Space Memory blog

Spacy solves a wooden puzzle beside an hourglass while the coach puts a phone away on the shelf Course Attention training for kids — how we stretch the working block Online attention training for kids aged 8–18: 90 minutes a week with a coach in a group of 5–10. A child sits down to a task and… A girl and her mentor playing a memory card game at a desk Course Memory training for kids — techniques instead of cramming Live online classes for children aged 8–18. Your child learns to memorise numbers, dates, foreign words, poems and texts using… Spacy reading a book in a turquoise armchair by the window Course Speed reading for kids — pace and comprehension together Live online classes for children aged 8–18. Your child reads faster and understands what they read — because pace without… Spacy and her mentor pinning picture cards linked by a turquoise thread Mnemonics Mnemonics for kids — how to memorise instead of cramming Four techniques a child aged 8–18 can start using today: image, association, chain and memory palace. With ready examples and… A fox cub on a picnic blanket copying a shape pattern from a card Memory How to improve memory for kids — what works and what only looks like help A child studies in the evening and remembers half of it by morning. Usually this is not ability and not laziness, but study… Spacy with a book beside a board holding six cards Memory How to memorize a poem — a six-step method Not reading it over and over until it sticks. Split it into chunks, turn each into a picture, link the pictures into a chain … A mentor and a fox cub building a pyramid of blocks on the rug School work How to memorize multiplication tables — without chanting them in order A hundred squares only look frightening. Remove the duplicates and the easy columns and you are left with twenty-one facts — that… Spacy in headphones holding an orange next to a card with an orange Languages How to memorize vocabulary — so the words do not fade in a week A list of word-and-translation goes in over one evening and is gone in three days. A word stays when there is a sound, an image… Spacy and her mentor pointing at objects in a hallway Mnemonics Memory palace for kids — how to build one in a single evening The oldest memory technique, and still the most reliable for long lists in a fixed order. Take a place the child knows by heart… Spacy, wide-eyed in shock, stands in a room where the TV, the chair and the piano are dissolving into turquoise sparks Mnemonics Method of loci, Roman room, memory palace — Cicero's technique and its 3D practice Three names you will meet online describe the same technique: you lay material out on familiar places in a fixed order and recall… A mentor and a fox cub over a book with a turquoise ruler and an hourglass Speed reading Speed reading exercises for kids — seven you can do at home You need a book, a timer and ten minutes a day. First measure, then remove the three habits that steal the time, and only after… Spacy holding a folder — illustration for the memory coach's story About the school Natalia Lubenets — memory coach and co-founder of Space Memory She owns the teaching method at Space Memory. Started with mental arithmetic in Kryvyi Rih, now prepares children for… Three school characters in a lobby with a book, cards and a raised hand About the school About us — who teaches children to remember Space Memory was founded by Natalia and Karolina Lubenets, mother and daughter. The school is run by GLOBAL LEADERS SKILLS Sp. z… A coach at a board of cards linked by a turquoise thread, Spacy and the fox cub with their own cards at the table Course Memory course for kids online — what a child does in the lessons An online memory course for kids aged 8–18: 90 minutes a week with a coach in a group of 5–10, plus 10 minutes a day on the… Spacy reads a book with a turquoise strip under the line while the coach holds an hourglass Course Speed reading course for kids online — what the lessons look like An online speed reading course for kids aged 8–18: 90 minutes a week with a coach in a group of 5–10. Faster means as much as the… Spacy places coloured tokens into seven empty columns on a board while the coach points at one Course Effective study course for kids — study skills, trained An online effective study course for kids aged 8–18: 90 minutes a week with a coach in a group of 5–10. School sets the material… An evening kitchen: a fox cub retells a topic aloud with the notebook closed while a coach listens over a mug School work How to teach a child to study — a guide for parents “Go and study” is not an instruction. This is: split the material, plan three returns to it, write a note with questions, and… A teenage fox stacking textbooks into three piles by a desk, an hourglass and an empty calendar beside them School work Study techniques for teenagers — when there is too much material In the senior years studying longer is not enough: there are more than a dozen subjects and the day has not got any longer. This… Sparks rise from an open notebook and a coach catches one and puts it back on the page Memory Why children forget so quickly, and where exactly the material goes Last night they answered without hesitating; this morning, at the board, nothing. That does not mean the material evaporated — it… A fox cub retells a topic standing up with the notebook closed while