Parents have differing opinions on how to properly prepare a future schoolchild for studying at home. Some are sure that last summer before lessons you need to spend exclusively relaxing, others load their child as much as possible so that in the future he does not lag behind his classmates. Only later it turns out that some children become “overprepared” and are bored in class, others can count and read perfectly, but lose things and are completely unable to navigate the building of the educational institution, others read well in English, but have difficulty studying own language or discomfort in communication. The list can be continued endlessly, from teachers primary classes there are many similar stories. How to find a middle ground so that your baby opens with interest new stage In my life?

Psychological readiness of the child for the school process

Psychological preparation for the school process of children is the most important. It is of enormous importance, regardless of what type of educational institution was chosen:

1. Improving communication skills with other children, accepting oneself in social position schoolboy. The experience gained reflects it personal maturity. Psychologists recommend entrusting this mission to professionals working in centers preparing children for the school process. The sooner parents turn to them, the more effective the result will be.
2. The child must understand that when faced with difficulties, parents and a teacher will always be next to him, ready to help. Together we can cope with any task. Volitional maturity in the process of preparing a child is determined by his readiness to express himself and fulfill educational requirements.
3. Intellectual maturity is very important for a child. It is determined by a quantitative vocabulary of words, knowledge about the world around us, the ability to analyze and build a logical chain. A prepared child is able to express his thoughts, complete teachers’ assignments, and communicate freely on topics that are familiar to him.

Skills and abilities that a future student must master

Below is a list general requirements which every child who is about to cross the school threshold must cope with:

• indicating your full name, your birthday and home address;
• know letters, navigate vowels and consonants, read short texts(at least by syllables);
• know the differences between the seasons, be able to describe them (the vocabulary of words is determined);
• navigate the time of day;
• name the basic geometric shapes and be able to depict them;
• remember short texts, be able to retell it (diction and memory are determined).

The following skills should also be included in your preparation for school:

• correct behavior in public places;
• taking care of yourself without the help of adults, putting things in order in the workplace;
• description of what is shown in the picture;
• counts up to 20;
• names of color shades;
• answers to the questions: “who?”, “when?”, why?”;
• spending quiet time in class for 20-25 minutes;
• differences in direction “up”, “down”, “right”, “left”.

Preparing for the school curriculum with a teacher

If a decision has been made to study at a specialized center for preschoolers, then parents need to pay attention to the following points when choosing an organization:

1. Experience of teachers who are involved in working with children. Does the development center have a license to conduct educational activities. The number of students in the lesson, the interior of the room, the availability of auxiliary educational material.
2. For what programs and has a system been developed? training sessions, what subject is emphasized, how long the lessons last, whether the teacher uses an individual approach to each student - these questions should be of interest first of all. If the children's training center has a narrow specialization, it is worth considering whether this is necessary.
3. Having an activity that is aimed at developing creativity baby. Such lessons are a mandatory part of preparation.
4. Emphasize on general atmosphere in the classroom: are children interested in learning, do they feel inspired and want to learn more.

Preparing for school at home

Of course, competent specialists in the field of pedagogy will quickly and professionally cope with all the above requirements. But what should those parents do who independently educate their child and prepare him for school? What to pay attention to:

1. A prepared future student should know all the letters in the alphabet. Then you should gradually move on to reading syllables. It will be much easier for a child in school if he masters reading in advance. The acquired skill will be reflected in the correct sequence of writing letters. By the way, you should start writing in block letters, so your child will master writing faster. Hand training should be regular.
2. Development of speech and diction. After watching a cartoon or a scientific children's program, invite your child to retell what he heard and saw. Do not neglect his opinion, teach him to express his thoughts without hesitation. The baby needs frequent communication, he asks numerous questions that at first glance may seem stupid to parents, but do not neglect the answers to them.
3. Numeracy is an important skill that many children should acquire by first grade. Start by counting the plates on the table, the fingers, the number of books on the shelf, and so on. You can then buy counting sticks or continue to develop skills with colored pencils. An ordinary walk can be turned into an exciting activity. You can count puddles or trees, name the colors of leaves and the size (large/small) of animals that you meet along the way, distinguish between inanimate/animate objects.
4. Intellectual development It is impossible to imagine children without creativity. To improve fine motor skills, you can create all kinds of crafts. On the Internet you can find a huge number of master classes for every taste. Modeling from clay and plasticine, working with scissors, paints and brushes also helps the child master writing.
5. Before going to first grade, the child must learn the rules of behavior, independence and safety indoors and outdoors. Wake up and go to bed to rest at a certain time, do homework every day, and do sports exercises for 30–40 minutes. Parents need to learn to let their child go. Let these be almost independent walks in the yard, when mom or dad watch their baby from the side, trying not to interfere in emerging conversations between children, especially in the case of a small conflict. It is important for parents not to get angry or express their irritation if something doesn’t work out for their future student. Each baby is unique and has its own speed of development.

