Pre School Educational Games that helping your child to enhance listening and reading skills, as well as teaching them various mathematical and analytical concepts.
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| The children of age group 2 years to 5 years are believed to be in egocentric (not get- on easily with others) psychological developmental stage. Due to this reason the PreSchool child does not get friendly with others easily. They play alone and take time to get sociable with others in the same class. Therefore the teacher must observe the child’s attitudes towards the other children and their behavior at the PreSchool before grouping them for games. If they express same interest the teacher should develop one group with such children. These equal interests or ability groups are called homogeneous groups. The games should be connected to the learning process. Subjects such as language, mathematics, religion or moral education and aesthetic education should be connected with games. Almost every learning process should be presented through games or activities to PreSchool children in order to keep their interest at bay. When concentrating on language skills, the most important skill to be developed, but which usually receives the least attention is listening skills. If a child learns to listen attentively he can pay good attention to educational content in his upper classes. If the child does not get proper training for listening during the PreSchool stage, he/she will become a half-hearted listener in later years. These listening games could concentrate on listening to the sounds in the environment and imitating or identifying them. Therefore concentrating on a few such games as examples would be useful. As the next level you can concentrate on games to identify the same sound. For example, you can use three types of seeds of same weight in six identical, sealed tins. Each kind (seeds) should be in two tins and the child can be asked to identify the two equal sounds (same kind seeds) from the six tins. As another listening exercise/game, you can use tumblers filled with different levels of water as a musical instrument, by tapping on them with a pencil. This game could be used to enhance listening skills. Development of speech skills could be done through dramas and story telling. The teacher must always have many children around her to do speech games. Games such as ‘What’s the time Mr. Wolf’ are also very appealing to children, as although they do not know to read the time, they do know how to count up to 12. Similarly, picture descriptions or building stories by looking at cartoon pictures is also an educative game to play. The very beginning of reading is ‘left to right orientation’. This could be done by using a moving butterfly model towards a flower and getting the child to read out its direction of movement, i.e. from left side to right side. Improving of writing skills could be done through drawing and crafts. The finger dexterity is important before learning to write. Therefore the child should be given games such as making sand castles, making motifs using clay and finger games such as ‘Where is thumb man’. Mathematical concepts should be introduced during the PreSchool age. There are 10 Mathematical concepts to be developed during the PreSchool age. Activities such as sorting different kinds of leaves in a heap of different shaped / colored leaves, identifying the primary shapes through blocks and adopting that knowledge to the objects in the environment are useful in this process. E.g.: circular thing – moon, sun, saucer, plate; square thing -boxes, lids of square tins, books. To teach other concepts such as different sizes can be done through the story (acting) of ‘Three Bears’ and one to one correspondence via role play such as the Post-Man. Hence almost every activity in the PreSchool should be presented through games or other activities such as role play, drama, action songs and eurhythmic movement. These games could be inside or outside (garden) the building. Unlike students at formal schools, pre school children get the opportunity to develop main skills through assimilation-via building mental pictures; and accommodation, i.e. changing and adjusting their mental structure according to the new experiences. Thus the games in PreSchool age are very important to a child’s development. |
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