Zaytsev's cubes are an educational tool for children, which allow the child to learn how to read faster. The set includes cubes of several types, they are different in size, colors and fillers. In the kit there is a special playing field, to which a set of exercises is developed. On the faces of cubes are depicted warehouses. There are also a small disadvantage of cubes - their high cost, and therefore in this article we will talk about how to make development cubes Zaitsev own hands.
What should be a set of cubes?
In total there are 52 cubes in the set. The cubes are single and double, small and large, iron-gold and wood-gold, and also one white, which shows punctuation marks.
On large cubes, solid warehouses are depicted, for example, MA, and on cubes of small size, soft - MJ, LA, etc. On double cubes there are warehouses with consonants, which can not be used with some vowels, for example. letters G or C. On the faces of the gold cubes are vowel letters, wooden cubes - muffled warehouses, and on iron - ringing.
Iron and wooden blocks have on their faces warehouses with a solid sign, iron and gold - with a soft sign.
Of what to make cubes?
Option 1
Cubes Zaitsev at home can be made of cardboard. To do this, you need to print the finished layouts of the cubes. You can download them here , scan from friends or do it yourself in a graphics editor. Not the last task is possible for everyone.
After printing, the billets for cubes are cut out, they insert a bent strip of cardboard to strengthen the walls of the cube itself. Before filling the last face, fillers are filled in the cube.
Option 2
Combinations of letters can be printed on plain paper. The basis can serve as plastic folding cubes. The inner cavity of the cubes is filled with the necessary materials, their surface can be sealed with self-adhesive paper. After that, ready warehouses are glued to the edge.
If there are no opportunities to buy folding cubes, they can be made from improvised materials, for example, boxes of kefir or milk with a square bottom. To make a cube, it is necessary to cut the box, measuring the required height, and glue it together. After the cube is dry, it needs to be pasted with paper and images with warehouses.
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Fillers for cubes Zaitsev
As fillers of cubes it is possible to take iron lids from bottles from under milk. For sonorous sounds, the bells, which are sold in shops for needlework and handicrafts, also come in handy. Another filler are small wooden blocks.
A small white cube with punctuation marks is filled with sliced paper.
To determine that the cubes are assembled correctly is easy: they should be divided into 12 groups.
Playing field
Game fields can also be made independently by printing out parts of the tables on the printer and pasting them on the sheets of Whatman.
How to engage in cubes Zaitsev. Exercises
During the performance of classes according to the method of Zaitsev, the child must simultaneously present tables and the cubes themselves. The color of the warehouses in the table corresponds to what is depicted on the faces of the cubes.
- The child can ask his name and ask to put the corresponding cubes on the fields in the table. In the same way with him you can add names of animals, names of relatives and stuff.
- With the child you can sing songs on the tables of deafness / voicedness and hardness / softness. During the song with voiceless and sonorous storerooms, the child must crouch at the moment of voicing deaf storages (small cubes) and stand on the socks where the cubes
will be large. Performing the task with the song and the table of hardness / softness, the child just says the first column. Then there are claps and jumps on two or one (for example, Hb-Pb) store. - Cubes are used and without tables, for this it is necessary to invent games with the child on their own. For example, when a child eats, on the table you can make up the name of the dish that he eats.
Exercises for cubes Zaitsev suppose and training the account, for this a special table with figures is used. Tasks for the child can also be selected according to the degree of complexity, starting with the question "How old are you?", And uploading the multiplication table.