How Rhymes and Music develops child's cognitive skills.

Cognitive skills are the skills that your brain uses to think, understand, read, learn, grasp, remember, recognize, reason, memorize and pay concentration. "Brain training" activities trains the cognitive skills where the brain uses maximum ability to think and learn.

In Kids Cognitive skills include: Asking questions, problem solving, developing an increased attention span, matching, visual discrimination, comparing, sequencing, simple reasoning, sorting, ordering and organizing.

And also understanding fact and fiction, understanding cause and effect.

How Rhymes and Music develops your child's cognitive skills?

A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words and rhyming is particularly common in many types of poetry, nursery songs, and carols. Music can play an important role in your child's cognitive growth, even before birth exposing your child to music ignites all areas of child development. Like music, rhymes has strong rhythmic patterns the timing of syllables helps listeners define one speech sound from another.

Most children love singing and dancing along music. Music not only brings happiness to children, it also benefits children’s cognitive skills. Music can then be used to motivates children to engage in learning activities. Child can be motivated to participate in activities involving different sounds, rhythms and songs so that their body and mind can work together to learn new things attentively.

Music and rhymes helps children learn language by increasing vocabulary, learning the sounds of words and hearing the rhythm of language. Children can also gain large and small motor skills by performing actions and movements.

Benefits

• Listening skills and following directions.
• Reading readiness is enhanced by Actions.
• Social skills are enhanced.
• Increases attention span.
• Reading readiness is supported by building recognition of letters and -sounds.
• Develop gross and fine motor skills.
• Action songs are fun and engaging.
• Improves imagination skills.
• Make academics easier and effective.
• Enhance linguistic skills.
• Self confidence.                   so on................

Farida Zalal

Principal

Vighnaan e-Techno School

Hospet

Importance of Bridge Course For School Students

Bridge Course

 Bridge Courses for school are primary courses that are designed to engage student towards learning all across the globe. They are connecting courses that connect a student’s previous course and with the course student wants to join so that he/she does not have to begin from the start of the course. Bridge course can be considered as supplementary knowledge that strengthens the knowledge in student about the advanced subjects that will be taught to student in the upcoming future. 

It helps to over come the barriers between the known concept with the unknown concept. During Bridge Course both student and teachers get enough time for better learning and delivering the concept. For Example: There is a poem "Summer" the teacher can explain concepts related to summer like seasons, weather, climate, temperature so on. this helps the child to recall his previous knowledge and connect to new concept. 

Bridge Course help students to recall, revise, recap what they have already learnt and relates to new information to prior knowledge enhances learning. It is an effective program to revise old lessons. It enhances the memory of learners there by strengthening learning. 

Bridge course is a platform for learners where previous concepts will be revised to enhance new syllabus which is inter related. During Bridge course, important topics and basic concepts of the previous classes will be revised to prepare the students for the new syllabus, "A Bridge Course is a capsule form of subjects the students learnt in the previous academic year."

Bridge course helps students to understand the need and scope of change in learning patterns from current level to meet the expectations of the next level. The purpose of Bridge course is to revise the basic concepts which the students might have forgotten. So that when the school reopens they can comfortably follow the next higher grade syllabus.

The pandemic has resulted in significant learning losses, particularly in Maths. Our Bridge Course program will help students close conceptual gaps and prepare them for the next academic year. Bridge course helps students to open up, think creatively and become responsible and independent students. 

Objectives:

* To develop academic skills and assist the students in various subjects.
* To raise the level of understanding of students in basic subjects to improve themselves for further academic work.
* To create interest in learning.
* To introduce basic concepts related to core subjects.
* To develop confidence in learning.
* To strengthen students learning skills.

“I Hear and I Forget, I See and I Remember, I Do and I Understand”

Importance of Bridge course

The pandemic has disrupted the education cycle of students, especially lower primary.  Every class is an important milestone in the academic journey of students. The Bridge Course will equip students with the prerequisite skills and fundamentals required to prepare for the academic year.

The Bridge course is designed to provide a thorough recap of core concepts from previous grades with ample practice through a simple, easy-to-execute curriculum that includes videos, worksheets, quizzes and group activities. Bridge course helps teachers to know about the students intellectual, student's learning ability.

Bridge courses are classes that give you information from a basic course, to prepare student for a more advanced course, thus bridging between the basic and advanced courses.

We request all our parents to coordinate and co-operates with our teachers to make this program successful.

Thank you 

Farida Zalal

Principal

Vighnaan e-Techno School 

How parents can help their kid's learning during pandemic?

 Parents' Role In Education During Pandemic

ARE PARENTS REALLY SUPPORTING THEIR CHILDREN’S LEARNING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC?

We all know how critical the situation is, how things were effected through the outbreak of the pandemic across the world, when all the routines for the survival have not stop, then why learning has to be stopped?

The gates of the school are closed, the classroom are silent and the playgrounds are empty. Parents teachers and caretakers are worried about their children's education. I don't think it is only a school's responsibility to take care your child's academy and the responsibility held only on teachers. Do you think only teachers should worry in finding different approaches to deliver academic program.

Yes, my dear parents you also play a vital role during this pandemic. Parents are first teacher from the moment child is born, you can play the role of being teacher and parent. Parents should feel it is an opportunity to engage with children during pandemic not only with their studies but also other sort of activities which strengthen bonding between parent and child.

I understand the stress what we are experiencing during this pandemic covid-19, I understand balancing work from home and household chores. you may be finding it difficult or boring to keep your children on track or helping them with assignments, homework, worksheets so on. If you support school, teachers and your kids, then definitely it would be easy for better learning. It is true that technology can't replace teachers, online classes may not completely effective, staring phone and tab may effect your child's eye sight but there is no any other option rather online classes. Even teachers trying their best to reach child's learning needs. As virtual classrooms are not as simple as plug-and-play, your attention is required. May be some parents are tech-savvy but it is not that too difficult to connect to virtual classes. The fact is virtual classes are possible, only with the whole-hearted cooperation of the parents. Let’s accept reality that the gadgets which were used by children for playing games, watching cartoons, and movies, are now used for educational purposes.

You can support online homeschooling through the coronavirus pandemic.

*Let’s not criticize the online classes and teacher's efforts

* Motivate child by creating interest.

*Coordinate with your child's teacher.

*Help child to organize the learning environment.

*Assist child with timetable to maintain learning routine.

* Monitor child's academic progress on daily bases.

*Ensure your child goes to sleep and wakes up at the same time each day.

*Please don't lose your patience when your assisting the child with their assignment and home-works.

*Follow-up with your child's attendance.

*Never yell at the child when child is not responding to you. so on.....................

Hence it is important for being a parent to communicate confidence, and optimism that we will pull through this pandemic together. We need to set goal for our children by prioritizing needs, and by giving personal attention. We need to Manage our own emotions will support our children stay focused on their learning till school reopens. Have a hope everything will be fine one day and your child need not to depend on virtual classes.

How long the school remain closed?

Hope is medicine for a soul that's sick and tired.

Thankyou

Farida Zalal

Principal

Vighnaan e-Techno School