My dear readers, hello! We have already discussed whether a child is worth it and came to the conclusion that each future first grader is individual. Someone at the age of 6 is ready to “nibble on the granite of science”, while someone even at their “five minutes to eight” regrets leaving the kindergarten.

The child is unlikely to help you with a hint whether to go to the first grade or not. How to determine the readiness of the child for school, only adults can know. Are there litmus papers that give the green light to sit at a school desk?

Lesson plan:

What can a psychologist test?

Repeating the material covered, let me remind you that for psychologists, the ability to read and write is not the most important thing in the life of a future first grader. When determining the level of readiness of a kindergartner to cross the school threshold "healers of children's souls":

1. first of all, they are repelled by the persistent desire of the child;
2. then they study the important stage of collectivization, that is, the ability to cooperate;
3. analyze the third indicator on the acquisition of knowledge - the ability to live according to instructions, that is, to obey and fulfill other people's requirements.

To make sure that the baby really meets the listed psychological conditions to plunge into a new world for him, parents who care for their child often go to see a psychologist and there they find out “eye to eye” whether they are ready or not yet.

What does a psychologist do with a child? He studies his inner world with the help of tests. Many people use the “maturity” test developed by the American Geraldine Cheney. She proposes to analyze the level of preparation in several blocks, consisting of questions on:

• knowledge;
• basic experience;
• language development;
• emotional development;
• hearing abilities;
• visual perception;
• attitude towards books.

Other psychologists prefer Kern-Jirasek orientation graphic testing. It consists of:

• drawing of a person (male figure);
• drawing - a copy of a phrase consisting of written letters;
• drawing - copies of a set of points.

This test has its own scoring system, and complements it with an intellectual questionnaire.

What can a teacher check?

There is a pedagogical diagnostic developed by scientists to help kindergarten teachers. It allows you to determine in a general sense whether the child is ready for school at the level of existing knowledge. These simple tests help to identify "holes".

Task 1 on the ability to orient on a plane and count

Likeness of D. Elkonin. Not a checkered piece of paper is painted over with black color one cell. The child is given pencils of red, blue, yellow and green colors. He needs to find a black square and, as directed by the teacher, count a certain number of cells to the right-left-down-up and paint over with the specified color.

Task 2 for elementary addition-subtraction and understanding of the problem

It also requires a sheet in a cage. The simplest task is given according to the type “there are 3 cats and 2 dogs in the room”. You need to draw as many circles as there are animals in total. And then "1 cat and 1 dog left the room." You need to draw as many squares as there are animals left.

Task 3 to test the development of speech

Teachers check:

• , the ability to determine the place of sound in a word (at the beginning - middle - at the end) and the ability to highlight the necessary intonation;
• skills in making sentences of 3-5 words and determining their order (1st, 2nd, last);
• the ability to combine concepts, for example, “tomato, cucumber and pumpkin are vegetables”;
• the ability to compose stories from pictures.

Task 4 for memorization

In this case, it checks:

• the ability to read and know the author who wrote them;
• storytelling skills.

Task 5 for basic math skills with numbers

Teachers check the future first grader:

• knows the numbers from 0 to 9;
• can count up to 10 back and forth;
• can name the previous and subsequent numbers;
• whether you are familiar with the signs "+" and "-";
• can compare more-less;
• determines whether geometric shapes (square, triangle, circle).

Task 6 on knowledge of the world around

Such tests suggest that the child should know:

• the appearance of common plants (spruce, birch, chamomile, bell and others);
• differences between wild and domestic animals, the main features of the appearance of birds and other living creatures, their differences, for example, crows from woodpeckers;
• signs of the seasons of nature, for example, what to eat in autumn and what in winter;
• names of all months;
• names of all days of the week.

Among other things, teachers will definitely ask a potential first grader for the name of the country, city and street where he lives, house and apartment number, full names of mom and dad, grandparents, and their occupation.

What can a pediatrician and dentist check?

