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History, Bible, Geography for Visual and Kinesthetic Learners?
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I’m venturing homeschooling for the 1st time this year with my sons, ages 9, 7, and 6. I want to use Genesis to Deuteronomy as a family experience, but I’m wondering…. how will this appeal to my visual and kinesthetic learners? Do I understand correctly that this curriculum is all reading, listening, and narrating? How have others addressed this area of concern? Thank you in advance!
For visual learning, I like to write key places and people on the dry erase board. We also try to find locations on a map. Sometimes we go to Google images and look up locations or topics that we’ve read about during the lesson. We do this pretty often for geography, history, and science. You may want to pre-screen pictures ahead, as Google can come up with some images that aren’t exactly kid-friendly!
For kinesthetic learning, we’ve added in some mapwork (& Geopuzzles), coloring pages, and an occasional hands-on project. I allow them to draw or color as they are listening. I’ve heard of children using thinking putty during readings for something to do with their hands.
Another thing you can do is break up the readings with other subjects like art or copywork. Follow a reading-heavy subject with something a bit more active or take a few minutes and do some exercises like push-ups or running in place. Sometimes we have a snack break (and I often read as they eat their snack).
I never used SCM curriculum with my very active, kinesthetic son because I hadn’t discovered it. However I did use CM methods and we did a lot of reading, listening and narrating. CM methods are great for these kids because: short lessons are emphasized, we are to switch up types of activities we are doing with our children, there is no busy work, and because nature study is an integral part of a CM education.
It was much easier to keep my son’s attention when he knew this history reading was only going to be 15 or 20 minutes and then we would draw or study art or go outside for a nature walk. I also allowed him to play with legos, or sculpt with clay, or draw, or play with his trucks and cars, etc. while I read aloud. Because there was never busy work, we were always done by noon and he was able to spend more time playing outdoors. CM methods were perfect for my kinesthetic son.
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