Do you want to give your child early education?

Early education refers to the targeted guidance and training for children aged 0-6 according to the characteristics of children's physical and mental development and sensitive period, which lays a good foundation for the cultivation of children's multiple intelligences and healthy personality. In a broad sense, it refers to education from birth to preschool, and in a narrow sense, it mainly refers to early learning in the above stages. Some countries began to learn reading, writing and calculation ahead of time, and started discussions and experiments in formal education ahead of time. But others think that early education should focus on developing intelligence. Others believe that early education should be extended to prenatal education before the mother is born. Family education has a great influence on early education.

The benefits of early education

Experts say that infancy is the fastest developing period of children's nervous system and the most critical period for developing various potentials, and it is indeed a good opportunity for education. The core of early education is to provide an educational and nutritious environment to "activate" children's brain development and personality growth, thus laying a solid foundation for their future development.

American scientists have found in animal experiments that early education for owls can make their brains undergo lasting physiological changes, so that the skills they learned at an early age can also be preserved into adulthood. Scientists believe that early intellectual education for children will also leave a permanent mark on their minds.

Studies have shown that the development of the brain is inversely proportional to the growth of age. Obviously, the first few years of life are a good opportunity to learn quickly. Therefore, in the best period of early brain development, we must enrich children's living environment, and don't wait until children should go to school to consider this issue. At this time, the critical period of learning has passed.

Parents sometimes feel that although they have the awareness of early education, they don't know how to carry out early education. The current education system has existed for many years, and the whole society lacks full understanding of the importance of early education. Therefore, some parents often say, "When my child enters school, he will start studying …" In fact, this idea of parents is wrong.

In the first few years of life, children will learn, explore and practice repeatedly because of curiosity until they successfully master a certain skill. However, when children enter the school later, due to the standardized management of the school and the limitation of the teaching content, children may feel that learning is boring, boring and not free (they have to abide by the regulations and bear strong pressure). At this time, parents should find ways to improve their children's interest in learning.

A better way is to arrange appropriate activities for the child according to the development of his skills, that is, to carry out necessary external stimulation to help him find interest points, so as to cultivate his interest in learning. Of course, you can't use activities and toys that are too difficult or too simple. Don't force children to pursue success, but pay more attention to the fun in the learning process.

Children need to store knowledge and information from an early age to build their learning potential. Future learning is based on early learning. If your child is curious and likes to explore, he will find it easy and interesting to learn in the future. He will be a far cry from those children who have no early education experience!

Problems needing attention in early education

1, early education is not equal to education and training.

Early education is not simply to find a teacher to give children extra training. Parents should put "emotion first", "parenting first" and "combining education", spend at least one hour a day communicating with their children and interact well with them in life and games.

Experts point out that babies are capable learners from the moment they are born, and parents should pay attention to and cultivate their physical, emotional, cognitive and social activities.

2. Early education should conform to the law of children's development.

To carry out early education, we need to understand the physiological and psychological characteristics of children of different ages and carry out relevant education according to the law of children's development. We need to do it step by step, and we can't rush it. The early development of early education can only raise parents' expectations of their children, and increase the pressure on their future development for no reason. Therefore, parents are advised to choose their children's early education mode carefully.

3. Early education should put safety first.

In the process of early education, parents or teachers should put safety first. You can't achieve a course goal without considering security risks.

How to teach children to read early?

Teaching a 23-year-old baby to read early can't be expected to achieve a certain reading purpose like an adult. Adult reading is for learning or entertainment; Teaching the baby to read, as long as it can cultivate his interest in reading, will achieve the goal. When children are interested in reading, they will have more motivation to study in depth.

Although my son is only over three years old, he already likes reading. He can read a lot and read fluently, which often attracts admiration.

Step 1: Become attached to the literacy card.

When my son was two months old, I bought him a set of literacy cards with more than 60 words. This is a set of cards with a single sheet of thick paper. On the front of the card is a large color picture, with a sentence related to the picture written in Tianzigeli in the upper right corner or the lower left corner, and the back written in block letters with a brush.

At first, my son obviously regarded these cards as toys. He knows the animals or objects on the card like the back of his hand. One day a month later, I accidentally picked up a card with my hand and pointed the calligraphy on the back at my son. Then I shook my mouth and said, "Tick-tock, tick-tock, what is this reading?" My son is very interested in this game. He smiled. Of course, he didn't know.

