Things to try at Home

• Talk to your child about how thinking is important to make sense of everything they do at school and at home.

• Ask your child’s teacher to explain the thinking strategies they are using at school so that you can notice and reinforce them at home.  Ask the teacher what you can do to build on them at home.

• Notice and praise your child when they use different sorts of thinking, like mathematical and logical thinking, or knowing how to find flaws in thinking (such as assuming that something is true based on a few examples).

• Make it fun. Playful thinking is a great way of building the brain and your child’s thinking abilities. Games of all types - make believe, imaginary friends, “what if” flights of fancy, and so on all provide opportunities for playful thinking.