Foundations
पक्का पाया, घर पर · a strong base, built at home
When a child falls behind on something basic, the usual advice is to find a tuition class. Not every family can. This section is the alternative: the same ground covered properly, by you, at your dining table, for free.
Everything here is built the way the rest of this site is built, with things already in your kitchen, in short daily sittings, through play rather than worksheets. Nothing to buy. Nothing to sign up for.
Subjects
We would rather do one subject properly than three badly, so they arrive one at a time.
Maths
गणितThree plans, in teaching order: counting with meaning at 2 to 5, then place value (the reason 34 × 6 falls apart even when the tables are fine), then times tables and division.
- Before numbers
- Place value
- Times tables & division
Science
विज्ञानThe questions children actually ask: why the tawa handle stays cool, why a shadow changes length, why a cold glass sweats. Answered from your own kitchen, not a syllabus.
- Heat
- Light & shadow
- Water
Reading & phonics
वाचनSounding out words and reading a first sentence without memorising it. Written for a child learning English alongside Hindi or Gujarati, where the research says clapping syllables matters more than English phonics assumes.
- Sounds before letters
- Blending
- Two scripts at once
Grammar
व्याकरणTwo different jobs, kept separate and honest: building sentences a child can actually write and say, and learning the labels the exam paper asks for. The research says those are not the same thing.
- Sentence building
- Tenses
- Exam labels
How this is different from a worksheet
We fix the method, not the answers
A child who gets the right answer the slow way does not need more questions. He needs a faster route to the same place. Every guide here goes after the method underneath.
Ten minutes, most days
Short and daily beats long and weekly for anything that has to become automatic, and it protects the thing that matters most, which is that your child does not come to dread sitting down with you.
Nothing to buy
Dice from the Ludo box, almonds from the kitchen, an old deck of cards. If an activity here needs something you do not already own, we have written it wrong.
You do not need to be good at it
Every guide is written for a parent who is not sure they remember this themselves. The exact words to say are on the page. If you were never confident at maths, that is not a disqualification.
One honest thing
This section is not a replacement for a teacher, and it is not a diagnosis. Most children who are behind on the basics are behind for ordinary reasons: a missed term, a bad year, a topic taught too fast, and steady practice at home fixes it. But if you work through a plan properly for several weeks and something still will not stick at all, that is worth mentioning to your child's teacher rather than pushing harder. Persistent trouble with number facts alongside otherwise sharp thinking is a specific, recognised thing, and finding out early helps enormously.