2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
German concept of school readiness according to Volker Tsene's book "What Children Should Know"
Independence
Children should be able to
§ Dress and undress yourself (including buttoning, zippers, Velcro fasteners)
§ Tie shoelaces
§ Go to the toilet on your own
§ Wash your hands yourself
§ Blow your nose into a handkerchief
§ Know how to use the trash can
§ Distinguish between right and left
§ Perform simple arithmetic operations within 10 (addition and subtraction), using your fingers if necessary.
§ Know your home address
§ Know the names of the parents
§ Know your age
§ Be able to independently buy something small from the list
§ Identify coins and banknotes
§ Know the meaning of the concept of "property"
§ Turn on and off the water in the tap, open and close the screw caps
§ Pour liquid into a glass
§ Know how to use dangerous objects, electric devices, knife, fork, scissors, electricity, detergents
§ Make yourself a sandwich
§ Understand when there is a need to compromise your own interests
§ Deal with conflict situations
§ Accept criticism
§ Stay alone, fall asleep on your own and sleep all night without waking up
§ Persist in achieving knowledge despite obstacles and difficulties
Curiosity
Children need:
§ Have developmental stimuli around
§ Ask 1000 questions a day
§ Receive at least 500 responses per day
§ Know that they only ask smart questions
§ To know that the world is rational, and nothing is created "so simply"
§ Know that curiosity is a form of emotional health, that recognition of other people's merits is paid a hundredfold
§ Know that their healthy curiosity will not be hindered
PUBLIC LIFE
Children need:
§ Have contact with other children of their age
§ Have contact with other adults (not just parents)
§ Dine with other families
§ Spend the night with other families
§ Know that each individual family has its own rituals (greetings, jokes, family words, prayers, etc.)
§ Become an example for others for once
§ Try another child's example at least once
§ At least once quarrel with a friend and make peace
§ Understand that the behavior of some adults can and should be copied
§ Arouse a positive reaction from an outside adult at least once
§ Bring a new ritual to your family at least once
Behavior
Children should:
§ Know when to say "thank you" and "please"
§ Know why and how to ask for forgiveness
§ Ask forgiveness at least once
§ Know that you need to say hello and say goodbye when you meet
§ Be able to let others speak, wait for the end of the utterance, without interrupting
§ Be able to offer help § Know that respecting others leads to self-respect
§ Knowing that caring for others will return by caring for yourself § Knowing that good manners at the stob are a form of showing respect for food, for the person who prepared it, and for those who sit at the same table
§ Know that trying to please only yourself can be painful for others at some point
§ Understand the process of giving gifts (including self-selection of a gift for a friend or relative, the process of decorating it)
Tolerance
Children should:
§ Feel supported in the natural drive to love everyone, regardless of background, behavior, race, etc.
§ Feel supported in satisfying curiosity about other countries, peoples, their customs, etc.
§ Know the basic rules of how far you can go in curiosity and openness, and know where to stop and be careful not to share information
Self-confidence
Children need:
§ See a good example and learn from examples
§ Feel supported in everything they do
§ Know that they can try to do some things on their own
§ Allowing to finish what they are doing, even if the result is far from ideal
§ To know that there are many interesting things in the world, and in something you can apply yourself
§ See the patience of elders
§ Explore your body
§ Know that if they need help even in what they know, they will get it
§ Point out by example that perseverance and job satisfaction are important aspects of work
§ Be able to ask for support
§ Be able to support others
§ Be able to be defeated
§ Be able to evaluate your defeat
§ Be able to perceive failure on the way to success
§ Be able to trust people
§ Feel confident, so you can't make them dunno
§ Know that they are not upstarts
§ Know that sexist judgments are wrong ("girls do it better," for example)
§ See the work of specialists in different fields
§ Feel satisfaction from achieving the goal
Neatness
Children should:
§ Dispose of your space and your property in proportion to your own idea of neatness and cleanliness
§ Know where chaos is acceptable and where not welcome
§ Know how far their untidiness can go
§ Know that different people have different concepts of cleanliness and tidiness
§ Knowing that neatly folded clothes are comfortable
§ Know that it is more convenient to find pencils, felt-tip pens, chalk, etc. folded into place.
§ Have household chores, even if their help doesn't look like help yet
FAMILY
Children should:
§ Know the structure of kinship (father, mother, siblings, uncle, aunt, grandparents, cousins, second cousins, nephews, etc.)
§ Know who is depicted in family photos and the story behind the images
§ Know and see childhood photos of the next of kin
§ Know the difference between your own childhood and that of your older relatives
§ Know that the family is the place that brings you up, strengthens and supports you
§ Be able to talk about other families
§ Know a few poems, songs, stories, etc. about family
§ Know how the family prepared for their birth
§ Know that the family was really looking forward to their birth
Speech
Children should:
§ Hear rich speech
§ Communicate with strangers
§ Hear conversations with strangers
§ Know that different people express their thoughts in different ways
§ Be able to start a conversation
§ Be able to defend your point of view with words
§ Understand that they are being listened to
§ Be able to phonetically and gesturally portray the speech of other people
§ Be able to greet, thank, ask for forgiveness in other languages
§ Know how to swear and express their dissatisfaction in other languages
§ Know a short song in another language
Reading
Children need: (ability to read - beyond necessity)
§ To be read from an early age
§ Know that reading aloud is a positive physical and emotional experience and a sign of closeness and community
§ Be able to retell and play out stories, recite poems
§ Be able to make your own judgment about the characters and their feelings from the story being read
§ Be able to feel the rhythm of a poem
§ Know a poem in a foreign language
§ Know many tales of other peoples and cultures
§ Have favorite books
§ Be able to complete a story from an existing one
§ Be able to compose stories
§ Be able to present a retelling of a read story and your own
Letter
Children who are learning to write will benefit from:
§ Try to write letters on dewy grass
§ Try to write letters in the snow and in the sand
§ Lay out letters from water droplets and observe their evaporation in the sun
§ write with breath on glass
§ Lay out letters from pebbles, sticks, petals, etc.
