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40 Easy And Fun Hands-On Shape Activities For Preschoolers

One of the first math concepts that preschoolers learn is identifying shapes. They begin to distinguish among the different shapes and categorize items according to shape. They learn the names of shapes and their characteristics. They find shapes in everyday items. This collection of shape activities for preschoolers can lead preschoolers to explore shapes in all kinds of ways.

Shapes Activities for Preschoolers

These activities will help your preschoolers learn their shapes. These shape activities for toddlers, will work in your preschool classroom and your kindergarten classroom.

1. Road Shapes with Cars (Pre-K Pages) – 22 printable road shape mats to help your litte learners identify shapes.

2. Making Shapes with Play Dough (Pre-K Pages) – A fun, hands-on playful learning experience that uses play dough to teach shapes!

3. Pattern Block Shapes (Pre-K Pages) – Pattern blocks can actually help your little learners build a strong foundation for learning geometry later.

4. Making Shapes with Geoboards (Pre-K Pages) – If you haven’t tried geoboard activities in your classroom yet, your kids are going to love them!

5. Create a Shapes Photo Book (Pre-K Pages) – To introduce shape concepts to my son, I grabbed the book So Many Circles, So Many Squares from our library as the anchor to our learning ship. Using this book, we went on a shape scavenger hunt and made a fun shape keepsake.

6. Perfect Square Shapes Art (Pre-K Pages) – This Perfect Square art activity is so easy to set up and totally open-ended. It goes perfectly with the book and would be an excellent addition to a shapes unit.

7. Building Shapes with Craft Sticks (Pre-K Pages) – Pair this activity with the book Shapes, Shapes, Shapes by Tana Hoban and you’ve got the perfect low-prep shapes lesson!

8. Teaching 3D Shapes (Pre-K Pages) – Here are some of my favorite ideas for teaching 3D shapes to young children in pre-k or kindergarten. I also wrote some very simple 3D shape songs for you that incorporate hands on learning; keep reading to download the 3D shapes printable song charts.

9. Nature Shape Scavenger Hunt (Pre-K Pages) – A Star in My Orange is a great way to reinforce shape recognition with your preschoolers. They will also immediately want to run outside for their very own shapes scavenger hunt in nature!

10. The Shape of Things Chalk Drawings (Pre-K Pages) – Shapes are found, identified, and drawn in all preschool classrooms! Discovering just how often circles, squares, and triangles occur in our everyday life make them relevant to children.

11. Shape Wands (Pre-K Pages) – Make some shape wands and turn your home or classroom into the perfect place for kids to learn and identify shapes.

12. Shape Exploration (Pre-K Pages) – After reading the wonderful book Mouse Shapes by Ellen Walsh, I thought it would be fun to make a mouse that could be used in a shape game. The mice in the book explore shapes so, why shouldn’t we?

13. Make a Tortilla Shape Snack (Pre-K Pages) – We have the perfect recipe for exploring a math concept. Read aloud one great children’s book. Make a healthy and yummy treat. Combine the two together and you have a lesson on shapes.

14. Shapes Word Chart (Pre-K Pages) – This word chart focused on shapes but you can make a word chart for any topic.

15. “I Have Who Has” Shapes Game (Prekinders) – You may have seen the “I Have, Who Has” card games circulating the internet a lot lately, so this is a fun twist for Pre-K to teach shapes.

16. Games and Activities for Teaching Shapes (Prekinders) – Here are a fun few ways to teaching shapes, like shape bingo and a memory game.

17. Tracing Shapes on the Flannel Board (Teach Preschool) – A wonderful way to introduce letters and shapes while building pre-writing skills!

18. Hunting for Shapes (Teach Preschool) -Explore shapes with a fun and interactive game!

19. Exploring Shapes with Blocks on a Table Top (Teach Preschool) –  A simple and engaging exploration of shapes and colors!

20. Learning Shapes by Rolling a Ball (Hands On As We Grow) – Try a fun hands on activity for toddlers for a creative twist to learn shapes!

21. Finding Shapes at the Playground (Buggy and Buddy)- Just print out the free shape hunt printable and go searching for shapes at the playground with this fun geometry activity for children!

22. Geometric Shapes Math Activity (Little Bins for Little Hands) – This simple geometric shapes activity for kids is easy to do at home or as a math center in school. It also makes a terrific STEAM project including a bit of art and design too.

23. Gruffalo Themed Shape Animals (Educators’ Spin on It) – Exploring shapes with young children can be such fun when you involve a few animal friends from The Gruffalo.

