[Drill] I tried doing Pygmalion drills with my eldest child, and it was more interesting than I expected.
My eldest child is five years old. They will be an elementary school student next year.
They are scheduled to go to a public elementary school, but some children in the world take elementary school entrance exams.
I wonder what kind of studying children who take entrance exams do.
I often hear about a drill called "Pygmalion," so I tried doing it with my eldest child, and it was interesting.
Buying a Pygmalion drill
There is a large bookstore on my way home. I saw Pygmalion drills being sold, so I picked one up to look at it.
Oh, so this is what the content is like.
Oh, this looks interesting.
The first one I bought with that thought was a building block drill.
Trying the building block drill
It is a drill where pictures of building blocks are drawn, and you count how many there are.
I wonder if it's about inferring three-dimensional structures from two-dimensional pictures?
At first, my eldest child was completely confused.
That's right, I have an advent calendar box that I received as a Christmas present from my mother-in-law last year, so let's use that.
They seemed to understand it somehow and became able to count them.
Once they understood, they seemed to enjoy solving the problems, and they can even count about 16 building blocks now.
I guess the building block drill is cleared now.
Next up are drills on comparing weight and volume.
A drill called "Quantity and Weight."
It's more like playing a quiz than doing a drill, so it's fun.
Which one is the heaviest?
Which one is the second heaviest?
I think about it together with them.
There are also volume problems.
Which one has the most water?
They figured this out surprisingly quickly.
Then, which ball, if put in, will increase the water level the most?
They are struggling a little with this.
I explained it when we were in the bath.
When my older child gets in, the bath water only rises this much.
But when Mom gets in, the bath water rises this much.
The answers are scattered in various places.
The next drill is mirror images.
Next is "overlapping shapes."
It seems this was a little difficult.
To explain it, I cut up a clear file folder and drew on it with a marker to demonstrate.
If the picture on the left folds over onto the picture on the right, what kind of shape will it become?
If the line folds, it becomes a triangle, right?
This circle here will come over here, right?
As we repeated it, it seemed like they understood it to some extent.
I wonder if this is an 'aha!' moment.
The moment I thought, 'Ah, they understand,' was,
During a segment called
Go Go! Dokkorashoon the E-Tele program 'Miitsuketa!'
when there was a 'quiz to choose which room the master is in based on the position of the windows.'
They gave the answer easily.
Even though the genre is a bit different, it was the moment I realized they had acquired a way of thinking.
In our daily lives, we do things naturally without noticing anything.
Trying out the Pygmalion drill made me think,
this might be playing a role in helping them understand phenomena.
It made me think about things like that.
Even now, when my older child gets in the bath,
'Mom got in, so the water rose this much!'
they notice and say.
It was a moment where both I and my child grew.
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