How to support your child to boost their curiosity for learning in less than 5 minutes a day.

Curiosity for learning is not taught.

Curiosity for learning is innate.

All children have a curiosity for learning.

If they are not showing it to you, then that curiosity for learning needs to be sparked. Needs to be ignited.

Think about it like a bonfire. Perhaps you struggle to get the fire started, but once you do- watch those flames!

Curiosity for learning is not something that you teach.

It is something you help to spark within your child.

In their 4+ Assessments, curiosity for learning will be observed.

Here is how you can boost your child’s curiosity for learning in less than 5 minutes a day.

1. Pick a topic - Anything your like (that interests your child to begin with) This could be anything from animals, trains, the sea, countries, clothes etc.

2. Discuss that topic with your child (questioning)

3. Watch videos about the topic with your child.

4. Do learning about that topic with your child.

Let me go through how I go through these steps with my own child (currently 2 years old)

1. Topic - Sea animals

2. Questioning…

Name three sea animals…

Where to they live?

What do you like about them?

3. On YouTube I choose a video about sea animals and I watch it with my son. As we watch it, I ask him lots of questions.

4. I find resources or create my own to do with my son. Eg. Draw a jelly fish or create a home for the fish.

I can do all of the above in less than 5 minutes!

I usually stick to the same topic for 7 days and then choose another topic.

My son is very curious and always want to know more.

I believe all children have a curiosity for learning which just needs to be sparked! Opportunities need to be give to them to develop their curiosity for learning and as your child gets older, they can choose their own topics.

I love doing all of the above because it really doesn’t take me more than 5 minutes a day but the results are extraordinary.