How to carry out educational activities in rural kindergartens

How to carry out activities in rural kindergartens

Regional activities are children who can freely cooperate, explore and learn individually or in groups under the purposeful and conscious guidance of teachers. A form of educational organization that achieves physical, emotional, cognitive and other aspects of development through the interaction of the environment. This method of activity is increasingly recognized by early childhood education workers. How to rationally utilize rural natural resources and explore regional activities suitable for local children is a problem we are facing. Our kindergarten adapts to local conditions, combines the actual situation of rural areas, makes full use of rural local resources, and finds regional activities suitable for rural kindergartens, so that children can have a happy experience in independent activities.

1. Excavate local resources and carry out activity area activities

Although our kindergarten is located in a remote mountain village, it also has inexhaustible teaching resources. There are woods, fields and streams around our garden. As long as they are developed and utilized effectively, they will add color and vitality to the activities.

1. Based on the characteristics of rural areas, provide children with opportunities for hands-on operations

Being able to provide children with materials suitable for their operations in the activity area is a transformation from traditional education to active education. . In order to provide young children with manipulative materials that are familiar to them and do not require large amounts of money, teachers should brainstorm ideas. A teacher in our kindergarten accidentally discovered a special kind of red clay in a ravine at home. It was extremely sticky. The teachers went to the mountain to dig out the red clay. After processing, it can not only replace plasticine, but also satisfy people's needs. Young children's desire to operate. Teachers also timely guide children to combine hands-on operations with mathematical activities, and they unknowingly learn to sort according to rules. In addition, there are many readily available materials in rural areas, such as stones, eggshells, waste paper boxes, seeds, vegetables, etc. We mobilized parents to collect materials for the activity area and created a waste materials collection in the class Recycle bins collect materials in categories, giving young children the opportunity to choose, so that each child can get their favorite materials and try to make their favorite toys and pictures. Through our efforts, not only the activity area has been enriched, but also the children have been nourished by beauty during the activities, and at the same time, they have developed a love for their hometown.

2. Choose abundant natural resources according to seasonal characteristics

The new "Outline" requires "making full use of the natural environment and community resources to expand children's living space and learning space", which is very important for Rural early childhood education is particularly important, as it can give full play to the unique natural conditions in rural areas. Autumn is the harvest season and the most beautiful season in my hometown. It is also an important period for educating young children. Teachers choose this period to go to the wild with children to collect leaves, corn husks, straw, etc., sort them out and put them in the material area, so that children can use these materials to design their own autumn. Young children are also very interested in these readily available "native products". When collecting leaves, they found that the leaves grow in different shapes, including opposite, whorled, green to yellow, and green to yellow. Turn red and so on. Children felt the beauty of autumn through activities such as understanding leaves, finding leaves' homes, making leaf specimens, and leaf stickers. Nature contains infinite value and brings endless joy to young children.

2. Actively create activity areas based on rural characteristics

1. Build activity areas according to educational goals and let the activity areas interact with the theme

We have passed the " Through the study of "Outline", I learned that regional activities are activities for children's self-discovery, self-learning, and self-exploration. The relaxed activity atmosphere can meet the needs of children. Therefore, when setting up activity areas, we pay attention to the realization of educational goals, guide children to participate, and give full play to children's subjectivity. For example, "load-bearing experiment" is a relatively abstract concept. In this activity, in order to allow children to intuitively understand its meaning and stimulate their desire to explore, the teacher first provided children with operating materials in the science corner: wooden blocks, different thicknesses, etc. Paper, snowflake building blocks, etc., let the children play by themselves, and the teacher will provide timely guidance. When the children become interested, the teacher will organize their activities. This kind of educational effect is very good.

2. Regional activities are an extension of collective education activities

Mathematical activities are the most abstract and difficult to understand for young children. In addition, children have different cognitive levels, so teachers are very Difficulty grasping mathematical activities. At this time, regional activities play their unique educational function. For example, sorting is an important educational content for large classes in kindergartens. It is difficult to achieve the teaching goals with only one or two classes of concentrated education. Therefore, we combine sorting into regional activities: teachers put stones, leaves, seeds, etc., materials that children are familiar with in the activity area, allowing them to observe, analyze and discover the mystery of regular sorting while playing with bracelets and placing stones. They show a positive desire for knowledge in a variety of ways to play, and while mastering new knowledge, they improve their level of communication with peers. Teachers timely organize children to exchange their own ways of playing and rules to help children improve their experience level.

3. The activities in the activity area can generate new educational goals and generate new themes

The activity area serves the educational goals, and at the same time, the activity area is set up with children’s interest points as the protagonists. Generate new educational goals. For example, after a thunderstorm in summer, many earthworms crawled on the balcony. The children were watching and talking. The teacher suggested picking up the earthworms and breeding them, so they built two homes for the earthworms with different soil textures.

In this breeding corner, children constantly generate new ideas, and teachers provide guidance, allowing them to discover and solve problems on their own. This method not only enriches the activity area, but also allows children to learn new knowledge. The documentary activity "Earthworms" won the second prize for provincial documentary activities. There are many other such activities, such as "Ants", "Interesting Stones", "Cabbage has worms", etc. These activities truly reflect the true meaning of the activity. District functions that serve educational goals.

4. Create an open outdoor activity area

Since rural kindergartens have fewer game materials and activity equipment and cannot meet the needs of children, we have established a system of "doing the best possible use of people and resources." It uses the simple values ??of "Using" to carry out outdoor activity area activities according to the situation. First, use local materials to make a variety of activity equipment. In spring and summer, we use Malan leaves to make whips and play horse riding games, or weave dragonflies into dragonflies to catch. In autumn, we use corn husks to braid them, play cross-river and balancing games, and make darts to practice throwing. wait. Secondly, explore the educational value of traditional games. Traditional games in rural areas have the advantage that children are familiar with them and have already acquired the materials. They have certain educational value for the development of rural children. Therefore, we give full play to the exercise function of local games and give new vitality to traditional games. For example, hoop rolling, roller skates, stilts, bamboo pole games, rope swings, rope flips, flower basket weaving, etc. These are games that young children will never tire of playing. These activities not only enrich the activities in the outdoor activity area for children , and allow young children to achieve the purpose of physical exercise. Finally, create an open outdoor activity area for young children to provide them with more opportunities for cooperation and interaction. We take advantage of the open activity venues in rural areas to change the past class-based activities and conduct outdoor mixed-class games.

In short, through the development of regional activities, not only has the concept of teachers in our kindergarten been greatly changed, the potential of teachers has been better utilized, but also the harmonious development of rural children has been promoted.

In the process of continuous exploration, summary, innovation and reflection, rich local materials have brought vitality to the activities in our kindergarten activity area, and also brought characteristics, vitality and hope to our kindergarten!