Parent guides for Classes 1–5
How to help your child at home with each subject of Classes 1–5. Every guide is built from the units MangoMindz teaches, with links to free picture lessons and quizzes.
Help at home
Short, practical guides for everyday questions: maths worries, routines, tables, reading and screen time.
- How to help a child who finds maths hard: Practical steps for parents of Classes 1–5: find the step that went wrong, use real objects, practise a little every day and talk about mistakes kindly.
- A 10-minute daily learning routine that children stick to: A simple daily routine for Classes 1–5: same time each day, a 2-5-3 minute plan, a weekly rhythm and tips to keep it calm and positive.
- How to teach multiplication without rote learning: Teach times tables with understanding: equal groups, arrays, skip counting, turn-around facts and tricks for ×2, ×4, ×5 and ×9. For Classes 2–4.
- How to help your child practise reading at home: Simple ways to build reading at home for Classes 1–5: read together daily, letter sounds for early readers, talk about the story and read in Hindi and English.
- Making educational screen time count: Make screen time useful for Classes 1–5: choose doing over watching, set a time and place, sit together at first and keep bedtime screen-free.
Topic guides
Step-by-step help on the topics parents ask about most, built from the same units the app teaches.
- Hindi matras for kids: a parent’s guide (मात्राएँ): Teach Hindi matras at home: आ, इ, ई, उ, ऊ, ए, ऐ, ओ, औ with word examples, common mistakes and free practice for Class 1 and Class 2.
- Times tables for kids: how to help your child learn tables 2 to 10: Help your child learn multiplication tables 2 to 10 with equal groups, arrays and easy tricks. Common mistakes, practice questions and free Class 2–4 lessons.
- Place value for kids: ones, tens, hundreds and beyond: A parent guide to place value for Classes 1–5: tens and ones, hundreds, thousands and the Indian place value chart, with home activities and practice questions.
- Telling time for kids: how to teach your child to read a clock: Teach your child to read a clock step by step: o’clock, half past, quarter past and to, minutes, a.m./p.m. and the 24-hour clock, with free Class 2–5 practice.
- Phonics and CVC words for kids: a parent’s guide: Help your child read with phonics: letter sounds, CVC words like cat and pen, digraphs and the magic e. Home activities, common mistakes and free Class 1–3 lessons.
- Plants for kids: what EVS teaches from Class 1 to 5: A parent guide to plants in EVS: parts of a plant, what plants need, seeds, plants we eat and forests. Home activities, common mistakes and free lessons for Classes 1–5.
- Our body for kids: body parts, senses and healthy habits: A parent guide to the human body in EVS: body parts, the five senses, teeth, food and healthy habits, bones and first aid. Activities and free lessons for Classes 1–5.