Preschool Letters
2010
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Preschool Letters
Why Shapes are Important for Preschoolers
Babies are born with the ability to discern between different shapes, thanks to their ability to see and feel them. Unfortunately, we are not born with the ability to name those shapes, which we need to do so we can identify different shapes and compare them to each other. How shapes are used is an important concept to learn. Teach your child about shapes with good worksheets for preschool, and you'll be providing them with skills they will use for the rest of their lives.
Learning about shapes will help your child identify letters, and help them with writing and reading later on. Letters are made up of circles, triangles and lines – think of the circles in b, d, g, p, q, or the parts of a triangle found in k, v and w. Drawing the curved lines of a circle or oval shape helps your child to write letters such as f, u, m, n, j, and the lines in squares helps your child to write i, l, k, p, q and so on. Often, recognizing the shapes in the letters helps a child to recognize the letter too, important for developing reading skills.
The first step in learning how to draw is to learn how to draw basic, simple shapes. Almost anything can be drawn using shapes, such as a house, a cat, a book, a ball; even more complicated drawings start with the basic shapes that form the outline of the object. This makes it easier for your child to progress from stick drawings to more detailed artworks – and if they have talent, they will use shapes to draw and paint in the future as well.
Shapes are extremely important in basic and more advanced math. Most adults will immediately think of geometry, but shape patterns and spatial perception help your child to develop sequencing and logic skills that they will use later in their school career in subjects like calculus.
We use shapes every day as adults, although we may not realize it. If you think about it, rearranging the lounge furniture, cleaning out the kitchen cupboards or the refrigerator is done according to the shape of the items in them, and how they will relate to each other. Road signs and markings make extensive use of different shapes, helping us to recognize them before we can actually read them.
Learning about shapes includes learning about 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional shapes. A sphere, or ball, is a 3D circle, and has specific properties, such as the ability to roll, that some other shapes do not have. This is true of all shapes, and your child will be able to make this progression if his or her basic grounding is good.
Children can start learning shapes from the day they start talking if not earlier – although they may not be able to verbalize what they hear or see. By the time your child is 3 or 4 years old, they will need to start learning their shapes. By the time they are ready to start kindergarten, children are expected to know the basic shapes, recognize them and identify how they form part of other items. They may also be expected to be able to draw the shapes – not perfectly, but certainly recognizably. There are many ways to encourage and help your child to learn about shapes.
Because shapes are all around us, it is easy to play ‘Find the Shape' at home, in the car, in the store and elsewhere. Select one shape at a time to concentrate on, rather than trying to find all the different shapes.
Good quality worksheets for preschool will help your child progress from recognizing different shapes, seeing how they form part of other objects, and should help them learn how to draw them. Drawing shapes is the precursor to learning how to write, and a good set of worksheets should take you step-by-step through this process until your child is drawing shapes on their own, free hand. Look out for worksheets that combine learning shapes with the use of different colors, as this is particularly effective in reinforcing the shape names. A step-by-step teaching method that provides ample opportunity to practice will be ideal.
About the Author
The David Dolphin Workbook Series comprises 3 comprehensive, age-appropriate Workbooks which include a section on Shapes as well as many other learning areas. Developed by Liz Allan, a pre-school teacher and principal for over 30 years, these worksheets make learning fun and effective. If you want to give your child's education a jumpstart, take at look at the David Dolphin Workbooks here!
I'm looking for preschool printables with numbers and letters?
The catch is that I'm looking for printables with just one number and letter for each number and letter. For example, every printable I see has the number one it with 6-8 different images of animals or some object. I'm just looking for a "plain" printable with only the number.
Thanks.
you and make your own the kids are not going to care
Preschool Lesson: Building Capital Letters With Dough
