Some children in kindergarten like to dawdle and procrastinate... We have used many methods to change them, but the effect is not obvious. We often communicate with parents and often guide children to finish their work faster. However, we have not yet reached the effect we want to see the children are about to enter elementary school, and elementary school guidelines are a ring, very tight chip, at this rate, this child into elementary school may be difficult to change, in order to let the children in the remaining two months to accelerate changes, the garden bought some hourglasses, do not look at these hourglasses are small, indeed played a not small effect.

The use of small hourglasses: Although the hourglass is small, but it can be timed, we first investigate the end of the hourglass drip leak how much time is needed, exactly two minutes, then in our daily education, the hourglass played a certain effect. For example, before class, our children need to do a good job of preparing for class, accustomed to noisy children and slower children like to use the opportunity to go to the toilet, more and other children chatting, in the washroom to stay longer; no teacher prompts many children are always behind until the teacher prompted out of the toilet, which requires a long time, it was two minutes can be the end of the thing, now need 3,5 minutes to end, it seems that only 3,5 minutes but time is a minute. 3, 5 minutes, but the time a minute and a second seems to be very valuable, in order to let the children develop a good habit of racing against time, the officer does not dawdle. So the “hourglass” has become our good helper, because the hourglass leakage needs two minutes of time, that two minutes of time the child can end the work of the toilet.

The children can race against them. Assist the children in planning a kind of “race” notebook, write down the first time, then each recorded practice time to the end, if there is an improvement over the previous, it rewards, if there is no progress, maintain the status quo or step backward, not to be unrewarded. You can also let the child start with simple and easy, and gradually tend to more difficult tasks, it has now reached the appropriate time. The intention of this approach is to shorten the time, the need to end everything is to beat the slow motion direct way. In the meantime, we have to explain the meaning of the child's score and stimulate the desire to improve.