Let all parents know that the first thing a child learns at the beginning of his skill, educational and formative life is shapes and colors. Geometric shapes help build memory and cognitive skills for children as they begin to associate shapes with the world around them.
The importance of teaching children geometric shapes:
1. Simple geometric shapes, which are square, rectangle, triangle and circle.
2. By continuous repetition, he distinguishes between shapes and names of geometric shapes.
3. Recognize the number of geometric shapes that he learned.
4. Recognize the number of sides of some geometric shapes.
5. Distinguish between geometric shapes in terms of shape and number of sides.
6. Develops the child's high ability to intelligence.
7. Develops the movement of his hands and fingers when drawing shapes.
8. It forms from cutting geometric shapes the shapes of inanimate animals or plants.
9. He excels in choosing colors from geometric shapes when drawing.
10. To develop a focus on constructing or coloring geometric shapes
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When we give shapes to the child, we start with only one shape, for example, a circle, and we connect it to the surrounding world (the cake - the sun disk. We must not mix the shapes on him so as not to avoid distracting him and ensure his focus and so on, and when we make sure that he memorizes it for him and after he masters the first shape, we take the following shape.
The effect of colors on the psyche of the child:
Many studies have proven that colors have a great influence on the psyche, and even the preferred color has a relationship with the personality of the person.
It has appeared that there is an effect on the child and the adult alike, and perhaps its effect on the child in education is clear, and that colors have a magic effect on the psyche of the child. On a particular matter or draw his attention to a particular matter and the benefits are prolonged.
There were many classifications that explain the psychological dimension of some colors. There are divided colors in general into four main colors: (red, blue, green, and yellow).
Where the blue color expressed the mind, mind, intelligence and wisdom.
Also, the yellow color represented emotions, sensations, creativity, confidence and self-esteem, while the red color represented physical dimensions, strength, courage and daring, while the green color expressed the interaction and balance between all previous colors, comfort and renewal.