When students are engaged and motivated, they achieve higher levels of understanding, make connections, and experience “aha” moments. Such learning comes not from quiet classrooms and directed lectures, but from classrooms with an atmosphere of exuberant discovery.
Making learning fun is a sure way we get our kids at KJDS to remember information. Fun means engagement, doing and learning what has meaning and purpose, and it means being challenged.
When students are engaged and having fun, they turn on their effective information processing and long-term memory storage and the information is retained.
Our teachers teach content by making up songs, doing creative hands-on projects, learning through activities done on the active board, and researching and learning on interactive board. Our students are rarely sitting still…they are always actively learning.