The Role of Play in Early Childhood Education

The process of the game is also a process for young children to recognize life, understand others and get close to society. Such as playing the "top of the pot" game, require at least two children to play, a young child palm down, other children will be index finger in the palm of their hands, together with the "top of the pot, fried vegetables, chili pepper spicy don't cover, hoo - a mouth of the wind, hoo - two winds, hoo - three mouths of the wind," said the forefinger to leave the palm of the hand, or else be caught by the child will have to answer "fried what dishes?" "Fried leeks" "tomatoes scrambled eggs" and so on, through this game, young children can not only know the name of many dishes, but also through the expansion of the basic process of cooking, and more experience *** with the joy of the game.

(2) The game is conducive to the formation of pro-social behavior.

Maslow, a humanist psychologist, believes that "when children's physiological and safety needs are met, children desire to belong to themselves, to be a member of the group, and to establish deep feelings with others in the group." Games generally require a number of children*** to work together in order to play, which invariably develops children's ability to cooperate and socialize. Many games have agreed-upon rules to keep the game going. Interesting games have a great temptation to young children, in order to participate in the game, the game when

Young children must coordinate and cooperate with each other, learn to solve interpersonal conflicts, learn to control their own behavior and emotions, learn to understand and take care of others, and treat others as equals, and so on. At the same time, in the game, each child naturally changes roles, but also naturally produces "leaders" and naturally eliminates "leaders". Therefore, young children must overcome the capriciousness, uniqueness, pampering and other bad habits, learn to coordinate and organize, unity and cooperation, sacrifice and sharing, assistance and obedience, understanding and tolerance, etc., the formation of a useful sense of responsibility and collective consciousness, in order to better integrate into the collective, participate in the game.

(3) The game is conducive to the formation of good moral character in young children.

The implementation of the principle of combining care and education, the development of young children as the basis for promoting the harmonious development of young children's physical and mental, is the main task of the kindergarten. Among them, the strengthening of children's moral education and behavioral habits of cultivation, training, to promote the harmonious development of children's physical and mental, plays a very important role. If moral education is neglected in today's ever-developing material civilization, and if we fail to lay the foundation of good moral character and behavioral habits for young children and gradually consolidate and improve the results of moral education as they grow older, then the social problems caused by morality today will be no less serious than those caused by the destruction of the ecological environment. In our China, strengthen moral education, the training of socialist successors, against the erosion of capitalist corruption, more realistic and strategic significance.

(4) Games help the development of good personality and positive emotions in young children.

First of all, the game is competitive, which makes the young children in the game at the same time face success and failure. Such as playing "cloth cut hammer", "jump rope" and other games, when children in the game won, they experience the joy of success and satisfaction, increased self-confidence and sense of achievement; when they face failure, will produce frustration, but young children winning, rich and interesting games and y attracted young children, so that they can withstand failure and frustration to bring them uneasiness, analyze their own shortcomings, to overcome their own weaknesses, and continue to Participate in the game. Therefore, in this process, young children learn self-control, exercise the ability to resist frustration, enhance the ability to distinguish right from wrong and correctly evaluate, and form an optimistic and cheerful character. Secondly, the game itself has a strong sense of fun, which conforms to the characteristics of young children's curiosity and mobility, and allows them to fully enjoy their freedom in the game. In the natural, spontaneous game, young children do not have any intervention, there is no pressure on the heart, the mood is relaxed, they entertain themselves, dare to speak and laugh loudly, generous performance, bold imagination; they are at any time, anywhere, free to combine, without any props to play a lot of fun. This shows that the game creates a good emotional environment for young children and makes them cross the emotional barriers. Therefore, the process of carrying out games can be said to be the process of young children gradually forming good personality psychology and positive emotions. In short, the game is very important for the healthy growth of young children, the significance of the game for children is just like the cause, the work, has a meaning, so that we as teachers of young children are required to carefully observe, actively think of ways to create conditions for young children's games, scientifically guiding young children's games, skillfully using the game of science education, give full play to the role of the game in education and teaching, and continue to accumulate and summarize, experience in guiding young children to play. In the practice of the game, we y feel that it has an important role in the development of young children, and is a good companion for the healthy growth of children.

