molath
List of what the child learns at the age of 4 years
What does a 4-year-old learn?
If you are going to teach your child to parallel education with his education in nursery school or pre-school,
or if you are going to teach him home education, have you asked yourself what a child learns at the age of 4 years?
Perhaps the most important thing on your mind is whether I will be able to establish my child well. What should he learn? Which method should I follow?
What topics should I focus on? Can I make up for the incubation period at home?
You will find all the answers here. You will also learn about 25 skills you can teach your child 3-4 years old at home.
Also, you will download a suitable 300-page activity book, and below you will find links to similar books. We also advise you to read our previous topics.
If you are a kindergarten teacher, you will also find worksheets for all skills of this stage—for example, Arabic and English letters, numbers, shapes, colours, reading, etc.
List the child learns at the age of 4 years
1- Activities to develop the child’s manual skills
1- Take care of the activities of playing with dough, moving things with a spoon or tongs, opening locks and other manual activities
2- The coordination between the sense of sight and the movement of the hand
3- Use a variety of activities to develop the child’s control of his hands in coordination with the look, such as the activities of inserting pieces into holes in a box
Or the three-dimensional shapes puzzle in which the child inserts each shape in its place
4- Coloring inside a shape with fingers and other activities
2- Activities to teach the child to perceive time and recognize the concept of time
At this stage, the child should be accustomed to understanding the importance of the time factor in accomplishing multiple tasks.
1- Give your child any activity appropriate for his age and set the alarm at an appropriate time to finish the activity.
Ask your child to finish the work before the alarm bell rings. Repeat the activity daily until your child is able to complete his tasks on time. Without exposing your child to reprimand or stress, give him enough rewarding time In the event of his success and encouragement in the event that he could not finish on time.
And give him confidence in his ability to do that with his continuous training and be happy with his progress
3- Teach your child to write his name before he even learns the letters
Your child’s learning to write his name at this age is wonderful before he even learns all the letters. A child in nursery school can learn to write his name even before he finishes the letters.
1- Write your child’s name in a large font on a piece of paper and ask the child to colour it
2- Continue to provide a variety of weekly activities about the child’s name. You can cut and paste any shapes inside his name
3- Write his name on a piece of paper and colour it with fingers and others so that your child can recognize his name when he sees it
4-Teach the child to write his name himself as if it were a drawing activity. Before learning the letters, the child draws his name
4- Activities to learn independence and self-reliance
1- Your child before the nursery stage is often dependent on you to prepare his requirements. Basically, familiarize your child during the nursery stage with the important matters in which he must rely on himself, such as entering the bathroom or eating his food
2-Train your child to collect his tools and arrange them in his bag by himself or tie his shoes. It may seem difficult and cumbersome at first, but repeated training with encouragement and support makes the matter easier.
5- Principles of public hygiene
If you are planning to enter your child into the nursery at this age, you must teach him general principles to protect him from ways
The various infections that he may be exposed to.
1- Teach the child to wash his hands before eating or after leaving the bathroom. With the presence of sanitisers suitable for children, it has become easy to teach your child to keep them in his bag and use them before eating food.
2- Teach the child to use his own cup for drinking and not to share his own tools such as a towel, a cup or a water bottle, and teach the child, for example, the difference between sharing colours and sharing a drinking cup in terms of transmission of infection
6- Teach your child to share and cooperate
A child who goes to the nursery is the first opportunity to meet for a long time every day other children may face difficulties in the beginning in dealing with the rest of the children.
1- Teach your child some group games that he can play with his peers. A child who knows some group games tends to make friends more easily.
2- Teach your child how to behave if another child hits him or takes something from his tools, such as complaining to the teacher or trying firmly to stop the other child without hurting one another
3- Teach some of the rules of participation, such as preserving and returning others’ tools, or paying attention to recovering their tools after sharing them.
4- Develop his social skills such as how to talk with his friends or participate in games and wait for his turn or accept the loss
5-Teach the child how to ask for help from his teacher for any help he may need and other skills
7- Child independence education activities
1- Give your child time to be in a safe place and under your supervision to play with other children, independently of your constant instructions. In order to monitor his reactions in different situations. And you also become aware of the aspects that you must develop in your child before entering the nursery.
