Hi everybody,
With my daughter in the nursery, I thought I will have lesser burden when it comes to making her study until she goes to a full day school, but I was proved wrong. Schools in India have started integrating innovative concepts when it comes to teaching Kindergarten students, who are otherwise called Nursery kids here in India. Any kid aged between 3 years 10 months to 4 years can be joined in the first year of Nursery which is Lower Kindergarten(LKG) here.
We rarely had books when we studied in LKG, but now my almost five year old daughter who is giving her first assessment test this month, for LKG, is studying Alphabets using Phonetics. I was stunned when she said, Mummy, its not A for Apple, its a (and reproduced the isolated sound of a as in cat) and said Apple.
These kids were being taught to recognize an alphabet by its sound. This is quite useful and confusing at the same time.
Useful because, it helps them learn many words and understand their spelling faster. Confusing because, alphabets like C & K, W & V have same sound. I could not even explain her why C followed by H could not give the sound of 'ka' as in Cake, but sounds 'cha' as in Chair.
These are quite complex concepts to be taught so early in Kindergarten, but I am doing my best to explain in simpler terms to her.
I still remember, we learnt Phonetics and right way of pronunciation only during our Engineering, when we had English (which was integrated in subjects to learn,) to make us good at communication skills. May be by the time, my daughter moves onto higher studies, she will have to study a lot more. I am only hoping that this education system does not lay too much stress on these little minds. How many of you had similar experiences here in India?
With my daughter in the nursery, I thought I will have lesser burden when it comes to making her study until she goes to a full day school, but I was proved wrong. Schools in India have started integrating innovative concepts when it comes to teaching Kindergarten students, who are otherwise called Nursery kids here in India. Any kid aged between 3 years 10 months to 4 years can be joined in the first year of Nursery which is Lower Kindergarten(LKG) here.
We rarely had books when we studied in LKG, but now my almost five year old daughter who is giving her first assessment test this month, for LKG, is studying Alphabets using Phonetics. I was stunned when she said, Mummy, its not A for Apple, its a (and reproduced the isolated sound of a as in cat) and said Apple.
These kids were being taught to recognize an alphabet by its sound. This is quite useful and confusing at the same time.
Useful because, it helps them learn many words and understand their spelling faster. Confusing because, alphabets like C & K, W & V have same sound. I could not even explain her why C followed by H could not give the sound of 'ka' as in Cake, but sounds 'cha' as in Chair.
These are quite complex concepts to be taught so early in Kindergarten, but I am doing my best to explain in simpler terms to her.
I still remember, we learnt Phonetics and right way of pronunciation only during our Engineering, when we had English (which was integrated in subjects to learn,) to make us good at communication skills. May be by the time, my daughter moves onto higher studies, she will have to study a lot more. I am only hoping that this education system does not lay too much stress on these little minds. How many of you had similar experiences here in India?
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