GRAPHIC TEST
You need five sheets of paper and a pencil. On the first sheet, carefully draw in a row a square, a rhombus, a triangle, a circle and a trapezoid, below - a line from the combined written lower case letters "e", even lower - from "h".
Stage 1: Testing
Ask the child to copy the images to the second sheet of paper, and move away. When the baby is done, check how well he handled it. Errors are the omissions of figures and letters, their reversal, unfolding in the opposite direction, increasing and decreasing the size by more than 1.5 times, the absence of connections between the elements of the images. Disassemble with your son or daughter what was done wrong.
2 stage: training
Give the child a third clean sheet, so that he again fulfilled this task. This time, stay with him and let me consult you. Estimate the number of errors.
Stage 3: Control
On the fourth sheet, draw the same tasks again, but in a different order. First, an ornament from the letter "h", then a triangle, a rhombus, a circle, a trapezoid, a square, and then an ornament from the "e". Suggest that they be copied to the fifth sheet. Exit the room. When it's ready, check how many mistakes this time. Now compare the results of the three tasks. There are four options for your actions, corresponding to the four types of readiness for school.
FOUR TYPES OF READINESS FOR A CHILD TO SCHOOL
School type
The kid easily and accurately coped with the task in the first stage? If he will attend a regular school, the best thing you can do this summer is to have a proper rest and gain new impressions. In order for the little "professor" in school not to be bored, ask the teacher to give him additional tasks or more difficult options, since the materials of the standard program for him are too simple and will not be in the zone of his nearest development. And this is necessary to maintain interest in learning. It is assumed that the subjects will be studied in depth, according to the status of a specialized school? Complicate the task: draw more geometric shapes of unusual configuration, ornaments from written letters can consist of alternating different elements. Did you manage again? Then relax. Having difficulties? Carry out a test in all three phases.
Distinctive features. Sam answers his and other people's questions, likes to read, he likes to play with peers, and in computer games, with pleasure he makes complex crafts, moving away from the sample. He likes getting jobs from adults and performing them faster and more creatively. Such a kid wants to study at school, and he is attracted to the opportunity to learn something new.
What to do?
- Do it with a small sport.
- Try to ensure that he is of good quality, sleep well, and every day in the fresh air for at least two or three hours.
- Accustom your son or daughter to proper posture (legs at right angles to the chair and floor, elbows on the table, very useful for sight and spine pose "in Turkish").
- Take care that the baby does not get into the habit of chewing something unuseful when reading a book.
- Find ways that help your child relax: a bath, a massage or an active discussion of daytime events.
Preschool type
The child made some minor mistakes in the first stage, but coped with the second and third? He is a classic "preschooler", it is for him written school programs, with such as he, trained teachers of ordinary schools. If you have to attend an "unusual" school, then you need to try to reach the level of "schoolchildren".
Distinctive features . He sets a lot of questions and achieves answers to them, likes to play role-playing games (in war, daughter-mothers), especially with the participation of adults, in competitive games with peers. She loves to listen to new interesting books and watch popular science programs, is fond of computer strategies. A little impatient, lacks assiduity. Often argues. He wants to go to school, but sometimes he doubts: is it necessary? He is attracted by the opportunity to make new friends there or to study with the old, a transition to a more adult step.
What to do?
- Encourage the future first class to assemble the designer, puzzles and mosaic strictly according to the instructions. To your umnichke was interesting, pick up such designers, mosaics and puzzles that he can, but not too easy. It is important that he cope on his own. If your help is needed, then let it be minimal. Thus, you kill two birds with one stone: the self-fulfillment of the task is completed, and the skill of the work follows the pattern.
- Let the board games with clear rules become a habit in the family. It can be lotto, story games with a dice and chips ("Monopoly"), dominoes. When the child has mastered this fascinating ritual, entrust him with preparing for the game (lay out cards, arrange chips) and subsequent cleaning (carefully put everything in a box). These skills will be useful later when folding the portfolio.
- Ask the crumb to learn poems. Choose those that you can tell along with him on roles. This will teach the child to make an effort to achieve the goal - to know the rhyme by heart. At the same time he will develop auditory memory. It is most important for mastering information in the first class, when the material is drawn from the words of the teacher, and not from the textbook.
- Accustom the child's thinking to discipline. Remember how Holmes astonished Watson, restoring the past and predicting the future of the first casual passerby in appearance? Practice in the deductive method in the paintings of realistic artists. Help the crumb to draw conclusions with the help of questions: these children have just come to the forest or have long been here? How can this be determined? What are the baskets full of mushrooms talking about?
- Does the son or daughter recognize the rules? Spend a day of disobedience. Stop fulfilling your duties: do not play with the child, do not fulfill the promises made to him, while you are in demand, before serving the long-awaited supper.
Game type
Kroha made a lot of mistakes in the first task, he did better with the second, but for some reason again made a lot of mistakes in the independent third? A charming and compulsive child will at first be a universal favorite, but with the slightest complication of educational material by the middle of the school year, he will begin to experience serious difficulties. The fact is that the crumb is not accustomed to independent thinking and struggles to be "like everyone else".
Distinctive features. Very sensitive to the evaluation of adults, achieves praise and is greatly upset because of the slightest criticism. He is considerate, obedient, loves to help. He likes to collect constructors and mosaics according to the pattern, he plays in well-known games with clear rules, he listens to the same books. The computer and the TV prefer live communication. Usually it's a girl. He dreams about the status of a schoolboy, but does not understand that going to school and studying are different things. More attracted by a new backpack, uniform, notebooks, than the opportunity to gain knowledge and experience of communicating with new people.
What to do?
- Hide the schemes from the designer and samples from the mosaic! Let the kid try to create something of his own. Push for independent work, even if the quality of performance suffers. The child must believe in his right to his own opinion.
- Let him collect puzzles without a picture, selecting elements under the guidance of logic and intuition. You can help a little. You need to make sure that you can achieve an excellent result with your mind, without supporting the instructions.
- Play the game "What would have happened if the sun shone at night, and not during the day? If the children were educators, and adults would go to the kindergarten? This liberates imagination and creative forces, makes you think about the essence of phenomena, awakens interest in the usual things.
- Always answer all the questions of the crumbs. If you do not know, try to build possible versions together. Children's curiosity is similar to a bonfire: the more answers-droveries in it you throw, the more it flares up. And vice versa, questions that remain unanswered quench the thirst for knowledge.
- Is the child used to listening to bedtime stories? Telling or reading a new story, do not finish it, but ask the kid to come up with a sequel. You can justify this by continuing in the next book that you do not have or that you could not hear the story on the radio.
- Offer the child a puzzle. It is important that they are able to do it, as the main reason is to teach to work intellectually on the ultimate goal, and not just stay in the process.
Preschool type
Karapuz refused to perform the task, "flogged" all three stages or the third performed worse than the first? Then, according to the diagnosis of readiness for schooling, we have a very unconventional personality. It has a very developed childhood. On the one hand, it is a good prerequisite for a creative person to grow up from your son or daughter, but on the other hand, it can result in emotional immaturity and infantilism, inability to find oneself in life. At school he will be hard, as he is not ready to perform assignments on patterns and rules, and on one self-expression at school, even with a humanitarian bias, you will not go far. Therefore, if possible, it is better to postpone studies on a scale for a year. If not, it would be good to attract a tutor with experience in teaching in primary school.
Distinctive features. "Does not hear" adults, pretends that he does not care what others think of him. Master without any schemes, in their own way. He does not like to listen to books, he prefers television, and games with friends - computer games. Does only what he likes, but rarely brings to the end. Most often it's a boy. He does not want to go to school. Unless in such, where there will be one changes and only sometimes physical culture and singing.
What to do?
- Play with the kid in role-playing games, where you are the commander, and he is your most heroic soldier or where you are a producer, and he is a rising star. It is important that you are on a higher hierarchical level and the child during the game had to obey you. At the same time, his role should be very honorable and attractive.
- Attach the baby to the painstaking work according to certain rules and necessarily completed to the end. If he himself does not show interest in coloring, mosaics, puzzles, designers, then buy them supposedly to himself and, having made work on three quarters, leave in a conspicuous place. The karapuz will certainly want to finish for you. Just do not force and do not even offer.
- Write each other's encrypted letter-drawings. Gradually from drawings the kid will pass to the generalized symbols of own invention, and there and to interest to writing and to training at school nearby. At the same time, the fine motor skills of the hand will be trained. And, guessing your scribbles, the little one will learn that in order to be understood, it is necessary to make efforts and become clear. And not only you, but him.
- If the child is fond of art or sports, arrange for him master classes. Let each lesson end in a small achievement - a learned song, movement, drawing, craft, which you can be proud of.
- Attach the magnetic alphabet to the fridge and let the little one with his help express his wishes about dessert and snacks.
- Stop criticizing or excessively praising the baby. Try to communicate without enduring ratings. If you are inclined to criticize, then start by stopping scolding ... yourself! Allow me to be imperfect both to myself and to the crumb. If a lot of flattery pours on his head, then your own need for compliments is not satisfied. Notify the spouse and the cup when you are appreciated.
- Train the preschooler's attention with a special square. Cut a square with a side of 25 cm from the sheet of Whatman. Draw it into 25 sectors, and in each of them add numbers from 1 to 25 in a chaotic order. Let the little one find them all in turn. In order not to be addictive, you need to make several posters with numbers, placed in different ways. You can invite the crest himself to enter the numbers. By the way, if you attach the table so that its center is at a distance of 30-35 cm from the child's eyes, then the angle of its peripheral vision will expand. In the future, this will help increase the speed of reading.
- Conduct a tour of the school and give the child an opportunity to talk with teachers and students. Do not intimidate the educational institution in any way: they say, they will make a man out of you! About the school you need to speak only positively!
- It will be simply great if immediately after diagnosing the readiness of preschool children for schooling, you will be able to acquaint and make friends with your son or daughter with future classmates. Ask your teacher for parents' phone numbers, call them and invite them to go out together to the nature or go to the park with attractions. Invite the guys to your house, walk with them in the courtyard. And your fidget will wait for the first of September with impatience!