Properly prepared for school curriculum It is easier and more exciting for the child to be in class and take direct part in it. Parental support, friendly relations with other students, professionalism of the teacher and proper organization curriculum, used at home or in specialized institutions - all this will help the child prepare for classes at an educational institution.

The basis successful learning at school - good and timely preschool preparation. It is better to start this process at 3.5-4 years old, because today’s requirements for first-graders are quite high. And if the child is already 6 years old and no one has worked with him before, it will be more difficult to prepare him. There is a list of skills required for a future student, but they are not easy to master in a short period of time. And here the question becomes relevant: how to prepare a child for school at home at 6 or 7 years old?

To answer this question, let’s first consider what specific requirements exist for today’s first-grader. A child entering first grade must:

• be able to introduce himself, tell something about himself, what he is interested in, name the names of his family members;
• be able to write printed letters, distinguish between vowels and consonants well, be able to read light text;
• learn the days of the week, names of months, seasons, say what time of year it is;
• distinguish between morning, lunch and evening;
• learn simple mathematical operations: addition and subtraction;
• understand simple geometric shapes ah, such as a square, a circle, a triangle, be able to draw them;
• be able to retell short texts;
• be able to exclude unnecessary items from a number of items and explain your choice;
• be able to take care of oneself: dress, undress, tie shoelaces, maintain order in the workplace;
• be able to behave in society, respect elders:
• learn colors and preferably their shades;
• describe the picture;
• be able to count to twenty and from twenty to one;
• learn the parts of the human body and be able to draw it correctly;
• be able to answer questions, “When?”, “Why?”, “Where?”;
• distinguish between animate and inanimate objects;
• be able to defend your point of view without getting into a fight with those who disagree;
• be able to speak politely with peers and adults;
• be able to sit quietly in class, without whims and games with other students;

As you can see, the list is quite extensive and it is very difficult to acquire these skills in a short time. After all, when preparing for school you need to follow some rules:

How to prepare a child for school at home at 5, 6, 7 years old

It is clear that in order to prepare for school it is not enough to simply learn numbers and letters. It is important to comprehensively develop a child so that he can communicate with peers at the right level, but how to properly prepare a child for school at home at 5, 6, 7 years old and not discourage him from learning?

Knowing something interesting will make it much easier to establish yourself well among your classmates. And vice versa: being poorly prepared in this regard, a child can become an outsider in the team. Of course for children, from preschool institutions It is easier to get used to school than for those who have this preparation at home. But if you still decide to prepare your child for school at home, we bring to your attention our recommendations for these classes.

Reading activities

• these activities are paramount relative to all others, because having mastered reading, it will be easier for the child to study other subjects (you can read more about how to easily and quickly teach a child to read);
• letters should be learned in alphabetical order. For clarity, you can sculpt them from plasticine and guess what the letter looks like. For example, “w” - for a beetle, “o” - for glasses, and so on. You can also interest your child by showing letters with your hands or with your whole body. For ideas on how to easily and playfully learn all the letters with your child, see
• read a simple text to the future student and ask him to find the letter he just learned in it;
• invite your child to answer questions about the text, tell what it says, and retell it;

Math classes

• It’s good to start these activities by counting simple, familiar objects, such as toys, candy, fruit. Later, you can gradually switch to counting sticks or special cards. Learn to count with whole numbers;
• Learn numbers effectively in pairs. For example, 1 and 2, 5 and 6. This will make it easier for the child to understand that if you add one to five apples, you get six apples. In one lesson you need to study one number pair, and at the beginning of the next, repeat what you have learned and only then take on new numbers.
• to interest your child in geometry, you can study geometric shapes using cookies as an example. Today in stores you will find square, round, and triangular cookies.
• when simple figures have been studied, you can start drawing them using a ruler;
• All listed species It is useful to alternate activities.

