It is not just knowledge that is important to do well in school. Concentration, attention, and memory are also required. Your child can train himself in all of this with regular, short exercises.
Here you will find exercises that will promote concentration, attention, and memory in your child. The tasks only take a few minutes. However, it is important that the brain be trained for a few minutes a day.
Brain training for in between
Counting steps
Counting steps helps you concentrate. Once your child has miscounted, they'll start over. The difficulty of the exercise can be increased by having your child only count every second or third step.
... and now everything backward
Have your child say the alphabet backward or ask them to count down from 20. Depending on the age, the exercise can be made a little more difficult, e.g. B. count down from 40.
Brain jogging with popular games
Classic memory
Memory trains the ability to remember but also concentration. A game now and then is very useful. If your child has to learn vocabulary already, a vocabulary memory can also be used.
Vocabulary memory
Make memory cards with your child for the vocabulary that your child should learn. One card of the pair of cards shows a picture (e.g. a berry) and the second card shows the corresponding vocabulary in the foreign language (e.g. English: "berry"). If the vocabulary is too abstract to represent as a picture, write the German translation of the vocabulary on the card. To make the game less difficult, you can use a different color for the back of the flashcards than for the cards with the pictures.
The course of the game
All cards are placed face down on the table and shuffled well.
Have your child reveal two cards. If these form a pair, it can keep them. If the two cards do not belong together, ask your child to name the vocabulary for the picture and the translation for the vocabulary on the other card.
Now it's your turn. But of course, your child can also try to merge all pairs of cards on their own.
I am packing my suitcase
The game "I'm packing my suitcase ..." promotes creativity and memory.
The course of the game
Your child starts by saying, “I'll pack my suitcase and take with me…” and adding an item, e.g. B. "a towel". Crazy things can also be packed in the suitcase, e.g. B. "a submarine".
Now repeat your child's sentence and put another item in the suitcase.
So it always goes in sequence. The result is an endless packing list.
New memory games for more variety
The running dictation
If you move, you learn better: Your child runs back and forth between the exercise text and the workplace. It memorizes three to four words, writes them down, and starts running again - until the entire text has been transferred. If it forgets a word it has to start all over again. At the end, check whether your child has memorized everything correctly and wrote it down correctly.
That picture belonged
Read ten terms slowly to your child. Your child listens carefully. Then it paints a picture with these terms. It has two minutes for this. Are all terms present in the picture?
Promote concentration with fun
Count letters
With this exercise your child trains to concentrate on one thing and ignore everything else: Your child looks for a section of text in a book. Now have your child count the letter “u” in this paragraph. At first, a pen can help you count, but with a little practice, it should work without it.
To make the tasks more difficult, ask your child to count two or more letters at the same time.
Write in reverse
Mirrored writing requires a high level of concentration and is, therefore, effective training: Ask your child to write their name mirrored. If that works, long words or whole sentences can be practiced.
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