Empower your child's reasoning and thinking skills by doing this one thing.
/In their 4+ Assessments, your child will be observed.
They will be amongst hundreds of other children also being Assessed.
The Assessors will be looking for many different things but amongst these will be how your child thinks.
Independence of thinking is a quality that will be observed.
How your child reasons and uses their logic will be observed.
This 100% can be prepared for.
In each of our lessons, we encourage our children to think. We ask so many questions. Different types of questions that help our students to develop their thinking.
Do this one thing every day consistently for 6 months and see your child’s thinking and reasoning skills go to the next level!
Provide your child with something new and unfamiliar to do every single day. You don’t need to spend money every day on new resources to do this. Use your imagination!
Give your child a new puzzle, a new lego construction to create, a maze to complete, a page in a book to answer questions about, a physical task to complete.
By giving them something new and unfamiliar to complete, you will be supporting their reasoning and thinking skills because they will have never done this task before.
What we tend to do (myself included!) is provide our children with the same or similar activities to do every day. This is ok and children of course improve the more they do the same thing.
However, if you are preparing for the 4+, remember that you are sending your child into a new and unfamiliar environment and they will have new and unfamiliar activities to do.
If you don’t expose your child to new and unfamiliar things to do, this will be challenging for them and they will not be able to fully demonstrate their reasoning and thinking skills.
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