Understanding young children the passage of time, awareness of the concepts of "yesterday" and "tomorrow", "last winter" or "next summer" is very slow.The sense of time is formed within a few years, and not even all the younger students to freely operate, the concept and the time on the clock.
time - an abstract concept, so a small child, accustomed to think in concrete images, it is difficult to observe and understand its course.But if we want to develop the child's thinking, the games and activities that develop a sense of time, our child will have the invaluable help.
Communicating with the year-old child during the day, playing or doing, comment on their actions with words.
in the future tense:
- first we umoemsya, then we'll have breakfast
- you first need to remove from the table game, and then sit down to dinner
- first we play bingo, then you'll draw
- you first need to draw a circleand then square
in the past tense:
- first we went for a walk and then sat down to dinner
- first it was necessary to put on a shirt and then a sweater, and not vice versa
- first you did not know how to draw a man, and then learned
to explore these concepts, you can use pictures with images of any consistent action or phenomena: the growth and development of the plant or animal, the steps of manufacturing anything - wash the vegetables first, then cleaned, and then cut the salad.
After reading tales Activate them with the child using the toys and making sure that the baby is not confused procedures.
Introduce a child called time.
During the day, saying that it was in the morning, and that will be in the evening.To consolidate the knowledge get in children's books or make themselves (photograph) one and the same landscape at different times of day, for example, the view from your window.
Ask your child to tell from the pictures, what time they depict what happens at this time of the day in nature (with the sun, sky, animals) that usually do at this time Mom and Dad, he did.Let will explain what happens first, and that then, arrange pictures in the correct order (from left to right).
Taking a walk with your child by reading books, pay attention to the signs of the seasons, the behavior of animals in nature, on the condition of the plants, in the work of people.
tells what happens first, and that then:
- first egg appears, and then the chicken
- appear first buds, then leaves and flowers
Tell your child that the seasons are repeated in a specific order: After the fall always winter, and within a year go through all four seasons - this is called one year.
For a child 4-5 years buy a calendar, which is the whole year on one page.
Then the child will be able to visualize and the year as a whole, and the individual months and days.He sees the relationship between the parts of the year, what more - a month or a week, month or year.Usually in such small numbers calendar, so you can independently, using a large calendar, to do a book where each turn - big picture at the top and bottom of one month.
Share this book in sheets and glue them, arranged in four rows of three months each.It is important that designated days of the week are not cuts, and whole words (append their own).Hang the calendar in the child's room.Consider with him, as portrayed by days of the week and months.
call every morning, what day of the week, a number of months.Helpful to write the date of letters and numbers on the magnetic alphabet on the refrigerator.
So, the child is able to navigate in the calendar.Now tell him that day that came, but his name is called "today", the day that ended - "yesterday", the day that will come - "tomorrow".Show these days on the calendar.When you see that the concept of "yesterday," "today" and "tomorrow" the child has mastered, I introduce it with the concepts of "day before" and "the day after", and practice to determine the days on the calendar.
At the end of the day with your child paint the cell, indicating the previous day.When the week is over, note the child that passed seven days that made up one line.So, the week is over, and tomorrow will not only a new day, but also a new week.
read to children make small cards (for example, from a sheet of paper), which write in block letters, days of the week.Have spread the cards in order from left to right.
Use a calendar for planning upcoming events.
If the child regularly attends some kind of circle, ask them to draw in the corresponding cells of any - or icon simple icon (figure - symbol).For example, if the child attends music lessons - it is possible to represent a note, the sports section - anything associated with the sport.
If the child goes to the theater or to a friend's birthday or you are a family going on vacation, mark it on the calendar.The child learns to wait for the next event to prepare for him.
paint finished next month, tell us that the month - four weeks and another 2-3 days.
painting over February, the child will notice that this month - only four weeks, and easily remember that this month - the shortest of the year.
make a great card with names of the months and seasons.
Let the child arranges them in the order you want - seasons one after another (in a row or in a circle), months, one after another (in a row or in a circle) to the corresponding months of the seasons.Using old magazines, you can make cards with pictures depicting the seasons.Mix them and ask your child to spread the cards into groups according to the time of year.Near each group to put a card with the name of the season.
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