged at the same time. So, when your child is learning to write letters, have him trace the letter in a plate of sand or sugar. Seeing the letter, feeling the shape of it, and moving fingers and arms causes different parts of the brain to work simultaneously to reinforce the learning of the letter.

You can see this kind of multisensory learning in action during ordinary play — wiggling toes in mud, tasting snow, or dancing to kiddie CDs. The more opportunities you give your child to smell, touch, taste, see, and hear his world, the more he learns about it.

Your child also has his own personal learning style that may favor one kind of sensory input above others. Some children are visual, for example, and need to see how things work; others understand better if they listen or if they get up and move around.

Your life now
Big kids make big sneezes! Although you've probably taught your child how to sneeze into a tissue, there's another trick worth learning. When he can't get to a tissue in time, tell him to turn and sneeze into the inside of his elbow. That's better than broadcasting germs all over the room.
小馨打噴嚏時已經學會用手嗚住口鼻，我看見園所裡若有小朋友咳嗽或打噴嚏，也都會遮起來，大概是老師教的吧！還有老師會主動幫小朋友戴上口罩，這也是保護自己的方法吧！