Shapes Activities for Preschoolers

24. Feed the Shape Monster Game (Imagination Tree) – Make a fun activity for preschoolers and school aged kids with this feed the hungry shape monsters sorting game!

25. Sticky Shape Bugs Activity (Mom Inspired Life) –   This was a great way to develop fine motor skills and critical thinking skills while learning about shapes.

26. Learning Shapes with Spaghetti Noodles (Teaching Mama) – Looking for a fun way to teach shapes? Well here’s a very fun way using spaghetti noodles! This hands-on activity also is a great sensory activity.

27. Matching Shapes to Outlines (Busy Toddler) – Create this fun easy DIY shape mat to practice shapes with your preschoolers.

28. Chalk Shapes Jumping Game (Craftulate) – All you need for this shape activity is some sidewalk chalk!

29. Open and Closed Polygons Game (JDaniel4’s Mom) Grab some LEGOs and have fun with these polygon games, like hockey!

30. Shape Sensory Squish Bag (Still Playing School) –  Create this sensory squish bag with triangles, circles, and squares. It’s irresistible to touch and talk about in the window or on the table. It’s super easy to make, too!

31. DIY Shape Puzzles (Munchkins and Moms) – If you have some Jenga blocks and markers, then this easy DIY shape puzzle will be a fun engaging activity for your preschoolers.

32. Stamping Shapes in Kinetic Sand (Still Playing School) – Stamping shapes into kinetic sand is a great opportunity to work on shape identification, count the sides and corners, and compare and contrast the shapes.

33. Making Trucks from Shapes (Powerful Mothering) – Using your wooden blocks to draw and create trucks!

34. DIY Waldorf Square (Rhythms of Play) – An easy DIY toy for kids made with wooden blocks and liquid watercolor paints.

35. Magazine Shape Hunt and Sort (Mom Inspired Life) – This magazine shape hunt is jam-packed with learning! Kids will learn shapes while they practice cutting, gluing and sorting. It’s also an awesome way to work on critical thinking and observation skills.

36. Building Rockets with Shapes (Stir the Wonder) – Building rockets with shapes is a fun way to review shapes and colors with toddlers and preschoolers!

37. Build on Shape Outlines (Brick by Brick) – Use wooden blocks in a new fun way and work on shapes at the same time!

38. Shapes in Our Neighborhood Book (Munchkins and Moms) – Go for a walk and look for shapes in the neighborhood and then create a photo book after!

39. Sorting Shapes in the Sensory Bin (Learning 4 Kids) – Your preschoolers will practice their shapes and fine motor skills while having fun with this shape sensory bin.

40. I Spy Shape Hunt (Munchkins and Moms) – Create these fun easy spy glasses and go on a shape hunt!

Follow my Shapes Pinterest Board for more great ideas!

2D Shape Activities for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten

Learning about 2D shapes is a must for every early childhood classroom.  I’m here to share with you my favorite, go-to 2D shapes activities!  Some teachers  may do a shapes theme or unit (like me), some may do a shape of the week, and some sprinkle in shape activities all year long.  These activities will work for all types of classrooms and teaching styles!  Grab your lesson plan binder, and let’s get started!  Want all shape printables now?  You can find them in my Shapes Unit on TPT HERE.

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Shape Manipulatives

When setting up a shape activity, the first thing I do is go into my supply closet and pull out all my shape games, manipulatives, and puzzles.  Pattern blocks, shape cookies, and shape magnet blocks are distributed into various classroom centers.  Students need to be playing, manipulating and creating with shapes all over the classroom, not just in the math center!

I love this 2D & 3D shape building set!  It’s a ton of fun and comes with shape cards.

Toothpick Shapes

Toothpick Shapes are a fun and interactive way to learn shapes!  Students can make shapes with toothpicks and play dough or marshmallows.  When teaching your little learners about shapes, it’s important to teach about the sides and vertices too.  Use those big vocabulary words!  Feel, touch and count the number of sides and vertices  a shape has.  Don’t forget that a circle doesn’t have any sides or vertices!

In the Discovery Center:  Learning about math and science

In the discovery center, I set up a shapes exploration table.   The wall has shape posters with real photographs, the back of the table is lined with shape building cards and manipulatives and translucent shapes.  There is a sorting board with shape flashcards on top.  It’s just a poster board I made with tape.  Super simple!  The basket is filled with real objects and shape cards students can sort.  This exploration table gives students the opportunity to talk about, touch, feel, build, and manipulate shapes with a peer or independently.

