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Thank you for sharing these amazing results rfern002!
Hi Divya Singhania Agarwal – may I ask if the lack of interest is only related to musical instruments? How are your other flashcards going?
Here are a few suggestions to try:1. timing – is your child well-rested, fed, not bothered by other things.2. delivery – make sure the flashing is quick (one card a second) and your voice is bright and enthusiastic. Introduce the activity as something special you’re going to do together.3. reduce the quantity of cards – keep it short, use only a few cards at a time.4. play the musical sounds of the instruments – pick a few instruments to introduce, find a recording of those instruments (lots on youtube) to play for your child. Tell your child – this is the sound of a piano, this is the sound of a guitar, etc. Later try showing the flashcards again.5. start with a different set of flashcards first – ideally, find a topic that your child is interested in.From Divya Singhania Agarwal:
Hi maam, I tried showing my 9m old child music instruments which is part of the first week. But he wasn’t interested in seeing. How do I make him see.
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Hi Sanggeetta Sathiaseelan – As she is 5, I would introduce the concepts of multiplication and division using physical manipulatives – https://rightbrainchild.com/2021/05/25/the-purpose-of-manipulatives-for-learning-maths/
When you use manipulatives like counters, you can show her that 3 x 7 can be represented as 3 groups of 7 items or 7 groups of 3 items.With division, you can show how 36 divided by 6 becomes 6 groups of 6. These visual concepts help her understand what is happening when you multiply and divide. By having this basic understanding, she will be able to transfer the understanding to larger numbers 13 x 15 is just 13 groups of 15 items or 15 groups of 13 items.When using flashcards to teach multiplication and division, you help her memorise the answers, but by showing her with manipulatives, she learns the “why”.Hi Ruwan Thomas – May I ask if your child has been diagnosed with ADHD? I realise sometimes many people see a child who is more active than others and immediately label them as ADHD when it could just be normal child behaviours. Some children are just more energetic and that is fine. If you look at all the signs and symptoms taken for determining whether a child is ADHD, many children will fall into that category.
Are You Sure My Child has ADHD?
Also read this one: https://figur8.net/2014/11/16/adhd-and-creativity-go-hand-in-hand/If you have a child with ADHD, these are some things that can help:– activities that develop working memory– games that encourage delayed gratification, such as using a timer so children know how long they must wait, and then increasing the waiting time (activities that develop self-control also help with delaying gratification)– games that develop attention – such as those puzzles where you have to find the hidden object in the background– meditation, relaxation, and sensory awareness exercisesPhysical activity – https://www.figur8.net/2017/10/19/managing-attention/Making sure your child gets 45-60 minutes of vigorous activity 6 days a week. If it can be outside in nature that would be the best as nature immersion has been shown to be beneficial for ADHD as well. https://www.figur8.net/2016/05/20/nature-benefits-children/Apeksha Jangde – yes, cartoons are fine. Sometimes, if there is a topic that my child likes, I would use it as the theme for the book to make it more interesting for them to read. Some of these themes are cartoons so the images are also cartoons.Regarding Q3 – not that I am aware of, but these sites may be helpful save you some time making your own books:From Apeksha Jangde:
Is it ok to put cartoon images in home made book or only real ones.Also kindly address question #3.Mas – general recommendation for repetitions is roughly three times a day for 5 days. I would recommend repeating the entire series again after going through the whole set once – so there is a brief period of time that lapses between the reviews. This follows the concept of spaced learning which has been shown to be a more effective way to learn – https://rightbrainchild.com/2020/11/15/right-brain-education-schedule-planning
How many repetitions exactly depends on your child. So I would say that the exact number of repetitions you need is the number of repetitions that your child requires to remember the words. Rather than focus on a set formula, it is better to follow your child’s requirements. Some children may need more repetitions and some less. To say that it is exactly x number of repetitions would not be correct.Apeksha Jangde – Yes that is fine. When teaching reading with flashcards, Doman flashcards do not come with pictures either. Similarly, when a child reads a picture book, not every sentence is accompanied by a related picture.
From Apeksha Jangde:
Shen-Li regarding #7, I suppose it should be fine if there are no pictures for some of them
Aarti Chhabria – yes. When you have completed going through all the doman cards up to phrases, start again from parts of the body and repeat.
From Aarti Chhabria:
Do we have spaced repetition for reading program too? Singles, couplets,etc what we have done before
Apeksha Jangde – I don’t have any homemade books on the site as yet. When making your own books, a good place to start is a topic that your child likes. It could even be a book about your child using photographs with your child in them.
The layout of the book should be words in large font on one page (usually the left) and the picture on the opposing page (on the right). The words should be printed on a plain white background with a plain typeface to make it easier for your child to read.You should already have covered couplets and phrases with the reading flashcards so your book should contain complete sentences the way it would be seen in a simple picture book. Since you are writing in sentences, there will be words that are unfamiliar to your child. For example, connecting words. Sometimes, to create new sentences, you may also have to add words that are unfamiliar. This is fine.You may have noticed already that Doman’s reading program does not cover a lot of words. His premise is that once your child has seen enough words, they will start to deduce the reading code and be able to read new words. By continuing to read together as many books as possible, you will help to fill in any gaps that your child may have with reading. This is also why we read more complex books together (ones that your child will not read on their own but will listen to you read to them).Definitely continue to read with your child – board books and any other books. Read widely and a range of different books. Bedtime stories are a great way to introduce a slightly harder book to your child but with a story that your child will enjoy and be eager to listen to.Doman doesn’t have many books but you can read more about their suggestions for making your own books here: https://www.domaninternational.org/blog/5-tips-for-creating-great-homemade-booksThere is no need to put the words in her board books into flashcards – just continue to read them together and run your finger under the words as you read them out.Your book doesn’t have to have a picture for every sentence. It could be a paragraph accompanied by a single picture related to something in the paragraph.Regarding repetitions – as you are teaching your child to read, repetition is necessary. How you repeat is key to helping your child learn. I suggest reading this post if you haven’t already – https://rightbrainchild.com/2020/11/15/right-brain-education-schedule-planning/Bringing back old material for a review is actually good for learning because the brain will continue to build on the connections formed during the first exposure. The key to learning is the gap between the repeat exposures. By leaving a few months in between the exposure, you build a stronger foundation in your child’s learning.The only issue with repetitions is when your child gets bored. That is when you want to switch things up to make it more interesting again.If you find that your child is already very familiar with the words, then there is no need to go back to repeat the flashcards. From there, you should move on to more books and continue reading more widely to build vocabulary.
