How to choose a baby from 2 years old win-win material for development? Start with the good old, world-renowned sorter!
Sorter Forms from Viga Toys & ndash; basic educational toy for acquainting the child with shapes and colors. Distinguished by minimalist design and practicality in use. It consists of a wooden & rsquo; drawer with a drawer lid with 4 holes of different shapes and 4 types of geometric bodies.
The task of the child & ndash; sort details by one attribute or another, in this case & ndash; by shape. The child will study the structure of each figure and choose the appropriate hole for it.
Wooden sorter with geometric shapes is rightly considered one of the most useful toys for learning. With its help the child gains experience of analysis and comparison, improves fine motor skills and visual-manual coordination. To properly sort the elements, the baby has to do a difficult intellectual work: to understand the relationship between the shape of the figure and the outline of the hole. This is usually preceded by practical trial and error.
Populated by Maria Montessori. It is based on the invention of the French educator and psychologist & ndash; Segen's board. And she created a training kit from improvised materials, which became known as a sorter. Decades later, a similar toy for development was developed by the Nikitin family, who named its frames and inserts.