A well-prepared child will be successful in school. It will be easier for him to master new material and fulfill the requirements of the teacher. Regular classes with a preschooler are an important part of the preparation for school.
Tasks for preparing for school - what skills need to be developed?
Psychologists and educators believe that as part of preschool education, it is necessary to develop the following basic qualities and skills in a child:
- competent speech;
- Attention;
- logical and spatial thinking;
- short-term and long-term memory;
- fine motor skills of the hands;
- reading ability;
- the ability to perform simple mathematical operations within 10.
In order for the classes to bring maximum results, the developmental tasks for preparing children for school should be varied and versatile. There are no more or less needed skills - everything is important.
Speech development
So that the child can correctly communicate, clearly and correctly express his thoughts, formulate complete answers in the lessons, it is very important to develop children's speech.
The main advice of experts is: talk with the child. Discuss news, events of the day, ask him more clarifying questions. Encourage him to tell something, to describe. Always correct speech errors. Talk about books read, offer to retell their contents.
The main tasks for preparing for the school for the development of speech are drawing up a story from pictures, retelling what has been read or heard, answers to questions. Children with whom they fully communicate at home and in kindergarten should not have special problems with the development of speech.
Do I need to learn to read?
There is much debate among parents of preschoolers about whether to teach children to read in the framework of preschool development. "What will they do at school then?" - ask some mothers.
Modern realities are such that today's first graders, entering school, must be able to read. If the child does not read, he will be taught this at school, but he will not be easy to keep up with reading classmates.
We develop thinking, logic and memory
Be sure that the tasks for preparing for school should teach the child to generalize, compare by one or several criteria, search for patterns, eliminate unnecessary. Now there are many good collections with such tasks - beautifully designed, with vivid pictures. Most children enjoy doing it. But parents can educate children not only in special books, but also with the help of improvised items. Enough to show a little imagination.
From childhood, it is worth learning poetry with children. Constantly, regularly, and not several times a year for a matinee in kindergarten. It trains memory well.
We train a hand
To make it easier for a child to learn the basics of writing at school, you need to train your hand in the preschool period, performing developmental tasks. Preparation for school implies the ability of a child to accurately paint, without going beyond the edges of the picture, the ability to accurately trace shapes along dotted lines, to write block letters.
If you regularly perform such tasks, by the time you enroll in school, the child’s hand will be strong enough. Children get tired of writing most of all, therefore they should not be long. However, children can paint for their pleasure as much as they want.
Math Tasks
Doing math with a preschooler is easy. You can count everything around, making up the simplest tasks. It is very important that the child well understands the concepts of “right” and “left”, “more”, “less” and “the same”, he can continue the simplest ornament, correlate the number of objects with numbers. For most children, basic mathematical concepts are easy enough.
How often should you deal with a child
Classes can and should be arranged daily. This does not mean that the child needs to be forced to sit at the table, get a collection of tasks to prepare for school and sit over them for hours. A child can perform many tasks effortlessly, as if between things. Since the children get tired quickly, can’t do one thing for a long time, they often need to switch the preschooler from one class to another. For example, after a short assignment in writing, a lesson in speech development may follow.
What classes are useful for future students
Throughout the preschool period, the development of the child is important, and not just the preparation for school at the age of 6. Tasks that will benefit are needlework, games with designers and puzzles, picking up mosaics and puzzles, learning poetry and much more.
Sometimes parents can overdo their efforts in preparation for school. Children are taken several times a week to classes in preparatory centers, at home they are forced to write and read. This, alas, is not uncommon. Here you need to be careful so as not to discourage the child's interest in studying at school. Classes should not be tiring. If possible, add game elements to them. It’s better to tell the child: “Let's go, play!” Than “Let's sit down to study.”
The following parent error is fairly common. While the child is 2-5 years old, parents do not consider it necessary to deal with him, explaining this by the fact that they are far from school, there is nowhere to rush. In the last year before school, they catch on and try their best to catch up. Develop a child from birth, giving feasible tasks and gradually complicating them. And then preparing for school will not seem like a daunting task.