How To Create a Dynamic Learning Environment in Your Home

Make original tapes with your own voice to teach Bible memory, poems, songs (if you dare), stories, child’s address and phone number, the multiplication table, etc. Especially at bedtime, a tape with mom’s voice reading a story can be a relaxing way for younger children to fall asleep happily in their own rooms.

CHORES
Sorting laundry, setting the table, working in the kitchen and other household tasks can be opportunities to learn about colors, shapes, counting, measuring, sorting. Just being open to using these times will unleash a new attitude toward those tasks for everyone involved.

Over time you can have puppets and a puppet theatre, a mounted dry-erase board, and easel, felt boards, maps, charts and reference books throughout the home.

Make books together related to what you are studying or your child's current interests. A simple alphabet book is a good start. Cut out pictures and letters together and glue them into a spiral notebook, using a page or two-page spread for each letter of the alphabet.

If your children still get bored, go to Family.com’s ActivitySearch . They have recently incorporated the entire book, 365 TV-Free Activities by Steve and Ruth Bennett into their database.

I have a long-term vision for my home. I want it to be a place where my children have fun, where they are busy learning and doing, and one that provides an inviting atmosphere for their friends.

Beyond the home your family can learn on the go. Talk about everything. Encourage questions and intellectual curiosity about the world. You can count to 100 or practice singing the vowel sounds while driving in the car, play “I Spy” while waiting in line.

Now, I will admit that this can get out control. My son gets upset when I try to teach sign language while driving the car. We now have rule prohibiting the teaching of sign language by any person operating a motor vehicle. ;-)

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