Preparing for school: 10 skills required for the child
The first of September is a serious test not only for children, but also for parents. After all, it depends on them how well prepared the child will go to school. And that means the success of all future studies.
How can one understand if the baby is ready to enter the first grade? To begin with, it is worth studying the list of skills needed for the future student.
Mindfulness. Often, being careful is more important thanknow a lot. A child who knows how to focus, switch and distribute attention, will feel more confident in the lessons, less tired and will not count the crow instead of listening to the teacher.
Consistency. Yesterday's preschooler did not just sit on the spot for 40 minutes in a row. For him it's an eternity. Therefore it is very important to psychologically prepare a baby for this in advance. Otherwise, it will be very hard for him.
Self-reliance and self-discipline. Many parents seem strange to demandindependence from a seven-year-old child. But this is not entirely true position. A first grader should be independent. Otherwise, he simply will not be able to study normally. You can develop your independence during homework with a preschooler. Allow the child himself to carry out tasks, draw, pass labyrinths. Do not interfere if he does not ask for it.
Memory. The child must have a developed memory. Train her together, with the whole family. Learn poetry and prose, arrange home shows.
Common horizons. The kid should know the name of his and his parents, where he lives, have general knowledge about the world around him (the seasons, the names of animals, etc.)
Thinking. A first-grader should develop a logicaland spatial thinking. Well if the kid is able to solve simple logical problems, generalize objects, find their differences and similarities, collect geometric figures from the parts.
Oral speech. At school, the child will have to communicate with bothadults, and with children, so he should have developed speech. Good articulation, the ability to compose a story, to conduct a dialogue and compose stories will be useful to him in class.
Fine motor hand. All parents know that without the development of pettymotor skills can not learn to write. Your child should be able to properly hold different subjects for writing and drawing, draw straight lines, write printed letters, cut and paste, draw, sculpt and make appliques.
Mathematical skills. If your child knows the numbers from 0 to 9, can solve the most simple problems of addition and subtraction, can write on paper in a cage, so the minimum mathematical knowledge he has.
Desire to learn. Without this important element, the child will not be able toto enjoy the process. Therefore, before sending the baby to the first class, prepare it psychologically, tell us how it is more entertaining, about the realities of school life, try to interest the kid.
All 10 skills need to be developed gradually, during classes and in everyday life.
For these purposes, the Kumon methodology is well suited, in which there is a special series of training notebooks "Preparing for school".
This 5 bright notebooks with useful gamingassignments. All exercises in the manuals are complicated gradually, so training on them is particularly effective. Every day doing one or two tasks, the kid gradually learns a variety of skills - he learns to write and count, work with scissors and glue, he develops different types of thinking and fine motor skills.
Here are 5 types of tasks that are necessary for successful preparation for school.
Color the picture and go through the labyrinth with colored geometric shapes. On the development of fine motor skills, the acquaintance of the child with flowers and the formation of artistic taste.
Cut out a geometric figure or an object andarrange them in the picture. Assignments of this type will teach the child to glue, do applications and collect puzzles, help memorize geometric shapes and colors, develop small motor skills and spatial thinking of the child.
Labyrinths. When a child passes through labyrinths, he develops small motor skills of his hands, logical thinking, memory, he learns to conduct different types of lines, and thus prepare for writing.
Cut the picture along the lines. Such tasks will help the child learn how to cut out figures of simple and complex forms, develop small motor skills and different types of thinking of the baby.
Carry out lines from one digit to another, connecton points, write a figure, choose the right geometric figure. Such exercises will develop the child's mathematical abilities, the ordinal count from 1 to 30, the child will practice in writing the numbers, remember the geometric figures, and train in the letter.
In the Kumon training system is constructed so thatalong with key skills, the child trains attentiveness, perseverance, memory, self-discipline, a habit of independent pursuits, he develops self-confidence and his own strength. All these are qualities without which it is difficult to imagine successful study.
