Farsley Farfield Class 6S blog

What is your working memory?

Why is it important?

It’s important as it allows you to hold on to information and use it at the same time – examples in the video. This is really important for everyday life.

Online Activities:

http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/memory_games.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/brainsmart/games/

Activities for home:

https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/learning-at-home/homework-study-skills/8-working-memory-boosters

Card games are a good way of boosting working memory including classics such as:

• Finding pairs
• Taking a certain number of cards and quickly memorising the order then test how many the child get get right