Yes, don't be surprised. A lot of questions and discussions about whether the child is ready for school lead precisely to the pediatrician and dentist. Physicians also contribute and distinguish between passport and biological age. With a passport, everything is clear - count how many years, months, days from the moment of birth. And how to determine the biological age suitable for school?

Let's say right away that in medicine, for many, the passport and biological age do not coincide, the latter can be late with an interval of up to 1.5 years. What does it mean? This means that it is better to see the school desk out when there is a psycho-physiological readiness of the child's body for this.

To determine the biological age, the Philippine test is used, which is based on a half-height growth spurt - a significant increase in the length of children's arms and legs. Ask your preschooler to reach over the top of their head with their right hand to the lobe of their left ear. If he does this without difficulty, then we can say that he is ready for school.

“How does school maturity depend on this?!” - you will be surprised. Doctors explain simply: the Philippine test shows not only the development of the child's skeleton, but also how mature the nervous system is and how ready the child's brain is to perceive and process information. Pediatricians believe that rushing to send a child to school before this very jump that helps working capacity has occurred means dooming him to failures in his studies.

An increase in the ability to direct all the forces of the body no longer to physical development, but to study can be judged by the teeth. When dentists fix your child, this is a favorable sign to add mental development to physiological development. In the Middle Ages, in China and Japan, this was how a child “entered the mind” was defined, already capable of answering before the law.

What can a parent check?

I propose to draw up two columns “for” and “against”, or “+” and “-” on a piece of paper in order to fill them in with the testing.

Well, gradually the pluses and minuses fell on your leaflet, it remains only to calculate them, if there are still doubts, confirm yourself at the psychologist's appointment and make the final decision.

Share how you managed to cope with these tests and are you ready to build a portfolio?

Good luck getting ready for school!

How do you determine if your child is ready for school?

Is the child required to be present when enrolling in 1st grade?

Yes. This is necessary for both the child and adults: parents, teachers. During the enrollment in the 1st grade, an interview is conducted with the child.

What is the purpose of an interview with a future first grader and his parents when enrolling in a school?

The main purpose of the interview with the future first-grader and his parents when entering the school is:

Identification of the level of preschool education, development and readiness for systematic learning at school;

Recommendations to parents on the preparation of an individual plan for preparing the child for the beginning of education, remedial work, consultations are offered with narrow specialists: speech therapists, a psychologist, if necessary, with a neuropsychiatrist, an examination at the medical and pedagogical commission to clarify the question of choosing the type of school: general education or special ( corrective).

An early forecast of difficulties and timely assistance from parents, teachers, and specialists is the task facing the school staff when they first meet a future first grader.

Currently there are alternative forms of education and a whole fan of possibilities opens up before parents. You can send your child to school from the age of 6 or 7, pass the first year of schooling or on the basis of a preschool institution, educate the child in a private or public educational institution. To resolve this issue with the help of educators, teachers and psychologists, parents can only determine the degree of his readiness for school.

What are the criteria for a child to be ready for school?

By the beginning of schooling, the child must have formed the knowledge and skills indicated in the program of preschool education, as well as psychological, physiological and intellectual readiness.

What knowledge should be formed in the future first grader?

In the field of speech development and readiness for literacy, the future first-grader needs to:

be able to clearly pronounce all the sounds of speech;

be able to distinguish sound intonation in words;

be able to isolate a given sound in a stream of speech;

be able to determine the place of sound in a word (at the beginning, in the middle, at the end);

be able to pronounce words in syllables;

be able to make sentences of 3-4-5 words;

be able to name in a sentence only the 2nd word, only the 3rd word, only the 4th word, etc.;

be able to use generalizing concepts (bear, fox, wolf are animals);

be able to compose a story from a picture (for example, “At the zoo”, “At the playground”, “Rest at sea”, “For mushrooms”, etc.);

be able to make several sentences about the subject;

distinguish genres of fiction (fairy tale, story, poem, fable);

be able to consistently convey the content of the tale.