§ Be able to recognize familiar letters in a printed word (from newspapers, books, packaging, posters, etc.)
All children should:
§ hold the handle correctly and control the movement of the hand
§ in the game, "scribble" a letter, inscribe familiar letters on receipts, documents, on parcels (so that the surface is different)
§ during the game "read" what is "written"
§ receive praise and foster the desire to learn to write
Terrain orientation
Children should:
§ Know your address (including city and country)
§ Be able to distinguish your house on the street, as well as know and talk about the sights of your hometown from pictures
§ Know that their sense of space is different from that of other people
§ Be able to explain the way home, relying on landmarks ("from a large puddle to the left, then, after passing a barking dog, to the right, walk past an overgrown garden", etc.)
§ To be interested in the everyday life of friends
§ Love to travel, but also love to return home
§ Be able to talk about travel
§ Know the four directions of the compass
§ Know a few poems, songs and stories about the homeland, travel.
Traffic Laws
Children should:
§ Know the basic rules of behavior on the road
§ Know the traffic rules for pedestrians. For example, look to the left, then to the right, and only then cross the road; know that you can cross the road on a zebra crossing; always be careful, do not cross the road at a red traffic light, do not open the car door in the direction of the carriageway, if traffic is moving along it, etc.
§ Know how a traffic light works.
§ Know several road signs and be able to explain them
§ Respect, not fear, road users
§ Know a couple of songs or poems about traffic
§ Be able to tell about incidents on the road
§ Be able to correct adults who do not comply with traffic rules
§ Feel pride and satisfaction from compliance with traffic rules
Handling the phone
Children should:
§ Answer a phone call by saying your name
§ Be able to ask the caller to call back later
§ Be able to memorize messages and transmit them to the addressee
§ Be able to ask again if something is not clear
§ Know your phone number as a keepsake
§ Know the phone numbers of people important to them
Television
Children should:
§ Know that some TV programs are fictional and some are documentary
§ Know the difference between cartoons and documentaries
§ Watch some programs yourself
Picture books
Children should:
§ Have a large selection of picture books
§ Be able to handle them from an early age
§ Handle books correctly
§ Develop your interest in viewing pictures in your free time
§ Be able to tell stories from a picture
§ Visit the library
§ Be able to choose books for yourself
§ Receive books as a gift
§ "write" your own picture books
Computer
Children need:
§ Be familiar with the computer
§ Play computer games by age
§ Know the difference between real and virtual experiences
Body
Children should:
§ Know the name of each part of the body
§ Know and explain the functions of certain organs
§ Be able to distinguish between psychological and physiological conditions
Disease
Children need:
§ Be able to talk about the illness that happened to them
§ Know how to help a doctor diagnose a disease (“it hurts here”, “burns”, “stings”)
§ Be able to help the sick
§ Feel pleasure if the patient gets better
§ Know for sure that the doctor exists to help patients
§ Empathize with the sick and be able to express it
§ Feel the joy of health
§ Know the correlation between ecology and human health
Death
Children should:
§ Receive sincere and honest answers about death
§ Know about the death of loved ones
§ Feel that their depth of grief is different from that of adults
Sport
Children should:
§ Enjoy sports
§ Know what their body is capable of
§ Know when to stop exercising
§ Know that only persistence gives results (even in sports!)
§ Feel pride in achieving results
§ Sweating, tired and dirty during physical activity and sports
§ Want to play a certain sport
§ Know that they are not cowards, not lazy
§ Know a few songs and poems about sports
Sex education
Children should:
§ Be free of stereotypes ("boys don't do that", "it's a woman's job")
§ See the absence of stereotypes in the family (dad prepares dinner, mom glues wallpaper)
Nature
Children need:
§ Get wet to the skin at least once
§ Help a fallen friend to get up
§ At least once to get smeared like a pig during the game
§ Build a dam on a stream for once
§ Build a hut at least once
§ Know what materials the huts are made of
§ Look for the bird they hear singing at least once
§ Blow the fluff off a dandelion at least once
§ Sit by the fire at least once
§ At least once play on the street before dark
Plants
Children should:
§ Know that plants are alive, that they feed on light, air, minerals, multiply, wither and die
§ Know that plants grow from different seeds
§ Know that a small seed can grow a large plant
§ Know the importance of plants in human life
§ Eat the fruit at least once directly from a tree or bush
§ Know the main types of grain from which bread is made
§ Recognize several trees by the type of leaves, bark, shape
§ Play with fallen leaves at least once
§ Feel that nothing living lives without an environment, and also that we humans live in a big world
§ Know the influence of the seasons on the plant world (in the garden, park, forest)
§ Be aware of the state of nature at the time of their birthday
§ Smell a handful of earth at least once
§ Play with sawdust at least once
§ Plant grain at least once, take care of it and see how the plant grows.
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