Time flies extremely quickly, and soon your child will become a first-grader. Is he ready for school? What amount of knowledge should a preschooler have by this time? What is more important: knowledge or psychological readiness? Questions - the sea!
All children are preschoolers are different. Some go to a kindergarten, they study letters, numbers, attend classes at a speech therapist and a psychologist. Others have never been in the garden, and the circle of communication is limited to the parents and children of their acquaintances. Still others, not attending kindergarten, have time to study in various centers of early development, circles and sections. To which of these categories would your child belong, if there are at least six months left before school, then everything is fixable!
The Psychological Aspect
The recommendations of psychologists to parents of preschool children very often boil down to the fact that the main criteria for readiness for school is the ability to concentrate attention for more than 30 minutes, as well as assiduity. If in the kindergarten children are familiar with the rules of conduct during classes, then for children who do not attend pre-school institutions, sitting at the desk for more than 15-20 minutes is a difficult test. Even the most interesting topic is not able to keep the preschooler's attention for more than 10-15 minutes. The best solution is to visit groups of short-term stay at school. Unfortunately, there are not such groups in every school. If you do not have the opportunity to enroll the child in the early development center, then make improvised lessons at home. Instruct a child, for example, to draw a drawing, but try to make sure that during drawing he is not distracted and sitting in one place. Another tip for parents of preschool children: during school, try to do so that the child does what you instructed him, and not what he wants. That is, let him draw a tree, as you said, and not a typewriter or the sun.
Do not forget that most mothers do not have a special education, so many things necessary for preparing for school can be missed.
Important skills
These qualities for the preschooler are no less important than the knowledge of letters and numbers. The child should be able to serve himself: combing hair, dressing, applying for advice to adults. In addition, at this age children have information about their place of residence, names, parents' names and the place of their work, seasons, age.
Before the school, parents should take care of the child's memory development . Such "training" is better to conduct in the form of exciting games. Count on the walk of birds, people, pay attention to the colors of cars, and at home, after a walk, ask the child how many white cars, for example, he saw. Reading and memorizing poems is excellent, and if the child knows them by heart, ask them to tell the poem on a specific topic (about mom, about friends, etc.).
In the memo for the parents of preschoolers, attention should be paid to the development of the logic of the child. To do this, you can use a series of pictures or figures, where one or two elements will be superfluous (vegetable among fruit
If to summarize, useful information for parents of preschool children is as follows:
- train the memory, attention of the child;
- Pay attention to the development of logic, motor skills, perception and perseverance;
- use general developmental exercises;
- conduct classes in a game form.
And remember, the main rule for parents of preschool children is to instill in the child an interest in acquiring new knowledge, to teach him not to be afraid of bad grades and to find a common language with classmates, because for you he has always been and will be the best and beloved!