Early childhood education must be carried out according to the order and stage of the physical and mental development of young children, and the level and characteristics of the physical and mental development of young children. The "primary schoolization" of early childhood education is, by its very nature, a violation of the laws of early childhood education, and its educational effects are bound to be counterproductive. This has been fully proved in practice, and we should also reflect y on it.

The role of games in early childhood education Part 3

Kindergarten education to play as an important way, is in line with the laws of physiological and psychological development of young children, the former Soviet Union's Alkin called the game "children's psychological vitamins. We know that in many kindergarten activities, games throughout the language, music, art, exercise, math and other activities, young children through a variety of games to gain knowledge, develop intelligence, all aspects of the development of different degrees, then, as early childhood education front-line workers, we need to y recognize the importance of the game in the activities for a better development of the choco particles of kindergarten activity room game activities Lay the foundation, so that young children really do play in the middle, learning to play.

First, the basic characteristics of the game

The basic activity of young children is the game, and the game is the need for the healthy development of young children's physical and mental health, in the kindergarten many activities, the game is always throughout, so that our activities are colorful and meaningful.

1. Games are voluntary.

The children participate in the game activity is from the heart, is safe and active voluntary, such as in the regional activities, the children will be based on the teacher put different materials, choose their favorite corner of the game, do not need teachers deliberately to arrange, urge, they act as a variety of roles, design the process of the game, their own domination of a variety of toys.

2, the autonomy of the game

The kindergarten curriculum itself has a strong game. The game provides space for teachers and young children to make their own choices. In the game, young children give full play to their imagination and let their minds roam freely between imagination and reality.

3. The randomness and uncertainty of the game.

Young children are very concerned about the process of the game when they participate in various activities, they do not pay attention to what the results will be, as long as everyone is having fun together.

II. The important role of play in the physical and mental development of young children.

The life theory of children's games clearly states that "games are children's lives, and children's lives are games". This makes us realize the value of play in children's physical and mental development at a higher level.

1. Play promotes the healthy growth of young children's bodies.

Early childhood is a critical period of children's growth, and the game is very free, can be organized at any time, anywhere, such as in music teaching insert music games, regional activities in the independent game, outdoor activities in the sports games, etc., the content of these games close to the actual age of young children, the degree of difficulty of the teacher can be varied according to the person, moderately adjusted, mobilized the whole young children to participate in the game of enthusiasm, more suitable for the physiology of young children, the physical and mental development of young children, and the development of children. The game is a great way to get the children to participate in the game, and it is suitable for the children's physiological and psychological needs.

2. The game improves the cognitive ability of children.

In the process of participating in the game, children and their peers with the help of game materials and the environment created by the teacher, free to carry out a variety of imitation, **** with the operation, exploration, to a large extent to meet the children's desire to know and curiosity.

In the regional activities, I play "doll house" children prepared colorful handmade paper, at first, I found that the children will only tear the various colors into strips or pieces piled up in a piece, and then I participated in the red handmade paper to do a "cold carrot threads The children were so excited that they showed off their cooking skills and made many dishes, as well as Hui specialty noodles, such as sesame flowers and deep-fried noodle cakes, etc. I clearly remember that the summer child in my class, Ma Xia, used green handmade paper to make a "cucumber shoot", and then tore some red handmade paper around it, which was called "shredded red pepper". "red pepper", the top with white paper shavings poured a layer of "garlic", in this activity, the children know a variety of colors, learned to aesthetics, more clear in real life, a variety of colors reasonable collocation.

3, the game enhances the collective consciousness of children.

