Can you build the world in a blank? Of course we can't. How can we ask our children to do things that we can't do ourselves? If children are not given "bricks" and "drawings", how can they build the world?

I have read a sentence to the effect that "imagination is not born, but acquired, and it is a completely trainable ability." Therefore, imagination is unprotected! Imagination is cultivated!

Imagination is based on certain facts and processed by thinking. In other words, the more knowledge a child has, the more space and materials he can handle. Therefore, if parents want their children to have rich imagination, they might as well let them see more, touch more and compare more.

With this basic understanding, we will know from what direction to deal with the daily life of building blocks ~ After all, building blocks are toys used by families to develop their imagination, and building blocks are also good teaching AIDS for cognitive geometry. Therefore, today Zi Ling wants to use this geometric concept to talk about the topic of # imagination #. After all, spatial imagination is an important part of children's imagination development, and children with good geometry will not be too bad.

To know yourself and yourself, according to Zi Ling's old habit, we must first have a mind map as an outline (planning map), which is a summary made by Zi Ling on the basis of Montessori's three-stage teaching method "naming-distinguishing-pronouncing". Then, parents will take what they need according to their children's age and ability and start the game!

Interrupt: Eva's cognition of geometric concepts began with plane graphics and gradually developed into three-dimensional cognition. This article adopts the classification by game, so it is co-written.

Zi Ling once introduced various ways to know shapes with the article "Learn from American kindergarten teachers, 6 tricks to take your baby to play with English, art, handicrafts, light and shadow", so I won't go into details here to remind parents that if you let your baby participate in knowing and learning something with more senses, the experience and cognition will be deeper.

Therefore, when the baby is interested in building blocks, he is throwing them around, biting them in his mouth, knocking with his hands and throwing parabolas. Mom and dad should neither let it go, nor interfere. Why not observe calmly first and not hinder him from observing-touching-comparing, maybe there will be extra gains?

Zi Ling introduced two most common and easy-to-operate games: the patchwork game and the patchwork game. Mom and Dad can play other game methods in the mind map by themselves ~ or, wait for Zi Ling to write slowly.

Patchwork game

Patchwork game means that mom and dad can provide all kinds of incomplete graphics, and then let the baby choose some graphics to supplement them. Well, this is actually a simple version of the puzzle. The purpose is to help the baby get familiar with the characteristics of various graphics in the process of piecing together.

Traditional puzzles are almost flat. Mom and dad can use some toys and materials available at home to develop three-dimensional puzzles with a sense of space. In this way, the most basic baby knows the shape. In the process of piecing together, his ideas are no longer limited to the plane, but by seeing your display, his ideas have expanded to three-dimensional space.

Is this the development of imagination and creativity that our parents expect? Therefore, parenting comes first. Anyway, Zi Ling feels that his thinking ability is constantly improving in the process of raising children!

Zi Ling used plane geometry to raise a small chestnut.

First, the simplest patchwork, cut a few times on the paper to see what the baby has to play. Don't use fixed graphics from the beginning, it can be completely open and there is no standard answer. It does not mean that the results must be put together as a whole. This is an open game. ...

Then, we can introduce some graphics. But note that because the focus of this article is to discuss the development of # imagination, by the way, geometry, so understanding graphics is not our focus, our focus is on developing imagination. The materials of the patchwork game provided by mom and dad can be complete geometric figures, but we suggest to leave some careful thoughts when dividing, which does not necessarily mean that the children are completely patched together ~

Previous games may be more suitable for younger babies. Ta may not be interested in babies who have entered the kindergarten class or are about 5 years old. What should I do?

Simple, then let the baby play freely. What is the significance of early education? It's not a one-on-one sermon. Early education is an incentive. Give your children more creativity to create!

For example, mom and dad can provide paper with various shapes, colors and materials, and then invite the baby to fight for transportation and birds and fish together. Give the baby a direction, just as the boss told us, our work tasks will always tell us the purpose or performance goals of this work. This is a truth.

Seeing this, do you think this has something to do with building blocks?

Listen to Zi Ling slowly. Because the development of baby's geometric concept is plane first and then three-dimensional, basically before the baby is 4 years old, Ta's main cognition is plane geometric figure, so we first consolidate the cognitive foundation of plane geometric figure, and then create an environment to give the baby the feeling of three-dimensional geometry and help him build a rich perceptual knowledge.

We can extend the existing concept of plane geometry to the three-dimensional space of building blocks and create a multi-faceted game. Every time a face is added, Ta will observe and think differently about children.

scrabble

Building blocks are generally standard geometry, and parents usually let their babies play freely. However, slowly, it will be found that the baby will build those kinds, and sometimes he will lose his temper and throw away the building blocks if he wants to be bad. Why?

Frustration, my ability can't meet the requirements I want, but I don't know how to ask for help to find a breakthrough. For example, Eva wants to take a boat, but she uses a cylinder as the hull, so as long as a few more pieces are added, the cylinder will roll and the pieces will fall off.

So, is it a good idea to use a cylinder as a hull?

Zi Ling thinks that if Wa can better understand the characteristics of various geometric shapes, and then imagine what building blocks and materials can be used to make a big ship, he can use building blocks in a more accurate place, and he is more likely to find a way to realize his imagined big ship.

Therefore, it is not a problem to teach your baby building blocks, and it is not a problem to give your baby some reference examples at first. The biggest question is, are there any excessive restrictions on mom and dad? Excessive participation? Children are not allowed to try and make mistakes? Break his confidence?

Geometric creative game

If the first two games are to help the baby lay the foundation, know the raw materials and draw drawings, then at this stage, after the baby is familiar with the characteristics of geometric figures and geometric forms, he can freely exert his creativity.

At this meeting, the test is the vision, aesthetics and patience of mom and dad to clean up the mess themselves. Haha, Zi Ling thinks these works are beautiful, and plans to go home and make all the scraps of paper.

Not only show it, but also make up stories with Wa and listen to what Wa thinks. At this time, mom and dad only need to say two words "Why?" "Then what?" Haha, that's it. Let's not talk too much to protect the baby's real imagination.

I don't know if Zi Ling's article is clear. In fact, there are three core points to express:

1, children's imagination is cultivated. Imagination is not created out of thin air, but is obtained through thinking and processing on the basis of certain facts. If you have time, take your child out for a walk, see more and let him know more about the world. The richer his knowledge, the richer the materials he can imagine and process.

2. It is not a problem to teach your baby building blocks. At first, it is not a problem to give the baby some reference examples. The biggest question is, are there any excessive restrictions on mom and dad? Excessive participation? Children are not allowed to try and make mistakes? Break his confidence?

With the completed building blocks, mom and dad can make up stories together. Mom and dad just need to say a few words. "Why?" "Then what?" To develop a child's imagination, we should start with protecting his self-confidence.

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Lego official website also has many good teaching games. Mom and Dad can also go to Lego official website to find all kinds of information:

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