How Can You Engage Your Child In Learning Beyond The Screen?

Online face-to-face tuitions provide a modern solution, offering personalized education for children in the comfort of their homes. However, let's explore further what comes after online tuitions for kids and what exactly we need to do to engage our kids in learning beyond the screen.

While the kids from the '70s, ’80s, and '90s used to play outside till sundown every day, Gen Z and millennials were born in the age of gizmos and screens. Only 27% of kids, pre-teens, and teenage children go out to play physical sports. 

We can’t just blame technology. Technology helps us connect to kids across the globe and provide them with online private tuition to support them with school learning. It’s a complementary tool that has shaped the current education system and continues to evolve the system. 

So, instead of a blame game, let’s talk about a few activities that can replace your kid’s screen time with productive learning.

Top 5 Learning Beyond The Screen Activities You Can Do With Your Kids At Home

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3. Puzzles and Board Games

As a kid learning new things every day in their personalised subject tuitions, puzzles and board games are an excellent way to unwind. It also gives them space to bond with you. Some fun puzzles you can try are Scrabble, Snakes and Ladders, Ludo, Memory Cards, and Chess.

You will be shocked to know that the older you get, the more puzzles you should solve. As children are growing, their curious minds should be put to good use. It will essentially help them later in life.

1. Story narration

Once a week, you can take a story and assign characters to your children and yourself. They will read the book, develop skits and dialogues, and practice speaking. It’s also an instant boost to their speaking skills and confidence. 

Theatre-based learning is a worldwide teaching technique that is used by the British curriculum in the early years of learning for children aged 3 to 5. After their online face-to-face tuitions, children will regain their energy acting their hearts out. 

1. Cook with them

Cooking is an essential life skill. More than that, it’s good practice for maths, as cooking requires measured ingredients. If you’re baking a cake, you can ask them to pass three eggs and see if they can understand the number ‘three’ in quantities.

Cooking also activates the part of the brain that receives external instructions and interprets them. 

1. Doodle and Draw

Drawing is a good exercise for your child. It will help them identify the colours, the objects they will be colouring, and which colour goes where. This is a good activity that we do during our online face-to-face tuitions as well. It helps with their hand-eye coordination and develops their cognitive skills. 

1. Scavenger Hunt

A scavenger hunt is an age-old method of having fun with friends and family. A scavenger hunt can help your child gain analytical skills. Create 5 to 6 chits containing hints or clues for hidden objects in different places. By reading the clues and finding objects, your kid will learn to analyse information.

How Do These Activities Complement Your Child’s Online Tuition?

A child’s attention span of 6 to 9-year-olds is 20 to 30 minutes. Sitting before a screen and paying attention to their personalised online face to face tuition can be a challenge. At TuitionE, we prioritise keeping our students engaged through learning beyond the screen . 

But we also believe 'learning shouldn’t stop after your child’s classes.' Thus, these activities will help them keep learning and remember better.

In conclusion, TuitionE promotes gamified learning to help our students retain knowledge in their online private tuitions. You, as parents, can play a huge role in helping your children through these at-home activities. 

Written by -: Debanjali Sarkar