Maybe for some it will be a revelation, but preparation for school takes up the entire preschool period of a child's development. A big mistake is made by those parents who, a year before school, start frantically showing letters to the kid, believing that the ability to read will become the main factor in successful learning.
Preparing a child for school should go in two directions - instilling educational skills and socialization.
Educational skills should be developed from the very first days of a baby's life. The first acquaintance with the native language begins with lullabies, nursery rhymes, jokes. By the age of three, when a child begins to form visual-figurative thinking, he should tell fairy tales, read books by children's writers - the poems of Agnia Barto are the best fit. Further, you can expand the thematic and plot range.
In the process of reading, speaking skills are also improved. It is necessary to talk with the child about what he has read, discuss illustrations, motivate him to retell and memorize.
Conversation skills are formed only as a result of communication. Mowgli children raised by animals, in most cases, have not been able to learn to speak.
Only by arousing interest in the book as a source of information and entertainment can one show him the letters and explain their meaning.
Throughout the preschool period, it is necessary to develop fine motor skills. In the early stages, these are finger games. At an older age - mosaics, plasticine modeling. Closer to school, you should start strengthening your arm. You cannot teach writing directly. There are special technologies in the school, interference with which can only harm. The child can be asked to trace the contours in a notebook in a box, draw figures on the cells, draw block letters.
Learning to count can be started as early as one year old, naturally in a playful way. To begin with, it is enough to limit yourself to counting items in the amount of two, gradually increasing them.
There is a list of necessary skills that a future first grader should possess. The main thing that any parent should remember is that the entire process of preschool education of a child should take place only at his request. And the only acceptable way would be to learn in the game.
Another stumbling block that a child will surely face when entering school is peer society. If a child attended a preschool institution, then he already has experience of being in society. For such a first grader, adaptation in a new team should not cause problems, especially since in small settlements, a class is often formed on the basis of a kindergarten group.
Before school, you need to start accustoming your child to a regimen without daytime sleep. As a rule, during the summer period this can be done painlessly.
It will be much more difficult for a child at home. To facilitate the entry of the school team, it is necessary at least in the last year before school to enroll him in any section or circle, where he will receive the skills of modeling behavior in society.
