Developing Pupil's Alphabet Knowledge and Parent's Engagement through KALENTO

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Children are very active explorers of their environment. They are interested in everything and their desire to learn is limitless. Described by Piaget as "little scientists" and by many researchers as "sponges", they are ready, willing and able to learn. The Lingig Central Elementary School Kindergartners have an existing problem on the Cognitive Development of the child specifically the matching of the upper and lower case of the alphabet. At a very young age, they are still struggling with how to develop the said skill. Particularly in Kindergarten-Pink, there were 20 pupils out of 60 who got the lowest score during the first assessment using the ECD checklist for the S.Y. 2017-2018.

METHODS

Many children younger than 5 years in our country are used to exploring many things that affect their cognitive, motor and social-emotional development. The researcher personally conducted the interview, transcribed the data and analyzed the results in order to answer the needs of the Kindergartners.

RESULTS

This study was purposely designed to develop the alphabet knowledge of 20 Kindergarten-Pink pupils of Lingig Central Elementary School for S.Y. 2017-2018 who got low scores on Cognitive Domain during the first assessment conducted last June 2017. It was found out that the Cognitive domain got the lowest score. There were 21 indicators under the Cognitive domain and Matching upper and lower case letters got the lowest score.

DISCUSSIONS

The use of Kalendaryong Alpabeto (Kalento) was ascertained to be an effective intervention for the children to improve their learning ability with the alphabet and easy access for the parent's participation in teaching the child at home.