2- Introduce the child to the system of rules that he must follow while in the nursery. For example, not yelling, hitting, etc
3- It would be good to buy or follow him on the computer stories for the first day of nursery for other children.
8- Activities to train the child to follow the instructions
A child at the age of 3-4 years can follow simple instructions consisting of one or two requests
1-Train your child to focus on your words when you ask him something
2-Train him to follow simple instructions consisting of one or two things, for example, bring the colours, the colour of the picture, and so on
3- Teach the child to respond to different commands in Arabic or English such as stop, sit, write, open the book, collect your tools in the bag, be embarrassed, and so on
9- Activities to practice speaking in an understandable manner
Many children at this age are still developing speaking skills and often in many children. Especially the first child in their family may not yet be able to speak well.
1- Train your child to try to pronounce the basic sentences that he uses if he needs help from his teacher, train him to try to pronounce them as slowly and clearly as possible. This is so that he can communicate with his teacher well and not worry, his presence with many children on a daily basis will gradually improve his language skills
10- Develop listening skills
Develop your child’s listening skills at this age
1- This is by allocating time daily to tell a story to the child without a book
2- Make the child train to focus and understand your voice and interact with the story, as this increases his ability to focus on commands and the vocal explanation of his teacher. It develops his imagination and comprehension skills and increases his linguistic output.
3- It would be good to take turns and encourage the child to tell a story and listen to him
11- A skill to deliver and increase self-confidence
Many children at this age may be shy towards strangers or large crowds. Develop your child’s confidence before entering nursery school. This is the appropriate period for modifying the behaviour of the shy child.
1- Ask the child to recite a chant, a surah he memorizes, or tell a story, and exaggerate his encouragement, applause, or praise for his performance.
2- Gradually ask him to do this in front of some relatives or close friends, while continuing to encourage him and teach him to raise his voice, speak audibly to others, stand upright, and other recitation skills.
12- Logical arrangement skills
An important skill that can be developed in a child is learning the sequence and order of events. So that he can tell you anything he wants to tell you in an understandable sequence. The child’s understanding of the concept of sequencing or order of events can be developed through
1- Using the picture cards that consist of 3 cards for a specific event and the child must arrange them in their logical sequence
13- Educational activities for wild children, writing
Beginning writing exercises are very important at this age, do not neglect them. A paper daily to hydrate the child’s ability to control his hand muscles and use the pen well before entering the writing stage. You will find large groups of them available for beautification in our previous topic by clicking here
14- Arabic letters activities
1- The child learns through KG1. Mastering the letters. I can say that my child has mastered the Arabic letters well. If he becomes able to pronounce the sound of the letter and know its shape and a word that begins with it at least. You can teach your child the letters yourself easily and efficiently through the worksheets that we have provided for free download. Click here to get them.
2- KJ2 stage, learning letters with words and reading triple words. Learn from here the steps of teaching reading to children. You can use our previous topics, word cards and reading from here.
Words in the movement of the hole
And secondly, words with the kasra movement
Third, words in the movement of the hug
Fourth, download words with the three movements
And finally, words of strength
15-English letters Capital and Small
1- Child KJ1 learns English letters. I can tell my child has mastered the English letters when he can recognize them, Capital and Small. And he was able to communicate them well and connect them with the words they start with. He was able to pronounce the letter when he saw it and knew at least one to three words that begin with it. From here you can download many of our free books to teach English letters, click here.
2- KJ 2 learns to read triple words and dictate the words that begin with the deaf. You can refer to our previous topic. Reading steps in English. Inside the topic, you will find the best books to learn to read triple words.
16- Counting shapes and things
1-KJI 1 of 1-50
2-KJI 2 Count from 1-500
3- Mastering the number of shapes well and writing the appropriate number of shapes up to 20 only.
4- Count things correctly, such as balls, spoons, books, etc. correctly
5- My type is in things counting activities. As for verbal counting and writing, you can continue until the number is 100 kg 1 and 500 kg 2
From our previous topics, you can learn the correct way to teach child numbers and other topics about
Teach the child to count at an early age. Also, you will find here free books to teach numbers and arithmetic
17- Holding the pen
1- Do not strain the child’s hand muscles by writing too much. At this age, he can learn letters and numbers through a variety of activities such as connecting, colouring, drawing, colouring cards, cutting and pasting along with writing.