Shape Building Blocks Cards!  This is a close up of the building block shape cards.  Students use the blocks to create the shape on the card. After the shape theme is over, put the shape building cards in with your manipulatives or STEM drawers!

Geoboard shape cards!  I put these shape geoboard cards in my geoboard basket.  Students can make the shapes with loom bands on the geoboard. To introduce this activity, I put it out for table time as an arrival activity.  It’s also great to build those little fine motor muscles too!

Shape cover up!  Cover up is a fun game to practice matching shape!  Students spin the spinner and cover the matching shape.   I love these translucent spinners for my math games.  This game is in my Shapes pack.  It comes in four different levels.

Shapes graph it! This is another fun shapes game that my students love.  It’s also a great opportunity to talk about more, less and equal to.  Try using magnet bingo chips to cover the graph then using a magnet wand at the end to make the game even more exciting.

In the Sensory Table

This shape sensory table is filled with shaped manipulatives and a few cupcake pans for sorting.  It has foam shape beads, shape chains and translucent shapes.  Perfect for sorting, lacing, and linking together.  And you guessed it, it’s great for their fine motor, too!

Transition Activity

Shape sort!  Transition activities are the perfect time to do a quick assessment or learning check.  We have snack after music and movement time.  I always plan a transition activity for that time for several reasons. The first is so the whole class isn’t lined up at the same time to wash their hands, which is just asking for crazy behaviors to occur.   The second is because it’s another time I can squeeze in more learning!  What I do is call on a student and give them a card to sort.  It’s a quick and easy way for me to check and see if they know or don’t know a shape.

In the Library Center

Sand writing trays with shape flashcards!  Students can write and draw shapes in the sand.  This tray is from a lacing set but you can use any small tray you have.  I know some teachers use foil pie plates or kid plastic divided dinner plates for writing trays.

Shape mini books!  After we make a shape mini books together during small group or table time, I put them in the center.  They LOVE making them! Staplers scare me a bit with my little learners so I put in this stapleless stapler! It’s amazing!

 Shapes emergent reader!  For a small group activity, students create their own shape emergent reader.  After they are complete and we have read them a few times together, they are put in the library center for students to read.

In the Art Center

My students LOVE play dough trays so I try to make one for each theme we do. In this activity, they create play dough shape monsters.  Students use the shape cookie cutters to create the body.  Then add arms, legs, eyes and hair using cut up pipe cleaners, small popsicle sticks, toothpicks, and googly eyes.  The tray is from the Dollar Tree.

Play dough shape mats!  Students can create play dough shapes on these shape mats.  They can make the shape by rolling play dough snakes or by molding the dough.

Shape Prints!   It’s great fine motor and makes beautiful pieces of art for your classroom. We cut up paper towel tubes for this circle printing project.

We printed with wooden shape blocks too!

Shape collages! It’s important to provide activities for students to create new items using shapes.  In fact, it’s a learning objective/standard in many states.  Students need to be able to manipulate shapes to create new shapes, objects or pictures.   Shape collages are the perfect activity to address this learning objective.

Single shape collages!  You can also have students create shape collages using just one kind of shape.  One year my students were struggling with triangles so we created triangle shape collages.  Students were finding triangle shapes, talking about triangles (how they are alike and different), and making pictures with triangles!

Dramatic Play

You can change the dramatic play center to so many different things for a shape theme but my favorite thing to do is a Pizza Restaurant. There are shapes all over a pizza restaurant. The pizzas can be different shapes and the slices too! Then the toppings are so many different shapes too. You should totally try it!

Make learning about shapes FUN by providing your students with hands-on learning experiences and play!  Want all the 2D Shape printables in this post?  Click HERE to grab my 2D Shapes unit from my TPT store.  It’s packed with over 200 pages of shape building cards (legos, geoboards, popsicle sticks, toothpicks, play dough), posters, sorting mats, worksheets, games & MORE.