Writing classes

• the baby’s hand should be prepared for writing, because it is not yet ready for this type of activity;
• Classes for the development of fine motor skills have a very good effect in this regard. At two or three years old, you can use cereals, pasta, and beads for this; learn to tie your shoelaces;
• teach your child to use children's safety scissors with rounded ends - this also prepares the hand well for writing;
• first you need to learn how to write block letters, and only having received the first results in this direction, you should start writing capital letters;
• teach your child to write neatly without going beyond the lines;
• use a handle that is comfortable for your baby;
• Finger exercises provide great assistance in preparing for writing. It will be effective if you do it together with your child, saying “We wrote, we wrote, our fingers are tired. We’ll rest a little and start writing again.”
• The notebook in which you are going to write must meet modern school requirements. Stores offer a wide selection of all kinds of writing aids;

Creative activities

• teach your child to use a brush, pencils, felt-tip pens, etc.;
• It’s good if the baby learns to shade shapes without going beyond their boundaries. Use this with large details in drawings;
• effectively combine creative activities with the study of geometric shapes. For example, you made an applique of a watermelon and immediately noticed that it resembles a circle;
• and vice versa: you can draw, cut and sculpt letters and numbers. This way the child will better understand what is being studied;

Psychological readiness for school

Psychologists say that a child’s adaptation to school will be smoother if the first-grader has developed certain skills. Here is their list:

• desire to study, interest in knowledge;
• the ability to analyze and draw conclusions, compare objects and concepts;
• understanding the goals of learning at school, awareness of one’s self, communication skills;
• concentration on what is being studied at the moment;
• overcoming difficulties, the ability to finish what you start.

To prepare a child for school psychologically, parents should:

• communicate with the future student, read together and discuss what they read;
• when discussing a fairy tale or story read, incline the child to think about what is described in the text, teach him to draw conclusions and express own opinion about what you read;
• Show your child what school is like in a playful way, praise the child during the game, and give careful advice. It’s good if you change the roles of “student” and “teacher”;
• do not finish tasks instead of your child, teach him to do it independently or with a little help from you;
• Do not limit the independence of your child. Excessive care can only harm him. If you do not allow your child to learn in due time to independently perform such simple actions as tying shoelaces, fastening buttons, dressing and undressing, neatly putting his clothes in place, etc., he may become the subject of ridicule in the children's group. And vice versa: healthy independence will help the child to assert himself in a new society and gain the necessary authority.
• Teach your child to communicate with peers: arrange games with other children in the yard or at home, take part in these games yourself, and along the way, gently tell your child how best to communicate with peers and not quarrel.
• Try never to laugh at your baby alone, and especially in the presence of other children. This can create in a child low self-esteem, from which self-doubt develops;
• Use positive motivation to encourage your child to learn. Tell him how many new, useful and interesting things he can learn in lessons at school;
• Teach your child to be disciplined, explain to him why silence is needed in the classroom during the lesson.
• Teach your child to ask questions to the teacher if something said is not clear. Let him be afraid of not knowing something rather than clarify it with the teacher. Explain to your child that he must take care of his knowledge himself.
• Help your child learn self-respect and understand that excessive aggression or, on the contrary, timidity can harm him. After all, you need to be able to defend your point of view calmly, without shouting or fighting. Try to play out typical situations that arise between children at school. During the game, you will be able to see how ready your child is for such situations, you will be able to give him advice, teach him how to behave correctly. You can also offer your child your own way out of the current situation, but only after you listen to the child’s opinion on this matter. Of course, you need to encourage the child to do well in any case.

Health issues and school

A special place in preparation for school is occupied by the health of the future student.

It is very important during this preparation and during the training itself to be able to teach the future student something and not harm his health.

At the age of 6-7 years, a child undergoes such important changes as the change of teeth and intensive growth of the whole organism. This is the age when the need for movement in children is very great. And if the opportunity arises to sit at a desk at the age of 7, then from a health point of view, this is much better for the child. If you have to send your child to school at the age of 6, then special attention should be paid to the quality of physical training that your future offers you educational institution. It is very good if the school has an equipped gym and swimming pool. After all, in addition to gaining new knowledge, the child needs frequent physical education lessons so that the blood vessels and heart work actively, so that there is an appropriate load on the joints, etc. Voluntary physical activity during breaks is also beneficial for the health of students, and it is very good if the classroom is ventilated during the absence of students.

