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Kinaesthetic intelligence

(Body smart) Is strong in:

Athletics, dancing, gross and fne motor skills, hand-eye coordination and making things

Learns best through:

Moving, touching, feeling, holding, manipulating objects and using tools

Activities:

•Create an obstacle course around your home for your child to navigate by walking, hopping or jumping.

•Take your child to the park to use her gross motor skills on slides and swings.

•Explore different materials – fabrics, sandpaper, shaving foam, bubble wrap. •Play charades with your child. •Ask your child to pretend to be her favourite animal by mimicking its movements. •Crawl through boxes, jump over ropes, dance, somersault, catch/throw/kick balls together. •Encourage your child to practise using scissors, tongs or chopsticks, fnger paint, make things using play dough, mix ingredients, thread beads and make simple origami.

Linguistic intelligence

(Word smart) Is strong in:

Reading, writing, conversing with others, storytelling, explaining ideas, solving problems using words, retaining written and spoken information and mastering languages

Learns best through:

Written and spoken words

Activities:

•Encourage your child to role play a character from his favourite story.

•Provide him with fashcards that display new vocabulary. •Play word games with your child, such as Scrabble or Boggle. •Ensure your child has access to pencils and note pads so he can write down ideas or explore letters and words. •Ask your child to prepare a speech or rhyme about his favourite topic.

•Create a comfortable corner in your home for reading/writing/ talking. Include cushions, books, newspapers, magazines, pencils, paper, word games, etc. •Show your child how to make his own crossword puzzles or word searches.

Logical-mathematical intelligence

(Number/reasoning smart) Is strong in:

Mathematics, science, inductive and deductive reasoning, fguring out how something works and making connections between pieces of information

Learns best through:

Using numbers, conducting experiments, questioning and working with the abstract

Activities:

•Provide your child with strategy games, such as chess or checkers.

•Encourage your child to use different materials, such as coins, beans or pasta, as tools for counting and solving mathematical equations. •Encourage your child to use play money to explore addition and subtraction.

•Show her how to make picture graphs or pie charts. •Allow your child to measure different items around your home, either using a tape measure or her hands. •Provide your child with a few kitchen supplies, such as cornfour, four, water and baking soda, so she can create simple experiments. (Messy, but fun!) •Explore together the concepts of patterns, time, sorting, ordinals, estimating, same/different, directions, cause and effect, sequencing and comparing.

Musical intelligence

(Music smart) Is strong in:

Singing, recognising tones and rhythm in music, remembering tunes and playing musical instruments

Learns best through:

Listening to music and sounds, making music, singing, rhythm and melodies

Activities:

•Sing songs with your child and clap hands, stomp feet or dance to the beat.

•Make a musical instrument together, such as a music shaker made from an empty plastic bottle flled with dried beans or rice.

•Expose your child to different genres of music – classical, jazz, hip hop, etc.

•Provide different instruments for him to experiment with, such as tambourines, bells, triangles or drums.

•Play a piece of music and ask your child how it makes him feel. •Make up a song together by changing words in a song you both already know. •Play musical games such as musical chairs.

•Use music as background noise when your child is eating, taking a bath or playing.

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