Early child development has recently become popular with advanced parents. Is it right to start practicing with a baby when he is just taking his first steps? Teachers, psychologists and parents have many different opinions on this. Let's try to figure out whether it is worth interfering in the processes of a child's knowledge of the world around him, how and when to do it.
Hidden Talent Card
The development of intelligence is an important process on which depends what your child will be and what place it will take in adulthood. Many educators advise not to waste precious time and engage in a crib almost from birth. It is believed that one stage of growing up lays the foundation for the subsequent.
There are three models of intellectual development of preschoolers. Each of them contains its own potential.
- Emotional From birth to one and a half years, the child learns the world emotionally. That is why harmony and love in the family are so important.
- Logical. At the age of five, the abilities of logical thinking and musical perception are laid. This is the best time for educational games, so we get our favorite desktops.
- Speech. Future schoolchildren perfectly perceive information by ear - we begin to study foreign languages.
Here is a simple map of where and when to look for talents from your young talent.
Authoring techniques or own experience
If you are ready to raise a genius, it will not be superfluous to remember a few rules from professionals. The Soviet teacher Boris Nikitin first spoke about the importance of educational games. It is with their help that one can increase ingenuity, mathematical and design abilities, and improve spatial and logical thinking. The main thing is not to prevent the child from completing tasks on his own, moving from simple to more complex.
Educational games have become the basis of other well-known techniques. Surely, many of you have already brought children to Montessori classes, tried to teach your child to read using Zaitsev’s cubes, or to master the logical blocks of Denes. Any of these techniques requires systematic work. If you do not want to follow the principles of one of the systems of early development, choose games based on your own opinion and characteristics of the child.
Choose board games
One of the most obvious and best ways of intellectual development is board games. Most modern developments are based on the recommendations of psychologists and educators.
- Puzzle "Building a house!" from the YaiGrushka brand - an entertaining version of the game for the development of spatial thinking and logic. Before you is a playing field in the form of a house frame. We put it on the foundation, lay out all the building blocks next to it and distribute the cards with their designation to the participants.The winner will be the one who succeeds in putting all his blocks (which are shown on the cards) on the playing field. Do not believe that all building materials can fit on the playing field? Just solve this puzzle and become the builder of the year!
- Counting lambs is useful not only before bedtime. If you do this during the game, “Once a sheep, two sheep ...” will become a magic formula for the development of intelligence. Remember how important it is for preschoolers to improve color perception and logical thinking? Learning to count will also not be superfluous to the school. And it’s also a lot of fun to jump over multi-colored fences with a loud cry of “Beee”, leading your army of lambs to victory. By the way, the game calms and, as many have noticed, improves sleep.
- The novelty “I am going to search” is a real find for toddlers and older children. This is the case when the game does not develop logic, but intuition. The leading player arranges simple decorations in the form of a house, a tree and a fence and fastens a chip with an animal to them on his side. The rest of the participants must guess exactly where the character hid. This is practically a battle of psychics!
- For girls and boys of a very young age, the magnetic seasons “Seasons” will be interesting. The kit includes a plywood doll with a magnetic base and more than twenty wardrobe items. It is necessary to show imagination and logic in order to create a fashionable image for the season.
- Future artists and designers will be inspired by the board game “Relive the Figures”. Offer the participants cards with geometric shapes and ask them to make drawings. Someone will see the sun in a circle, but someone will want to depict a sundial. The more original the picture is, the more points the player will gain. To the winner - pencils as a gift.
And so that the prize does not remain idle for a long time, complete the art party with an interesting art task - enliven different colors with a large YaiGrushka mat.
Remember that creating the conditions for creativity, you develop the intelligence of the child and save your apartment from defeat.
Educational games are the best way to arouse curiosity in a child, and prepare him for school in a fun way!