By the beginning of schooling, the child should have developed elementary mathematical representations:

know the numbers 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9;

be able to name the previous and subsequent number relative to any number within the first ten;

know +,-,=,<,>;

be able to compare the numbers of the first ten (for example, 7<8, 5>4,6=6);

be able to correlate the figure and the number of objects;

be able to compare 2 groups of objects;

be able to compose and solve problems in one action for addition and subtraction;

know the name of the shapes: triangle, square, circle;

be able to compare objects by color, size, shape;

be able to operate with concepts: “left”, “right”, “up”, “down”, “earlier”, “later”, “before”, “between”, “for”;

In the field of ideas about the world around, the future first grader needs to:

l be able to distinguish in appearance the plants common in our area (for example, spruce, birch, oak, sunflower, chamomile) and name their distinguishing features;

be able to distinguish between wild and domestic animals (squirrel, hare, goat, cow ...);

l be able to distinguish birds by their appearance (for example, a woodpecker, a crow, a sparrow ...);

l have an idea about the seasonal signs of nature (for example: autumn, yellow and red leaves on trees, withering grass, harvest, etc.);

b know 1-2-3 indoor plants;

to know the 12 months of the year;

Know the names of all days of the week.

In addition, a child entering the first grade must know:

in what country does he live, in what city, on what street, in what house;

full names of their family members, have general concepts about various activities;

know the rules of conduct in public places and on the street.

The future first grader should know the answers to all the questions listed below. Check your kids.

• · Give your last name, first name, patronymic.
• · How old are you? How much will it be in a year? And after two?
• What are your parents' names?
• · Do you have breakfast in the morning, and in the afternoon…?
• · Compare an airplane and a bird. What do they have in common, how do they differ?
• · Football, gymnastics, tennis, swimming is...?
• What needs to be done to make the water in the kettle boil?
• · Knife, what is it? Bicycle, what is it? Kilogram, what is it?
• Compare square and rectangle. What do they have in common, how do they differ? What other geometric shapes do you know?
• · What country do you live in? What is your address?
• · Birch, oak, aspen - is this...?
• What domestic, wild animals do you know? Why are they called that?
• · A cow has a calf, a dog has ..., a horse has ...?
• · Why does the barrier go down before the train passes?
• · Cucumber, tomato, carrot, beetroot - is this...?

There are many different methods that allow you to check the readiness of the child for schooling. In accordance with the general requirements for a child's readiness for the start of schooling, options for sample tasks are given below. The basis of any tasks will be the arsenal of knowledge, skills and abilities that a preschooler must possess in order to enter school and study successfully in it.

A new age has come and children are appearing, many of whom are characterized as indigo. The current generation is very different from the previous one. Many children have certain abilities: they can read, write, count, while not being schoolchildren. Accordingly, the question arises: “At what age should a child go to school?” Some parents in this situation begin to believe that being at home for another year before school will be boring for the child. And that means you have to go to school. But there is a difficulty - he is not yet 7 years old. Namely, this age is the best for admission to school. And there is the opposite option: the child is already almost 7, he knows a lot and has skills, but in terms of psychology he is still completely unprepared for school. And soon he will be even older. Is it permissible to send a child to school at 8 years old, is it too late?

For parents of boys, leaving school at 18 is like a nightmare. After all, the young man will immediately be taken into the army, but somehow I don’t want to take another year of rest from the child. How to be in this case?

At what age should a child go to school?

Before delving into the psychological aspects of this topic, let's see at what age, according to Russian law, a child can attend school. By law, children can attend such educational institutions upon reaching the age of 6.5, if there are no contraindications, but no later than 8. When the parents submit an application and the permission of the director, the child can be accepted earlier or later than the deadline.

Therefore, children must enter school from 6.5 to 8 years of age. It is within this framework that parents want to fit in. Although, of course, earlier admission to school is also acceptable if a balanced decision has been made.

And is it possible not to give necessarily must get an education. Therefore, it is impossible to leave them without training. In some cases, the child may be homeschooled.

Pre-school education is also practiced. This is especially common in private schools these days. There are certain groups of early development for children, somewhat reminiscent of kindergarten.

In the 1st grade, the child must certainly be given up to 8 years. Otherwise, you will have to deal with guardianship authorities and may even lose parental rights.

How to determine if a child can go to school? Before deciding at what age to send a child to school, it is necessary to analyze a number of factors. Let's consider them in more detail.

Intelligent Features

This is one of the most important factors for the school. Parents need to understand whether the child speaks well, whether he can remember events. His attentiveness and thinking are important. And also you need to determine with the help of a psychologist how much the baby meets the standards of a first grader.

Your child is ready for 1st grade if they:

• has a coherent speech and vocabulary that meets the standards for grade 1;
• can come up with a plot from the picture;
• the child normally speaks sounds and knows where they are in the word;
• can read small words at a certain speed;
• knows block letters;
• distinguishes geometric shapes from each other;
• determines the properties of objects;
• can count from 1 to 10 and vice versa, add and subtract simple values;
• distinguishes colors and names them correctly;
• puts together puzzles well;
• remembers rhymes and sings songs, repeats tongue twisters;
• paints pictures strictly along the contour.

To send a child to school at the age of 6, one should not try to fully prepare him, otherwise he will get tired of studying very quickly. He will have almost all the skills and he will not be interested. In this case, parents are obliged to consider which school it is better to send the child to, it may make sense to place the child in an institution with increased requirements.

Do not assume that the school will fully teach everything. It gives only the initial knowledge that helps the child to better adapt in society. Therefore, parents should be prepared for the fact that a lot of work will need to be done with the baby.

Emotional background

Your child should be collected and be able to make informed decisions. The thought of sending a child to school at age 6 may arise if he is smart enough for his age. But if he is not ready emotionally, then discard this idea. The child can earn serious mental problems.

Motivation to study and maturity of the nervous system of the future first-grader

The child must be motivated to go to school. According to psychologists, in order to find out the child's readiness for learning, you need to ask him a simple question: “Do you want to go to school? And why?" The answer will depend on whether he is ready to study. If the child's only motivation is play, then it would be right to postpone school for one year.

Before deciding whether to send a child to first grade, it is necessary to assess the maturity of the nervous system. If he is given too early, then it will be very difficult for him to endure 45 minutes of the lesson. So think about it ahead of time.

Opinion of pediatricians

What do you need to send your child to school? According to pediatricians, it is necessary to conduct several tests. So it will be possible to check the physical readiness of the child for school. So:

1. The child can reach over his head to the top of the opposite ear.
2. The baby has correctly formed kneecaps and phalanges of the fingers, the bend of the foot is pronounced.
3. Milk teeth are being replaced.
4. The child is able to balance on 1 leg.
5. Knows how to throw and catch the ball.
6. Sticks out the thumb when shaking hands.
7. Developed fine motor skills.

An important role is played by the state of health: how often the child gets sick, whether there are chronic illnesses, etc. If necessary, your pediatrician will advise you to postpone this moment for a while and specify at what age to send the child to school.

And yet, at whatever age you decide to send your child to school, it is desirable to strengthen his health. To do this, you can go to the sea before the start of the school year, for example, and also come to grips with the child’s daily routine, his sleep and nutrition. Be sure to cure all foci of chronic infection.

Communication skills and autonomy

It is very important for a first-grader to be able to talk with peers and adults, as well as to have adequate self-esteem. Also, the child should not be isolated in the company of strangers.

At what age should a child go to school? This will largely depend on his independence. After all, he must be able to dress himself and put on shoes, eat, go to the toilet and perform other elementary actions.

Gender of the child

Gender plays a significant role in immersion in the school environment. So, the boys' parents want to give up their sons early so that they can quickly learn and live an independent life, and the girls, on the contrary, want to leave them with them longer. But in fact, it is the little ladies who are ready to study before the guys.

An important role in readiness for learning is determined by the maturity of the cerebral hemispheres. Girls are more likely to develop the left, which is responsible for speech and related activities. Therefore, it is easier for them to study in primary school.

Boys are more likely to develop the right hemisphere. It is responsible for space-time orientation, and this function is not required at all in elementary grades.

anxiety and temperament

Anxiety is an individual trait of each person, which greatly affects the age at which a child is sent to school. Thus, boys with anxiety above average are primarily concerned with relationships with teachers and their educational activities. While girls with a level of anxiety below the average, are mainly concerned about the attitude of their peers.

Plays an important role in teaching children's temperament. The most difficult thing to learn is choleric girls and melancholic boys. Such children have an atypical idea about studying at school, according to teachers.

It's just that boys of this type of character are too vulnerable and may cry if someone upsets or offends them. Unfortunately, neither peers nor teachers accept this behavior.

Choleric girls, on the contrary, are very mobile. Therefore, they cannot sit through the entire lesson calmly. In addition, they are used to defending their case to the last, sometimes even through fights.

Phlegmatic children are too slow and calm. Students with this temperament sometimes find it difficult to learn.

The most favorable temperament for learning is sanguine. These children are moderately sociable and inquisitive, not in conflict, fit into almost any team.

This indicator is most important in elementary school. Further, neither the children nor the teachers react much to it.

Therefore, before determining at what age to send a child to school, contact the experts. If the child is already 7, but the psychologist says that it is necessary to wait, it is worth listening.

The opinion of psychologists

What do you need to send your child to school? Parents ask this question very often. Therefore, psychologists have found several reasons why it is worth postponing school attendance.

1. Psychological features: no motivation for learning, except for playing activities; you had a child when the eldest was 7 years old; difficult times in the family.
2. Medical: the child has mental disorders; recently he had an injury to his head or spinal column; have chronic diseases.

What happens if a child goes to school at the age of 8?

If your child is not ready for the school bench, then you should think it over carefully, weigh all the pros and cons.

When to send the child to school? Komarovsky, a pediatrician well-known throughout Russia, claims that 6.5-7 years old is the ideal age for a child to attend an educational institution. Since it is during this period of time that children change the type of activity from play to cognitive. Although Dr. Komarovsky admits that, having entered school, at first the child will get sick more.

Each child is an individual. And no one knows him better than his parents. Maybe your child is the one who needs to go to school at 8 years old. Only when making such a decision, remember that your child may feel uncomfortable when he realizes that children in his class are younger than himself. To remove all doubts, consult a child psychologist.

When should you think about getting your child ready for school?

The purpose of education is to teach the child to be independent. So, you educate him from his very birth, in every way you try to teach him something. As a result, by the age of 5-6, he accumulates the necessary “baggage” of knowledge for studying at school.

And now the question arises: "When to think about registering a child in an educational institution?"

As you probably understood from our article, the process of preparing for training is quite complex and multifaceted. Therefore, it is necessary to think already nine months before the first of September. Be sure to contact a psychologist, because he must check the child for readiness for school.

If it turns out that your child is not quite ready for school, then you will have time to finalize what is needed.

Deciding on the age at which your child will be enrolled in school is a very important and responsible step. Everything needs to be considered and weighed.

It is necessary to create a festive atmosphere on the first day of the child's studies. Decorate the apartment and make a family celebration. After all, the child should know that a new stage in his independent life begins, full of ups and downs.

December baby and study

When to send a December child to school? Parents ask this question quite often to psychologists. And they answer the question like this: “It all depends on the child.” Because everyone is a person. Some are willing to learn early. Because everything is normal with perception and ingenuity. And another, even at the age of 7, is completely unprepared for school.

Be sure to consult a psychologist first. And he will tell you what choice to make. Perhaps the specialist will tell you what needs to be worked on to fill in the missing "gaps". If the baby is frail and significantly smaller than everyone else in the class, it is also advisable, of course, to wait a bit.

A small conclusion

After reading the article, we hope you have found answers to your questions. Now it is clear that the age of seven does not mean that your favorite child is time to go to school. Of course, there are other factors to take into account. We hope that now you can make a really right decision.

