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Hi Apeksha Jangde – POI is not intended to be used for speed flashing. You are encouraged to cover the facts quickly but it does not have to be as fast as the speed play flashcards. Here your goal is to convey information.
You could use them as home-made books but I feel they are not ideal. The language is more complex and the format is not conducive for encouraging a young child to read it.
Home-made books are meant to encourage children to read for themselves. It should be a book that a child will want to pick up to read on their own. The book topics should be tailored to your child’s interests and it should be fun to read.Your goal for flashing is usually about a second a card. The only way to do it faster is through practice. Heguru teachers will practice reciting the flashcards without the children present to help them get used to flashing quickly and saying the words quickly. This is often not practical for a parent who is busy with many other things so the best way is for you to use a speed that is as fast as you can go without compromising accuracy – i.e. stumbling on your words or fumbling with the cards.
Hi Mas – 150 words is a good start. You can start introducing couplets to show how words go together – this is the start of learning to read from books where there are multiple words combined. You can follow the couplets from the Doman program – https://rightbrainchild.com/2020/12/02/doman-reading-program/ or make your own relating to your child. After couplets, we introduce phrases – they are not quite complete sentences but are nearly there. Couplets are two words. Phrases are several words together but are not complete sentences on their own.
Once you have covered phrases, you can move on to homemade books. You can also continue with single words to review old words or introduce new ones to expand your child’s vocabulary. You do not need to stop one to do the other. Once your child is confident with reading simple books on their own, you can focus on introducing more complex books that you read together, while your child reads the easy books on their own.
Remember that even though a child can read, looking at books where there are lots of words on a page can still be daunting. This is where reading together helps. It encourages your child to read harder books that they wouldn’t pick up on their own.
Hi Mas – Shichida’s home practice was meant to be done once a day. The only time he suggested doing more than once is when you need to break up your sessions because your child is no longer attentive. In this case, it is not so much a repeat but a continuation of what was not completed.
Hi Preeti Gupta – the easiest option is to print them as is and flash them together sitting on the same side as your child. If you wish to sit facing your child, you will have to move the words to the back of the card. There is really no quick and easy way to do this other than to manually remove them and add them onto the back.
I have a series of flashcards on the general knowledge page –
https://rightbrainchild.com/2020/06/09/general-knowledge-flash-cards/ – some of these are in the format of the word first followed by the picture. If you print these double-sided, you may be able to arrange the print so that the word is printed behind the picture. Do you want to try that to see if that works? If it does, I can change the format of future flashcards to word and picture separately so they can be printed double-sided or used digitally.
If you have a 5 month baby, you can focus on flashcards because RBE at this age is input only. Since you have an older child, I would also encourage you to have your lessons with the older child while your baby is present. Children can learn a lot more by observing an older child learning. This is a benefit of teaching multi-aged children.
Ordinarily, for the infant RBE classes, parents attend and do the activities in the presence of the child so they can learn through observation. This is achieved by having your younger one observe the older one doing the activities that your baby will also be doing when old enough.
Yes. Speedplay is one of the mainstay RBE activities from Shichida and can be done with children up to 6 years.
Shichida says that you can break up the flashcards sessions if you cannot complete all in one session. It is better to do this than keep going when your child is no longer paying attention.The weekly program can and should be tailored according to your child. Every child is different and we must take this into consideration when planning the learning for our children. What works for one family may not work for another so we cannot expect to have a set format for everyone to follow.What is important is exposure to experiences that engage all senses, reading together as much as possible, hands-on activities, physical development. Supplemented with the flashcards program for building knowledge. Combining these in ways that work for your child and it will provide a great foundation for your child’s later years.From: Sowjanya Penmetsa
From the above suggestion.. is speed play helps for brain activation for 3.3 year old. if yes,
1. All the cards of each category(around 80-110 cards / category) should be flashed at one. .
2. Complete weekly program should be done at once or divide like morning speed play , afternoon math, eve reading like that.
Hi Sowjanya Penmetsa – There are different purposes for using flashcards in early learning.
1. Speed play – for brain activation
2. Dots – for math
3. Words – for reading
4. BOI and POI – for general knowledge
You can also read more about it here…
The Purpose of Flashcards in Early Learning
In the weekly lessons, the speedplay section is set up for brain activation. However, I think your intention is to teach knowledge, so breaking up the sets into 15-20 cards a day as you are doing is great. You do not have to cover all the cards from the Speed Play section when teaching knowledge. Pick the topics that you want to focus on or that are in line with your child’s interests and leave the other topics for another time.
The purpose of exposing material to your child at this early age is to provide the foundation for future learning in school. Whatever your child learns now, even if it cannot be actively recalled, will remain in the brain’s subconscious. When your child encounters these subjects again in the future, the learning becomes faster and the understanding deeper compared to a child that has never seen the material and is learning for the first time.
Hi Pruthivni,
Have you seen the abacus flashcards? You can start by flashing them 10 at a time up to 100, to teach your child the abacus configuration for each number. It is important for your child to be able to image the abacus in the mind because this is how they will use it to calculate later – what they see is the image of the abacus in their head.
I don’t know the full method for teaching abacus, but I know it is important to be able to see it in their minds because they use an imaginary abacus to perform mental calculations.
The abacus flashcards are here – Math Flashcards.
Give me a bit of time, and I’ll try adding the math equations as well – similar to the dot program.
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Hi Nandini Devru – I have used both physical and digital cards for my own kids when they were little. I don’t believe there is any difference in efficacy. It is just two different ways to do the same thing and one is not better or worse than the other.
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What I have found for some parents is that their children sometimes prefer one format over the other. Some parents feel their child prefers physical cards and others say it has to be digital. Some find that both work equally well (as it did for my own children). So it really depends on your child’s personal preference.
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Probably the most important consideration for RBE is being able to connect with your child, and to maintain their attention and interest to learn. Sometimes this means having to do things slightly differently and that’s okay. We need to do what works best for our children and if it isn’t the same as the way others do it, does that really matter? At the end of the day, what we want is for it to be effective.
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When considering options, my primary question will always be this: what works better for my child? I hope that helps.
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Hi Sowjanya Penmetsa – those are the category titles to show that the ones that come after that page are all part of the same type of invertebrates. For instance, Amoeba, Paramecium, Euglena are all Protozoa which are single-celled micro-organisms and are microscopic.
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The information about the body parts was included to provide more detail. It can be said or it may be omitted depending on how much your want to teach. For speed play, you may flash without saying it so you can flash more quickly. When you repeat the cards to teach knowledge, you can say it as you introduce them – these are protozoa. They are single-celled micro-organisms and are microscopic. Some examples include: Amoeba, Paramecium, Euglena…
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Hi Jaya – you can start right now. Right Brain Education classes usually begin from 6 months onwards.
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Doman Reading and Math flashcard programs can even begin as early as 3 months.
This is a good age to start because your child is developing quickly. Your baby will be curious about the world and will be eager to learn.
