In this lesson, Puzzles, your child will learn how to complete a variety of puzzles. Since a puzzle piece will only fit into one space, your child will learn primarily through “trial and error” at first before developing a “look and locate” approach.
Completing puzzles are an excellent way to develop strong visual skills. And, it also enhances fine motor skills which can be generalized into independent, as well as interactive, play.
In this lesson, Block imitation, your child uses blocks to copy a structure that you create. This is important because the required skills overlap the domains of visual performance and object imitation.
While this lesson seems simple, it teaches a variety of useful skills, including:
This lesson, Matching / Sorting, teaches how to identify objects that are alike or the same (which also indirectly teaches the ability to identify objects that are different). Matching and Sorting should be done first with identical objects, then with non-identical objects, as non-identical matching leads into later being able to sort items into categories.
Use the downloadable PDFs below to get the most from this lesson:
