Reflections on the symbolic performance of small class children in sericulture activities

This week's natural corner is simply too noisy, with watermelon worms, ants, silkworm babies, mung bean sprouts, and a drizzle, with small earthworms and snails. The children's jumping hearts can't hold back any longer.

Silkworm babies in insect supplies

After Grain Rain, mulberry leaves sprouted, and sericulture, the most important agricultural project in ancient China, began. Through the solar terms in Grain Rain, children became interested in sericulture. So after a brief understanding of why people want to raise silkworms, children all want to try to raise silkworms. With the strong support of parents, the children brought two small boxes of silkworm chrysalis, some unhatched silkworm eggs, and some small tools for sericulture, such as thermometers, feathers, screens and so on. And, of course, mulberry leaves, silkworm baby food.

"Silkworm baby, welcome to the big family of Class 4". In the process of getting to know the silkworm baby for the first time, the children got a preliminary understanding of the growth process of the silkworm baby and the tools of sericulture environment through their own observation and teacher's introduction. And painted his findings with a brush.

Xiao Yi's children made his discovery entirely with his own paintings. His representative works include a silkworm baby incubator with air holes, a thermometer for measuring indoor temperature, mulberry leaves cut into small pieces, and of course a small silkworm baby. Although you may feel a little confused when you first look at the characterization of Xiao Yi, it is true after the introduction of the little author! He made it very clear. I am secretly pleased with my child's progress: from being shy and unwilling to express at the beginning, I am so confident and clear when I say a series of words now. Children gradually use symbols more and more conveniently. They like to record and are willing to record. Although the hand control is not so skilled, the painter needs to be improved, but in small classes, children dare to record in their own way. If they like to record, they can lay a solid foundation for the activities of middle and large classes and the study of characters and symbols in primary schools.

Silkworm babies have been in Class 4 for a week, and they can see their growth with the naked eye. But we have a problem. We all went home at the weekend. What if the silkworm baby is left unattended? The "Silkworm Baby Adoption Plan" has begun. What if every child wants to adopt a silkworm baby home? It's time for the activity of "sericulture experts". Teachers and children discuss matters needing attention and knowledge of sericulture and record them with symbols. After the discussion, the children scrambled to express their understanding of sericulture. Finally, after taking turns to speak, the children agreed that Yuyang and Wenwen are the children who know how to raise silkworms best, so this week's "expert sericulture" activity ended. Of course, the rest of the children said that they would continue to work hard to become "sericulture experts" next week.

In the process of discussion and recording, the teacher does not use any symbols he wants to represent, but asks the children to be participants and agree with them. For example, "What can you say about sericulture knowledge?" "How to express attention to ventilation?" "Let's not disturb when the silkworm baby is sleeping" and so on. Children use symbols that they can understand through association. When the teacher leads the children to review the discussion results after the discussion, the children can explain the numbers according to the symbols just expressed. Through this form of representation, children gradually realize the benefits of representation recording, which can help us record more information. Sometimes you may forget it if you don't record it, but you can review it one by one after you record it with symbols. At the same time, in the discussion and communication with teachers, learn the skills of representing painting, not only the painting of symbols, but also the neat layout.

Some children always feel that they can't draw well at first. At first, we often heard such words as "Teacher, I can't", "Teacher, I don't know what to draw" and "Teacher, please help me". In the process of child representation and teacher-led representation again and again, children can boldly express themselves through their own thinking, even if the painting is not very good, even if others can't understand it. The important thing is that we can express ourselves through appearances.