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Consultation for teachers on the topic: "Formation in children of senior preschool age of readiness for joint activities with peers in a preschool educational organization" | Consultation (senior group):

Published on 08/30/2020 - 02:17 PM - Galina Veniaminovna Tretyakova

the subject of relations with oneself, other children, adults and the world. Modern domestic pedagogy is actively building its new human-oriented paradigm. The personality of the child with its inherent originality of character and behavior is placed at the center of the modern educational process. The question of upbringing is not only a question of the means and methods of upbringing, but also a question of moral values, norms and rules that a person has perceived and which is guided in communicating with people. At the same time, there are negative trends in the system of preschool education: excessive focus on the intellectual development of the child, technologization of modern life, which lead to underdevelopment of the emotional and communicative spheres, and as a result of this, the formation of an inadequate attitude towards peers. Therefore, one of the main tasks in senior preschool age should be the formation of readiness for joint activities with peers. The priority of universal human values, the humanistic principle underlying the modern educational process, requires the development of such a type of human relations as joint activities, co-creation, partnership, the ability to work in a team, which contribute to the formation of a person who freely expresses himself in the social and spiritual spheres.

To form readiness for joint activities with peers, such forms as exercises for joint interaction (in pairs, triplets, small groups), individual exercises, role-playing games, discussion and playing out problem situations can be used. Such methodological methods of forming readiness for joint activities are used, such as: demonstrating "positive" and "negative" ways of interacting with a game character, another adult, a child and their subsequent discussion, switching the child's attention from an adult to a peer, creating a situation of lack of material, creating situations of choice: tasks, method of execution, material, partner, development of rules for interaction and fixing them with the help of symbols.

The program for the formation of readiness of children of senior preschool age for joint activities with peers in a preschool educational organization. Based on the results of primary diagnostics, we have developed a program for the formation of readiness for joint activities of older preschool children with their peers in a preschool educational organization. The purpose of the program: to increase the level of formation of the readiness of older preschoolers for joint activities with their peers. Program objectives: 1. Development of interest in each other and interaction with peers as a manifestation of the natural need for joint activities. 2. Formation among preschoolers of generalized ideas about the structure of joint activities and the development of a single "group language" that determines the interaction of partners in the process of jointly solving educational and cognitive problems. 3. Practical development of the basic methods of joint activities. 4. Development of the ability of older preschoolers to independently select a model of joint activity to solve an educational problem. This program is designed for children of senior preschool age (5-7 years). The program includes 10 lessons. The recommended duration of classes is 25 minutes once a week. Classes are held 48 in subgroups of up to 6 people. Class protocols are presented in Appendices 2-11. The program implementation period is from January 2017 to March 2017. Table 4 The program for the formation of the readiness of older preschool children for joint activities with peers No. Name of the GCD Purpose of the GCD Time of the GCD Terms 1. Problem situations of staging with "talking dolls" Formation of basic ideas about the structure of joint activities 25-30 minutes 3rd week of January 2. Joint activity on the application "Children's World" To form practical skills of joint activity 25-30 minutes 4th week of January 3. Didactic game "Ladder" Recognize the need to control and coordinate each other's actions in the process of activity. 25-30 minutes 1st week of February 4. Modeling lesson “Confectionery shop” To form practical skills for joint activities 25-30 minutes 2nd week of February 5. Story from the picture “Bump to bump” Mastering speech structures for joint activities 25 -30 minutes 3rd week of February 6. Lesson on manual labor "Furniture factory" To form practical skills of joint activity 25-30 minutes 4th week of February 7. Lesson on manual labor "Repair of books" To form practical skills of joint activity 25-30 minutes 1st week of March 8. Compilation of a story based on the fairy tale "Cockerel - Golden Comb" Master basic communication skills for joint activities 25-30 minutes 2nd week of March 9. Collective panel "In the sky, on earth and at sea" To form practical skills of joint activity 25-30 minutes 3rd week of March 10. Collective work "Spring clearing" To form practical skills of joint activity 25-30 minutes 4th week of March 49

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Formation of readiness in children of senior preschool age

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in a preschool educational organization

In the Federal State Educational Standard for Preschool Education, one of the tasks is to form readiness for joint activities with peers, develop the abilities and creative potential of each child as a subject of relationships with himself, other children, adults and the world. Modern domestic pedagogy is actively building its new human-oriented paradigm. The personality of the child with its inherent originality of character and behavior is placed at the center of the modern educational process. The question of upbringing is not only a question of the means and methods of upbringing, but also a question of moral values, norms and rules that a person has perceived and which is guided in communicating with people. At the same time, there are negative trends in the system of preschool education: excessive focus on the intellectual development of the child, technologization of modern life, which lead to underdevelopment of the emotional and communicative spheres, and as a result of this, the formation of an inadequate attitude towards peers. Therefore, one of the main tasks in senior preschool age should be the formation of readiness for joint activities with peers. The priority of universal human values, the humanistic principle underlying the modern educational process, requires the development of such a type of human relations as joint activities, co-creation, partnership, the ability to work in a team, which contribute to the formation of a person who freely expresses himself in the social and spiritual spheres.

