How to strengthen thinking for children from two years old?

So when should we strengthen children's thinking? Early education for children should start with the first thinking training and from the age of two. This is the stage when children begin to have the ability to remember, imagine and perceive.

Once they have a good foundation of thinking, children will absorb other fields very quickly and have their own reasoning.

In this article, I would like to share about how to practice and enhance thinking for children from 2 to 4 years old through learning visual thinking skills.

Learn about visual thinking to enhance children's thinking

As I call the visual perception skills: This is the first kind of thinking that two-year-olds will need to practice.

As premise thinking for language thinking and image memory, helping to solve dyslexia in children. Children read faster, remember better.

In visual thinking there are 7 types of skills as follows:

Visual Closure:

The ability to visualize the entire image, even if only partially provided with information, or only partially visible.

This skill trained will help children read and understand quickly, their eyes do not have to process each word by themselves, but can scan very quickly to read a very long word.

For young children, practicing this skill through games such as finding a ball - picture, for a part of the image to find the full image ... will help strengthen children's thinking steadily.

Here is an example:

 

 

Exercises related to Visual Closure

Animal Visual Closure Worksheet - Animal Visual Closure Worksheet

Visual Closure 

Practice thinking about visual closures by activities

General understanding and exercises on visual closure visual thinking

Visual Figure Ground:

This is the ability to identify and locate a sought-after image in a background or many surrounding images.

This skill, if practiced, will help children be able to focus on seeing details.

Practice through games to recognize colors, shapes, objects in the background, letters in the big alphabet ...

For example 

 

 

Visual Figure Ground exercises formats

http://www.andnextcomesl.com/2016/06/free-weather-themed-i-spy-printable-for-kids.html

http://www.andnextcomesl.com/2016/06/free-cats-dogs-themed-i-spy-printable-for-kids.html

http://www.andnextcomesl.com/2016/02/free-d Dinosaur-i-spy-printable-for-kids.html

http://www.teachersnotebook.com/product/mstwining/i-spy-thanksgiving

https://www.itsybitsyfun.com/spring-word-search-puzzles.html

http://www.sightwordsgame.com/sightwordgames/sight-word-games-easy-word-search/

http://www.sightwordsgame.com/sightwordgames/sight-word-games-easy-word-search-2/

Visual Form Constancy:

This skill helps children to recognize an object in a different context regardless of shape, size, or orientation.

This skill is demonstrated through games of finding the shape of an object / fruit represented by different shapes, the same size or not the same size.

 

Increase children's thinking

 

Exercises related to Visual Form Constancy

http://www.myhomeschoolmath.com/school/Visual-Perception-2.html

http://comprar-en-internet.net/worksheets/form-constancy-worksheets.html

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwPFJYjjZBMdMXdRZFF5RENIY0E?tid=0BwPFJYjjZBMdWk42WlZ4bkg4TW8

Visual Memory

The ability to remember to immediately recall the properties of an object, or many objects.

This skill is practiced through many memory games such as shichida's space memory, which is to present an image and ask the child to recall that image after 5-20 seconds, depending on the child's memory, or like a matching game. is to practice this skill.

This skill I appreciate is very important in enhancing memory for children, not only children but also adults should also practice.

Exercises of this type:

http://comprar-en-internet.net/worksheets/visual-memory-worksheets.html

Visual Sequential Memory:

Ability to memorize objects in the correct order.

This is an enhancement of visual memory, this for two-year-olds, the "raw" cognitive ability is not deeply understood, so it is ineffective.

This skill is only suitable for children from 4 years old. Why is 4 years old? Because at the age of 4, the child has entered a higher thinking stage, full awareness and understanding of the nature of events and problems. Practicing proficient in this skill, children can spell fluently and learn letters quickly.

This is a very important skill in learning letters and writing letters because its logic is very high requiring the given things and phenomena to be in the correct order.

Therefore, if parents are too hasty for their children to play Visual Sequential Memory-related games, they often fail because they are too impatient, as well as fail for their children to learn letters too early. This skill game is usually pattern, story sequence, what comes next ...

Exercises of this type:

http://www.mathsdiary.com/what-comes-next-in-the-given-pattern/

https://www.education.com/worksheet/article/what-comes-next-1-1/

https://www.allkidsnetwork.com/sequencing/story-sequence-worksheet.asp

https://www.allkidsnetwork.com/sequencing/before-after-worksheet.asp

http://www.supercoloring.com/puzzle-games/what-comes-next-worksheet-with-pastry

http://www.aulapt.org/2017/06/04/32-tareas-trabajar-la-memoria-visual-secuencial/

The ability to pinpoint exact features between subjects was almost similar.

This skill trains children to be able to observe very small differences between objects, so that observing learning to read or do math does not confuse numbers or words that are almost similar.

The games related to this part are usually matching, recognizing the same image only with different details, different and same ...

Exercises of this type:

http://www.totschooling.net/p/visual-discrimination.html

https://www.pre-kpages.com/gingerbread-visual-discrimination-printable/

Visual Spatial Relations

The ability to perceive the position of objects in space.

For young children, this skill element often has difficulty in perceiving the position in the space such as above, below, left, right, often misjudging distance, being hit by objects while walking. .

Practice games related to this part are usually matrix games, TIC-TAC-TOE, Slap-Tap, games of finding positions on top, bottom, left and right ... 

Exercises of this type:

http://krokotak.com/2013/01/hand-and-eye-coordination/

http://comprar-en-internet.net/worksheets/visual-motor-integration-worksheets.html

Visual discrimination

In order to teach your child this visual thinking to reinforce early thinking, parents need to first teach basic concepts or skills so their children can begin to realize:

- Teaching colors:

Teaching colors is the first teaching when starting to practice visual thinking. For 2-year-olds, color teaching is relatively abstract, so parents need to integrate color teaching with toys for children to imagine.

It is also possible that parents mix paint colors in water, add them to each bottle and introduce them to their children. To be able to practice thinking, children need to know at least 6 colors or more.

- Teaches basic shapes:

Square, circle, triangle, rectangle ... as many shapes as possible. This has cards, through objects, through street signs, anything you can recommend.

- Teach your child how to classify: Introduce groups of objects such as cars, food, toys, groups of objects of the same color, the same shape ... simple groups of objects first.

- Teach your child about location:

Vehicles on the road, clothes in cabinets, books on shelves, left and right, up and down… the most basic concepts of location, teach as much as possible.

- Teach your child about comparison:

Comparison of shapes, sizes big - baby, big - small, thick - thin, long - short, heavy - light. Starting from observing the objects around, then parents can print more pictures describing this comparison for their children to visualize.

Once they have mastered these basic skills, parents will make visual thinking games from easy to difficult according to the skills they have shared above to be able to strengthen children's thinking. from an early age!

Welcome reading - Thinking game part of the image I will share in another more specific.

Author - Bin Mom - a mother with a passion for Early Education career in children!

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