The teacher said that her children often can't keep up with everyone's rhythm in the thinking development class, and they can't play thinking training games.
Thinking about kindergarten games is to use curriculum props such as graphics, audio-visual and animation to guide children's language expression ability, spatial imagination ability, hands-on brain ability and so on.
In fact, this involves how to cultivate children's thinking ability from an early age, including intuitive sports thinking, concrete image thinking, abstract logical thinking and so on.
I don't think it's necessary to be too anxious if you find that your children are not as good as their peers in some aspects, just like the parent above.
Because the development of thinking ability is regular, from low level to high level, each child's physical and mental development is different. Parents can only give more guidance, for example, when accompanying their children to read books, play games and play toys, guide them to take the initiative to observe, do more work and think more to promote the development of thinking ability.
On how to train children's thinking and cognitive development, share a book for your reference: Comparing Everything: Understanding Our World.
This is a popular science picture book suitable for children aged 3-6. Children aged 3-6 just started kindergarten. They are exposed to more people and things, curious about everything around them, and their abilities of cognition, communication and thinking are also developing rapidly.
The author is Clive Gifford, a famous British popular science writer who has won many international awards. A large number of vivid and lively hand-drawn illustrations in the book come from the Portuguese pioneer illustrator Anna Seixas. Children can observe the contrast results of different things more intuitively by looking at illustrations, which makes the cognitive process easier.
In this book, the author shows a wealth of contents by contrast, from the changes of seasons to animals and vehicles flying high into the sky, powerful machines and tiny creatures. Can let children learn knowledge in fun.
If it were you, how would you teach your children to understand the abstract concept of length?
Tell the child directly how many meters? Children can't understand these abstract mathematical concepts yet.
See how the author describes "length"!
The author chooses Jurassic and pencil, turtle and paper clip, triceratops and children, Siberian tiger and Great Dane, killer whale and emperor penguin, dragonfly and ladybug, hair and short feet to describe the length.
How small is the little monkey in the Amazon rainforest of South America in Jurassic? Its tail is longer than a pencil, but its height is not as long as a pencil. You can imagine what a cute little monkey it is. It can even jump into your palm.
Children are particularly interested in dinosaur series. How long is Triceratops with three big horns on its head? Seven 7-year-olds lined up hand in hand, almost as long as Triceratops!
The author chooses ostriches and polar bears, giraffes and adults, tsunami waves and Eiffel Tower, height changes of people of different ages, towering buildings, butterflies and the main peaks of the Andes, and jumping heights of animals.
In the chapter about high jumpers in the book, the jumping heights of many animals are introduced, such as red kangaroo, an Australian "high jumper", whose jumping height is 2m. What is the concept of 2m? It's equivalent to red kangaroo jumping up and jumping directly on his father or mother's head! You can tell this to your child, and the child will realize this high significance at once.
The author chose 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 of growing up, saying that the weight of a newborn is almost as heavy as 1 cat, and when a child reaches 1 year, it is almost as heavy as three kittens.
This contrast connects children themselves with their favorite animals, which can help them better understand the abstract concept of "weight".
The concept of time is relatively difficult for children aged 3-6 to understand, but to cultivate children's independence and autonomy, children should understand the meaning of time from an early age.
The author selects the planets in the solar system, the changes of seasons and the time required for vehicles to move forward quickly.
In some chapters, there is also a question-and-answer section with specialized knowledge to guide children to actively observe and think and cultivate their ability of identification and analysis.
Compare everything: understanding our world is both interesting and scientific, which many knowledgeable adults don't know. The contrast used in the book is simply a child's love. It can not only make children notice the similarities or differences between two or more things, but also better understand them and increase their knowledge, while we adults don't necessarily know a lot of knowledge in books!
Children learn the comparison methods in the book, understand and master the abstract concepts of "height, weight and length", and their thinking ability is improved imperceptibly.