How to Develop Folk Games in Kindergarten and Its Value

Playing is a child's nature, and playing is one of the main forms of kindergarten education. It is clearly pointed out in the "Guidelines for Kindergarten Education" that kindergartens should take games as the main form of education, and let children play with middle school and learn with fun, so as to achieve harmonious development in a pleasant atmosphere. In 2008, our park was fortunate to undertake a sub-project of Professor Dong Xuhua's game project "Research on the Development and Utilization Value of Folk Games". In the course of the project, we gained a lot of valuable teaching experience in the exploration. How to develop folk games in kindergartens and its value are briefly described as follows:

First, the value of folk games in kindergarten education

1, folk games can cultivate children's interest in participating in activities.

2. Folk games can promote the coordinated development of children's multiple abilities.

3. Folk games can cultivate children's good qualities.

4. Folk games can improve teachers' professional quality.

5. Folk games are practical and have achieved good results of energy saving.

Second, how to carry out folk games in kindergartens

1, brainstorm and collect valuable folk games

2. Determine the content of folk games, carry out deep processing and carry out folk games in a planned way.

3. Effectively carry out folk games, make observation records and give full play to its value.

4. Teachers should seriously reflect on and promote folk games.

Key words:

Folk games, children's interests, utilization value, coordinated development, waste

Playing is a child's nature, and playing is one of the main forms of kindergarten education. It is clearly pointed out in the "Guidelines for Kindergarten Education" that kindergartens should take games as the main form of education, and let children play with middle school and learn with fun, so as to achieve harmonious development in a pleasant atmosphere. To this end, our park attaches great importance to the development of game activities, and has carried out the park-based topic "Research on the Development and Utilization Value of Folk Games". In the course of the project, we gained a lot of valuable teaching experience in the exploration. How to develop folk games in kindergartens and its value are briefly described as follows:

First, the value of folk games in kindergarten education

Folk games, as the name implies, refer to games that have been produced and handed down in society. They are a primitive thing. Fully tapping the educational value of folk games is a good supplement to kindergarten games, which will make our games more lively, close to life and let children get better development. Therefore, folk games play an important role in kindergarten teaching. Over the past year, through the development of folk games, we found that folk games have very important value in kindergarten education. The specific performance is as follows:

1, folk games can cultivate children's interest in participating in activities.

In contrast, children's interest in some group games is not too high, but no matter what kind of folk games, children are very interested and enthusiastic about participating. For example, clap your hands, "clap your hands and pat your head; Clap your hands and clap your shoulders ... "This is the most common form of organizing children, but children will only do it a few times under our leadership and generally won't do it at all. But in the activity room, I often see children playing clapping games with different children's songs, and having a good time, such as "Feifei Rabbit, go for coffee, walk a hundred miles, have a cup of coffee, a cup of purr, two cups of purr, three cups of purr, four cups of purr, no purr, scissors and hammer ...", and these clapping games are just some folk ones.

2. Folk games can promote the coordinated development of children's multiple abilities.

Folk games can also be divided into sports games, language games and programming games. No matter what kind of folk games, they can promote the coordinated development of children's abilities. For example, folk sports games can promote the coordinated development of children's body and movements, such as throwing sandbags and developing children's throwing ability; Step on stilts to develop children's balance ability; Skipping rope to develop children's jumping ability; Weaving games can develop children's practical ability and imagination. For example, children weave patterns such as small fish and sunflowers with corn husks and reeds.

3. Folk games can cultivate children's good qualities.

First of all, if we want to carry out folk games, we must collect them together, which requires children to develop good study habits and participate in group activities to lay a good foundation for the development of folk games; In addition, in the development of folk games, many of them need cooperation to complete, so that children can cultivate good quality of cooperation and sharing in the game. Such as knitting games, from the preparation of materials to the development of games, children need to participate. Only by collecting materials together can we provide a material basis for the development of the game. Only when children work together can we weave beautiful patterns. In the whole process of the game, cultivate children's good cooperation and practical quality and study habits.

4. Folk games can improve teachers' professional quality.

The development of folk games needs teachers' deep processing. In the process of processing and developing folk games, teachers need repeated research and experiments to improve their teaching and research level. At the same time, it also helps teachers to form good study habits.

5. Folk games are practical and have achieved good results of energy saving.

The operating materials of folk games are mostly self-made, and the making materials are all wastes, such as sandbags made of rags, stilts made of milk cans, and woven materials made of corn husks and reeds. These materials come from nature, are inexpensive to buy, have no toxic and side effects, and realize the good value of energy saving.

In short, the value of folk games is great. Now in our kindergarten, it is still "Xiao He just shows his sharp corner". I believe its value will become more and more important and become our important teaching content.

Second, how to carry out folk games in kindergartens

1, brainstorm and collect valuable folk games

Most folk games are scattered among the people, and some have even been lost. To get more folk games, we need to brainstorm and mobilize social forces. To this end, we mobilized parents' strength, walked into the community, collected extensively, and then screened and determined folk games with educational value, such as sandbags, stilts and weaving. , can be well integrated into our education and teaching for children to play.

2. Determine the content of folk games, carry out deep processing and carry out folk games in a planned way.

Folk games are relatively primitive things, and there are no strict rules in terms of gameplay, rules and requirements. However, "Fiona Fang cannot live without rules". In order to fully tap its educational value, it is necessary to deeply process folk games. To this end, after establishing the basic content of folk games, we will gather all the teachers together to seriously study folk games, discuss with them, and formulate goals, rules and matters needing attention. Make folk games gradually standardized and give full play to their role in teaching activities. For example, there are many ways to play sandbags, but at different ages, there are different goals and different ways to play, which requires teachers to make sandbags according to children's age characteristics and development level to develop children's abilities. Children in middle and large classes are more likely to move forward like sandbags, while children in small classes are more difficult. Because their balance ability is relatively poor, they can be included in the scope of small class folk games for children to practice and develop their balance ability, while children in middle and large classes can concentrate on some cooperative games.

3. Effectively carry out folk games, make observation records and give full play to its value.

After making a good game plan, we should be fully prepared to carry out folk games, and give full protection in time and space, so that every folk game can fully play its role from the beginning to the extension, so that children can get good development. Teachers should make observation records, observe children's performance, the practicality of game materials, record children's development, the value of the game and the promotion part of the game, so that the value of the game can be vividly expressed and children can learn happily and develop harmoniously in the game.

4. Teachers should seriously reflect on and promote folk games.

At every stage of the implementation of folk games, teachers should seriously reflect on their own teaching methods, game objectives, prepared materials, children's participation and performance, the embodiment of game value, and the highlights of the game. Through reflection, they can sum up the contents of the game that are worth popularizing, so as to collect them into a book and make folk games one of the contents of our kindergarten-based curriculum.

In a word, in the year of developing folk games, we have summed up many excellent educational experiences, which have played a very good guiding role in our educational work. We will continue to promote folk games, make them our right-hand man, and let children get good development in folk games.