Infant program (3yrs-6yrs)
Features of Infant program
When children are shown a large amount of flash cards at high speed, their right brains will become active and be able to learn instantly. With pictures and vocabulary which corresponds to certain words, children will be able to learn 4 times the regular amount of vocabulary.
Through Shichida Academy’s fun and original activities, your child will develop mathematics ability, inspiration, intuition and memorizing skills.
Fingertips are said to be the second brain because activities used by the fingers send stimulations to the brain. Therefore, students can train or improve his/her brain through finger exercise activities. We provide a variety of activities for students to use their fingertips to learn fine motions.
Shichida Method also nurtures the development of children’s left brain. Through each lessons and fun game playing, puzzles or block playing, your child will learn through challenges suitable for his/her age. Each lesson has fun games and activities.
Children who obtains a rich vocabulary will obtain excellent comprehensive ability and unbound imaginative power. To let our students gain such a rich vocabulary, in Shichida lessons, we provide them with trainings to recite great poems and speed listening.
Our right brain memorization technique uses visual images to teach and it is not forgettable. In Shichida lessons, children will learn many memorizing techniques with pictures.
The essence of Infant program
The best time for the connection of right and left brain
This is the time to open the circuit between the right brain and the left brain. Expressing the thing occurred in the mind builds stronger connection between both brains.
From input to output
The left brain is the output brain, which starts developing after birth. Even if your child has excellent right brain abilities, he/she cannot express them without output skills from the left brain. During their childhood age, parents should not force your child to try to think and understand more than their capabilites. As they advance through each level, your child’s left brain will be better trained to understand more complicated contents. Through educational activities, parents can raise a child with high level thinking and strong comprehending abilities.
OVERALL
Age 3-6 is the time when the left brain starts developing gradually. Through stimulations from the Five Senses such as Seeing, Listening, Touching, the brain will achieve balance with activities such as moving, finger pointing, talking and writing, let’s help your child develop and strengthen their abilities. It is also important for children to build good behaviours in routine life. When parents insert fun learning activities into daily life, learning will become the everyday activities of your child’s life.
VOCABULARY
Develop your child’s vocabulary and build an excellent memorization!!
Children learn a large amount of vocabulary and how to express their feelings with words at age 3-6. For that reason, they need to be given a variety of vocabulary to deepen their knowledge. Large amount of vocabulary makes children more intelligent. When parents talk logically with the correct vocabularies, children will also develop their intelligence by listening and mimicking their parents.
MATHEMATICAL ABILITY
Develop your child’s mathematical ability to understand instantly!!
Using the daily environment containing numbers in is the key to train your child to be good at maths. For age 3-6 children, the activities between input and output need to be well-balanced. For example, you can input maths knowledge with visual materials and do comprehending activities such as handouts.
KNOWLEDGE
Build basic knowledge before elementary school
Children start to think and express with words at age 3-6 due to the process of left brain development. Learning basic knowledge at this age will influence academic abilities after elementary school. Well-balanced input activities (listening and seeing) and output activities (speaking, choosing and writing) repeatedly let your child deepen his/her understanding and knowledge steadily.
MEMORIZATION
Build a high-quality memory and sense of vocabulary
Using the right brain is like taking a picture, it can memorize plenty of inputs instantly. Children at age 3-6 have excellent activated right brain. Showing flashcards helps not only develop sense of vocabulary but also help them memorize with visual images.
UPBRINGING
Cultivate your child’s heart
At age 3-6, children show signs of independence and learning motivation. They want to try anything on their own and build a confidence through successful experiences. Meanwhile, they need to learn how to control selfish emotions and how to be patient. Parents need to listen to children and build a good relationship, and tell them the things they mustn’t do such as being selfish, being mean to others, telling lies or disobeying.
CULTIVATION of PARENTING
Communicate with your children in order to reveal their motivations and potentials!!
Children gradually become independent from their parents at the age 3-6. It is very important for parents to support your child to experience a variety of activities and encourage them to think on their own and behave positively. Let's try to give your child the opportunties to do the things which they are interested in and enjoy learning.
The ability to create new things from inspiration
The ability to remember and recall images and experiences instantly with only one look or brief event
The ability to perform complex calculations instantaneously like a computer
The ability to master other languages at native-like level
I have taught Shichida Method more than 20 years, but I am still surprised by children’s wonderful potentials.
After studying early age education at university, I had the impression that early age education is to force children to learn even though they are not willing to. However, through fun activities, productive curriculums designed to maximize our students’ potentials… Shichida Method has changed my view dramatically. I still remember the moments when I experienced seeing children’s unbelievable abilities and their faces with full of excitement from learning. I was very moved to feel that this is the education which I had always wanted to see.
Please come visit us and experience our trial lesson! You will change your concept of early age education and discover your child’s hidden abilities.
Yoko TAKAHASHI
I have a diploma of primary education and an Elementary teaching licence. At Shichida Child Academy in Japan, I am qualified in teaching Prenatal program, Baby program, Infant program, Special support program for learning disability or autism, English program. In addition, I am certificated for childminder, colour therapist, art therapist, baby sign instructor and Japanese-language teacher.
Every child is born with hidden unlimited potentials. Do you know that the earlier a child starts learning, the better the brain absorbs inputs? The brain develops rapidly till age 6, and then the development speed will slow down. “The golden time of brain development” is a very short period; it is only once in a life time and is less than 10% of a child’s whole life.
“The Law of Diminishing Ability”
The later parents let your child absorb knowledge and learn skills, the harder it is for your child to obtain strong learning ability and perception skills. In other words, when your child starts to get adequate and quality inputs in early childhood, it is more likely for him/her to strengthen their hidden abilities.
The brain is divided into the right brain and the left brain. The right side of the brain is the home to emotions, intuition, creativity, art and music whereas the left side of the brain logic, language, reasoning, analysis and mathematics. The key to develop intelligence for a child is to foster growth and balance in both left and right brains. Shichida Method utilizes the right-brain training method, complimented with left-brain training to develop your child’s abilities for expression, cognition and intellect.
Development of the brain throughout a lifetime reaches its full capacity of 100% in adulthood: The brain develops to 50% potential until Age 1, 80% till age 3 and by age 6 it will have reached 90% of its capacity. How intelligent your child will become depends on how much the parents let him/her absorb knowledge and learning skills until the age of 6. The earlier parents begin your child’s education, the greater your child’s abilities can develop.
Our brain develops dramatically between age 0 to 3. A newborn baby’s brain weighs about 300-400g, but it develops rapidly and weighs about 1260g by age 3. An adult’s brain weighs about 1450g, which means our brain develops tremendously within 3 years after birth. Infancy is the golden time for the brain development.
Our brain develops dramatically between age 0 to 3. A newborn baby’s brain weighs about 300-400g, but it develops rapidly and weighs about 1260g by age 3. An adult’s brain weighs about 1450g, which means our brain develops tremendously within 3 years after birth. Infancy is the golden time for the brain development.
Shichida Educational Institute, Inc.
President and CEO: Ko SHICHIDA
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