I turned the card over to show him the picture, pointed to the small print next to the picture, read it twice, then turned it over to show him the big brush, read it twice, and then I asked, "Tick-tock, what is this reading?" My son can read it correctly. I praised him exaggeratedly, kissed his forehead and said loudly, "Oh, you are so smart!" " "

Then I found three other words with relatively simple strokes and taught them in the same way.

Next time I play this game, I will find out the four words I read for the first time and ask him, "Ding Ding, what are you reading here?" My son actually remembers three of them. I mixed in a few other simple words and continued to play this game with my son. My son has a sense of accomplishment gradually, because he can actually read some "strange" words. Of course, as encouragement, praise is essential.

Step 2: Wonderful bedtime games.

Later, we got into the habit of playing a word-reading game before going to bed every day. Almost a month later, he has learned more than 60 words. Even if I write my words on other paper, he can recognize them.

In the process of literacy, jokes are inevitable. After knowing the word "fat", every time he plays a game, his son must first find the word "fat", throw it under the bed and mutter "Don't be fat". I don't know why he doesn't like this word Maybe it's because this card depicts an ugly and fat man with his stomach exposed!

After a period of "games", he can now read children's books such as 300 Children's Songs fluently, which shows that he has completed basic reading.

Proper methods and mastery of principles are the key to success.

From my experience of teaching my son early reading for more than a year, as long as the methods are proper, early learning reading can expand children's living space, enhance their self-confidence and cultivate their interest in learning. Meanwhile, I think the following principles are also important.

I. Principle of interest

We can't expect a 23-year-old baby to study hard, but as long as the child is interested, he can concentrate on an activity for a long time. As long as parents discover their children's interests, they can create many situations and teach their children to learn literacy and reading.

My son likes watching the weather forecast since he was a child. As soon as the weather forecast arrived, I was absorbed in watching the words after the announcer on TV. It suddenly occurred to me why I didn't take this opportunity to let him know the name of the city, so when the forecaster said "Beijing", I pointed to the word "Beijing" on the screen and read it again, so that he knew the relationship between the city he read every day and the Chinese characters appearing on the screen.

My son is also a car fan. When he took him shopping, he danced when he saw the traffic on the road, chanting: "Tricycles, motorcycles, cars, trucks, tractors ..." Since he knew numbers, one of his great hobbies was reading the license plates on the front and back of cars, which helped him to read Arabic numerals fluently very early.

We also attach great importance to his hobby, and a book "Car Fans" bought by my husband has become my son's favorite reading for a long time. He not only knows all kinds of vehicles on it, but also knows their names. Even if he writes it by hand on paper, he can read it fluently, such as "heavy truck", "mixer", "engineering maintenance vehicle", "British Morgan concept car" and "Japanese Toyota Kauste medium-sized bus". Walking in the street, my son often sees the words sprayed on the car body.

However, for a story book, it depends on whether he is interested that day. I bought some books for my son, such as The Fisherman and His Wife, The Baby's Bedtime Story and so on. He hardly ever reads it, but my husband bought him some books with simple pictures and few words, such as Fat Bear and Wolf, which he liked very much. Sometimes you can lie on the sofa and watch it for 40 minutes. If he comes across a word he doesn't know, he asks for help: "My father misses" or "My mother misses".

Second, the principle of life

Don't think of books when you hear "reading". In fact, ready-made "teaching materials" in life abound around us, and children are also very interested. Letting children read the words on various daily necessities can not only cultivate their reading ability, but also help them expand their living space.

"What are you eating?" Read the words on the box with my son. I won't let him eat them until he can read them. Through this exercise, my son can read Wangwang ice cream, pumpkin pie, alpine lollipop, white rabbit butterfly and Fumando instant noodles very early.

When I have plenty of time, I will take my son to the supermarket, let him sit on the trolley and take the goods off the shelves for him to see. Now, my son is very sophisticated in the supermarket. He pointed to the trademark and read it aloud: "shampoo", "toilet water" and "calcium tablets" ...

After buying a washing machine at home, the box was put in the living room for my son to play with for many days. Read the words first, and then play with the big box as a house.

Third, educational principles.

The 23-year-old baby has the strongest observation and imitation, but the ability to distinguish behavior is not very strong. Teaching them to read and write should also pay attention to educational principles.

