PARENTS AS TEACHERS

Many a times it so happens, that parents have to take up the role of teachers. may be because our kid was absent at school or may be because our darlings need an extra support in learning a lesson or may be simply that we want to know how best our kids have understood what that has been taught and we just feel like helping them reinforce it..................

Whatever may be the reason, even educated parents, sometimes lack adequate confidence on how to guide their child, especially during the formative years. By the time, we explore our kids would have passed that age!!!An URL http://www.schoolzone.com/ effectively describes on how to overcome this. They provide catalogue for many educational aids as well.

I am sure all Mamma's would be happy as they browse the site especially this page...
http://www.schoolzone.com/parents_teachers/essay.php?id=3
Your role has been really great!

Hope you enjoyed reading this...

CREATIVE AIDS

Children during their basic education stage are at an added advantage when provided with different materials that enhance their learning and retention process. The most common materials available are flash cards, board games, play kits, sequence cards and so on.

Identifying the lacuna in every child and procuring requisite supplementary aids that help kids improve their confidence is a prime concern for parents. Children are always fond of learning the play-way. In todays nuclear households, team games can facilitate kids to mingle in a group and help in evolving better, as well.

Creative Educational Aids Pvt Ltd, with the URL www.creativeeduaids.com presents an array of such materials, categorised as per requisite age group from preschoolers to school going fellows...range is wide and quality commendable.Detailed instructions are available with every item.

There is an additional attractive page for guidance on child safety , which is highly useful to those are just into parenting or those who wish to buy toys and educational materials as gifts...http://www.creativeeducationalaids.com/Toysafty.aspx

Hope this is of use to you...

WONDER LEARN

FUN WAY TO LEARN AND LADDER SUCCESS...

This is an excellent learning companion for kids. This is produced by an IT company Compuneeds, based at Thiruvananthapuram. It compiles good quality materials for basic learners in their LKG & UKG disc.

The home page permits selection of alphabets- English, both capital and small letters; Malayalam, Hindi. It also contains numbers. It depicts visually the direction for holding and moving the pencil while writing.

Another section contains a set of illustrated stories. There is an exclusive section for painting, with wide range of pictures that caters to interest of most children and helps them to gain better mouse control, sense of colours, concept of dark and light, mixing shades,etc. There is also a section of memory tests, that helps kids to check their retention abilities.

The team is also producing DVD's for higher classes based on CBSE and ICSE syllabi, for Science, Mathematics and English.

A quality study aid as per their own caption of advertisement...Thank you Compu-needs...
Contact: http://www.compu-needs.com/

AADYAKSHARANGAL- Educational Video Cd

This is a video Cd presented in an attractive manner to help children learn Malayalam comfortably.It targets kids from LKG to Std.II.This digital Cd comes from Anugraha, Kochi.

Each Malayalam alphabet is first visually presented as being written on a slate and simultaneously reinfored by a short matching lyric, that too an easily comprehensible selection over the audio, explained further slowly and with good clarity, where required;along with words beginnning with this alphabet...Sincere efforts have been taken to sustain interest of small children during the session.Music, live characters, nature, good visuals all together makes learning a wonderful experience.

Congrats to Anugraha for this production...

JINGLES for kids-A true edutainment(Volume I)

This is a visual CD with 17 most popular jingles and mini stories with live characters. Led by a Grandpa, who is presented as an annual guest on the New Year, kids enjoy spending time with him, listening to stories and singing short rhymes, playing and exploring nature...

A wonderful CD for the pre schoolers. It contains both English and Malayalam songs.

Content may be enlisted as under:
1.kuttikale, kuttikale...
2.aana varunnundana...
3. twinkle twinkle...
4. thalla poochem pilla poochem...
5. kunjiyammakanju makkalane...
6. Are you sleeping...
7. Mary had a little lamb...
8. Johny, johny ...
9. onnum onnum randu...
10.I hear thunder...
11. marikarukal...
12.va kuruvi varu kuruvi..
13. dosa nalla dosa...
14.odiyethum neramenne...
15.Baa baa...
16.raki parakunna chembarunthe...
17.puthuvarsham...

In this collection, we were lured by the song dedicated to mothers, odiyethum neramene omanikkum amma, ....and the last song that fills us with hopes of a wonderful new year, puthuvarsham vannananju...

For further details log on to http://www.jinglesforkids.com/