Will she go to school with pleasure or with a scandal? How will his relations with teachers and peers develop? And in general, how should the children be ready for the first class? A lot of questions about the regime of the day, relations in school, nutrition ...
What should children be able to do when they go to first grade? With this question parents turn to teachers, and to kindergarten teachers, and even to "experienced parents". To date, there are a lot of tests to determine the readiness of the preschooler to the first class. The child should be prepared intellectually, socially and emotionally.
Intellectual readiness shows the level of knowledge of the preschool child about the surrounding world, about the phenomena of nature, the ability to build cause-effect relationships, the ability to make logical conclusions. And also the skill to group objects into groups according to certain characteristics. You can conduct a test for future first-graders for memory and fine motor skills. For example: when drawing a complex drawing, the child should properly hold a pencil, draw clear lines and make exact connections. By checking the memory, a short story is read out, which the child should retell close to the text. And also show several cards with the image of objects. All is well, if half or all of the items shown were named. In addition, the child must know the alphabet and be able to count to one hundred. But the ability to read from future first-graders is not checked.
Of course, if a child goes to a new type of educational institution, such as a collegium, a gymnasium or a lyceum, he will have to pass a more serious test of knowledge. You can get into such an educational institution only on a competitive basis, based on the result of the interview.
At the interview, there is one of the parents, as well as a commission consisting of a junior class teacher, a medical worker and a psychologist who determine how the child should be ready for the first class. They test the ability of a child to read, write, count, the level of foreign language proficiency, as well as look at how auditory and visual memory is developed, whether the child is attentive, whether he can concentrate on one thing and so on. After the conversation, it is concluded whether the child has the makings for learning in such an institution and whether he is ready for the loads, which includes the program of the educational institution.
Emotionally the child is ready for school, when he is able to perform a job that is not always interesting to him, when he can weaken his impulsive reactions. Social readiness is visible when the child is able to communicate with peers, is able to listen and fulfill the requirements of the teacher, can correct his behavior, adapting himself to the laws of the children's group.
Of course, a small person, stepping on the path of a great life, should be independent. This is the quality that develops in the child long before entering the school. Independently eat, dress, button up shoes, collect school supplies in a portfolio, the child must. If returning from school, the first-grader will have lunch alone, then it is advisable to teach him to use household appliances so that he can warm himself up or cook simple food.
Do not forget about the safety of your child. He must know his surname, first name and patronymic, to know the name of his parents, where and by whom they work, should be able to contact them by phone at any time. Know the route to school, the number of transport, if you have to get to school yourself. It is especially important to know the rules of safety - never to talk and do not go anywhere with strangers, go around the open sewer hatches side and stuff.
In addition, before sending a child to the first grade, you need to show it to the doctors. The child must have a vaccination card, which includes mandatory vaccinations against measles, rubella, diphtheria, hepatitis, tetanus, mumps and poliomyelitis. It is necessary to undergo examination from narrow specialists: ENT, neurologist, oculist, dentist and speech therapist. Based on the results of the examination, the therapist makes a conclusion and issues a certificate of the level of physical development of the future first-grader. The latest innovation for the examination of first-graders is the passage of Ruthier's test, which allows you to evaluate the work of the heart during exercise. It consists in the following, within 15 seconds the pulse is measured, after the child has been quiet for 5 minutes. Then, for one minute, the subject should do 30 sit-ups, the pulse is measured during the first and last 15 seconds of the exercise. Next, a special formula calculates the cardiac activity index (PSD), which allows you to determine the physical group of the child, as well as the allowable load in physical education classes.
In addition to children, parents must be ready for the first class. It is important to realize that the child is changing, acquiring new interests, getting to know new people whose opinion is important to him. It is not necessary to exaggerate the demands of either the teacher or the future student. Parents should explain to the child that the teacher is an authority that is respected. After all, only when parents and teachers work with the child in the same direction, they fix the knowledge received in the school, we can talk about the quality of the education of children.
Wishing to help the future first-grader to adapt to new conditions, parents often resort to various preparatory courses, schools, clubs, use the services of tutors, record the child in all possible circles. Sometimes the load is unreasonable for children, they are ready to hate training, not yet becoming schoolchildren. And sometimes the child comes to the first class after preparatory activities and his knowledge exceeds the level of knowledge of other students. This leads to the fact that he is forced to pass material that he already knows, he becomes bored and not interested in school. The old good "rule of the golden mean" will help to determine the parents the advisability of preschool preparation of their children. After all, the main thing is that in order to attend lessons at school, the child received new positive emotions and new friends in addition to new knowledge.