a coach and Spacy listen Memory A child who does not remember what they studied — where to start You sat over it for an hour and a half, and at the board not one sentence came out. In most such cases the material is in there … Spacy lays out tokens on a garden wall while the coach writes the score in a notebook Memory How to train a child's memory so that it actually counts One round of “remember the objects on the tray” teaches nobody anything — just as one push-up builds no fitness. What counts is… A blanket on an autumn hill with small objects in a row, Spacy lifting one corner of the cloth, a fox cub watching Exercises Memory exercises for kids — ten tasks for today Six tasks to do at the table and four you can do on a tram or in a queue. Nothing needs buying: odds and ends from a drawer, a… Objects hovering above Spacy's hands while the coach sets one of them down on a shelf Memory Working memory in children — what it is and how to unload it They went to their room for socks and came back with building bricks. They read a word problem and lost track of the question… A calm kitchen in the evening: notes on the fridge, a coach writing one line in a notebook For parents Memory problems in children — when it is the method and when it is more We do not diagnose and are not qualified to: specialists do that. What we can show is what is worth watching for a fortnight… Six glowing objects in a row on a table, Spacy reaching for one of them Mnemonics Memorising techniques for kids — which one to pick for what There is no single technique for everything: a phone number, spelling exceptions and the order of the planets are memorised in… Spacy building a glowing little bridge between a wooden brick and a toy car Mnemonics The association method for kids — how to build an image that lasts An association is a bridge between something new and something the child already knows. The bridge is either solid or falls apart… A coach turns off the overhead light and switches on a lamp over one open notebook while the rest of the room falls into half-dark Focus How to improve a child's concentration — where to start You cannot add attention by saying “concentrate”. You can change the four things it depends on: the task itself, the place they… A fox cub pulled away from the task: a ball rolls past the half-open door, a phone glows on the shelf, a tally sheet lies beside the notebook Focus Child cannot focus on schoolwork — let us count what interrupts them They get up for water, check something on the phone, ask about something unrelated to the lesson. Before you start fighting it… The coach turning over a larger hourglass beside a smaller one, with a row of ever-bigger hourglasses on the shelf Focus How to extend a child's attention span — two minutes every three days Attention behaves like distance in running: it grows from what the child actually manages today, not from what a table says they… An evening kitchen with a clock on the wall, a coach laying out supplies in a neat row, a fox cub writing in a notebook School work Homework takes too long — where the time actually goes Three hours at a desk usually consist of an hour of work and two hours of everything else: the run-up, hunting for a notebook… Spacy pushing a thick book aside and keeping one sheet of notes while the coach watches from the side School work How to study faster — and what speed will not fix Faster studying does not come from reading at a higher speed. It comes from throwing out what was not working anyway: a fourth… Spacy carrying three boxes through an autumn park while the coach tucks one of them into a bag School work How to memorise material for a test — split it into three piles The biggest waste of time before a test is treating a whole chapter the same way. Part of the material only needs understanding… A coach filling in a list in a notebook while a fox cub explains something beside him, rain falling beyond the porch Mnemonics Memorising techniques by subject — history to maths The same method will not handle dates in history and formulas in maths, because the material is built differently. Below are six… A fox cub writing at a cleared desk, an hourglass running beside them, the coach holding a prepared sheet of questions School work How to prepare for a test — scope, mock, mistakes Learning the material is half the preparation. The other half is the part nobody usually mentions: finding out exactly what will… An older fox at a wide desk with three folders, a wall calendar with months marked, a spring evening in the window School work The Polish eighth-grade exam: what expat families need to know, and a plan to prepare Every pupil finishing primary school in Poland sits the egzamin ósmoklasisty — including children who moved here recently and are… Spacey in a space suit flies through the solar system past Saturn, with the Sun, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune on their orbits behind her Online classes The solar system for kids: an interactive model on the student platform In the hangar of the My Space game there is a “Deep Space” button. Behind it is a 3D solar system where the planets sit where… Spacey and Spike the wolf in a hangar at night watching a crane lower an engine onto a rocket being assembled Online classes The My Space game: a character, a hangar and coins for homework Next to the trainers and homework on