Many people relate school with doing school sheets and there sometimes parents are not happy if their children don't bring home an amount of these sheets at the end of the school year. As an Early Childhood Education Student I truly believe we have to go further away from there. Children won't pay attention after the second sheet they do and they will disconnect. We need to find and apply new methods to call their attention and motivate them. Kids don't have to be doing homework all the time, they need to do different things and we have to listen to them to know what they are interested on do and let them choose.
The point of all of this is that whatever they are doing, sometimes they need a break to disconnect and reestart. There is one easy tool that we can use as teachers to keep children motivated: icebreakers. They are little games that are used in the middle of lessons or if they are doing a tough work. Usually they are games that get everybody participate but they also can be as simple as a little song. Here is an example:
One, two three, look at me.
Four and five do the jive.
Six, seven, eight, concentrate.
After hearing it a couple of times, when you start saying it, they will keep going and saying it themselves. That is an easy way to claim kids attention and make them connect and concentrate easily and fast so you can keep going whit whatever you were doing in the class. This example could be well used in moments of an amount of noise.
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