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Develop Your Child’s Genius
Weekly Newsletter
Contents
Welcome
and Update
Announcement
Visualization
- How to Develop it?
Welcome
and Update
Hello
everyone!
I am so grateful for all those wonderful emails from you asking about the
newsletter. I have taken a long break since the last newsletter, and I
apologize. I have gotten some very encouraging emails, including one that
asked about the next article, that said "we are addicted to it".
That made me feel appreciated.
As a matter of fact, I have written 2 very informative articles, one about
math and math education, and the other about handwriting in kids. However,
I needed to include drawings in both articles, and was facing some
technical difficulties including them in this newsletter format. I am
almost ready with those articles, and hope to have them up for you next
week.
This week I have an article about ways to develop the skill of
visualization in kids of all ages. I am sure that you will find it useful.
As usual, send your thoughts, requests, feedback and input to:
esther@all-gifted-children.com
I
hope you have an excellent 2007!
Esther Andrews
http://www.all-gifted-children.com
Announcement
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Have Come With - How to Develop Your Child's Genius".
Visualization
- How to Develop it?
Why is visualization important?
Visualization is an important skill for
your child's intelligence. A person needs it for imagination,
creativity, problem solving, understanding of written material, and it has
many other uses. Visualization is a skill for life, and can be developed at
any time. Just like imagination, it is a skill that is related to the right
brain hemisphere, and is easily developed early in life. If you take some
time to develop it in your child and practice, you can achieve fantastic
results.
Fantastic Examples
The famous chess grandmaster, Goerge Koltanowski, set the record in
blindfold chess, by playing 34 opponents simultaneously. I have watched
Koltanowski, at the age of 90, give a very impressive demonstration of his
visualization skill, when he let people in the audience assign an object to
each square on the chess board. He looked at the chess board for several
minutes, and then turned around and proceeded to name the objects one by
one, using knight "jumps".
One of my son's young friends, at the young age of 8, managed to play a
blindfold game of chess with the master, and win! (the master was not
blindfolded!)
Activities and Games
Here are a few activities and games you can play with your child, to develop
and strengthen this wonderful skill. These activities and games are fun, and
can be adopted to a group, if you'd like.
1. Draw
a red triangle. Cover the triangle, and have your child see the triangle in
his mind's eye. Then draw a blue triangle, let your child see the triangle
in his mind's eye. Keep doing this activity using different colors and
shapes.
2. Tell
your child to draw a red triangle in his mind's eye, without actually
drawing one for him. keep doing this using various shapes and colors.
3. Have
your child imagine 2 squares, the left one is blue, the right one is red.
Then change the colors, the left one is red and the right one is blue. Make
the left one yellow...
4. Have
your child see in his mind's eye a flower (or any other object you'd like).
Ask him to describe the flower, in as much detail as possible. After he is
done describing the flower, you can ask questions. Like: how thick is the
stem? Is it in a planter or a vase? Ask about details your child hasn't
described. This will get your child into the habit of adding details to his
imaginary creations.
5. Can
your child play tic tac toe? Great! Then play tic tac toe using an imaginary
board. You might have to write the moves down, to be able to go on with the
game if one of you gets "stuck". Start at a 3x3 board, and advance
to more and more elaborate dimensions.
6.
After your child has mastered all the previous activities you can advance to
shapes like the US map, have your child study the map, and then answer
questions from memory. From here you can advance to the globe, and other 3
dimensional shapes.
6. As
your child (and you, helping your child) gets better and better you can go
on to more sophisticated games, like "blindfold" chess.
Have fun and
invent additional games that develop visualization skills. Let your child
invent games too, and don't forget to praise lavishly for great
achievements.
Please feel free to e-mail me with your input, feedback and results! I
answer all my e-mail personally. e-mail to: esther@all-gifted-children.com
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To your success!
Esther Andrews
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