Orientation and Perspective
Does it feel like everything in your house has become a telescope or magnifying glass? Is your student looking through tissue paper or holding their shirt up to the light and trying to peek through? Or, the best yet, always hanging upside down?
Seeing the world in different ways in natural for all of us, however children seem more inclined to fulfill this need. If you have noticed this, your student is exploring their orientation or perspective schema.
Looking at the world from a different viewpoint is the orientation schema. In order to "know" what its like to view the world from different points of view your must experience them yourself. Hanging upside down on a chair or the monkey bars is an example.
Seeking a new viewpoint, like looking through their straw or colored glass, is the perspective schema.
Here is another video which gives ideas on supporting schema development at home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHzSj0eMbwM&feature=youtu.be&disable_polymer=true
Additional information from: https://www.onehundredtoys.com/
Seeing the world in different ways in natural for all of us, however children seem more inclined to fulfill this need. If you have noticed this, your student is exploring their orientation or perspective schema.
Looking at the world from a different viewpoint is the orientation schema. In order to "know" what its like to view the world from different points of view your must experience them yourself. Hanging upside down on a chair or the monkey bars is an example.
Seeking a new viewpoint, like looking through their straw or colored glass, is the perspective schema.
Here is another video which gives ideas on supporting schema development at home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHzSj0eMbwM&feature=youtu.be&disable_polymer=true
Additional information from: https://www.onehundredtoys.com/
If your child likes to swing upside down from the monkey bars, lie along the top of the sofa or sit in the trolley facing the wrong way at the supermarket, then they are exploring their orientation schema. In orientation, your child is discovering how to see things from a different point of view. This important schema builds confidence in many physical activities and games, when it becomes useful to anticipate how another player might move.
To support orientation schema play, try walking along walls, rolling down hills, climbing up steps and any kind of movement that requires them to find different heights or positions. Gymnastics, games like Twister, soft play, or a simple trip to the park, are also great for exploring different points of views. And of course, there is always climbing trees.
TRY THIS:
- hang upside down from monkey bars
- lie flat on the floor when playing with toy vehicles
- see the world from atop an adult's shoulders
Check out these orientation and perspective schema in action (note - some photos are from today, others are from earlier in the year.)
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