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Last "free" summer of preschool children brings to parents many alarms connected with forthcoming receipt of children in the first class. Sometimes these alarms excessively amplify, doing educational efforts of adults convulsively-chaotic. Summer - long enough term, however do not aspire to execute for it all program of a programmar school or the first class. Be better convinced that the child possesses a sufficient psychological maturity to go to school.

What is the school maturity (or psychological readiness for school)? Traditionally allocate three aspects of a school maturity: intellectual, emotional and social. The intellectual maturity for age of 6-7 years is an ability to allocate a figure from a background, ability to concentrate attention, to establish communications between the phenomena and events, possibility of logic storing, ability to reproduce the sample, and also development of thin movements of a hand and their coordination. The emotional maturity is an easing of direct, impulsive reactions and ability is long to perform not so attractive work, that is development of randomness of behaviour. The social maturity means requirement for dialogue with contemporaries and ability to subordinate the behaviour to laws of children's groups, ability to accept a role of the pupil, ability to listen and follow instructions of the teacher. Some necessary level of development of the child without which it cannot successfully go to school at all, thus, is accepted to a basis of readiness for school.

Whether any child can go to school and is successful in it study? It is obvious, that it not so. The matter is that the way of development of each child is individual. Someone starts to go before others, but then long does not speak, someone, on the contrary, is not able to smile, but starts to speak the whole phrases, moreover and remembers letters. Therefore to school age children come with different luggage of experience - knowledge, abilities, skills, habits. Subsequently each of them will learn to read and consider and, maybe, even becomes competent, but by the receipt moment in school it is more important to have not the concrete generated skills, and ability to perceive and acquire a new material, that is ability of the child to training.

So, as the school maturity, as well as in general all development of the child, submits to the law of non-uniformity of the mental development, each child has the strengths and zones of the greatest vulnerability. That you could estimate readiness of the child, we offer you the short test. Whether the child is ready to school?

The test for parents

1. Whether your child wishes to go to school?
2. Whether involves your child at school what he there learns much and in it it will be interesting to study?
3. Whether your child independently any business demanding concentration within 30 minutes (for example to collect the designer) can be engaged in?
4. Whether it is true, what your child in the presence of unfamiliar at all does not hesitate?
5. Whether your child is able to make stories on a picture not more shortly than of five offers?
6. Whether your child by heart can tell some poems?
7. Whether he is able to change nouns on numbers?
8. Whether your child or better still, the whole words is able to spell?
9. Whether your child to 10 and back is able to consider?
10. Whether he can solve simple problems on subtraction or unit addition?
11. Whether it is true, what your child has a firm hand?
12. Whether he likes to draw and paint pictures?
13. Whether your child can use scissors and glue (for example to do applications)?
14. Whether it can collect a cutting picture from five parts for one minute?
15. Whether the child of the name wild and pets knows?
16. Whether it can generalise concepts (for example to name in a word "vegetables" tomatoes, carrots, an onions)?
17. Whether your child independently likes to be engaged - to draw, collect a mosaic etc.?
18. Whether he can understand and is exact carry out verbal instructions?

Possible results of testing depend on quantity of affirmative answers to test questions. If it makes:

• - it is possible to consider 15-18 points, that the child is quite ready to going to school. You it is not vain with it were engaged, and school difficulties if will arise, will be easily surmountable;
• 10-14 points - you on a correct way, the child to much has learnt, and MAINtenance of questions which you have answered with negation, will prompt you points of the appendix of the further efforts;
• 9 and less - esteem the special literature, try to give to more time to employment with the child and will pay special attention on what he is not able.

Results can disappoint you. But remember, that all of us are pupils at life school. The child is not born the first-grader, readiness for school is a complex of the abilities which are giving in to exercise. Exercises, tasks, the games chosen by you for development of the child, it is easy and it is cheerfully possible to carry out with mum, the daddy, the grandmother, the big brother - with all who has a free time and desire to be engaged. At selection of tasks pay attention to weak places of the child. It is useful, that he all the same was able to read and a little to write, consider - if the child advances program requirements, he will be better than itself to feel at school.

You can give vent to the imagination and alter tasks, and can precisely adhere to the instruction, - your child grows in any case and comes nearer to school. But remember, please, some simple rules:

• Employment with the kid should be mutually voluntary.
• Their duration should not exceed 35 minutes.
• Do not try to offer the child of the task if he is tired.
• Try, that employment had regular character - "brain storm" by preparation for school is not too effective.

If you are afraid for successes of the child, we advise to you not sostredotochivatsja on development of concrete skills - it is not necessary to "train" it on addition and subtraction, reading on syllables. Methodical receptions of training in an elementary school constantly vary, there is a set of author's programs, and your efforts can go counter with them, that only will complicate further training of the child. Where it will be more useful to use obshcherazvivajushchie the exercises useful to strengthening of perception, memory, attention, a thin motility of hands. Learn the child to pay attention to how words sound - suggest it to repeat distinctly words, both Russian, and foreign, familiar and unfamiliar ("electrification", "magistracy" etc.) . Study with it verses, tongue twisters and compose fairy tales. Ask to repeat by heart heard text and to retell its words. Recollect collective games of type "the Mistress has sent hundred roubles", "I the gardener was born …" - they develop randomness of actions, concentration, enrich a speech stock of children.

It is very useful to remember various subjects, their quantity and interposition; pay attention of the child to details of a landscape and surrounding conditions. Do not forget more often to ask it to compare various subjects and the phenomena - that in them of the general and than they differ. Suggest the child to remember sequence of figures (for example, phone numbers). Well stimulate development of concentration of attention games-labyrinths in which it is necessary to "track" a path of the character, and also the task for comparison of two almost identical drawings.

Do not neglect the employment developing and strengthening small movements of hands: the moulding, drawing, applications, games with designers of type LEGO - all it creates preconditions for formation of good handwriting and promotes development of thinking of the child. Use improvised means - it is possible to separate peas from corn or beans, to sort buttons, to spread out matches.

And, how objective successes of your child moved ahead, try to create a healthy spirit before school at which he would aspire to knowledge, was not afraid of bad marks and the honours pupil or dvoechnik, it all the same for you the most favourite has been assured that!