Take my son for a walk in the street. Every time I see a trash can or a garbage truck, my son is very interested: "What is this?" In fact, he always knows perfectly well past ask. Every time I will stand beside the trash can with him for a while, pointing to the words on it and asking him, "What is the trash can for?" After my son finishes eating cookies, ice cream or drinks, I always remind him to hold the box until he walks near the trash can before throwing it in. Before throwing it, I will ask him to read the name of the goods on the box again, and then say, "Let's throw the empty shell of Huiyuan juice in."

If my son occasionally throws something he doesn't use on the road, I will pick it up and take it away, then walk to the trash can and give it to my son to throw in. Now, he has basically developed a good habit of not littering.

When my son drinks milk and other beverages with short shelf life, I will ask him, "Is it expired?" Then find a line with a shelf life, show it to him, and then I will tell him that it has been in production for a few days. Now every time I take my son to the supermarket to buy food, my son will ask me, "Is it overdue?" The advantage of this is that nothing I buy now will expire! Through this exercise, I believe that the concept of "shelf life" has taken root in my son's young mind.

Signs on lawns and gardens are convenient and instructive reading materials. Every time we take him past the sign in front of the lawn, we stop. Now he knows and understands the word "protection" and their meanings, and then I teach him to read the next line "Just take one more step". When he learns, I will explain to him what this means. When I wrote this article, my son was playing with building blocks. I wrote these words out for him with a pen. As a result, he finished reading fluently at once.

Children's style should be cultivated from an early age and start from small things.

Several misunderstandings in early education

One of the misunderstandings: the goal is set too high. In parents' minds, they have designed a bright future for their children. Many parents believe that children should not be allowed to lose at the starting line. The child has learned a few words, and if he recognizes them in a few days, it is a big mistake. Even some parents think that their children are not outstanding now and will not have "great prospects" in the future. In fact, there is more than one starting line in life, and life has different starting points at any time.

Myth 2: I hope the child is a "child prodigy". The survey found that only 30% people want their children to develop normally, and most parents want their children to be "outstanding", preferably child prodigies. In fact, the proportion of children with abnormal intelligence is very small, and more than 90% of children are normal children. If parents insist on setting an extraordinary standard for normal children, the result can only be equal to pulling out the seedlings to encourage them.

The age groups with the highest efficiency in early education are as follows

Six months after birth is the key age for babies to learn to chew and feed dry food. After eating dry food for a month, they can reach for something. After this critical age, babies may refuse to chew and spit out food from their mouths.

9 months after birth to 1 year is the beginning of distinguishing quantity and size.

2 ~ 3 years old is the first key age for learning oral English, and it is also the key age for the development of counting.

Two-and-a-half to three-and-a-half years old is the key age to teach children to behave themselves, so that they can develop good hygiene habits and the habit of observing the work and rest system.

Before the age of 4, it is the key age for the development of image vision.

4 ~ 5 years old is the key period to start learning written language.

About 5 years old is the key age to master mathematical concepts, and it is also the second key period for children's oral development.

5 ~ 6 years old is the key period to master language vocabulary ability.

Prenatal education and infant education;

If it is prenatal education, I suggest you buy some dvd or books of prenatal education as needed. The most important thing is to communicate with children in the market, touch her, talk to him, and so on. ...

If it is the baby's early education, I recommend a book, China's children's intelligence equation, which can be bought online and sold in many nursery stores. This book gives a very comprehensive explanation of when children should react, what they will do and how to help them complete the actions or things that children should do. It is very comprehensive. I train my children according to some methods in this book. Now the child is just 1 8 months old and very smart. When they are 1 4 months old, they can have a steamed egg soup on their own. Now they have eaten independently and their reactions are very flexible.

[Edit this paragraph] Early childhood education

1 year-old to 3 years old is called infancy, which is a period when children's intelligence develops very rapidly, when children's special talents begin to appear, and when children's character and quality begin to form. The formation of personality in early childhood is an important basis for future personality development. In order to train children to grow up more smoothly and healthily in moral, intellectual and physical aspects and meet the needs of the "four modernizations", parents should pay special attention to early childhood education.

The total number of cells in the human brain is about 654.38+000 billion, of which 70-80% were formed before the age of 3. During this period, speech, sound sense and memory cells are mainly formed, and various characteristics of the brain are becoming more and more perfect. In recent years, many children educators regard 1~3 years old as the "key age" for children's early intellectual development, which has aroused widespread concern from society and parents. The so-called critical age refers to the age stage with the highest learning efficiency in life. Education during this period can achieve twice the result with half the effort. Some people say that "three-year-old looks are a hundred-year-old talent", which means that the talent formed before the age of three can determine his life. There is also a saying that "at the age of three, you will see your eighties, and at the age of seven, you will see your whole life", which means that the education and habits you received as a child are still preserved until you are 80 years old.