On the part of parents, one of the components of healthy preparation for school is proper summer rest before studying. As you know, a child needs rest:

• from communicating with a large number of people and, accordingly, from contact with sources of various infections;
• from huge amount household chemicals and exhaust gases;
• from catering.

Dr. Komarovsky describes the ideal vacation for a child this way: “a dacha in a village where there are a minimum of people, where a mother or grandmother has prepared something from the garden and where there are certainly no household chemicals.” That is, an ideal vacation for a child from a doctor’s point of view is “an inflatable pool with well water, a dump truck dumped sand nearby, a dirty, hungry child climbs out of the water into the sand and shouts “Mom, let me eat!” If a child spends the summer like this, then his heart, blood vessels, and mucous membranes will work perfectly and he will be ready to meet new friends and, accordingly, new infections.

Developing your child’s natural curiosity, learn the world, people and communication with them. Considering the advice of psychologists, teachers and doctors on how to prepare a child for school at home at age 6, do not forget to show personal interest in the process, which will further inspire the future student. If a first-grader is prepared for school, if he masters the basic skills for learning, his horizons are broadened, and he knows how to communicate with peers, then it will be much easier for him to study at school than otherwise, if he is not suitably prepared.

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As Knowledge Day approaches, parents often wonder: how to prepare their child for school so that their beloved child can easily and quickly adapt to school life, handled the course load without difficulty and kept up with peers? It is necessary to prepare a child for school in advance, that is, not a month, a week or a few days before the start of the educational process. If parents, in their enthusiasm and haste, came to their senses only in August, you should not expect distinctive results from the baby. Competent advice and recommendations from practical psychologists will be relevant for parents of future first-graders and will help prepare their child for the new school year.

So, how to prepare your child for school at home?

August preparation. August is quite late. What can a baby learn in a month? During this period, he will only have time to realize the importance of the process itself, which is necessary for acquiring further life experience. If parents have not had conversations with their child regarding school, stress and long-term adaptation to new living conditions cannot be avoided. It is also unlikely that it will be possible to instill reading skills or teach a child to count. This is not a one-day process that requires willpower, awareness and determination.

Summer period.

If the child went to kindergarten or attended a center early development, you listened to the recommendations of the teachers and diligently followed them, in this case, it is quite possible to prepare your child for school via Skype in three months. To achieve positive results, it is necessary to correctly distribute the load, work with the child daily, create a daily routine, and allocate time for learning, relaxation, active, developmental and outdoor games. Start conversations about school so that when he enters first grade he has an idea of ​​the education system. Motivate him for success, tell him what awaits him soon.

Throughout the year. Within a year, a child can be quite successfully trained and set up for further productive studies. In addition, during this period, both parents at home and teachers in the kindergarten can prepare the baby for school.

Preparation for school from 4 years old. Prepare your child for school with early age recommended by both pediatricians and child psychologists. By this age, the baby has already formed self-awareness and is intensively replenishing lexicon, the grammatical structure of speech is built, detailed generalizations appear - stories, monologues. Preschool age– the most favorable period for the development of memory and thinking. By the age of four, emotional life becomes constant and balanced. Unlike early childhood, the life of a preschooler is very diverse. The baby joins the system social environment, he has new types of activities, and with them new motives - competition, rivalry, achievement of success, motives associated with the assimilation and consolidation of moral standards. Preschoolers have a clear understanding of successes and failures. By this time, the preschooler had managed to form as a personality. In a playful way, he can already read, draw, and write. The age of why begins, the baby shows interest in everything and strives for knowledge outside world. There is no need to suppress this initiative; let the child absorb all the useful and significant information. It is very important not to miss this moment and use it to instill value orientations and socially significant skills.

When asking specialists when is the best time to prepare a child for school, psychologists will definitely say that educational activities should start at 4 years of age. In this case, going to first grade will not cause unnecessary trouble and will not negatively affect the child’s self-esteem. Of course, the above applies to children who do not have significant deviations or delays in mental development.

Where to start preparing for school?

Reading.

• How faster baby If you become familiar with letters, learn to read syllables and recognize sounds, the more successful the process will be.
• From an early age, read fairy tales and stories to your child
• Discuss the text you read, ask questions, let your child learn to retell it
• Make it a rule to learn one letter every day. There are many visual aids, alphabet on magnets, in pictures, books that will make learning fun and productive.
• Let the child pronounce the learned letter out loud and find it in the text.
• Association games will help you memorize quickly. Let the baby build an associative series, draw analogies with what he associates this or that letter.

