Skill-Based Curriculum

An average toddler forms around 700 neural connections every second between the ages of one to three. That means she is learning 700 new things every second. And the neural connections she is forming now is what will lay the foundation for whatever she learns for her entire life. Skills build the ability in a child that they remember for the rest of their lives.

For example: Being able to read a simple sentence now - that's a neural connection on which reading long business reports will be built later. Being able to concentrate and finish beading 10 beads now is a neural connection on which concentrating through a three-hour meeting will be built later.

That is the power of the Foundation Years. And hence the purpose of learning in the Foundation Years should be to develop mastery in crucial foundation skills like reading, logic, concentration, and perseverance that are essential for success later in life.

No, the curriculum at Mindseed is skill-based and not theme-based. While theme-based learning teaches concepts in isolation, by learning skills, children gain the ability to correlate and have a context for learning.

For example - while learning colour sorting using shapes, children also learn the names of different shapes.

The skills that your child develops serves as the subjects learned at Mindseed. These are:

1. Linguistic Skills: This helps in learning a language
   • Whole Word Reading: Reading words without learning how to spell
   • Phonemic Awareness: Recognition of letters of alphabet series and their sounds. Learning Phonemic skills help children to read with ease
   • Pattern Writing: Learning patterns through stories that help form alphabets
   • Writing: The child not only learns alphabets but makes words and sentences on her own
   • Reading
   • Listening and Speaking
   • Show and Tell
2. Numeracy Skills
   • Pre math - Learning about shapes, patterns, sizes and sequences
   • Numeracy - Learning about number counting, their functions, and operations
3. Physical Skills
   • Gross Motor Skills
   • Fine Motor Skills
4. Socio-emotional Skills
   • Music and Movement
   • Wet On Wet Painting

Linguistic skills is a collection of skills that help an individual learn any language. When you develop your linguistic skills, you learn how to listen, speak, read and write in that language, like the way you have learnt your mother tongue. Whereas, English language is the language that is spoken, read or written.

Maths is a subject that consists of concepts related to numbers, their functions and operations. Pre math skills precede Numeracy skills. It involves learning about sorting similar and different objects/shapes, learning to determine which objects or shapes are bigger or smaller, learning patterning and sequencing, etc. Numeracy skill, on the other hand, is the ability to understand and work with numbers to solve real-life problems. It means having the confidence and skill to use numbers and mathematical approaches in all aspects of life.

Do you remember how you learned your mother tongue? Didn't you first listen to your parents speak some words and you attempted to speak after them? Mindseed follows a similar approach while helping children learn English. Children learn the language naturally.

Just like how by looking at the McDonalds logo one identifies the name of the brand, we harness the child's photographic memory to help them identify their name during a unique attendance ritual and help them to read and write from the first day of school itself! You would wonder how a 1.5 years old PG child is able to

write? At Mindseed, scribbling is an important and the first step in writing. The scribbles gradually take shape and letters start appearing.

At the end of Nursery, a little Mindseeder is able to read and write his/her own name.