How to create the theme wall decorations of the small class?

The theme environment of the small class is mostly created by the teacher, and the children's participation in a single form; the creation of the theme environment is more about the pursuit of aesthetics, and the children mostly look at it; the creation of the theme environment can not fully mobilize the children's participation and obtain the necessary cognition? Through studying the Learning and Guidelines for Children Aged 3-6, we further realized that the design of kindergarten themed wall decorations needs to mobilize the interaction of both the body and the mind of young children, so that young children can really obtain cognitive development and improve their abilities in the interaction with the wall decorations. We think, how to let the theme of the small class wall decorations "move" up?

1. The theme wall decorations should be situational

The playful day-to-day life is an effective way for young children to learn, and the first thing we should consider when choosing thematic activities is the age and learning characteristics of young children, choosing thematic activities that are suitable for young children and designing situational thematic wall decorations to interact with young children. For example, in the theme activity of "Delicious Fruits", we use the theme wall decorations to show the different characteristics and various functions of fruits with the scene of little animals picking fruits, and the children can put the fruits they make on different fruit trees or into the fruit baskets in the hands of the little animals; there are also scenes on the wall decorations in which the little animals share fruits together and taste different foods made of fruits. These scenes are familiar to children and easy to understand, from the cognitive level is very easy for children to accept, children naturally participate in it, the educational objectives in the process of children's participation to achieve.

2. Theme wall decorations should be fun to create

Intuitive action thinking is the main feature of the young children, and they get the experience of perception through hands-on operation, so the theme wall decorations should be able to let the children "play", and obtain the relevant information in the process of "play". So the theme wall decorations should be able to let children "play", in the process of "play" to obtain the relevant knowledge and experience. For example, "sweet candy" theme activities, we will be soft and hard classification process given "to the small animals to build a house" interesting scenarios, the bear's body made into a soft, the rabbit's body made into a hard, young children through the touch to identify the real candy soft and hard, the corresponding candy as a wall tile affixed to the body of the small animals, one by one to the small animals to build a house, the wall decorations should be able to let children "play", so the theme should be able to "play" in the process of "play" to gain knowledge and experience. After identifying the soft and hard candies by touch, the children put the corresponding candies as wall bricks on the body of the animal and build a solid house for the animal one by one. This is a change from the previous fixed classification pattern, and the wall decorations are designed as a fun game, in which children feel the distinctive features of soft and hard candy. This process is in line with the Guidelines, which says, "Emphasis should be placed on guiding young children to learn through direct perception, hands-on experience and actual operation".

3. Thematic wall decorations should be interactive

The Guidelines also make a clear recommendation to "stimulate young children to use multiple senses or actions to explore objects". The thinking characteristics of young children determine that their learning is mainly accomplished through multiple senses such as seeing, hearing, touching, and smelling objects, so they like to play games, and the more they are interested in the content, the more they are able to stimulate their internal motivation for active learning. The creation of theme wall decorations focusing on effective interaction with young children can inspire them to participate actively, and actively obtain the corresponding knowledge and ability. For example, in the theme activity of "car toot-toot", in order to deepen the children's knowledge of the basic structure of the car, we will observe the real car after the children, we will set up a car on the theme wall of the structure of the car, there is an enlarged photo of the structure of the car, the children are very interested in the beginning, will go to look at it, but after a long time, the children are no longer concerned about it.

In order to ensure that the theme environment and the children's lasting interaction, we will be static form of display adjusted to the dynamic game, the outside of the car into a form that can be lifted to look at the form, so that children will often "open to look at it", through the speculation, lifting to increase the impression of the structure of the car. This small change in the wall decorations effectively increases the children's interaction with the thematic wall decorations and logically accomplishes the corresponding teaching objectives. In this process, children can see and manipulate with their bodies and interact with the theme wall decorations to achieve success and happiness, thus building up their emotions and self-confidence. For example, in the theme wall decoration of "Car Toot Toot", we also created a fire engine puzzle, using the form of jigsaw to help children understand the basic structure and special functions of the fire engine, the process of jigsawing not only satisfies children's desire to explore, but also develops spatial thinking. The theme of "delicious fruit" wall decorations in the "picking fruit", "sweet candy" theme wall decorations in the "soft and hard classification", also mobilized the children's various senses, especially the participation of the limbs, and wall decorations with the active and positive interaction.

4. The theme of the wall decorations should be generated

Wall decorations are created for the development of young children, should be adjusted at any time with the development of young children's needs and interests, in order to play a greater educational value. Therefore, our wall decorations should be appropriate to leave space for the children to generate the theme content. For example, "delicious fruit" theme, the children found that the growing environment of fruit is different, so we set up a different fruit tree theme wall decorations, children will create their own various fruits pasted in the appropriate place, such as, watermelon pasted on the ground vine, grapes pasted on the shelf. The theme wall decorations also at the same time, "where the fruit grows" and "small animals picking fruit" scenarios organically combined with the expansion of children's interests and discoveries, the theme of the extension of the activities forward at the same time, the wall decorations of the scenarios are more rich, more suitable for the development of young children's needs.

5. Theme wall decorations to create art

Theme wall is an important part of the classroom environment, as a class of an "activity" wall environment, we have to give its creative design, wisdom dress.

The design of the beginning, the first thing to consider is the relationship between the whole and the local, the theme of the class wall decorations accounted for most of the activities of the environment, so the process of design must be considered in the classroom environment as a whole, so that the theme of the environment can be harmoniously blended into the overall environment of the classroom. What kind of pattern to use, how to arrange, size and so on, are all related to the beauty of the environment. It should be noted that the creation of wall decorations for small children is very different from that of large and medium-sized classes. Due to the characteristics of height, we have to place interactive environments as far as possible in a position where the children can touch them. Secondly, consider the harmony and unity of color, classroom environment creation, color is the most important factor, the reasonable use of color is related to the overall effect of the environment is the key, to choose the main color of the classroom environment, pay attention to the color is not too much. Finally, to consider the three-dimensional creation of thematic wall decorations. Three-dimensional wall decorations create a visual sense than the plane to be more prominent, enhance the interactivity of the content, more able to attract young children's interest in the operation, and can meet the needs of young children interaction.

In short, the environment of the kindergarten class should follow the principles of the Guide to the development needs of young children for the purpose of the theme of the objectives of the activities, to create a young children like to interact with the environment, so that the "walls" to speak, to promote young children to take the initiative to think, the development of their own.