The change of children before the age of 3 is a complicated process. During this period, children's physical and mental development is relatively fast, such as the development of language, from monosyllabic to long sentences; Never walk for the sake of independence. These advances are all learned from the practice of daily life. Because children like to imitate others' actions most, for this reason, if there is no correct ideological education and patient guidance, many bad habits will appear. Some parents mistakenly believe that as long as their children are healthy and not sick, they have fulfilled their responsibility of raising them, and education is the responsibility of kindergarten and school teachers. This view is incorrect. The three-character scripture says that "it is the father's fault to raise but not teach", which means that parents have absolutely important responsibilities for their children's education, and in early moral education, fathers are more important than mothers. In recent years, some scholars actively advocate "zero-age education". Imagine, except parents, who can undertake such an arduous task? Therefore, parents must master some knowledge of educating their children, educate them in a planned and step-by-step manner, so that children can establish correct thoughts, healthy consciousness and normal psychological quality, and gradually cultivate their resolute, upright, simple, firm, intelligent and agile thinking ability and noble moral sentiments, so that they can develop in a balanced way in all aspects and become useful talents in the construction of the four modernizations when they grow up.

[Edit this paragraph] Early Education Program for Children Aged 2-3

After two years of life experience, the baby has made great progress both physically and psychologically. After the age of 2, the baby's deciduous teeth have come out, and the basic movements such as walking, running and jumping are becoming more and more flexible. They can express their ideas in words, have basic self-care ability, and gradually get rid of the shadow of babies.

Training of speech ability:

(1) use various opportunities to expand children's vocabulary. For example, take your child to the park and tell him the names of the flowers and trees he sees. Teach children to express themselves in complete sentences, and often show them pictures, tell them short stories and teach them to say ballads. And often use the common pronouns "I, you, he (it), we, you, them, ourselves and us" in discourse, so that children can gradually understand the reference relationship of each pronoun.

② Develop language ability. Encourage children to say something by themselves, such as "What did you do today?" "What did you see in the park?" Let him retell the story and tell what is depicted in the picture. Teach children to remember their parents' names, home addresses, parents' occupations, units, their ages, etc.

By the age of two, the child finally expanded those sentences that were not complete and coherent syntactically into complete sentence patterns including subject, predicate and object, learned to use some prepositions, articles and auxiliary verbs, and interjections and tone emphasis also appeared. They will say "This is the baby's and that is the mother's", "The baby eats rice" and so on. The research shows that preschool children mainly use simple sentences, and children aged 2-3 mainly use two sentence patterns: subject-predicate sentence, which consists of subject and action, such as "the doll fell" and "the baby fell asleep"; Predicate-object sentences consist of actions and action objects, such as "watching TV" and "looking for mom".

Relevant research shows that children's mastery of sentences at this stage has the following characteristics:

1. The sentence changed from chaos to gradual differentiation. Early conative sentences (words and actions combined to express wishes) gradually divided and began to express wishes in complete language. For example, the baby will say "Let's play with toys" and then wait for an adult's answer. Before that, the baby said "Go, toys" and took the adults' hands to get the toys, so as to supplement his lack of language skills.

2. The sentence structure is from loose to gradually rigorous. When children over two years old begin to use sentences with complete syntactic structure, they often miss the main parts of speech, and the word order is also confusing, such as "baby hat" (babies wear hats). After the age of 3, children will say "dogs sleep on the ground".

3. The sentence structure has changed from compression and rigidity to expansion and flexibility. The child's initial sentence structure can't separate the core part from the additional part, but can only say a compressed sentence with the same form and composed of several words, and can be followed by modifiers. For example, the baby goes from saying "meow" to "meow goes to Beijing" and then to "dad goes to Beijing by train", which shows that children use language to organize and express their wisdom and thinking.

Activities to improve language ability

1) telephone

Activity content: When taking the children out by car, pretend to call each other, and the phone rings. When he answers, ask him what he saw outside the window and where his destination was, such as "What are you doing in the shop? Do you like going to the store? "

Benefits: games that increase vocabulary, exercise dialogue skills and stimulate imagination.