To form readiness for joint activities with peers, such forms as exercises for joint interaction (in pairs, triplets, small groups), individual exercises, role-playing games, discussion and playing out problem situations can be used. Such methodological methods of forming readiness for joint activities are used, such as: demonstrating "positive" and "negative" ways of interacting with a game character, another adult, a child and their subsequent discussion, switching the child's attention from an adult to a peer, creating a situation of lack of material, creating situations of choice: tasks, method of execution, material, partner, development of rules for interaction and fixing them with the help of symbols.

The program for the formation of readiness of children of senior preschool age for joint activities with peers in a preschool educational organization. Based on the results of primary diagnostics, we have developed a program for the formation of readiness for joint activities of older preschool children with their peers in a preschool educational organization. The purpose of the program: to increase the level of formation of the readiness of older preschoolers for joint activities with their peers. Program objectives: 1. Development of interest in each other and interaction with peers as a manifestation of the natural need for joint activities. 2. Formation among preschoolers of generalized ideas about the structure of joint activities and the development of a single "group language" that determines the interaction of partners in the process of jointly solving educational and cognitive problems. 3. Practical development of the basic methods of joint activities. 4. Development of the ability of older preschoolers to independently select a model of joint activity to solve an educational problem. This program is designed for children of senior preschool age (5-7 years). The program includes 10 lessons. The recommended duration of classes is 25 minutes once a week. Classes are held 48 in subgroups of up to 6 people. Class protocols are presented in Appendices 2-11. The program implementation period is from January 2017 to March 2017. Table 4 The program for the formation of the readiness of older preschool children for joint activities with peers No. Name of the GCD Purpose of the GCD Time of the GCD Terms 1. Problem situations of staging with "talking dolls" Formation of basic ideas about the structure of joint activities 25-30 minutes 3rd week of January 2. Joint activity on the application "Children's World" To form practical skills of joint activity 25-30 minutes 4th week of January 3. Didactic game "Ladder" Recognize the need to control and coordinate each other's actions in the process of activity. 25-30 minutes 1st week of February 4. Modeling lesson “Confectionery shop” To form practical skills for joint activities 25-30 minutes 2nd week of February 5. Story from the picture “Bump to bump” Mastering speech structures for joint activities 25 -30 minutes 3rd week of February 6. Lesson on manual labor "Furniture factory" To form practical skills of joint activity 25-30 minutes 4th week of February 7. Lesson on manual labor "Repair of books" To form practical skills of joint activity 25-30 minutes 1st week of March 8. Compilation of a story based on the fairy tale "Cockerel - Golden Comb" Master basic communication skills for joint activities 25-30 minutes 2nd week of March 9. Collective panel "In the sky, on earth and at sea" To form practical skills of joint activity 25-30 minutes 3rd week of March 10. Collective work "Spring clearing" To form practical skills of joint activity 25-30 minutes 4th week of March 49

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Formation of readiness in children of senior preschool age

for joint activities with peers

in a preschool educational organization

In the Federal State Educational Standard for Preschool Education, one of the tasks is to form readiness for joint activities with peers, develop the abilities and creative potential of each child as a subject of relationships with himself, other children, adults and the world. Modern domestic pedagogy is actively building its new human-oriented paradigm. The personality of the child with its inherent originality of character and behavior is placed at the center of the modern educational process. The question of upbringing is not only a question of the means and methods of upbringing, but also a question of moral values, norms and rules that a person has perceived and which is guided in communicating with people. At the same time, there are negative trends in the system of preschool education: excessive focus on the intellectual development of the child, technologization of modern life, which lead to underdevelopment of the emotional and communicative spheres, and as a result of this, the formation of an inadequate attitude towards peers. Therefore, one of the main tasks in senior preschool age should be the formation of readiness for joint activities with peers. The priority of universal human values, the humanistic principle underlying the modern educational process, requires the development of such a type of human relations as joint activities, co-creation, partnership, the ability to work in a team, which contribute to the formation of a person who freely expresses himself in the social and spiritual spheres.

