Last Saturday, Love and I went to Kursus Right Brain from ipn, the speaker was non other than Puan Lina. My verdict..
WORTH EVERY CENT!!
We learned so much in such short period. Sharing with you here, I guess was not as exciting as attending the course yourself. Masya Allah.. so much activities that will just open your eyes like never before :)
Nonetheless, I'm gonna share with you the gist of the talk.
Right brain is important because it enhances your long term memorization, awareness and imagination. Most of the time, our right brain capability decreases from 6 years old and above and as we get older, our right brain tends to go to sleep. This is because our education system is mostly based on left brain. So, we need to stimulate our children's right brain so that they use both sides of brain equally.
What I learned from the talk:
1. Memorization
Puan Lina introduced simple memorization game that I already tried for Khaira.
As of now, we arranged two cards of different colours and we asked Khaira to copy that same combination. It took a while for her to understand the game.
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| Home made memorization game for Lil K |
A few days later, once she understand, you arrange back the two cards of different combination, let her see it for a few seconds. Then, hide the combination and see if she can memorize the same combination and arrange the cards herself.
If she can, you decrease the time for her to look at the card before you hide it and put more combinations.
Simple as that. Very practical and doable.
Then, you can try to ask her to memorize combination of alphabets, numbers or even pictures.
2. Pegging
I honestly think I'm good at memorizing things, Alhamdulillah. If you give me a combination of things, in shaa Allah I can memorize it.. Short term.
How to still remember it tomorrow (long term)?
Here's the trick Puan Lina taught us. Memory pegging. First, you need to peg each number to each thing. It can be anything but make sure you remember it for the rest of your life.
Example:
1. Unicorn
2. Bicycle
3. Triangle
And here's the list of things that you need to remember:
1. Egg
2. Bread
3. Milk
How to memorize it in sequence and in a long term is to peg the thing that you need to memorize to the pegging that you created. Create a story, the more ridiculous the story is, the better.
Example:
1. There's an egg stuck at the end of the unicorn's horn
2. A bicycle that sells bread macam Bai Roti
3. The triangle shape of the box of your milk
It can even apply to other languages, we tried that in class. Works like magic :) Only that you need to create a story fast, and like almost any other things in the world, that takes a lot of practice.
3. Linking
If you need to memorize a series of pictures, try to make a story out of it.
Let's say I ask you to memorize a picture of a
rabbit, a
house, a
strawberry, a
flower, and a
cup of hot chocolate.
Link each picture together and create a story out of it.
For example, a
rabbit enters a
house that smells like
strawberry, but actually it is a smell of a
flower inside a
cup of hot chocolate.
Easy peasy, I memorized ten random pictures in a jiffy, how cool is that? Still remember the pictures that I memorized last Saturday up to the point I typed my post.
4. Memorize numbers in a group.
If I give you a random set of numbers:
92846090
How fast can you memorize this set?
The tip is to memorize it in a group.
Try and it works for me!!
5. Speed reading
Reading is my passion. In average I believe I read one book a month. I don't have a problem with speed reading.
But it's a skill that can be easily mastered if you teach your children how to do it.
Rather than reading each word with a stop, try to increase to make it two words with a stop, then 3. Eventually in the end, you'll just read the whole sentence or paragraph at one go.
6. Awareness
Creating awareness to your children towards their surrounding helps stimulating their right brain as well.
For example, show this flash card to them to teach them A, B, C.
Then, hide the flashcard and ask the following questions to exercise their brain to be alert all the time.
Examples:
1. What colour is the ape?
2. How many legs of the apes can you see?
That's all for my sharing session today. Good luck Mommies!! Please please please join her class if you have the opportunity to, very inspiring la this lady!
