5 Soviet yard games kids now learn from neuropsychologists to cope with school

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Teachers are sounding the alarm: modern children lack concentration of attention, the ability to follow the rules, and even the skill of falling safely from their height. You can fix everything in special classes with neuropsychologists. But those who watched them conclude with surprise: all these exercises were known to the Soviet child as yard games. So this is what modern children lack for development! Here are just a few super-exercises that are now only available to children in special classes.

Ocean is shaking

One of the most popular games, if you cannot run or play with a ball, and the company is quite large and does not want to play "Goroda". The presenter says a little count: “The sea is worried, time! The sea is worried, two! The sea is worried, three! Sea figure, freeze! " While the presenter is counting, the children are bizarrely moving in place, dancing or - the most popular option - spinning in place to make the task more difficult. And at the last word, the children should freeze, depicting either something that is found in the sea, or, if the presenter announced a "theme", a figure corresponding to this theme.

The presenter approaches each "figure" in turn. When he “turns on” it with a touch, the child in the figure must depict a pantomime that reveals his character. The leader must guess from three attempts what or whom he sees in front of him. The one who shows the worst becomes the presenter.

Traditionally, this game is presented as developing artistry and encouraging curiosity (after all, in order to play well, you need to know a lot about life and work at sea). In fact, it has other beneficial properties as well. According to neuropsychologists, it develops the child's self-regulation - his ability to follow the rules (which will later affect the design of notebooks) and patience when one has to not move or make several attempts to solve the problem (figure out the figure) when the first attempt failed.

Hand clap games

As you know, games "with splashing", as they were called in the old days, well develop coordination and reaction (after all, they are usually accelerated). Even the simplest "Okay" becomes more fun with acceleration. But from the outside they look "unintelligent", because the child is not invited to show erudition or solve some logical problem in the game, and therefore parents neglect them, and in the yard children get to know them less and less often - simply because they are less likely to walk in companies.

However, these games have a significant impact on a child's development, including how they will cope in school. "Splash games" require the ability to focus, train the ability to follow the sequence (which is important for reading and mathematics), and also give you a quick shake off stress, for example, at recess - tactile contact, physical activity, brain switching help the child to calm down and not get hung up on school worries.

Without a doubt, the fact that a child has never played games where you have to clap your hands to a rhythmic text does not mean that he will not be able to cope with reading and math and will not be able to learn to concentrate on the task at will. But with games it will be easier for him - the necessary parts of the brain will mature earlier and better.

In addition to "Ladies", such games include, for example, "A crow flew". If you play with a literate adult or a well-read child, then this game allows you to better remember the spelling of different words. At the beginning of the game, the leader becomes with other players in a circle (the whole circle should consist of an even number of people, in extreme cases the leader becomes in its center). They clap their neighbors' hands: first with their right hand on someone else's left on top, and with their left on someone else's right on the bottom, then vice versa, and all this under the talk: “I flew! Crow! I blew it! Word! Which? Anyone! Word!" - and the word is called, for example, "boot". Further, the players clap their hands in turn in front of themselves and with a neighbor, now to the right, then to the left (for this they are calculated before the game, who starts to the right, who to the left). You have to keep silent about the cotton in front of you, you have to shout out a letter to the cotton with your neighbor, going over all the letters of the word in turn: “Be! O! Tae! AND! En! O! Ka! " (although more often they sound "be-o-te-i-ne-o-ke"). There are other variations of this game where, for example, it is important to dodge the last clap.

Rubber bands and jump ropes

Group coordination games with strict rules also seriously help the child to move safely and navigate later in his own notebook. At the end of the twentieth century, in the courtyard of every house and every school, one could see companies of girls (which sometimes were joined by boys), jumping according to special rules over a rope or a closed elastic band stretched by the legs of their friends.

In jumping ropes, gradual acceleration or the ability to jump at high speed for a long time could be important, but it was possible to jump "with flips", with a change of leg - now the right, now the left, together "by the handles" and with other simple tricks. The rubber bands had their own set of figures that had to be formed with the legs of the rubber band and jumped into a certain position. It could change slightly from region to region, but in general, every former Soviet girl says something such as "pedestrians" or "candy". The peculiarity of the rubber band jumps was that the names of the figures had to be pronounced rhythmically to the beat of the movements, without getting lost. This helps a lot later in the classroom, when on the blackboard it is necessary not only to solve an example, but also to voice each action aloud at the same time.

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