Child Development Cards: It's never too early to start learning. Educational cards for activities with children at home and in the kindergarten

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

It's never too late and never too early to learn, all parents should remember this. In this article, we will talk about how you can start developing a baby from the earliest years and even months of his life. It will be about what it is and why there are cards for the development of the child.

When to start?

So, first you should decide on the time frame when you can start developing your baby. Some mothers will be surprised, but this can be done already from the first months of a child’s life, when the baby’s vision more or less returns to normal and the child can already concentrate a little and hold his gaze on one subject. A baby can start learning with the help of cards from the age of four months, but it is best to do this from six months, when the baby can already sit and with great pleasure perceives communication with the outside world.

First cards

What should be the first cards for the development of the child? There are a few simple rules here. First - all drawings for the smallest children should be one-color, as possible.more simple. For example, it will be just a red tomato or a green leaf. You should not buy drawings for the baby, for example, with professions or other complex pictures, all the same, the baby will not yet be able to comprehend them. It is also important that the background is just white, so the child will perceive the drawing better. You don’t need to expect from the crumbs that after a couple of dozen lessons he will independently show where the green cube lies and where the yellow ball is. This will happen after about a year, or even a year and a half. However, it is not worth giving up classes or leaving them “for later”, he remembers everything that the little ones see and hear. There will definitely be some sense from such exercises.

Learn more

When the baby is already a little older, you can begin to complicate your activities. Now the cards for the development of the child can be more complex. Drawings may consist of several colors, a colored background may already appear. You can also introduce several blocks of cards with different directions into training. So, today we repeat the cards "Household items", and tomorrow - "Fruits and vegetables". Mixing the same topics is not recommended for easier perception and setting the baby in the right way.

Letters and numbers

After the baby is one and a half years old, you can start learning letters and numbers with him. For this, cards for the development of a child with the necessary symbols written on them are suitable. However, it should be said that, contrary to previously relevant methods, today scientists say that it is easier for a baby to learn letters not just on their own,but in words. For example, today we are studying the word "mother", where there are two letters - "a" and "m". When the letters are repeated in words, they must, again, be spoken again in order to better learn. Such cards can also be purchased at the store, but you can also make your own. So, for example, starting to learn a word, you can draw it with your child or write it on a piece of paper, thus making your own cards for further learning.

Doman Cards

Today, developing Doman cards are very popular, which can be purchased at any children's store. In the first half of the last century, an American neurophysiologist made an amazing discovery at that time, informing the public that a baby can learn various knowledge from completely diverse areas even at a very young age. It is never too early to do this, because the child's brain is still, as they say, "tabula rasa" - completely clean and ready to absorb everything that is provided to it. Glen Doman has developed a technique that immediately affects the hearing and vision of the crumbs. He recommends teaching kids with the help of various thematic cards, with which you can gain knowledge from various fields of science. They can teach to read, count, understand the world and its objects.

Rules for Doman cards

However, Doman put forward strict rules for his teaching material. His educational cards for children had to be printed on thin cardboard, their ideal size should be A4 (however, todaythis rule is not the main thing, there are much smaller cards). The text on the cards should be printed clearly, in large letters, always using red ink (this is necessary so that the color attracts the baby, helping him remember what he saw and wrote). If the card shows one thing, and not a composition or a bulky drawing, the background must be white, so that it is easier for the baby to concentrate on the main thing. Doman also has rules for images. These can only be realistic drawings. Various cartoon options are not suitable. It looks more like a photograph than a drawing. This is necessary so that the baby is not confused in what he sees, understanding that in the picture there is something that he will see without problems in real life.

The essence of the lesson

However, parents should know that it is necessary to correctly use cards for developing activities. Here you need to remember that the main goal of the lesson is to look at the pictures. Therefore, there is nothing to worry about if the baby wants to take a card and examine it better, you should not forbid doing this. However, the lesson itself must take place in accordance with several rules. So, first, about 10 seconds are allotted for each card, this is enough for the baby. Then one card is placed and the second is shown. The parent can simply read what is written there, i.e., give an explanation to the drawing, or you can complicate the task somewhat. For example, to give more precise information about what is drawn there: where the giventhe subject, why it is needed, etc. However, it should be remembered that all knowledge should be as encyclopedic as possible, you do not need to voice your conjectures or fantasies to the crumbs, he will remember all this and once reproduce. You can also learn foreign languages with the help of these cards, simply marking the picture, for example, in English. It must also be said that it is better not to mix developing cards, but to leave them in their thematic categories. In one lesson, you need to show no more than one block of cards, or even less. Two or three small classes can be held per day, however, again, from the same thematic category.

General rules

It must be said that children's educational cards can be used not only at home. You can teach kids according to this manual in various developmental classes, in kindergartens, etc. However, it is important to remember that the enemies of any training are boredom, fatigue and lack of interest. If the teacher (it will be a mother or a teacher) sees that the baby is not interested, it is better to postpone the lesson until a better time. It is also necessary to pay attention to the wishes of the baby: if he wants to work out longer, do not blame him for this, so be it, do not be afraid to break the prescribed rules. However, it is also necessary to have a sense of proportion, you should not force the baby to do what he doesn’t want now, all the same, there will be disastrously little sense from such an activity.

About the pros

Although todayMost parents are rather skeptical about this teaching method, it has already gained its popularity not only in Europe, but also in the vastness of our Motherland. With the help of cards, the baby remembers everything he saw and said - he trains his memory, learns abstract thinking and the ratio of objects, trains his eyesight and hearing. Such early training will definitely make the baby speak much earlier than it can happen. And, of course, this is another way to spend time with the baby and communicate more closely with him.