A few days ago, I was in a group of mothers, and I saw a mother who said that her child was 4 years old and was in kindergarten, but the kindergarten teacher and her reflected a situation that made her very worried.
The teacher said that her children often couldn't keep up with everyone's rhythm when they took the thinking development course, and the thinking training game could not be played.
Kindergarten thinking games are the use of graphics, audio-visual, animation and other course props to guide children's language expression ability, spatial imagination ability and manual brain ability and so on.
In fact, this involves how to cultivate children's thinking ability from an early age, including intuitive movement thinking, concrete image thinking, abstract logical thinking, etc.
If you find that your child's development is not as good as that of the age child in some aspects, as in the case of the parent above, I don't think you need to be too anxious.
Because the development of thinking is regular, from low to high, and each child's physical and mental development is also different, parents can only guide more, such as accompanying children to read, do games, play toys when guiding children to take the initiative to observe more hands and think more, and promote the development of thinking ability.
On how to exercise children's thinking and cognitive development, share a book for everyone to refer to "Everything Compares: Understanding Our World".
This is a popular science picture book suitable for 3-6-year-old children, 3-6 years old children, just in the stage of kindergarten, they contact people and things become more abundant, full of curiosity about everything around them, cognition, communication, thinking and other aspects of the ability are also rapidly developing.
The author is the famous British popular science author Clive Gifford, who has won many international awards. A large number of lively and bright hand-drawn illustrations in the book come from the Portuguese pioneer illustrator Anna Sechas, and the children can more intuitively observe the contrasting results of different things by looking at the illustrations, making the cognitive process easier.
In this book, the author uses the method of contrast to show a wealth of content, from seasonal changes, to animals and vehicles flying high into the sky, powerful machines and tiny creatures and other 20 wonderful themes, so that children can learn knowledge in fun.
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If so, how are you going to teach your child to understand the abstract concept of length?
How many meters do you tell your child directly? Children cannot yet understand these abstract mathematical concepts.
Let's see how the author describes "length"!
The author describes the lengths in contrast to pygmy marmosets and pencils, spotted tortoises and paper clips, triceratops and children, Siberian tigers and great Danes, killer whales and emperor penguins, dragonflies and ladybirds, hair, and short rulers.
How small is the little monkey pygmy marmoset from the Amazon rainforest of South America? Its tail is longer than a pencil, but it is not as tall as a pencil. You can imagine how small and cute monkeys can even jump in the palm of your hand.
How long is the body of the Triceratops with 3 large horns on the head of the dinosaur series that children are particularly interested in? Seven children of about 7 years old lined up hand in hand, almost as long as the length of a triceratops!
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The authors select ostriches and polar bears, giraffes and adults, tsunami waves and the Eiffel Tower, changes in height at different ages, towering buildings, butterflies and main and Andes peaks, and animal jump heights.
In the chapter of the book "High Jumper", the jump height of various animals is introduced, such as: Australia's "high jumper" red kangaroo, its jump height is 2 meters, what is the concept of 2 meters? It's the equivalent of a red kangaroo jumping up and jumping directly over the top of Daddy's or Mom's head! (When telling the child, it can be said that the child can recognize the meaning of this height at once)
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The authors select African elephants and polar bears, babies and kittens, blue whales, and Tyrannosaurus rex.
When introducing weight, I especially like the author's comparison in the chapter "Growing Up", writing that newborns weigh about the same weight as 1 cat, and when the child is 1 year old, it is almost as heavy as 3 kittens.
This contrast connects the children themselves with their favorite animals, allowing them to better understand the abstract concept of "weight."
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The concept of time is relatively difficult for children aged 3-6 to understand, but to cultivate children's independence and autonomy, it is necessary to let children understand the meaning of time from an early age.
The author selects the planets in the solar system, the changes in the seasons, and the time it takes for vehicles to move forward rapidly.
In some chapters, there are also special knowledge quiz sections to guide children to actively observe and think, and cultivate children's identification ability and analytical ability.
Quiz of knowledge
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"Everything is more interesting than looking: understanding our world" is both interesting and scientific, many knowledge adults do not know, the comparison method used in the book is simply too popular with children, not only can let children notice the same or different places between two or more things, but also better understand them, increase knowledge, and a lot of knowledge in the book we adults do not necessarily know it!
Children learn the contrast method in the book, understand and master these abstract concepts such as "tall, short, heavy and short", and their thinking ability is improved imperceptibly.
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