To some children long it is easy to keep attention, and for others it is a problem. The carelessness becomes an obstacle for good progress of the pupil if parents do not help it in time.
Why we develop attention
Attention – one their informative processes which is obligatory for formation of educational skills. Together with thinking, memory and imagination the attention helps to acquire the school program effectively. Numerous researches of teachers and psychologists established that if the pupil in elementary grades does not seize all methods of cogitative work, in middle school he joins ranks of poor.
Usually psychologists when testing before receipt in school define development of cognitive processes at future first graders. However parents can distinguish undeveloped attention at the child, having just observed it. For example, if the kid often makes ridiculous mistakes at doing homework, hardly finds own misses, constantly distracts at a conversation – it is necessary to take care of improving situation.
It is necessary to know that the attention is an ability to focus on some phenomenon or an object. It helps to acquire information, to allocate from it important. Never happens that the attention is not developed in general because it has several properties: stability, concentration, switching, volume and distribution. At the child some properties be well developed, others not really can, and some are not developed at all.
There is any, involuntary and postany attention. The involuntary attention is short-term focus on bright objects and sounds. Any attention demands strong-willed effort. And here postany appears after the person becomes interested in information. To develop any attention not late at any age. For this purpose there are exercises and fascinating games.
The games developing attention
Exercises are developed for development of attention in the form of games which children with pleasure play in team where there is an emulative spirit. There are most popular and effective games exercises:
At exercise "Who is more attentive" it is necessary to read the small text, to suggest children to count a sound of "M" and then to retell sense by the own words.
The game "How Many What" suggests the child to look round and call all objects of a certain form, colors, the appointed material or with names on some set letter.
"Quickly repeat" – the kid needs to repeat after the adult the words pronounced serially, but not everything but only from them behind which it will be said "repeat" those. Dialogue happens at fast speed.
"Construction in the dark" means construction of a tower from cubes of various size, details of the designer or matchboxes. Conditions – a certain cube has to be the basis of a construction, it is necessary to use only one hand, a game takes place in complete darkness or blindfold.
Rules of the game "I will not be mistaken": it is necessary to count up aloud to 30, but at the same time it is impossible to give figure 3 and numbers which are divided into 3. Instead of them it is necessary either to jump up, or to tell "I will not be mistaken".
The following instructive fun is to throw to the child a ball, sounding a noun. He in turn catches it and calls the verb suitable on sense and other noun, etc.
"Make joint entertainment on the contrary" – it is necessary to repeat after the leader of action to within "on the contrary". That is, if the adult raised hands, then they should be put in the parties. And when driving jumped up, it is necessary to sit down.
Parents can resupply games from children's and pedagogical magazines. These are various labyrinths, search of distinctions on pictures, deletion of certain symbols or letters, puzzles, pictures with tangled lines, etc. Chess and checkers – the perfect intellectual games demanding concentration of attention. Here it is necessary to think over all the courses in advance and to draw certain conclusions.
Sports activities also are very developing for attention.