Importance of Preschool Sensory Education

Importance of Preschool Sensory Education

The importance of children's sensory education is a groping process for many parents on the road of educating their children. Every parent has different ways to educate their children, among which sensory education is very important. Let's share the importance of sensory education to children.

The Importance of Children's Sensory Education 1 At present, a method called "Shi Liulun" is becoming more and more popular in Europe, America, Hong Kong and Taiwan. "Schliulun" theory points out that sensory experience is a necessary condition for human survival, learning, self-awareness and environment. Lack of experience will not only hinder the development of insight and muscle energy, but also make it difficult to recognize and perceive the external environment.

The family box sensory room is designed according to the concept and equipment of "Snoezelen Concept", which provides an environment for children to experience sensory stimuli such as vision, hearing, smell and touch. Children can take the initiative to participate, explore the environment according to their own interests, and get a unique and impressive sensory experience by touching and manipulating various touch devices. This kind of interactive feedback has a positive and far-reaching influence on inducing and cultivating children to actively explore the environment, strive to adapt to the changes in the environment and actively participate in it, and experience the changes around them. So as to help children build a more confident, independent and interesting learning model. Make children mature in learning motivation, interaction with the environment and application of life skills.

The main function of the sensory room is to provide sensory stimulation, so that children can easily control simple equipment without following other people's designated activities or using excessive intelligence level, so that the environment can change and get sensory stimulation experience in activities.

Visual stimulation: Providing attractive and diversified visual stimulation can attract and maintain the visual concentration of school-age children. Increase visual experience, change different colors, guide and train visual functions, thus improving students' learning ability.

Tactile stimulation: Through the contact between hands and body, students can experience the surrounding environment, including soft, hard, rough, smooth, dry, wet and vibration.

In the sensitive period of children aged 0-6, the sensory room allows lively children to find themselves in a rich audio-visual environment: the light and shadow of water, the changing light color, the mysterious atmosphere and the pleasant xylophone sound ... which can greatly enrich children's vision, touch, hearing and parallel perception, develop children's "feeling-movement" learning and establish children's understanding of "knowledge and the world".

The Importance of Preschool Sensory Education 2 What is Sensory Training?

The human brain is developed from constant contact with the external environment from birth. People's contact with the external environment is carried out through sensory organs such as eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin. Early learning and abundant environmental stimulation can promote the formation of complex functions of brain cells. Body is the "root" of human learning ability. If the "roots" are not firm, all learning is illusory. The six senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch are the "doors" for the body to explore outward. They determine the degree of interaction and coordination among children's brain, nervous system and various senses. It is in these sensory learning that children's brain function differentiation and nervous system gradually develop. Therefore, early education aimed at promoting children's all-round and harmonious development will inevitably promote children's sensory learning as the fundamental basis for promoting their early learning and development. This kind of sensory learning is not only the basis of perception, but also the basis of the development of thinking ability and the source of individual intelligence development.

What are the sensory trainings?

aural learning

1, Is the baby afraid of sound: The baby can hear sound just after birth, so is the baby afraid of sound? This problem often bothers inexperienced young mothers. According to the traditional practice, it is always necessary to keep the rooms of mothers and newborns in confinement quiet, and even walk carefully for fear of making noise and scaring the baby.

2. Give your baby a good environment: It is very important to give your baby a good environment. The normal activities of the family will produce various sounds, such as walking sound, door closing sound, underwater sound, brushing sound, sweeping sound, talking sound and so on. There are many voices such as noisy cars and voices outside. These sounds can stimulate the baby's hearing and promote the development of hearing. In addition to natural sounds, it can also artificially create a world with sound for babies. For example, buy some noisy toys for babies-ringing bells, music boxes, calling ducks, etc. Babies can listen to music, and rhythmic and beautiful concerts give them a sense of security.

3, can talk to the baby often: it is best to talk to the baby often. At this time, although the baby can't answer, the friendly voice of the family, especially the mother, can make the baby feel emotional communication. When the mother talks, smiles and speaks kindly to the baby, he will stare at her face and seem to understand her love.

Tactile training

1, touch is one of the innate feelings: touch is one of the innate feelings of human beings. When a baby is born, the lips are the most sensitive. When they touch something, they will suck. The baby's little hands, soles and cheeks are very sensitive. Infant's brain development is closely related to external stimuli, and touch is an important way to receive stimuli, but it is often ignored by people. For the baby, cuddling, kissing and other caressing actions should be used to express their love on the one hand and stimulate the sensory organs on the other hand, so that the baby can feel maternal love and show joy through contact.

2, insist on touching the baby every day: from two months, touch the baby's limbs and torso every day. Let the baby lie on his back in bed, starting from his shoulders, touching his arms and hands from top to bottom, touching his trunk irregularly, then his legs and feet, and repeating for many times. Before the end, you can gently pat your baby's arms and legs. Talk to the baby while touching. After a long time, the baby will get used to and like this kind of activity. As long as he lies flat, he will show a happy mood and wait for touch quietly. This kind of touching that makes the baby happy can convey love many times, form a benign stimulus, meet the early emotional needs, and is more conducive to the development of physical strength and intelligence.

visual training

1, human vision includes two aspects: human vision includes two aspects: first, it can be seen, that is, many information such as brightness, contrast, shape and color of the outside world is reflected to the fundus, forming an object image, which is equivalent to the role of color photography. The second is observing, which belongs to a more advanced mental activity, that is, observing objects with your heart, recording them in your mind and comparing them with previous experiences.