Spelling

Spelling is closely related to reading. Here you can consolidate your knowledge and perform exercises with the letters that you have already learned.

• Let your baby learn to write in block letters
• Use skew-ruled notebooks to teach writing.
• Give your child an example, write letters on the starting line so that he can do the exercise on his own using your model. If your child doesn’t succeed, don’t blame or scold him for the mistake, point out the shortcomings in a friendly manner and do the exercise again. When writing letters, pay your child's attention to accuracy and attentiveness.

Mathematics classes

For admission to the primary level, mathematics lessons via Skype are extremely necessary.

• To teach your child to count, it is advisable to purchase visual aids. didactic materials. These could be pyramids with a number series and abacus, wooden toys depicting animals and numbers, and counting sticks.
• Count toys, candies, fruits, fingers and toes.
• Each new lesson, learn a couple of numbers. It is very important that the child remembers them and learns to write.
• Geometric shapes and the concept of shape and size can be taught using wooden frames or cookie shapes.

You shouldn’t limit your child’s creativity; modeling, drawing, and designing are great for developing fine motor skills, preparing the hand for writing and promoting the development of higher cognitive processes.

Parents of future first-graders are also concerned about the child’s psychological health. How to psychologically prepare him for going to first grade so that he does not feel internal constraint and feels confident? So that the child does not get stuck in corners, interacts with other students, joins in educational process and contacts with teachers, it is important that he is able to: communicate, understand the meaning of learning at school, verbally defend his position, plan activities and set goals, understand the consequences of his behavior, have clear ideas about discipline and internal charter schools. In addition, it is important that the first grader has a favorable psychological attitude and objective self-esteem.

Note to parents!!! Preparing for school should not be limited to reading, writing and arithmetic. Before going to first grade, there should be a parental dialogue with the child, talk with him about how to behave with adults and peers, develop in him a sense of responsibility, independence, and talk about discipline. If you notice signs of negativism, concealment, or groundless aggression in your child’s behavior, immediately consult a child psychologist so as not to trigger the problem and provoke greater alienation.

How to choose Italian courses via Skype?

Not long ago, a completely new concept of “Italian language tutor via Skype” appeared. This convenient service quickly came into use and is becoming more and more in demand every year. However, many people still have not heard of this way of learning a foreign language. Not everyone knows and understands the advantages, advantages and opportunities distance learning in real time. Thus, most of those who could already become students of such a course do not even imagine how exactly Italian language classes are organized via Skype.

Many who applied to our language school say that they learned about this method of distance learning from the Internet, which turns out to be a completely natural way. It is important to note that for someone who uses the World Wide Web very rarely and, quite possibly, is not even aware of the existence of the Skype program, this service will be truly useless. In this case, we can only advise looking for the nearest language centre and sign up for regular classes with a teacher. As for distance learning methods, it has long been used everywhere in civilized countries and big cities, where everyone is familiar with the Internet and its capabilities. This is a great alternative to classroom training that provides the same results. Therefore, this area of ​​study also has large field for development, along with the growing awareness of the modern population.

Online Italian tutors on Skype

Each Italian tutor at our school, who works online via Skype, is a professional in his field. All tutors are competent, have extensive experience and are highly qualified in the field of pedagogy and teaching. Tutors have specialized linguistic or Teacher Education. And, of course, each of them has extensive experience in distance learning Italian language. The school is also taught by native Italian speakers, who also organize classes via Skype, and they, along with other teachers, must undergo a thorough selection. Native teachers teach both in their homeland and in Russia. This allows them to master all the necessary learning techniques that any student will appreciate. Based on the results of past classes, learning Italian using Skype is extremely effective method. The program allows you to establish contact between the teacher and the student, maintain contact and study without any interference.

Distance learning Italian for children via Skype

Italian language classes for children are not only a useful step in their learning, but can also be very interesting experience. The distance method is developed by experienced specialists who are professionals in child psychology. Here the student’s age, level and temperament are taken into account - the result is good program in a playful way, aimed at the development of the child. The classes will not get boring, and all the material will be well absorbed. Everyone knows that the modern generation of children spends most of their free time at the computer. To brighten up your child’s entertainment, you can add lessons with an Italian teacher via Skype to his schedule. The student will enjoy contact communication with the teacher, who will provide all the necessary materials, tests and assignments, and he will not have to look for them on his own on the Internet. All learning will take place under the strict supervision of a teacher who will guide the child, explain to him all the complex issues of language learning, and make the process rich and interesting.

