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Preschool is a crucial time in your child’s development, but it’s not so much about what they learn as how they learn. Going beyond mere recitation to build and strengthen cognitive pathways takes practice and expertise. FasTracKids, in New York City, offers supplementary enrichment programs for preschool-age kids that will lay the groundwork for critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, communication, and self-awareness.

How can you give your child a cognitive head-start? Check out some of the preschool activities below.

4 Brain-Building Preschool Activities

1. Learn The Alphabet

Instill language skills by practicing the alphabet; help your child connect letters to their corresponding sounds. Songs and games about the alphabet can anchor this information.

preschool activities2. Identify Music & Sounds

Music can help kids memorize information, recognize words, and identify patterns. Singing along will encourage your child to use music to facilitate learning. Music can also make your child more attuned to everyday sounds and their corresponding context, particularly if these everyday sounds are embedded in songs.

3. Take A Multi-Sensory Approach

As your child builds a foundation with numbers, letters, sounds, shapes, and colors, encourage them to draw connections between the senses. When they visually identify a letter, ask them what color it is. When they pick up an animal-shaped toy, ask what sound it makes.

4. Make Decisions & Answer Questions

Posing questions and providing choices will reinforce your child’s problem-solving abilities and judgment. Verbalizing answers to your questions requires children to demonstrate creativity, comprehension, and communication. Decision-making allows autonomy, demands assertion, and enhances independence.

Practicing these preschool activities with your child will lay the cornerstone for academic development, but leave the job of fine-tuning and fortifying that neural network to the experts at FasTracKids. Their Core Enrichment curriculum will give your child the jump on learning. Contact FasTracKids online to learn more about their programs or call (347) 983-2229, and sign up for a free trial class.

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