Readiness for learning at school is considered at the present stage of development of psychology as a complex characteristic of the child, which reveals the levels of development of psychological qualities, which are the most important prerequisites for normal inclusion in a new social environment and for the formation of educational activities.

Physiological readiness of the child for school.

This aspect means that the child must be physically ready for school. That is, the state of his health should allow him to successfully complete the educational program. Physiological readiness implies the development of fine motor skills (fingers), coordination of movement. The child must know in which hand and how to hold the pen. And also, when a child enters the first grade, he must know, observe and understand the importance of observing basic hygiene standards: the correct posture at the table, posture, etc.

Psychological readiness of the child for school.

The psychological aspect includes three components: intellectual readiness, personal and social, emotional-volitional.

1. Intellectual readiness for school means:

By the first grade, the child should have a stock of certain knowledge (we will discuss them below);

He is supposed to navigate in space, that is, to know how to get to school and back, to the store, and so on;

The child should strive to acquire new knowledge, that is, he should be inquisitive;

The development of memory, speech, thinking should be age-appropriate.

2. Personal and social readiness implies the following:

The child must be sociable, that is, be able to communicate with peers and adults; aggression should not be shown in communication, and when quarreling with another child, he should be able to evaluate and look for a way out of a problem situation; the child must understand and recognize the authority of adults;

Tolerance; this means that the child must adequately respond to constructive comments from adults and peers;

Moral development, the child must understand what is good and what is bad;

The child must accept the task set by the teacher, listening carefully, clarifying unclear points, and after completing it, he must adequately evaluate his work, admit his mistakes, if any.

3. The emotional-volitional readiness of the child for school involves:

Understanding by the child why he goes to school, the importance of learning;

Interest in learning and acquiring new knowledge;

The ability of the child to perform a task that he does not quite like, but this is required by the curriculum;

Perseverance is the ability to listen carefully to an adult for a certain time and complete tasks without being distracted by extraneous objects and affairs.

Cognitive readiness of the child for school.

This aspect means that the future first grader must have a certain set of knowledge and skills that will be needed for successful schooling. So, what should a child of six or seven years old know and be able to do?

1) Attention.

Do something without distraction for twenty to thirty minutes.

Find similarities and differences between objects, pictures.

To be able to perform work according to a model, for example, accurately reproduce a pattern on your sheet of paper, copy human movements, and so on.

It is easy to play mindfulness games where quick reaction is required. For example, name a living creature, but discuss the rules before the game: if a child hears a pet, then he should clap his hands, if it’s wild, tap his feet, if a bird, wave his arms.

2) Mathematics.

Numbers from 0 to 10.

Count up from 1 to 10 and count down from 10 to 1.

Arithmetic signs: "", "-", "=".

Dividing a circle, a square in half, four parts.

Orientation in space and on a sheet of paper: “to the right, to the left, above, below, above, below, behind, etc.

3) Memory.

Memorization of 10-12 pictures.

Telling rhymes, tongue twisters, proverbs, fairy tales, etc. from memory.

Retelling of the text from 4-5 sentences.

4) Thinking.

Finish the sentence, for example, “The river is wide, but the stream ...”, “The soup is hot, but the compote ...”, etc.

Find an extra word from a group of words, for example, “table, chair, bed, boots, armchair”, “fox, bear, wolf, dog, hare”, etc.

Determine the sequence of events, so that first, and what - then.

Find inconsistencies in drawings, verses-fictions.

Putting together puzzles without the help of an adult.

Fold out of paper together with an adult, a simple object: a boat, a boat.

5) Fine motor skills.

It is correct to hold a pen, pencil, brush in your hand and adjust the force of their pressure when writing and drawing.

Color objects and hatch them without going beyond the outline.

Cut with scissors along the line drawn on the paper.

Run applications.

6) Speech.

Make sentences from several words, for example, cat, yard, go, sunbeam, play.

Understand and explain the meaning of proverbs.

Compose a coherent story based on a picture and a series of pictures.

Expressively recite poems with the correct intonation.

Distinguish letters and sounds in words.

7) The world around.

