Learning Letters

According to Educational Theorist Howard Gardner, there are several different ways that a student can learn. Gardner has 8 basic types of intelligence that he believes students learn through. Gardner's theory argues that students will be better served by a broader vision of education, wherein teachers use different methodologies, exercises and activities to reach all students. The 8 intelligences are:

• Spatial
• Linguistic
• Logical-mathematical
• Bodily-kinesthetic
• Musical
• Interpersonal
• Intrapersonal
• Naturalistic

Children learning at HO4K are fortunate that these 8 intelligences are addressed everyday through activities provided by the teachers. Below are just a few pictures and examples from this week of how students worked with the letter N.

(logical-mathematical,)

Lentil has the letter "Nn" in the middle. Ms JoAnn read a magazine article about how nutritious they are and decided to serve them in the meat sauce with our spaghetti (naturalistic). The children noticed them right away and were good sports about trying them! We made a math graph to chart who refused, who said yes, or no thanks I didn't like them but I'll try them next time.



(Intrapersonal, Bodily-kinesthetic)

 

 Nickel starts with the letter N. Students revisited coins and sorted them accordingly. We learned about listening for the N sound at the beginning, middle and end of words (linguistic). After students sorted the coins, we took the nickels and made wishes as we tossed them into a wishing well (interpersonal).

(Spatial, Bodily-kinesthetic)

 Lastly, students practiced forming the letter N with noodles! Students loved tracing the uppercase and lowercase letter N's with glue and then placed noodles on top. This is just another way to reinforce letter recognition and formation.