To form readiness for joint activities with peers, such forms as exercises for joint interaction (in pairs, triplets, small groups), individual exercises, role-playing games, discussion and playing out problem situations can be used. Such methodological methods of forming readiness for joint activities are used, such as: demonstrating "positive" and "negative" ways of interacting with a game character, another adult, a child and their subsequent discussion, switching the child's attention from an adult to a peer, creating a situation of lack of material, creating situations of choice: tasks, method of execution, material, partner, development of rules for interaction and fixing them with the help of symbols.

The program for the formation of readiness of children of senior preschool age for joint activities with peers in a preschool educational organization. Based on the results of primary diagnostics, we have developed a program for the formation of readiness for joint activities of older preschool children with their peers in a preschool educational organization. The purpose of the program: to increase the level of formation of the readiness of older preschoolers for joint activities with their peers. Program objectives: 1. Development of interest in each other and interaction with peers as a manifestation of the natural need for joint activities. 2. Formation among preschoolers of generalized ideas about the structure of joint activities and the development of a single "group language" that determines the interaction of partners in the process of jointly solving educational and cognitive problems. 3. Practical development of the basic methods of joint activities. 4. Development of the ability of older preschoolers to independently select a model of joint activity to solve an educational problem. This program is designed for children of senior preschool age (5-7 years). The program includes 10 lessons. The recommended duration of classes is 25 minutes once a week. Classes are held 48 in subgroups of up to 6 people. Class protocols are presented in Appendices 2-11. The program implementation period is from January 2017 to March 2017. Table 4 The program for the formation of the readiness of older preschool children for joint activities with peers No. Name of the GCD Purpose of the GCD Time of the GCD Terms 1. Problem situations of staging with "talking dolls" Formation of basic ideas about the structure of joint activities 25-30 minutes 3rd week of January 2. Joint activity on the application "Children's World" To form practical skills of joint activity 25-30 minutes 4th week of January 3. Didactic game "Ladder" Recognize the need to control and coordinate each other's actions in the process of activity. 25-30 minutes 1st week of February 4. Modeling lesson “Confectionery shop” To form practical skills for joint activities 25-30 minutes 2nd week of February 5. Story from the picture “Bump to bump” Mastering speech structures for joint activities 25 -30 minutes 3rd week of February 6. Lesson on manual labor "Furniture factory" To form practical skills of joint activity 25-30 minutes 4th week of February 7. Lesson on manual labor "Repair of books" To form practical skills of joint activity 25-30 minutes 1st week of March 8. Compilation of a story based on the fairy tale "Cockerel - Golden Comb" Master basic communication skills for joint activities 25-30 minutes 2nd week of March 9. Collective panel "In the sky, on earth and at sea" To form practical skills of joint activity 25-30 minutes 3rd week of March 10. Collective work "Spring clearing" To form practical skills of joint activity 25-30 minutes 4th week of March 49

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Theme 4. Child development at preschool age

Theme 4. Child development at preschool age

1. Physical and mental development of a preschooler.

2. Development of the personality of a preschooler.

1. Physical and mental development of a preschooler

Chronological framework (age limits) - From 3 to 6-7 years.

Physical development. During this period, the anatomical formation of tissues and organs, an increase in muscle mass, ossification of the skeleton, the development of the circulatory and respiratory organs, and the weight of the brain increase. The regulatory role of the cerebral cortex increases, the rate of formation of conditioned reflexes increases, the second signaling system develops

Social situation. The child has a great desire to comprehend the semantic basis of the actions of adults. The child is excluded from active participation in the activities and relationships of adults.

Leading activity Role-playing game. At the age of 2-3 years, “single games” are pronounced in children, the child is focused on his own actions. Gradually, children begin to “play side by side”, uniting purely outwardly, since everyone should have their own toy.

At the age of 3-5, “short-term associations” appear, the duration of communication depends on the ability to create and implement a game plan and on the possession of game actions; the content of the game is not yet conducive to sustainable communication.

At the age of 4-6, “long-term associations of players” arise, the child strives to reproduce in the game the actions of adults and their relationships. The child has a need to have a partner. In the game, there is a need to negotiate with each other, to organize a game with several roles together.

Mental development. The development of differentiated sensitivity is noted. There is a development of sensory standards , the formation of perceptual actions. At 3 years old, the child manipulates the object without trying to examine it, they name individual objects. At 4 years old, the child examines the object, highlights the individual parts and features of the object. At 5-6 years old, the child systematically and consistently examines the subject, describes it, and establishes the first connections. At the age of 7, the child already systematically, systematically examines the subject, explains the content of the picture

perception of space, time and movement develops, the child perceives works of art.