The school offers everyone who wants to learn Italian online to do so with the help of competent tutors via Skype. The first lesson, which will be held in trial introductory mode, will take half an hour and will be absolutely free for the future student. This is the lesson that will show all the advantages of distance learning via Skype and will allow you to get acquainted with the methodology and work of teachers. There you can ask questions of interest to the future teacher, ask about the process and further classes. With the help of an introductory lesson, anyone can test themselves, make sure that the distance learning method is suitable for them and assess their chances of mastering foreign language in this way.

Preparing for 1st grade is always exciting for both children and adults.
The most responsible parents are in a hurry to teach their future first-grader to read and count, write letters and solve examples.

1. Physical development

From childhood, instill in your child an interest in sports and physical education. Works best here personal example. Find time for active activities with your children at home and outside.

Invite your child to try different sports sections: swimming, gymnastics, martial arts, dancing. Let him choose what he really likes.

If your son or daughter themselves reminds you about the next workout and tries not to miss a single lesson a week, this is success.

2. Psychological development

Even an outwardly calm and confident child may find it difficult to adapt to an unusual school environment. What is important to teach children to help them transition to a new stage in life?

1. Teach your child to manage emotions and think positively.

The ability to control emotions such as anger, malice or resentment will protect the child from rash actions or words. Explain to your child that there are many problems. But if you think positively, it will be easier to look at the situation from the other side and find the right way out.

Approach the issue consciously: model different life situations and help your child figure out together what to do in this or that case.

2. Train your attention and ability to concentrate.

Teach your child to always finish what he starts. Give him tasks that can realistically be completed within half an hour. Choose not only your favorite activities, but also those where your child may resist. If you managed to concentrate on the task at hand for at least 20 minutes and get the job done, you have done it.

3. Cultivate responsibility and develop willpower.

Teach to dream, set goals and achieve them, despite difficulties. Help with external incentives at first, but explain that the strongest motivation is his own.

Assign your child adult tasks. Let him have his own list of assigned tasks around the house: water the flowers or wipe the dust, walk or feed the pet.

3. Intellectual development

Your child will be taught to read, write, count and solve simple mathematical problems at school. The most valuable thing parents can do for their children is to teach them to think correctly, reason, analyze information and see the main thing.

What exactly needs to be done?

1. “Light it up” cognitive interest and stimulate them to learn new things: in books, videos, at home and on a walk. Organize a variety of leisure activities for your child so that they understand how much new and interesting things there are in the world that they have to learn about.

2. Develop speech and communication skills. Teach your child to find mutual language with peers and adults. It is important to teach the ability to listen, argue your point of view and enjoy the communication process itself.

3. Develop logical thinking. Decide typical tasks The child will learn in mathematics lessons. But in order for him to successfully cope with tasks with an asterisk and everyday tasks, one cannot do without the ability to reason and think outside the box. These abilities can and should be trained.

Where to look for tasks? 10 years ago, only collections and children's magazines came to mind. Nowadays much more high-quality interesting materials can be found on the Internet. But how not to get lost in this ocean of developmental tasks?

Start with a small selection of math problems for preschoolers.

They will help you see the approximate level intellectual readiness child to school.

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So, a crucial moment has come in the life of your family - Last year before school. Moreover, parents, as a rule, are more worried about this than the children themselves. School is just around the corner, but the child still doesn’t know how to do anything: he can’t read or write, he doesn’t know poetry, he’s only interested in games, cartoons, and in general he can’t sit still for more than three minutes.

What should parents do to overcome the period of entering school with the least loss for the family?

First of all, you need to calm down, analyze the situation and determine the tactics for further action.

Determine your goals and (more importantly) the order in which you will achieve them.

Firstly, do not forget that your worried face, constant tugging at the child, a sharp change in the rhythm of life (yesterday the baby could walk all day long, but today he is prescribed strict regime) can puzzle the child and develop in him a persistent aversion to the school process even before the actual training begins.

Under no circumstances should this be allowed, because you still have ten years to study!