In many game episodes, young children to communicate with their peers, collaboration, *** with the development of some of the rules of the game, or take the "dolls house", young children to allocate roles, who is the father, who do mother, who will do the little baby, in addition, and then design some other roles, such as the guests, etc., in the process of the game, young children are more concerned about the weak and small groups, so that they are more aware of the importance of the game, so that they have the opportunity to learn to play. Comparison of attention to the weak and small groups, let them be a little baby, get "adults" love and care, good "food", fun are given to the youngest children, but also know how to politely receive guests, simply not easy to play, in the game activities, the In the game activities, young children learned to be modest, learned to get along with their peers, more importantly, they learned to care for and help others, collective consciousness in the young children's unconscious has been reflected.

4, the game activities to promote the development of children's social nature.

The development of various role games not only meets the psychological needs of young children, but also promotes the development of young children's socialization. For example, in the music activity "barbershop", the children not only learned to sing, the teacher also put a variety of barber props, such as scissors, pusher, hair dryer, towels, clips, overalls, etc., the children imitated the barber store employees how to wash, cut, push, blow and a series of actions, children in the enjoyment of the warmth of the staff, not only to say thank you, but also to pay for the respect of other people's labor, to experience the joy of labor.

In addition, the children in the process of participating in the game, can vent bad emotions, eliminate nervousness, timidity and other mentality, wholeheartedly into the game activities.

Three, teachers in the game activities in how to carry out positive, effective guidance.

The game is the independent activities of young children, many times, we will see such a scenario, the teacher led the children to a certain place to start the game activities, the children will be a group of three, two a group of **** with the discussion of what to play the game, some say to play this, some say to play the game, the views of unity of interest in the game, opinions do not unity of opinion, young children will be The first step is to find a new partner, so we can see that the game is from the heart of the children's interest and desire, of course, not that all the games are to let the children to choose their own, independent play, sometimes, the teacher's role in guiding is also very important, we respect the wishes of the children under the premise of the children's games for the effective organization and guidance.

First of all, teachers should carefully create a good environment for children to play, and mobilize children to participate in game activities.

Teachers in the game activities before the preparation of colorful, conducive to the development of a variety of materials for the game, for example: in the regional activities of the "hospital", we provide children with stethoscopes, white coats, nurses hats, etc., the children to discuss with each other, assigned the role of the assumption of the situation, the staging of a power of white angels to save the people's lives. The masses of life drama, in addition, also placed various colors of handmade paper, candles, incense, matches, etc., the child will not be able to make their own incense ironing game ......

Therefore, teachers should try to create an environment that can trigger the game for young children, and at the same time, do not be too fancy, so as to avoid letting the young children can not begin, but also from time to time

Secondly, teachers should leave enough time for children to play the game to their heart's content.

Due to time constraints, we sometimes ask children to pack up their materials and stop playing when they are halfway through the game, and when I see their reluctance, I can't bear to disturb them.

Organizing a game is a very meaningful thing for young children. Being able to show what they are interested in with a game is actually a release of the children's ability, and we should respect the children's wishes and let them experience a sense of accomplishment in the game.

Third, according to the age of the children and the difficulty of the game, the teacher let the children clear the rules and methods of the game to ensure the smooth progress of the game.

For some new games, if the children do not know how to play, it is bound to dampen the enthusiasm of children to participate in the game, therefore, before the game, the teacher should use short, clear language, image of the body movement demonstration, so that the children understand the name of the game and the game, so that the children between the teachers and children learn from each other to grasp the rules of the game, learn to play the game, the young children to the age of the children to be more careful to guide, so that each child has a chance to participate in the game, and to play the game. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have the opportunity to participate in the game.

It has been proven that the game is a kind of free activity beneficial to the healthy development of young children's physical and mental health, for the development and cultivation of young children's subjectivity, has a unique educational value, teachers should take the game as the basic educational activities of the kindergarten, and in the teaching and learning activities continue to explore, continue to reflect on the game into the children's day-to-day activities in various fields, so as to better promote the health of young children, happy, all-round development. The game should be used as a basic educational activity in the kindergarten.