2) Syllable guessing game

Activity content: While telling the children the names of him and his friends, beat the beat, such as Doudou (two beats) and Wang Xueer (three beats). You can also try other interesting words and teach him to clap his hands with you. When you are ready, teach him how to count the beat.

Benefits: Tell children that words are made up of words and increase their vocabulary.

3) Depicting nature

Activity content: draw all kinds of animals and flowers on paper, and then look for things that match the objects in the picture outdoors, such as sticking a feather on a picture of a bird; Stick a leaf on the picture of the tree. Tell him that feathers are part of birds and leaves are part of trees.

Benefits: increase vocabulary, understand the relationship between the whole and the part, and understand nature.

4) Digital dialing

Activity: Make a digital turntable with cardboard and clips. Cut out a circle with a diameter of 20cm with cardboard, and divide the circle into 6 pieces with a pencil and ruler. Stick a felt number on each item. Write the same numbers on the six clips to help the children clip the clips to the building blocks with the same numbers.

Benefits: Strengthen pairing skills and develop fine motor skills.

5) Melon Party

Activity content: spread many things ending in "melon" on the kitchen table, such as watermelon, pumpkin, cantaloupe, wax gourd, cantaloupe and so on. Hold a melon party with children and talk about words ending in melon while tasting delicious food. You can try another word next time.

Benefits: Let children know the connection between words and sounds.

6) Feed the birds

Activity: Make a bird's nest out of a milk box. Open a small door on one side of the bird's nest, make a hole in it and tie a rope. Give the child a glass of grain and let him pour it into the box. Suggest giving children some places to hang their nests. When the bird comes, tell him the size, color and favorite food of the bird. If you know, you can also tell the child the name of the bird.

Benefits: increase vocabulary and understanding of nature.

7) Cooking count

Activity: When cooking in the kitchen, ask your child to help you count when measuring or pouring ingredients. To emphasize the number of numbers, say "1, 2, 3 cups of flour.

Benefits: Let children know the quantity.

8) My own business card

Activity content: Match and classify games with the back of old business cards. Stick stickers on the back of business cards or cut out pictures from magazines, including various shapes, animals and numbers (color different categories). If the child likes it, give him these pictures and let him classify them, or scatter these cards in the air. After landing, each time you pick up a picture, name the picture. This game can increase the difficulty as children grow up.

Benefits: Teach him the skills of classification, pairing and representation with numbers and symbols.

9) With fragrance

Activity content: Use the sense of smell to increase children's vocabulary. Collect things with different smells, such as onion, lemon, soap, pepper, perfume, roses, etc. Let him smell things, understand each smell, and tell him what it is, such as incense, soap and lemon. Let him label it. Sometimes you can blindfold him and ask him what he smells like.

Benefits: increase vocabulary, exercise classification and memory ability.

10) looking for words

Activity content: collect some pictures of household items, and be careful not to have the names of the items on them. Prepare some more notes and write down the name of an object in each note. Let the children match the pictures with the notes with names.

Benefits: Let children know words and connect words with objects.

[Edit this paragraph] Early Education Curriculum Q&A

[1] Q: What is a music course?

A: Music courses can make children fully prepared for the future and develop their potential as much as possible. These facilities and activities that allow children to fully participate are specially designed to stimulate and strengthen children to achieve the best results in various fields, including senses, physical skills, intelligence, language, social competitiveness and self-esteem.

Q: What is a music course?

A: Music courses are designed to help children's music development through music education and music experience suitable for different ages. Music course is to let children experience 17 different music styles, and each style provides unique music learning opportunities for children. Our method of educating music learning is to help children develop expressive music behaviors, such as harmony tone, singing, playing musical instruments, matching rhythm and beat, and reflecting on music form and design. Gymboree music course lays a solid foundation for children's future music learning through the exploration of musical instruments, singing, listening, moving and creating.

Q: What is an art course?

A: We stimulate the baby's unlimited imagination and self-expression ability. Through painting, sculpture, sketch, jigsaw puzzle, drama performance and other artistic activities, the course builds the baby's self-confidence and develops the baby's artistic potential.

Some recommend early education series: children's family education and early childhood education.

Danger can save itself.

Cultivate good behavior

Get rid of bad habits

Children's Intellectual Enlightenment-Language Training

Safety and early prevention

form good habits

Be polite from an early age.