{"id":83,"date":"2008-03-17T06:40:12","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aprendemos.yuriar.com\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2008-03-17T06:40:12","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:40:12","slug":"teachable-moments-are-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/2008\/03\/17\/teachable-moments-are-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachable moments are everywhere."},"content":{"rendered":"

You just have learn to recognize them when you see them.\u00a0 For example, fingernail cutting time.\u00a0 In our house, this can be a big deal.\u00a0 Our children are known for their over dramatic reactions, and clipping fingernails can turn into Emmy award winning performances involving the pain of cut nail.\u00a0 *Side note – They are not really in any pain, as evidenced in the fact that distraction techniques work to stop the drama.\u00a0 We do not cut fingernails to the quick.\u00a0 They are just being over dramatic.*<\/em>\u00a0 A few nights ago, Daddy was cutting GeekBoy’s fingernails, and began to quiz him on multiplication facts.\u00a0 It worked as a distractor until they got to one that GeekBoy did not know how to work out in his head.\u00a0 I was passing through the room, and heard what was going on, so I pulled out the white board, and helped GeekBoy work through the problem.\u00a0 Then we did several others.\u00a0 He completely forgot what his father was doing.<\/p>\n

Next up!\u00a0 BigBoy.\u00a0 He is too little from something like multiplication, but we are working on letter recognition.\u00a0 So I started to write letters on the board and before he even knew Daddy had started, his fingernails were all cut.<\/p>\n

Last, but most assuredly not least, thePinkDiva, our newly crowned 5 year old. \u00a0 We’ve been working on simple math and reading, so I started of with some 1+1, and then we finished with a series of “_AT” words.\u00a0 Finally, she read the sentence, “Fat cat sat on rat.”\u00a0 all by herself.\u00a0 And again, Daddy was done with her fingers before she even realized he had started.<\/p>\n

A teachable moment can be anything.\u00a0 It can be a lesson in morality brought on by a movie or tv show.\u00a0 It can be a conversation over the dinner table.\u00a0 Even a tick bite can be teachable.\u00a0 When BigBoy got bit last Saturday, after killing the tick, we – the mom and dad – learned more about ticks in the area and the possible diseases and what to watch for.\u00a0 Then when I found a tick crawling on my leg, I managed to capture it (after throwing it into the bathtub, recovering my wits, checking the kids for more ticks, and taking a picture so it could be more easily identified).\u00a0 I plan to use it to let GeekBoy do his own tick research.\u00a0 Even though I’ve identified it, I will let him take a stab at ID’ing it and see if he can figure it out too.\u00a0 We will learn how to identify species of bugs, and how to research bugs to learn more about their habitat.\u00a0 We will also learn about what to do if he finds one on him (call mom or dad!) and what not to do to.<\/p>\n

It should be fun.\u00a0 A science lesson from a tick.\u00a0 Teachable moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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