This will make a baker’s dozen of how hockey can help with kindergarten readiness. Angela Crocker, author of “Social Media for Dummies” has a 4 year old son. I asked her if watching the series has been a learning opportunity for him. She answered: “Absolutely … He’s asked many “why” questions, learned to read “Go Canucks Go”, kept track of the score and done the math in his head on how many goals are needed to win. He’s also taken it upon himself to make blue & green Canucks’ flags with paper, crayons, scissors, tape & wooden skewers without grown up help.”
That’s a lot of learning, for sure. When children are excited and involved, the learning possibilities are tremendous. Angela also commented that she was surprised by the depth and focus of her son’s attention and the questions he asked as he tried to figure things out. Attention skills are a key area of readiness for kindergarten as is the motivation to understand.
Whether events are ordinary and everyday or something different and unusual, there will be lots of ways to help children learn and to develop their readiness for kindergarten. What have been some of the learnings for your little one? Thank you Angela, for sharing your experience and comments, and thank you to your son!)
Thanks for sharing our hockey fun, Barbara. I think our next lesson will be hand-eye coordination as Sean asked yesterday if he could have a hockey stick to play ball hockey in the driveway. Off to Canadian Tire, I guess.
I should note that Shiv Singh is the author of Social Media Marketing for Dummies, while I’m author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Creating a Social Network.
Thanks, Angela. Considering I have the book, that should have been something I checked! My memory used to work, I think I remember….The next blog theme is socks. 6 more kid days, Barbara