Accelerating Your Child

Perhaps the most general objective of education is that it cultivates excellence. But at Guru Kids Pro, we want to help each child achieve his/her optimum intellectual development, happily of course.

The intellectual development of a child is no clockwork sequence of events; it also responds to influences from the environment. At Guru Kids Pro, we provide challenging but usable opportunities for every child to forge ahead in his/her development. Experience has shown that it is worth the effort to provide the growing child with problems that tempt him/her into next stages of cognitive development.

Every child has the innate potential to move along faster through the various stages of intellectual development in areas such as Mathematics, Science, and languages.
Experience highly challenging yet fun and stimulating activities by signing your child up for our trial lessons.

Luckiest Thing in Life - HAPPY CHILDHOOD

“I remember Abraham Maslow, a psychologist, who once said 'Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.' If my own kids have to spend all or almost all his/her time doing academic work just to be good enough, then it’s truly sad. They wouldn’t be able to have the luckiest thing in life – a happy childhood. Thus, from a very young age, my two kids would enjoy purposeful play which helped in many areas of their cognitive development. I would also remember to let them have free playtime to stimulate their planning & organisation skills.

Being an MOE-teacher & started teaching the upper levels, I saw the constant struggles most children had in their upper primary years, and this would continue into their secondary school years. Hence, I wanted my own kids to do well in their primary school years without the high stress. I read up on proven, well-researched pedagogies on childhood parenting, motivation and pre-school education, and as time progressed, on gifted education pedagogies. I had indirectly 'prepared' them well for advanced work which they, & even myself then, weren't aware. I have written Guru Kids Pro’s curricula for the young minds based on all my extensive readings, collections, and most importantly, my experiences with, not only my own kids, but with more than hundred children I have taught over the last decade.”

~ chieftrainer, Ms. Katherine Law, M.Ed (Gifted Education)

Fallacy - Marketing Fallacy

Many parents, when they send their kids to any preparatory courses, often like to ask - What is the percentage pass?
Well, how do you justify the number given to you? Also, does it mean that if there is a high percentage pass, your child is one of them, or vice versa? Of course, the number may seem to give a peace of mind. But I would take this as a fallacy - a marketing fallacy.

At Guru Kids Pro, we do not like to give any numbers to mislead parents as a high percentage of passes does not mean any child who comes by stands a high chance, and vice versa. We look at each child individually!

Every child is different. Every child's strengths and weaknesses differ. Do be alert to what a centre can provide for your child's needs by talking to the teacher(s).

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~ John Dewey

Memory Skill

Assess your child's ability to remember patterns

You will need items such as crayons, blocks, or strips of paper in green, red, and white. Show your child the pattern below and ask him or her to copy (or draw) the pattern using the materials you provided.

 

Nursery-Kindergarten:

 

 

 

 

Lower Primary:

 

 

 

 

Middle Primary:

 

 

 

 

 

Upper Primary:

 

 

Tickle Your Mind

A man is wearing black. Black shoes, socks, trousers, coat, gloves and ski mask. He is walking down a back street with all the street lamps off. A black car is coming towards him with its light off but somehow manages to stop in time. How did the driver see the man?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answer:

It was daytime.

 

Importance of Feeding the Young Minds

Importance of Feeding the Young Minds

~ Making Children Better Problem-Solvers

At Guru Kids Pro, we understand a young mind hungers for stimulation and thus, we provide materials that challenge and develop problem-solving skills. We do not teach through drill and memorization. We empower young minds.

We design critical thinking into ALL of our materials. This not only helps your little ones transfer critical thinking skills to other areas of their lives; it also tremendously improves the effectiveness of content lessons for academic achievement.

Critical thinking requires deeper analysis which then produces deeper understanding, resulting in greater engagement and retention of contents. Over time, children who practice critical thinking learn to apply it consistently throughout their education and life.

Our materials are fun and engaging, yet challenging, and help your children succeed in school and life. We offer analytical puzzles for intellectual stimulation as they develop problem-solving skills.

For more than 10 years, our pedagogies have helped children achieve better grades and higher test scores with highly effective lessons that sharpen the mind.

 

Till then, be well!

Chieftrainer @ Guru Kids Pro

General Knowledge

These questions are designed to assess your child’s understanding of information about history.

(If your child doesn’t know this information, look it up together on-line!)

Pre-kindergarten – Kindergarten:

 

 

 

Lower Primary

What country is this long wall found in?

 

 

 

 

 

 

A. North America      B. China      C. Canada      D. France

Middle Primary
Who was the first man to set foot on the moon?

A. Richard Nixon

B. John Glenn

C. Jack Robinson

D. Neil Armstrong

Upper Primary

What country was Saddam Hussein the ruler of?

A. Israel

B. New Zealand

C. Iraq

D. Iran

 

Answers:  Indians;  B. China;  D. Neil Armstrong;  C. Iraq.

 

Tickle Your Mind

A man and his son are in a car accident. The father dies on the scene, but the child is rushed to the hospital. When he arrives the surgeon says, "I can't operate on this boy. He is my son!" How can this be?

Answer: The surgeon was his mother.

Spatial Concepts

Aim: assess your child's understanding of spatial concepts

N2 to K2:
Look at the picture below. What is the colour of the block that is on top of the green one?

Lower Primary:

Look at the picture below. What is the colour of the block that is the tallest?

Middle Primary:

If you want to make a flower appear closer than a house in a drawing, what should you do?
(1) Draw the flower smaller than the house
(2) Draw the house smaller than the flower
(3) Draw them both the same size
(4) None of the above

Upper Primary:

If you were drawing a house close up and one far away, name two things you would change about the house that was far away to help show that it was far away.

 

 

Answers: 

N2 to K2: Yellow

Lower Primary: Blue

Middle Primary:

(2) Draw the house smaller than the flower;  

Upper Primary:

Draw the house that is further away a smaller size; include less detail in the house that is far away; add other objects around it to help show its size like trees or mountains.