Know the basic colors, domestic and wild animals, birds, trees, mushrooms, flowers, vegetables, fruits and so on.

Name the seasons, natural phenomena, migratory and wintering birds, months, days of the week, your last name, first name and patronymic, the names of your parents and their place of work, your city, address, what professions are.

Consultation for parents of the preparatory group.

First grade, or how to prepare a child for school.

Spring is a time of special troubles for the families of future first-graders. Soon to school.

Preparing for school is a multifaceted process. And it should be noted that you should start working with children not only immediately before entering school, but far before that, from the early preschool age. And not only in special classes, but also in the independent activities of the children - in games, in work, in communication with adults and peers.

In kindergartens, children receive counting, reading skills, thinking, memory, attention, perseverance, curiosity, fine motor skills and other important qualities develop. Children receive concepts of morality, love for work is instilled. Children who do not go to kindergarten, and do not receive appropriate preparation for school, can enroll in the "Why" circle at the Center for Children's Creativity.

Readiness for school is divided into physiological, psychological and cognitive. All types of readiness should be harmoniously combined in the child. If something is not developed or not fully developed, then it can serve as problems in schooling, communicating with peers, acquiring new knowledge, and so on.

We train the child's hand.

It is very important to develop the fine motor skills of the child, that is, his hands and fingers. This is necessary so that the child in the first grade does not have problems with writing. Many parents make a big mistake by forbidding their child to pick up scissors. Yes, you can get hurt with scissors, but if you talk to your child about how to properly handle scissors, what can and cannot be done, then the scissors will not pose a danger. Make sure that the child does not cut randomly, but along the intended line. To do this, you can draw geometric shapes and ask the child to carefully cut them out, after which you can make an appliqué out of them. This task is very popular with children, and its benefits are very high. Modeling is very useful for the development of fine motor skills, and children really like to sculpt various koloboks, animals and other figures. Teach finger warm-ups with your child - in stores you can easily buy a book with finger warm-ups that are exciting and interesting for the baby. In addition, you can train the hand of a preschooler by drawing, hatching, tying shoelaces, stringing beads.

An important task for parents is to teach the child to bring the work begun to the end, whether it be work or drawing, it does not matter. This requires certain conditions: nothing should distract him. Much depends on how the children have prepared their workplace. For example, if a child sat down to draw, but did not prepare everything necessary in advance, then he will be constantly distracted: he needs to sharpen pencils, pick up the appropriate sheet, etc. As a result, the child loses interest in the idea, wastes time, and even leaves the case unfinished.

The attitude of adults to the affairs of children is of great importance. If a child sees an attentive, benevolent, but at the same time demanding attitude towards the results of his activity, then he himself treats it with responsibility.

From the moment your child crosses the threshold of school for the first time, a new stage of his life will begin. Try to start this stage with joy, and so that it continues throughout his schooling. The child should always feel your support, your strong shoulder, which you can lean on in difficult situations. Become a child's friend, adviser, wise mentor, and then your first grader in the future will turn into such a person, into such a person that you can be proud of.

• Educational work

• Preschool education

The question of how to determine the readiness of the child for school worries many parents. After all, the further successes of the future first-grader in school, and his emotional mood, desire to attend classes and conscientiously do homework depend on the readiness to learn. Of course, the child has grown up, and from a helpless three-year-old kid, he has turned into a reasoning, independent, inquisitive first grader, who, perhaps, is looking forward to being invited to a school class, seated at a desk and begins to teach school "wisdom" - reading, writing and account. But at the same time, the difference between preschool and school activities is obvious - the school, in comparison with the kindergarten, requires the child to be more collected, independent, perseverance, self-discipline. So what is a child ready for school? Psychological readiness of the child for school. Most children want to go to school precisely because they are attracted by the “formal” side of school education: a new “adult” status, a beautiful portfolio, textbooks, notebooks and other attributes of school life. At the same time, the very essence of school education - the educational activity of the student fades into the background. Many children go to school in order to listen carefully to the teacher, sit evenly in class, reach out for an answer - while a lot depends on the praise of the teacher, and the desire of the child himself to the teacher to “please”, “guess” the correct answer, “behave right". Such motivation may seem normal to parents, because. outwardly, the child's behavior corresponds to the parents' ideas of a "diligent student", but this motivation is not correct. It will be much better if the child has motivation for learning activities as such. Since learning activity is a new formation of primary school age, success in it depends, among other things, on the success of the child in the previous leading activity of the preschooler - the game. Therefore, it is so important in the preparatory group of the kindergarten to captivate the child with a game, during which the child will solve educational problems. The game is also important because it is in the conditions of the game that the child learns to communicate with peers and acquires the skills he needs for school life. After all, it is a well-developed ability to interact with other children that helps the child in mastering educational activities. If a child does not know how to listen and hear the answers of his peers, does not know how to follow what is happening in the classroom, he will often be distracted in the lesson and find himself “extraneous” activities. Research on how a child perceives and evaluates himself shows that most often preschool children have inflated self-esteem. For a preschooler, statements are characteristic: “I am the fastest”, “I am the kindest”, “My drawing is the most beautiful”, “My craft is the best”. However, finding himself in school conditions, the child is faced with the fact that his answer can be recognized as “bad”, “incorrect”, “erroneous”, and the results of his activities are not “good” enough. Therefore, the child may respond to the teacher’s demands to try better with a reluctance to study the subject, the child may also have such judgments: “The teacher is evil”, “The school is bad”. In order for the child to adequately assess the results of his activities and calmly put up with criticism, it is important to teach him to separate the result of his activities from himself, his personality. In gaming activity, this is facilitated by the assimilation of the rules of the game and strict adherence to them. An important factor in the readiness of the child for school is the health and general physical condition of the child. It is known that first-graders experience serious stress on all body systems in the first two months of schooling. This is due to the great mental and physical stress experienced by the child, finding himself in a completely new environment for him. Compliance with sleep and rest, of course, should be monitored by parents at this stage especially carefully. If a decrease in visual acuity is suspected, the child should be able to see the blackboard and the teacher clearly. Sufficient exposure to fresh air and replenishment of motor activity after classes also help to alleviate the symptoms of school adaptation: drowsiness, depression, weakness, which some children may experience during the period of getting used to school life. Therefore, based on the foregoing, we can conclude that timely preparation for school is based, firstly, on reaching a psychologically favorable age for entering school and mastering the skills of self-discipline and self-regulation by the child, as well as subject to common efforts on the part of parents and preschool educational institution aimed at creating the right motivation for the child, at strengthening the general physical and psychological state and the formation in children of the necessary "baggage" of knowledge and skills that he will need in school life: - to cultivate love and respect for the small Motherland, for native nature , to domestic traditions and holidays; - creation of favorable conditions for the development of children in accordance with their age and individual characteristics; - combining training and education into an integral educational process based on spiritual, moral and socio-cultural values ​​and rules and norms of behavior accepted in society; - form ideas about good and evil; - to consolidate the ability to act according to the rules of the game, observing role-playing interactions and relationships; Educational area "Cognitive development" - purposefully develop cognitive processes through special didactic games and exercises; - take into account the interests and wishes of the child when planning and conducting educational, entertaining and cultural events; - to form a positive attitude towards the world; - contribute to the improvement of counting and the formation of computational skills; - develop a sense of responsibility for their actions in relation to representatives of wildlife; Educational area "Speech development" - to introduce new words and concepts into the speech of children, using information from the read works of fiction; - expand and activate the dictionary through synonyms and antonyms; - to encourage the desire of children to make phrases and sentences from words; - to promote the development of speech etiquette by the child; - to exercise in high-quality pronunciation of words and help to overcome mistakes when placing stress; Educational area "Artistic and aesthetic development" - to arouse interest in works of art, the objective world and nature; - to develop an idea of ​​the variety of colors and shades, sounds, expressiveness of the word; - to acquaint with works of art - to form in children a careful attitude to works of art.