EDUCATIONAL AND DEVELOPING POTENTIAL OF LEGOTECHNOLOGY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF COGNITIVE ACTIVITY OF PRESCHOOL AGE’S CHILDREN

Senior preschooler is a sensitive period in the development of the cognitive activity. Exactly in this age, child learns to clearly realize intended goal and search for the ways to implement it independently. In the sixth year of life, the children start to possess ability for arbitrary memorizing; the creative and logical thinking actively develops; the interest for constructive work increases. The constructive work is complex cognitive activity during which a child learns skills, select significant signs, establish relations and connections between details and objects. The use of Lego-technology in the play and education purposes allows to solve complex cognitive, exploratory and creative tasks in the interesting, available, comprehendsible, game form. The tasks of the educational activity with the preschool children are solved with the help of the construction toys on such directions: development of fine motor skills; development of attention, memory, thinking; training of correct and fast direction finding; acquisition of mathematical knowledge about quantity, form, proportions, symmetry; extension of the perceptions of children about the world around, architecture; development of the imaginations, creativity; training of the communication with each other, respect for their work and work of other people.