the student platform there is a game. The child has their own character, dresses it up, and… A fox cub telling something eagerly from a rock while the coach listens lying on the grass For parents Child has no motivation to study — what is really behind it “They just don't feel like it” describes behaviour; it does not explain it. Underneath there is almost always avoidance: the task… Four objects in a row on a desk — a pillow, an hourglass, a closed exercise book and a calendar page — with the coach running a hand along them School work How to study effectively — the order in which things get sorted out Studying effectively does not mean studying more. There is more advice about studying than anyone can apply, and that is the main… Spacy reading with a stopwatch in hand while the coach holds a sheet with two columns of marks Speed reading Does speed reading work — separating what works from the advertising We teach speed reading, so all the more reason to say where the limits are. Briefly: reading pace can be improved, and that is… A fox cub reading the same page aloud once again while the coach listens with closed eyes Speed reading How to help a child read faster — fluently first, quickly second A child who reads slowly almost never needs a speed technique. They need to get through the stage where recognising words stops… The coach watching from the doorway: Spacy building with bricks, a fox cub telling something with their hands For parents How to find a child's learning strengths — and what for School, by its nature, deals with what is not working. As a result a parent knows everything about the weak points after a year… Spacy standing in a corridor between two doors: behind one a desk with a textbook, behind the other a wall covered in notes For parents Tutoring or learning how to learn — which to choose, and when Both cost money and hours every week, and they solve completely different problems. Tutoring fills gaps in one subject. Learning… Spacy sits with a laptop at a wooden table in a park, a glass of water beside it, the screen turned away Test Memory test for kids online — free and without sign-up Instead of guessing whether a child “has a poor memory”, you can see how they handle a specific task. The Space Memory test is… The fox works at a laptop on a folding table while an adult puts a soft toy into a bag — nothing else is on the table Test Attention test for kids — see which part of attention is weak “Does not pay attention” is one sentence with three quite different mechanisms behind it. One child drops out of a task after two… Spacy, an adult and the fox look at a laptop; beside them an hourglass and a row of six tokens, two turned face up Test Cognitive test for kids — the whole profile in a quarter of an hour “Cognitive” sounds like a word from a consulting room, but it simply means the tools a child learns with: remembering, holding… An adult runs a hand along a row of objects on a table — blocks, beads, a stopwatch and a lamp — as Spacy watches from the other side Test Space Memory cognitive tests — which tasks we use and why these A page for anyone who wants to know what sits under the space styling. Each of the six tasks is modelled on a paradigm known in… Five objects in a row on a table — a picture, two linked rings, a chain, a small house and a token with a digit — the coach runs a hand along them About the school The Space Memory method — what we teach and in what order We have no technique of our own that nobody knew before, and we do not claim one. What we have is an order: five well-known… An empty chair pulled up to the coach's desk, the coach turning an open folder towards it About the school Space Memory — reviews and how to check us before signing up You were looking for reviews and landed on the school's own site, so let's be straight: the reviews you see here come from our… A notebook open at a page with two columns of numbers, an hourglass and a stopwatch beside it, Spacy comparing the columns with two fingers About the school Results and measurement — what we measure and what we do not publish yet School results pages tend to look the same: a big percentage, the word “average”, and nothing about who it was counted on. This… Four half-open doors in a warm corridor, a different workshop behind each, Spacy and the fox choosing which to open Course Developmental classes for kids online — which course for which trouble We have four courses, and on paper they all look alike: a group, a coach, 90 minutes. What differs is the trouble each one… Ten small objects in a row on a table, Spacy turned away with her eyes closed, the coach writing down a number Memory How to check a child's memory — six tries to do at the table Before deciding that a child has a poor memory, it is worth seeing it on something specific. Below are six tries you can do with… Spacy laying out cards with shapes on a table while the coach watches with a notebook in hand For parents What is a cognitive test — and what it certainly is not The word “cognitive” turns up both in a psychologist's office and in the advertising for a subscription app, so it means… Spacy assembling a tangram next to an hourglass Focus Concentration exercises for kids — how to stay with a task to the end A child starts a task and five minutes later is somewhere else. Below: five exercises to do at home, the causes that usually sit…