Supporting develop your child’s attention span will help prepare them for the classroom. To be able to focus and be attentive to their classroom teachers and activities going on. It also helps your child’s engagement in their own play to increase as well. Try out the 5 Tips Below!
- Provide ample time for child-led play.
- This gives your child time to develop their own interests and activities.
- Observe more than intervene with child’s play.
- In the classroom, teachers support students during their play by observing, asking questions, and imitating child’s play.
- Reduce the amount of toys & opt for more open-ended materials.
- Sometimes having all the toys out can be too much for children and create an inability to decide on what to play with. Rotating a select amount of toys helps to keep children’s interest.
- Open ended materials are items that have many different ways to play. For example, wooden blocks, dolls, magnetic tiles, cars, and people or animal figures.
- Read books of child’s interest.
- Children love reading books of interest to them, engage them by also asking what they see in the pictures or what they think is going on in the story.
- Avoid using technology while waiting or commuting.
- Sometimes we hand over the tablet or phone thinking we are helping our child to wait at the grocery store or doctors office, but in actuality children are not learning self help skills to keep themselves entertained. This then creates dependency on having those technology items during these times.