Neuropsychological Cluster

Young children learn by exploring their environment and using their motor and sensory skills, including learning to put together, take apart, build, draw, and so on. Children’s favourite toys are often blocks, shape sorters, puzzles, and so on. Encouraging such play and providing lots of opportunities for manipulating shapes and building with blocks, working simple puzzles, finger painting, scribbling, colouring, and drawing will promote the development of visual-spatial (and fine motor) skills.

Reinforcement of effort and persistence, as always, is important: “Look, you made some beautiful red scribbles!” “Oh, so much fun to stack the blocks and knock them over!”