Right Brain Education Training: Home Activities / Materials for Shichida Method & Heguru Method
- All Baby Star
- Sep 8, 2021
- 5 min read
Updated: Apr 11
It is very easy to teach babies or toddlers right brain education at home or online.
Once you know what and how the right brain education activities to do with your baby or toddler are, you can start your child's home practice lessons.
These right brain education activities are for 1, 2, 3, 4 to 7 years old kids.
Here is a list of recommended right brain training home activities and right brain education materials that I do with my child's Shichida Method and Heguru Method home practice every day (I sometimes take a day off every week).
Right Brain Training Activities at home:
Right Brain Flashcards (Shichida flashcards or Heguru flashcards)
Linking Memory and Peg Memory
Tangram (Puzzles - other variance: iroita, magic blocks, pelican, plate, etc)
Eye Training Exercise
Right Brain Photo Image Exercise
Right Brain Mandala Puzzles
Speed Reading
I have listed 7 of the best right brain education activities that I do with my child. I do other exercises, but the 7 list is what I do daily. Most of my right brain education activities are done online from the right brain education library resources.
My child's Shichida classmates also use the same resources.
Below are some details about the right brain education activities that Shichida and Heguru home practice is done.
Right Brain Flashcards & Other Right Brain Education Materials
Some people call them "right brain flashcards", "Shichida Flashcards", or "Heguru Flashcards", or even "Glenn Doman flash cards."
These are flashcards with a picture/subject on one side and words on the other side of the card.
"Right Brain flashcards" is a technique of showing the flashcards. The key to showing flashcards the right brain education method is flashing the cards faster than 1 second.
In my daughter's Shichida and Heguru classes, flashcards are shown as fast as 0.5 seconds per card.
In right brain education flashcards are shown fast, just like the Shichida Method, Heguru Method, and Glenn Doman Method.
Linking Memory and Peg Memory
These right brain memory training exercises or techniques are used by Shichida and Heguru Method classes to teach kids to remember or recite the items on the list. Some students can recite all the 100 lists of items by using the "Linking Memory" and "Peg Memory".
Linking Memory is a method used to memorize a list of things to do, groceries to buy, or any list of things you want to memorize.
Memorization is done by linking and memorizing a story that is an absurd exaggeration and does not make any logic.
You only need to remember this first object in your list, and the rest of the items will become links to the chain of your story.
Peg Memory method is a mnemonic technique for learning a list of items in an order. So when you want to remember the list of items of your choice, you find a visual image to associate each item with the corresponding "peg" object.
Below is the list of things you can make to remember:
To-do list items
Historical dates
Study keywords
Vocabulary
Whatever list can be organized
Tangram
Tangram is a dissection of puzzles consisting of 7 flat colourful polygons which are placed together to form the desired shape.
When you teach your child tangram at home, you can use a printable or physical tangram puzzle.
The goal is to replicate the shape of the pattern that your child saw. Basically, you show the tangram, and your child will arrange the puzzle the same way he saw it.
There are other puzzles in the market you can explore but Tangram is a popular choice. For my child, I prefer Tangram as it relates to shaping around the that they can relate to and is fun. For example, you can make the shape of a cat, house from Tangram.
Eye Training Exercise
This eye exercise is specifically designed to enhance your child's Speed Reading skills and develop a "Photographic Memory." By engaging in this exercise, your child will not only improve their reading speed but also enhance their ability to retain and recall information like a photograph. The exercise focuses on training your child's peripheral vision, which plays a crucial role in absorbing information efficiently.
Optimally, the eye training exercise is most effective when presented in a video format rather than a printable version.
The dynamic visual stimuli provided in the video format can better simulate real-world scenarios and engage your child's visual senses more effectively. Through consistent practice of this exercise, your child can strengthen their peripheral vision, leading to improved reading speed, enhanced memory retention, and heightened cognitive abilities.
Right Brain Photo Image Exercise
This exercise develops and sharpens your child's Photographic Memory. Makoto Shichida introduced this visual exercise in his right brain training schools.
Your child will look at a specially designed flashcard for 30 seconds. Then the flashcard is removed from your child's sight. Your child will be able to "see and after image".
As your child diligently practices, his visual senses will work like a camera, and he will be able to remember what he sees. This is part of the advanced right brain photographic memory exercise.
Right Brain Education Mandala Puzzles
These puzzles are fun activities that are part of the right brain education exercises used in the Shichida and Heguru Method.
You can start off using just two colors to keep things simple, and as your child gets the hang of it, you can add more colors—up to four, five, or even more!
Each Right Brain Mandala activity features two parts: a colored pattern and a non-colored version.
First, you show your child the colorful Mandala for a few seconds so they can take a good look at it. Then, you hide it away and bring out the non-colored version. This is where your child gets to color it in based on what they remember.
It’s a great way to boost their creativity and help them sharpen their memory skills while having fun!
Speed Reading
Speed reading is a cool part of right brain education, especially in Shichida and Heguru classes. For this, I used Right Brain Flashcards as the main materials. Speed reading is super important because it’s one of the first things kids do when they start right brain training. They kick things off with the flashcards and then gradually move on to reading books and ebooks.
A lot of parents get caught up in just showing their kids the flashcard topics. But really, what matters most is knowing the right way to teach them. If you want to do right brain education properly, then focusing on how to guide and engage your child is key. It’s not just about what they’re learning, but how they learn it!
Right Brain Training is all about practice and consistency and the correct method, in teaching your child.
You should definitely check out my other articles on how to use flashcards with your child the right way, following the Right Brain Education Method.
It’s worth taking a look at the Right Brain Education Library; It's packed with lots of fun Right Brain education activities and resources that my friends and I used to teach our kids Shichida and Heguru at home.
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