2, vision gradually mature: the baby's vision gradually mature, just two weeks after birth, when the mother holds the baby to feed, the baby likes to stare at the mother's face. Generally, you can start to distinguish colors around 10 weeks after birth.

3, different ages, different distances.

Fine movements and big movements

1, Grasping ability: In early childhood, the baby's hand is like a fist, and the thumb is in the palm, so it can't be grasped. As he grows up, the baby will put his hand in his mouth and suck. After the full moon, the baby will put his hand in front of his eyes and observe it carefully. In 2~3 months, I will put my hands together and play in front of my eyes. But at this time, the little hand will not open. You can consciously put some toys with thin handles in your small hands, such as jingling sticks, ringing bells and plastic squeaking toys.

2. Turn three times, sit six times, roll seven times and climb nine stations, and you can walk at the age of one. Sports development is the premise and important symbol of children's intellectual development. Active children are often clever and naughty. Children's motor development includes big movements and fine movements. The big movements are head control, sitting, turning over, climbing, standing, walking, squatting, running and jumping. Fine movements include primary movements of the hand, such as grasping ability. This is a very complicated hand-eye coordination action, which is controlled by the optic nerve center of the brain and the motor center of the hand. Only when the optic nerve is mature and the finger muscles are mature will hand-eye coordination be done. The development of hand movements is one of the important signs of wisdom. The development of sports is regular, and the maturity of the brain can be checked by the development level of various movements. Therefore, people say that wisdom is at your fingertips.

Four Stimulating Ways of Sensory Training

Natural stimulation

For newborn children, choose some toys with sound, bright colors and dynamic. At this time, the training of sensory stimulation began. Discover light and color with your eyes; Listen to all kinds of sounds with your ears; Smell all kinds of smells with your nose; Taste all kinds of flavors with your tongue; Feel the warmth, thickness, hardness and itching with your skin. In addition, parents' smiles, companionship and verbal stimulation are all indispensable stimuli. For young children, the touch of parents is also very important. Touch is what everyone needs, and adults also need to shake hands and hug, which is more necessary for infants. It can not only develop children's tactile ability, promote their growth, but also convey their parents' love, so that children can have a good emotional experience and cultivate a healthy mentality. It is an excellent means of parent-child communication. Parents should touch their children when they are awake. Parents must wash their hands and take off rings, bracelets, watches and other accessories to avoid scratching their children. Gently touch, not too long, five or six times a day, three or four minutes each time.

Interest stimulation

Parents can consciously discover or cultivate their children's hobbies, such as collecting stamps, taking photos, playing chess, picking flowers, cutting newspapers, raising small animals and so on. These hobbies can not only develop children's intelligence, but also temper their patience and willpower.

In children's hobbies, children's potential is often hidden, because when children participate in activities they are interested in, their potential is most easily stimulated, and it is easy to overcome difficulties and stick to it.

Before the child is three years old, parents can use world-famous music as the background music of the family to cultivate their children, because this period is a sensitive period for children to music. Your child may not learn music theory until he is three years old, but don't miss the best time to listen to music. Experts suggest that before the child is three years old, let him see all the pictures of the world famous paintings and world-famous landscapes and buildings, and let these beautiful "pictures" be deeply imprinted in the child's mind. In the future, these music and pictures will become a child's most precious "artistic wealth", and gradually exude artistic flavor in his life.

Activity stimulation

Any ability of children is reflected in activities and is also exercised in activities. Therefore, we should provide children with opportunities for various activities, such as encouraging them to play games and communicate with their peers, taking part in competitions, giving speeches, debating and public welfare activities. Cultivate your language skills and interpersonal skills, and improve the entertainment and interest of life. And guide children to use their left eye, left ear, left hand and left foot more, give play to their functions and promote the development of the right brain.

Many parents pay more attention to children's safety and ignore their activity needs, which will impose many restrictions on children. These restrictions will firmly bind their hands and feet and affect their physical and mental development. It is more correct for parents to strengthen supervision and safety education while encouraging their children to participate in activities to prevent safety problems.

Occupational stimulation

When we discover children's specialties in some aspects, we can provide them with opportunities for further professional training, such as dancing, vocal music, poetry, painting, hosting, calligraphy, sculpture, clay sculpture, playing musical instruments, practicing martial arts, playing football, making small inventions, making airplane models and so on. These professional training can not only cultivate children's curiosity and creativity, but also enable them to gain a skill in professional training. Maybe these professional trainings will help children find their own development direction.

However, it should be noted that parents can easily confuse professional training with hobbies. Having a hobby does not mean that it is for professional training, and professional training is not necessarily for hobbies. Hobbies allow children to choose freely, and professional training needs to consult relevant professional teachers to help judge whether children have certain professional talents or qualities. In addition, in the process of teaching children professional skills, we should also choose the right teachers and use the right methods. Any method that is harmful to children is not worth taking.