The Importance of Literacy to Young Children
As an adult who can speak English eloquently, you can read to children to imbue them with structural and pivotal skills that may help them achieve their dreams and aspirations in the future. Influencing them with positive values through reading proves very effective in instilling stronger self-discipline, better concentration, and up-to-par memory retention.
National Literacy Month promotes reading to young children to enhance their cognitive skills and encourages the undertaking of the development of their cognitive abilities. Reading and improving the literacy of young children fundamentally provides them with the framework for how our world looks like. This way, they can develop an understanding of what they see, hear, and read.
How can the National Literacy Month be observed as a Family?
You can gather everyone and choose a book to enjoy as a family. You can also encourage your friends and other family members to participate in National Literacy Month by arranging activities or competitions, etc.
If you’ll be reading with young children to jumpstart their literacy journey, it’s better if you choose a material that is appropriate for their age range. Making the experience delightful and entertaining supports early writing and reading skills, enhances their vocabulary, and strengthens the bond that you have with them. Experts encourage reading aloud for thirty minutes every day for children! You can get them involved by doing little things, such as turning the pages or discussing the story with them afterward. You can ask them about the most impactful character or their takeaways.
We can also celebrate the National Literacy Month by---
Donating books to local shelters.
Volunteering at a local library or school to read aloud to young children.
Gifting a book.
Literacy benefits everyone. It stimulates brain growth as reading is the workout of the brain.
So dear all, inspire everyone around you, young and old, to take the time to just sit down, relax, and crack open a good book in order to enhance their literacy in this National Literacy Month.
Thank you,
Raminder Kaur
Coordinator- Early Years
Kanakia Kids Global
Reading is like cardio for your brain.
Read A Book Day
Read a Book Day was a day where the characters of the books came alive, be it a Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks, Cinderella, Rapunzel, The Woodcutter, Birbal, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, some lions, few mice, the hares, the tortoise, sat amongst Kanakia Kids Global learners and brought the stories to life. Watching learners dressed as the story characters was pleasing to the eye and listening to the stories and description of the characters was music to the ears. The curiosity of the learners to speak what they had prepared was at its peak and they were equally eager to listen to what their peers had to say.
Our Nursery learners brought their favourite books to school and shared it with their peers whereas our K1 and K2 learners played scavenger hunt and looked for the objects related to the story. The teachers enacted different stories in the class and the learners enjoyed that very much. Our learners also enjoyed making bookmark for themselves.
It was indeed a fantabulous day of celebration.
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-Bill Nye
Reduce - Reuse - Recycle
Zero Waste Week focuses on raising awareness about the importance of waste reduction. It aims to educate everyone about the environmental impact of waste and the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling. The primary goal is to minimize the amount of waste generated during this week.
Our Kanakia Kids learners contributed by reusing some leftover materials into beautiful and useful things. Our Nursery learners made paper bags by using newspapers. Our K1 learners made beautiful fridge magnets by using bottle caps while our K2 learners made attractive ladybugs, tablas and designed some patterns by using coconut shells and pista shells.
Our teachers also took an active part in the same by enacting a role play on reuse, reduce and recycle for our learners to help them relate to the concept. Zero Waste Week is not just a one-week event but a stepping stone towards a more sustainable future. This initiative encourages everyone to adopt sustainable habits both at school and in their daily lives.
VID_20230913_141339.mp4Learning Engagements @ Nursery
Bump Pattern
Pre-writing patterns help children to get a level of structure into their mark-making. Nursery learners were imparted with the knowledge of Bump pattern. They traced bump pattern in sand tray then they arranged it by using pom pom balls, shells and clay. It helped learner to build finger strength, eye hand coordination, wrist movement and grip strength.
Fun fact:
There are more microorganisms in one teaspoon of soil than there are people on earth.
EXPLORING NATURES GREEN WONDERS!
In this fun session of Horticulture, Nursery learners explored different types, shapes, size, texture and colours of leaves. They observed the leaves and were able to sort it by size. Learners were excited to complete the tree by pasting leaves on it. Learners enjoyed this leafy adventure!
Visit to school Area
Nursery learners visited school areas like Principal's room Administrative room, Co-ordinator room, Library, Dance and Music room, Sick Bay and Canteen.
Learners thoroughly enjoyed this visit to the school areas with their class teacher.
Learning Engagements @K1
English
Let's splash the letters...
Learners of K1 were very excited to write the letters that they had already learned. Learners were encouraged to use orange poster colour, white sheet of paper and paint brush and they wrote the letters with the orange colour that was introduced to them. They were super excited to play with orange colour and create their letters. While writing the letters learners were also saying its phonic sound. Few learners were also relating the letters with some objects.
It was a fun way of practicing letters.
Pink is known for relaxing your mind.
Math
P-I-N-K P-I-N-K
Pink Pink Pink
I Love Pink
Cotton Candy is Pink
Flamingo is Pink
Teacher provided the learners with mixed colour pebbles and pom pom balls in two different bowls where the learners used their fine motor skills to pick up the pink color pebbles and pom-pom balls with the tweezer and kept it in a small glass bowl. This group activity was interesting for the learners as they were identifying the pink colour objects and sorting them with the help of tweezer. While doing this activity they were also relating other pink colour objects all around them like pink ball, pink doll, pink pig, pink flower and so on.
Dance
In this session learners were taught how to sense the movement and communicate by sharing ideas. Such as identification of movements, grooving to the beat, fusing the steps and combination of basic movements.
Learning Engagements @ K2
I know my words
Learners built CVC words with plastic spoons. Learners were given a sheet of paper with initials of some letters and plastic spoons. On each spoon, the two-letter u-family words were written. The learners had to hold the spoon next to the letter on the paper and complete the word to make a 3-letter CVC word. They had fun making the 3-letter words from u-family.
Toss and jump
A numbered court was drawn for learners. Learners played hopscotch by tossing a small block into numbered squares outlined on the floor and then they hopped and jumped on one foot through the square boxes and retrieved the object. They enjoyed this indoor game which helped them in recognizing numbers and also helped them in strengthening their gross motor skills.
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In this session, learners learnt about accented (strong) beats, where they took turns in the form of relay, to identify the strong beat and accordingly demonstrate clapping to it.
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