Learning with Pokemon cards
In the course of the 2nd Kindergarten year, Tim told us: "My excavator phase is now over." (Until now be a backhoe and) everything. And so it did. Instead moved to this spot a new interest: Pokemon.
By Tim designed himself Pokemon Card
While my husband was leaving, I was initially quite shocked. Mutually antagonistic fantasy creatures finally stood in the circle of dedicated nursery mothers is anything but a premium. But the Pokemon enthusiasm of Tim and many other children in his kindergarten class could not be suppressed so easily. She was nurtured by those who could see everything on television and in principle all kinds of toys were actually oversupplied.
Finally, I decided to tackle the matter impartially. I looked at some of television episodes and could not share the horror really. Pikachu was pretty cute, the arena battles of the Pokemon you could somehow understand as a sport, and the story was mostly easy, but kid-friendly. Finally, in classic fairy tales are also good fighting against evil. As so often, it was among the mothers, only the fear of what one does not know.
Ultimately, the main interest focused on the children before the trading cards. Trying to learn, all the different Pokemon with their properties and their further development also failed for me, however. And the kids happy in this world, they are the experts.
Over the years, hundreds of cards collected, we have largely gained very favorable to children flea markets. They were with my son about 5 years faithful to his childhood.
Hold the job with these cards a waste of time because you can start later this "expertise" anything? Appearances are deceptive. My son has read far with Pokemon cards prior to school and learned how to deal with numbers. The skills for playing with the cards are ultimately essential. For the long term to find the child no adult who reads a constantly the cards. And is really on the older playmates reliance?
This motivation is better than any Leselernspiel. The cards teach addition, the fair-minded and action and replace the systematic sorting and categorizing the handling of data (each Pokemon has a type, CP-points for their strengths, weaknesses and resistances, attack different types of development, etc., one in completely elaborate world) to concrete data, and even his first English words came from a few cards that he had only in English.
His first steps in dealing with graphics software has learned Tim with Pokemon cards. At the top of seeing self-created Pokemon card he had to sit for many hours and in so doing acquire it some trick of graphic design.
7. October 2008 at 11:24 am
Even my son (8) has a tremendous amount of playing with the cards. I think good that you in your article, the cards do not condemn, but as what positive dastellst.
23. February 2009 at 10:54 pm
Hello Silvia,
I am not convinced 100% of Pokemon and Co. on television, there are some pictures so fast that a child often can not handle so quickly.
But I am surprised what can be encouraged to play with the cards but everything. Ganz toll, I think, was how creative Tim, when Selbstgestalten a map.
Liebe Grüße,
The ergobloggerin