Children education at home during Corona isolation!

Schools are closed across the state of North Carolina. In our local area, first and second graders are quite common. Highly qualified mature unemployed available among us. He was willing to teach them following the school schedule. About three of the children in this area are lucky. The children’s houses were closed. Memorial Day gave them a break.

Yesterday was an interesting class. It’s all about riddles and clues. Each student actively contributes by proposing the puzzle! If someone wants to answer, just raise your hand and wait for the teacher’s permission. They were learning about colors. They read that sunlight is made up of seven colors. They wondered how a white light from the sun has seven colors.

The teacher asked if anyone had any guesses. There was no answer.

He took out a glass prism from his pocket and directed the sunlight onto the prism. Clever! There were many colors coming out of the other end of the prism.

Each child had the opportunity to feel and touch the colors they saw.

The teacher named the colors, such as violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. The children’s curiosity left them amazed at the division of colors. Individually, this unique experience had an impact. She added that they would learn more about these colors when they moved on to higher grades.

The class busied itself with learning about the numbers one through ten in order.

use the fingers to count to ten, and from ten to twenty also with the toes. They learned to add ones, twos, threes, fours, fives and tens. They were taught about ten especially, and also about the idea of ​​digits since the number

10 has two digits 1 and 0. For a hundred the digits are three, 100. rudimentary

They were given plain white paper individually. They were asked to draw whatever they wanted. The three produced more than ten drawings each, their imaginations recorded on white sheets of paper for parents to admire the extent of their imaginations. His excellent eye-hand eye coordination came to light vividly. His level of object cognition and command of distance was admirable.

That was a kind of riddles. Anyone can solve. But there is an order among the children to have the opportunity to find an answer. One of them

asked what numbers start and end in the same place? No response for a while. One of the three raised his hand. They all looked. They are the

0 and 8. Because they start and end at the same place. The teacher was amused by the clever answer.

Another child asked have you seen a pot full of rubies? Guess! all hands went up to answer this question. The teacher this time preferred that the shy boy answered. The shy boy was ready to accept the challenge. This is pomegranate, he said. They all agreed with the answer in unison.

The half hour in the afternoon was used for stretching exercises, breathing exercises, squats for that age, nothing strenuous and looking at the sky to find cloud formations, their colors, shape, learning about clouds that bring rain, thunder and lightning. Feel the fresh air and smell the fragrance of flowers from the nearby garden.

Many rudimentary pre-kindergarten and kindergarten schools sprang up to reach the educational needs of the next generations locally to the best of their abilities and available resources. This is peaceful local social progress.