How to teach a child months and seasons

Children grow fast, and they are very interested in the world around them. They ask adults a lot of questions about everything they see or what they hear. "What is it? What for? Where does it come from? ", Etc. Some of these questions may not be immediately answered by the parents. Many questions for children arise after a word flashes in the parents' conversation. Often children ask questions about the seasons, for example, what does the word "November or April?" Mean. How to explain to the child what seasons are and what are the months?

There are several rules for training a child for months.

1. In order for the child to understand the information that his parents are presenting to him, one must begin to teach him to distinguish a month not earlier than four years of age. Before the eyes of the child, the seasons have changed several times, and he consciously understands what is warm, cold or rainy weather. Training is best done with pictures that depict the weather and activities corresponding to each season of the year. For example, September should be associated with the first yellow leaves, as well as with smart children who go to school. It is important to associate every month with some memorable date. For example, December and January can be associated with the New Year holidays. Of course, we should not forget about birthdays, especially the birthday of the child. It is worth remembering that the pictures should be interesting, so that the child becomes interested.
2. Currently, there are many developmental books on various topics, including the seasons. In addition, in such books there are special fun tasks that the kid will happily perform.
3. For greater clarity, the child can show a scene corresponding to a certain time of the year, and there are all kinds of puzzles, the guess of which are the names of the months. You can orient the child on clothes, for example, in winter, you need to wear a fur coat, boots and warm mittens, and in summer everyone walks in light clothes. You can draw a picture of a man in a certain clothing, and the kid names the time of the year when it is worn. You can draw pictures together.
4. You can learn the seasons with the help of poems. As already mentioned above, there are many books that tell about the seasons. One of them is called "365 fairy tales for the night". In this book there are poems about the seasons, and fairy tales, and besides, all this is accompanied by interesting pictures depicting the seasons. There are also interesting books on this subject. The most important thing in the process of teaching a small child is that he was interested in what the adults tell about.
5. In order to interest the child, there are many games that help to study the seasons. For example, "Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn". The child studies the seasons in a game form, which is the most understandable for him. This game helps the child learn poetry and much more.
6. The child as a sponge absorbs the information received. For young children, everything is interesting. In order to quickly teach the child the seasons, you need to conduct this training in an accessible and understandable form for him. Kids love the attention of adults very much and listen to them with pleasure and remember the information they received.

Teaching the kid the seasons

Differences in the times of the year are capable of perceiving from the age of three. They already several times saw the winter, spring, summer and autumn.

It is very important for the child to understand what kind of weather corresponds to each season of the year. It is important to explain in what clothes people go to different seasons and much more. And also how they replace each other.

We must start with the fact that there are only four seasons in nature, then we need to list them in order. It is important to tell the child about each of them, mention the weather, clothes that correspond to each season of the year, animals and birds. The main thing is that the story is interesting and understandable for the child.

It is best to start the story of the winter. In winter there are so many interesting and memorable. Starting from the New Year holidays, round dances, elegant Christmas trees, gifts, as well as winter gaming games and ending with white snow, which is covered all around. In general, to teach the seasons follows the memorable dates and bright holidays. For example, the beginning of spring is associated with the International Women's Day, flaunts from the Children's Day, and autumn from the harvest.

In order for the story to turn out to be interesting, you need to show the child various pictures, for example, a picture of animals. How do they behave when changing the seasons. In addition, you can use pictures that show how people are dressed, or how they get dressed, and at the same time ask when it happens.

You can read and teach poetry, as well as guessing puzzles. We must try to choose those of them in which the seasons are associated with some images, for example, spring is a young beautiful girl, and winter is an old woman, etc.

Currently, you can find a lot of illustrated books, many of the tales mention the time of year, and the pictures the child must understand what is at stake. In addition, it is necessary to study the seasons for a walk. For example, spring has come, then melted snow is the middle of spring, and then late spring, when the first flowers are all green and bloom. Thus, the baby is prepared to distinguish between the time of the year and the month.

First you need to clearly teach the child to recognize the seasons and when he can do it himself and then, you can proceed to the next stage of training and already talk about the months.

Study of the months at the age of 4,5-5 years

The child should explain that it is suitable for four seasons, but inside each of them there are divisions. Each season is divided by months. Since every season there is a series of changes, they can not be called one word in this case, help comes a month. For example, two people say that they like spring, but one of them is happy with the beginning of spring, when the snow has not melted yet, but the sunshine begins to heat more, and the other likes the end of spring - when the trees cover the leaves, grass appears on the lawns and the first flowers blossom.

How to make the game "Seasons"

To make a game you need: a box with cells from chocolates, caps from bottles - by the number of months - 12, A4 sheet, set of color pencils, scotch tape, scissors, glue, cardboard.

• It is necessary to cut a circle from cells with the help of scissors, so that there are 12 of them, then tape them into a ring.
• Sheet A4 is divided into 4 parts diagonally, it is necessary that the kid himself draws pictures on each part of the sheet, which in his opinion correspond to each time of year.
• From the cardboard you need to cut 12 circles and write each month's name, in order for the names to look colorful, you need pencils. Then you need to glue each circle to the lid, and here are the chips for the game.
• So, you need to take a box of sweets, put a sheet of drawings in it, put up the cells, into which we place the chips. And you can start the game.

You can take out all the chips, and then make the name of the month and ask the kid to put the chip in the cell, which, in his opinion, corresponds to this time of year. In this case, the game must be commented on.

It is important to correctly teach the child the time of the year. And then the concept of time. With the help of the game it's pretty simple. The kid very quickly perceives the information, which is presented to him in the form of a vigor.