Looking at Things Through a Different Perspective is Crucial to a Child’s Cognitive Learning

An important part of a child’s cognitive skills develop through basic matching.

A child begins by matching real objects.

Once that level is mastered, a child learns to match simple pictures.

The third level of development is a child’s ability to match by color and shape.

By school age a child is able to sort and match complex categories, abstract features and develop cognitive skills including:

Visual memory: Remembering and recognizing visual features.
Pattern recognition: Learning the rules to repeating sentences, singing songs and telling stories.
Focus and Attention: Ability to concentrate on a single task.
Problem Solving:  Figuring out how different items relate to one another.

Developing these foundations skills, will also lead to understanding more complex math concepts: counting, addition, subtraction, patterns, counting by groups, and the list goes on.

Turn Matching Into a Communication Activity

When you are matching with a child, always name the object first, then the color,  then a discriptor:  “Do you have an elephant that is yellow with a red floppy ear?”

Giving children opportunities to compare, describe, match, remember, and make decisions, can encourage them to approach problems in different ways and build skills they can carry into everyday life.

Zoo Zompers was designed with underlying learning opportunities that encourage children to think, communicate, match, describe, remember, and problem-solve while having fun.

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