Therefore, goal number one can be formulated under the general heading - “do no harm”!

Second, identify your child's strengths and weaknesses. What is better developed in him and what is worse: logical thinking, fantasy, memory, auditory perception, etc.

Goal number two: find “weaknesses and improve them.”

Thirdly, it is necessary to create a general positive attitude in your child for future studies.

So, what do you need to do to ensure that your entry into school and further studies are successful?

Do not send your child to school if at the time of admission you feel that he is not yet “ready”. The easiest way is not to send him to school until he is seven years old.

Work with your child at home, especially a year before school.

This situation often happens. Parents with a tender expression on their faces declare that their six-year-old child is so smart that he is absolutely ready for school: he reads, writes, draws, and recites poetry, and in general, why should he hang around for another whole year? kindergarten, he’ll just be bored!

Don't forget, a child is rarely bored. Especially for an active, hyperdynamic baby, for whom movement itself is life.

If you think that your child has already outgrown kindergarten, you can additionally assign him to a club or section “based on interests”.

A six-year-old child can be as well prepared for school as he wants in terms of general education and developed intelligence, but one should not lose sight of his psychophysical state.

After all, school is discipline, sitting at a desk for a long time, a strict lesson schedule, communication with teachers and students. Is your baby ready for this? At school he will not be able to do only what he likes and as much as he wants.

This psychological readiness for school is more important in the first year of study than anything else.

None training courses and super-responsive teachers will not exhaust the problem of developing a child’s school maturity. Your baby needs an individual approach that only the parents themselves can find.

You need to study with your child at home. It doesn’t matter to whom: mom, dad, grandmothers, everyone together. The main thing is the systematic nature of such activities and the general orientation. And there is no need to make excuses with the phrases “the child is not drawn to activities”, “he does not listen to his relatives”, “he is constantly distracted by extraneous matters”, etc. All in your hands. You will be able to prepare your child for school on your own, or at least set him up in the right way.

Rule one.

Determine the period of the child’s greatest performance.

You probably know that your baby (like all children) has “bad” days and even times. It is difficult, and sometimes even impossible, to force him to do anything at this time (for example, write or read). To insist means to waste both him and your nerve cells.

Teach your child to independently control his mood.

Sometimes periods of greatest performance can be calculated. Some children study especially successfully in the mornings, before kindergarten. This means that they should not be tormented in the evenings. Others, on the contrary, have difficulty getting up, but are active in the evening and can easily write, read, solve examples, etc. until late. Such periods of activity can only be calculated by trial and error. And it is better to do this precisely in the preschool period, based on the child’s characteristics, and not on their own ideas about what is best and what is not.

Rule two.

A clear ritual for conducting a lesson.

In order for classes to be successful, so that your child has at least some kind of attention and at least some kind of internal discipline in his head, he, first of all, needs external discipline.

Do not treat homework as pampering, otherwise your child will have the same attitude towards school. No studying on the kitchen table while mom stands at the stove, no TVs, tape recorders, radios, etc. on.

A child preparing for school needs a permanent place for daily classes. This place must be organized correctly, one might even say, in a textbook way. The table and chair are the right height, the light is on the left (if the child is left-handed, then the light is on the right), there is nothing unnecessary on the table, while sitting at the table, the child should not look out the window and preferably not the wall.

Ritual - keyword during the lesson.

As a rule, the activities themselves - drawing sticks and hooks - do not cause any visible difficulties for the child. The main task of parents is not to let the baby get distracted. Moreover, this must be done without visible pressure, without shouting or generally raising your voice. Everything should be calm, tactful, confident.

There is little hope that the child will complete tasks independently from the very first try (especially if he is a hyperdynamic child). At the beginning of training, you will have to “sit” with the baby. Boring drawing of the same icons without parental control will lead to complete disgrace in the notebook, which, first of all, will frustrate him, as well as lower his self-esteem and ultimately can lead to disappointment in his ability to learn in general.

Rule three.

Practicing the correct sequence of tasks.

Many teachers recommend starting work from the very beginning. difficult task, gradually moving to simpler ones. But this rhythm is not suitable for all children; if immediately faced with difficulties at the very beginning of work, the child, figuratively speaking, will “give up” and completely lose his already low concentration, interest and readiness to work. Children love to do what they can do and hear words of approval. Difficulties can only stimulate adults, mature individuals. Therefore, you need to start completing tasks with the easiest one (from the point of view of your child), with the one that will definitely work out. Then you need to move on to more difficult tasks, reaching the maximum level of difficulty approximately in the middle of the lesson. Finishing the lesson, in this case, will also be a fairly easy task. And at the end you can even repeat some of the material you have already covered. Thus, the child will have a feeling of success of the entire lesson as a whole.

Rule four.

Under any circumstances, proceed only from the characteristics of your child.

Children are always ready to cooperate. Prepare a child with normal intelligence for the average secondary school is possible almost always, but sometimes you have to take into account in a very bizarre way individual characteristics baby. Never label your child . Don't break his psyche. He will succeed.

Preparedness number one.

Taking into account all the above tips, however, do not try to stuff your child with a bunch of knowledge about everything - it is not so much the volume that is important, but its quality. That is, parents must not only teach their child to read and write, but also develop speech, the ability to distinguish sounds, and create conditions for the development of motor skills, especially movements of the hand and fingers.

In other words, parents need:

Develop the child's ability to listen;

Teach reading comprehension;

Develop the ability to retell; make visual comparisons;

Solve simple problems with it;

Analyze and compare words together with your child.

All this is necessary so that the future student, upon entering first grade, can:

Listen to an adult and take his instructions, being guided by them during classes;

Recognize the need to ask if the task is not clear to him;

Evaluate your work;

Know the concepts of “more”, “less”, “equal”, “same”, “short”, “long”, “older”, “younger”;

Compare the simplest objects.

Your child may be tested upon admission to school.

Remember that you brought your child to school to be taught there, that is, he does not have to know the answers to all the questions, be able to read, write, etc. The main thing is psychological readiness so that the child is not embarrassed, answers questions to which he knows the answers, and shows general awareness of his name, where he lives, and what his parents do.

It is imperative to prepare your child for the upcoming interview. The most convenient way to do this at home is in the form of a game.

To test verbal-logical thinking, come up with a certain topic and ask the child to tell everything he thinks about this, you can ask him, for example, what sports he knows, why do people need transport, what kind of person is called kind, etc.

To develop attentiveness and acuity of listening perception, say a certain sentence and ask your child to repeat it. See how accurately he succeeds in this; the sentences can be very different, for example: “It was raining in the morning, but in the afternoon the sun came out and it became warm.”

You can check your child's vocabulary like this. Ask one by one about a word (the topic should be very different) and see how complete and detailed the child’s answer is. It is important that he not only be able to explain the meaning of the word, but also do this not only with the help of practical actions, gestures, drawing, but also verbally describing it as fully as possible.

This is reminiscent of the game “cow” or “crocodile”, beloved by many, with the only difference that here the words can and should be explained using other words.

An approximate set of words is: “car, letter, pen, leather, ride, umbrella, cut, sharp.”

Check how well your baby “feels” words, let him explain which of the given words is longer, which is shorter and why. The words can be very different: ball and ball, earth and worm, whale and cat.

Another very useful game. The adult begins by saying: “We are going to visit our grandmother and take apples with us.” The child repeats what was said and adds something else: “We are going to visit our grandmother and take apples and bananas with us.” And so on. At some stage, you can deliberately make a mistake in the listing and see if your baby notices it.

At school you will have to perceive information by ear. Slowly say ten different words, for example: grass, five, hand, sun, dress, pencil, telephone, nose, cup, house. Let the child repeat the words that he remembers, the norm is 6 words.

Don't forget about visual memory. On a piece of paper, draw twelve 3x3 squares and in each of them draw something, for example, a sun, a letter, a house, a car. Do not repeat drawings. Have your child look at the pictures carefully for 30 seconds. Then turn the sheet over and ask the child to list the pictures that he remembers (the normal level is 8 pictures).

Determine the self-esteem of the future student. This is an important factor successful studies, because your child’s knowledge will be assessed every day and he needs to respond correctly to both praise and criticism from the teacher.

Let the child give a positive or negative answer to each of the ten proposed words-characteristics about himself, for example: good, kind, smart, polite, hardworking, etc. average level self-esteem 4-7 points.

Do not rush to be upset if your child’s performance is not very high. The main thing is to remember that preparatory courses, and the upcoming interview at school, and home rehearsal are just training necessary information, which will help to understand the weaknesses and strengths of the future student, which will give food for thought to parents and teachers.