So what is spatial thinking? The size and shape of the objects that children can touch in life, the relative positions that can be observed, the far and near directions, etc. , are all spatial thinking.
Research shows that the golden age of spatial thinking training is preschool and the lower grade of primary school, when the plasticity of children's brains is the strongest. So how to cultivate children's spatial thinking in the family? Give you a few hints:
First, use more space language when talking to children.
Try to replace "the teddy bear is here and the car is there" with "the teddy bear is on the left side of the sofa and the car is on the middle floor of the TV cabinet", and encourage children to learn to describe what they see with such directional words.
Second, encourage children to add more gestures when expressing.
Gestures are closely related to spatial thinking, which can strengthen children's attention to spatial information. Research shows that when children use gestures to guide the movement of objects, their spatial thinking ability will be improved.
Third, encourage children to tell stories with building blocks.
Children like playing with building blocks very much. He needs more creative building blocks games that can give full play to his imagination. Parents can guide him to build many space scenes with building blocks, such as supermarkets, shopping malls, schools, hospitals, airports, etc ... and then tell us what happened in these space scenes.