O Play with Poetry

Early learning of language does not begin with learning the letters of the alphabet but through listening and speaking. Sound structure of a language, too, is extremely important and key to learning, so is developing personal, social and emotional dimensions.

Also, children do not start learning mathematics or concepts of mathematics through numbers. Language referring to big and small, area and space, less and more and so on is how mathematical knowledge starts in childhood. Additionally, understanding of past, present, future, this, that, pronouns etc, too, are essential in learning mathematics. And these a child begins learning in early years, at home.

And at O, poetry is at the centre of learning and neauroscience conclusively points to the importance of vers/poetry in brain development. So, let us begin!