Intellectual education of children refers to the educational process in which children acquire superficial knowledge and skills purposefully and systematically, develop intelligence, enhance their interest in the knowledge of surrounding things, learn how to learn, and form good study habits. Its contents mainly include the following aspects:

(1) Protect and promote children's interest in learning and cultivate their initiative and good study habits. Modern society requires lifelong learning, and learning interest, initiative and good study habits are the basis of lifelong learning. Therefore, it is of great significance to lay a good foundation in early childhood.

(2) Cultivate children's perception ability and hands-on operation ability. Children are in a period of rapid development and continuous improvement of perception. It is an important cognitive feature of children to perceive the outside world by using sensory organs such as vision, hearing and touch. Therefore, the cultivation of perceptual ability is the basis and important content of kindergarten intellectual education, and it is also an important feature that kindergarten intellectual education is different from primary school. Teachers can adopt some special sensory training methods, organize various practical perceptual and experiential activities, and promote the development of children's perceptual ability.

(3) Guide children to learn the knowledge and concepts in their surrounding life. Children's understanding of things begins with direct perception, and the knowledge they are guided to acquire must be shallow and concrete knowledge about common things and phenomena in their surrounding lives, and must be scientific and instructive.

(4) Develop children's language use ability. Language is a tool for communication and thinking. Childhood is an important period of oral development.