“Learning must be fun in order to learn well” - is sung in a children's song. And preschoolers successfully acquire knowledge only in the game. And so that the kid can easily remember the names of geometric shapes, it is worth coming up with interesting and useful entertainment that will help him with this.
According to experts, by the age of two, a child should be able to distinguish such geometric shapes as a circle, a square and a triangle. By the age of three, a rectangle, rhombus, oval, trapezoid are added to them. And the kid will be able to remember them easily by playing exciting games with parents.
Joint play not only helps the child to learn about the world, but also brings the baby and the parents together psychologically.
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Demonstrating figures in their "natural" form (drawn or cut out of paper), of course, is possible and necessary. But it is much more fun to draw them while walking with a twig in the sand or snow, with your finger on a sweaty tile or mirror while swimming in the bathroom, lay them out from what is at hand (pebbles, buttons, ribbons). Or you can sculpt figures from plasticine or salt dough. In a word, the more the parents show their fantasies, the more interesting it will be for the child to learn.
Everything that surrounds us
To make the process of acquaintance with geometric shapes more relaxed, parents should draw the baby's attention to the objects that surround him every day, while mentioning that the book, for example, is rectangular, the TV or monitor screen is square, and the plate is round. Multiple, unobtrusive repetition will help the child over time to easily recognize one form or another.
Gradually, the child will be able to independently, on the instructions of an adult, find objects whose outlines resemble a circle, rhombus, square, trapezoid. You can compete who will find 2-3-4-5 figures of the same type among the objects in the room faster (and at the same time repeat the count).
Colored figurines
Geometric shapes are made from multi-colored cardboard - several different shapes of each color.
You can purchase a ready-made set of geometric shapes.
The child is asked to choose only triangles, circles, etc. Figures can be not only of different colors, but also sizes. By the way, you can repeat the colors at the same time, as well as learn the concepts of "more" and "less".
When the child can easily cope with such a task, the game can be complicated. For example, having chosen several squares and 1 triangle from a set of shapes, invite the child to remove the unnecessary.
And from these bright details, funny pictures can be obtained, which the kid will surely like to compose with their parents or on their own.
Constructors, sorters, as well as educational computer games for toddlers will also be good helpers in learning the basics of geometry.