2- Do not rely on the routine method of teaching by writing only, as you will notice the child’s boredom, fatigue, lack of focus and a bad outcome in the end.
3- It is qualitative in the methods of teaching your child according to the development of the times. There are many educational applications, books for the occasion, and online games. We will dedicate a special topic to them with the appropriate links.
18-Basic colours
1- Recognize the primary colours red, green, blue, yellow, white, and black at least
2- If your child has difficulty recognizing and memorizing colours despite the fact that he does not have any health problems, focus only on one colour every week and intensify activities on it. Collect with your child items from your kitchen. Colouring a shape or listening to a song about it, he will master it at the end of the week, then move to another colour
3- Here you will find worksheets for teaching colours
19-Basic shapes
1- In the nursery, the child learns basic shapes. It is a triangle, a square, a circle, and a star crescent, and also makes him learn the shapes interactively with each shape.
2- Let him look for things that resemble the shape he learned around the house
3- Make applications and activities on the shape such as drawing, cutting and pasting with coloured paper. It will be more fun for the child to learn in an interactive way at this age
20- Educational activities for children’s language skills
1- Develop your child’s language skills by memorizing simple songs in the language he is learning and some simple puzzles and short stories. There are several previous topics about Arabic and English children’s songs and story channels that you can use to develop your child’s skills.
2- Tell stories. Many comic stories at this age are useful. You will find in the Story Zone all the stories in Arabic and English, and here is an index of the topics of a thousand stories
21 – Classification and division into groups
1- Teach your child to classify things according to colour, shape or size. Classification is an important skill that a child at this age can understand and master.
2- Here are worksheets that help the child to focus and search for things that have common elements or similar characteristics
22- Educational activities for children about places, directions and jobs
1- Teach your child about practical games and activities, the concept of under, in front, behind, next to, and so on, hide one of his toys and ask him to find it after you describe its place for him and exchange roles among you
2- Here is a very wonderful and special interactive book that you can do with the child, whether in Arabic or English
3- Here is a great and simple story about jobs
23-Standards and Standards
1- Teach your child the concept of long, short, full, empty, fat, thin, and so on. Train your child to describe many things using these words to get to know their concept better.
2- Antonyms books are great for teaching the child many of these concepts, you can find them here
24 motor skills
1- Do not underestimate the tendency of your child at this age to move and go
2-Teach your child to run at an appropriate speed and correct form to avoid falling
3- Jumping over some obstacles, such as his head, for example, without touching it
4- Throwing a ball with his hands and feet at an appropriate distance
5- Jump 7 consecutive jumps without stopping
6- Jump with both legs
7- Balance his body by standing on one leg for several seconds
8- Picking up a ball when throwing it at him with his hands
25-The skills of controlling it with his hands are like several activities of it
1- Build a column of 10 cubes
2- Choosing large beads in a thick thread
3- Hold the pen correctly
4- Installing a puncture of 6-7 pieces
5- Train him to draw a horizontal-vertical line, a circle-square
5- Use safe scissors for children well
6- Using glue by himself is safe for children
7- Paste the stickers in specific places himself
26- The mother’s note: What does a 4-year-old child learn?
We made a note for the mother for KJ1 and KJ2 or nursery and preparatory to be a reference and an aid for you to teach your child and organize your time
What does a 4-year-old learn from a 3-5 year old?
The importance of this stage lies in the fact that it is a very fertile stage for the education of the child and the development of his skills and intelligence through activities and play. Whether it is through a nursery school or through the home. Through our topics on the site, you will be able to teach your child at home with the highest possible efficiency.
What does a 4-year-old learn?
Have you thought about answering the question What does a child learn at the age of 4 years Children in the nursery age from 3-4 years in the stage of developing the basic skills for them to prepare for entering school? There are a series of skills that need to be taken care of and developed in the child. Through this stage before starting the stage Elementary school and regular schooling. There are educational activities for children that are suitable for this age to develop the child’s various skills. Write down some notes that you find important here in his note, especially for your child’s education. This is so that it stays in front of you all the time and becomes easier for you to remember.
