Our top 10 Reasons as to Why every child and Primary school classroom need a Geo Fun Board:
Geo Fun Boards:
1.Improve fine motor skills.
To use a geoboard a child needs to pull and manipulate elastic bands over the pegs using their fingers only, which helps to develop some very important fine motor skills. Fine motor skills involve the use of the small muscles that control the hand, fingers, and thumb. They help children perform important tasks like feeding themselves, grasping toys, buttoning and zipping clothes, writing, drawing, and more.
2. Stimulates Creativity.
The geoboards give a child the freedom to explore, create and discover in a safe environment. All of this helps to stimulate and develop creativity.
3. Teaches Problem Solving
As a teacher I can tell you that problem-solving is one of the areas that more and more learners struggle with at school and throughout their daily lives. For a child this is an important life skill they will need to develop so they are able to make healthy decisions for themselves. If a child is able to solve problems on their own, they will be happier, more confident and more independent; they will not feel frustrated or disheartened in their inefficiency. This is why it is important we begin teaching children problem solving skills from an early age.
4. Develops their imagination
Albert Einstein once said “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the whole world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.” Imagination aids in the development of social, emotional, creative, physical, lingual, and problem-solving skills in children.
5. Teaches cause and effect
6. It also helps to stimulate muscle movements in their hands and fingers
This once again goes back to fine motor skills and the importance thereof.
7. Improves hand eye coordination
8. Teaches children to read from left to right and from top to bottom
9. Are designed to increase a child’s ability to concentrate
10. Working with geometric shapes is also an excellent pre-reading and pre-writing activity since it teaches a child to see and name shapes, and it prepares the child to see letters and numbers and to eventually read and write them.