How to improve the quality of outdoor activities for young children

"The early childhood stage is an extremely important period for children's physical and functional development, and reasonably balanced nutrition, sufficient sleep, and adequate exercise are the basic safeguards for young children's physical health." This shows the importance of outdoor activities in kindergartens for the physical health of young children. Both the Regulations for Kindergarten Work and the Learning and Development Guidelines for Children Aged 3-6 have clear and mandatory provisions for outdoor activities in kindergartens: "Outdoor activities should last no less than two hours." However, in fact, some kindergartens have limited space for outdoor activities and are unable to carry out outdoor activities; some kindergartens reduce the time for outdoor activities in order to avoid outdoor safety; some kindergartens carry out "primary schooling" education and have few outdoor activities; and some kindergartens' outdoor activities are just a formality and are not of good quality. So how to ensure the quality of two hours of outdoor activities to promote the physical and mental health of young children? The following is a combination of practice to talk about experience.

Activity time needs to be arranged according to the time and place

Reasonable time arrangement is an important prerequisite to ensure the quality of two-hour outdoor activities. Two hours of outdoor activities should be reasonably arranged in the day's activities, not only to ensure the adequacy of outdoor activities, but also conducive to the regularization of outdoor activities, but also to make a day of education and teaching of static and dynamic alternation. Specific arrangements include: half an hour of morning exercise, fifteen minutes of morning exercises, half an hour of morning outdoor activities (including outdoor teaching activities), half an hour of postprandial walks and free activities, fifteen minutes of lunchtime exercises, half an hour of afternoon outdoor activities. "Areas that are too hot or too cold may choose appropriate time slots to suit local conditions." Therefore, the schedule should also be adjusted appropriately according to different seasonal characteristics, such as winter is colder and inconvenient to carry out early morning exercise, then appropriately early and extend the time of outdoor activities in the morning. Summer is hotter, it is appropriate to early and extend the morning exercise time, reduce the time of outdoor activities in the morning.

Outdoor activities close to life

Kindergarten educational activities, is a variety of forms of purposeful and planned by teachers to guide the children lively, lively, active activities of the educational process. Teachers should make full use of the outdoor activities of each period of time carefully organized, with rich and varied outdoor activities to exercise children's physical coordination, sensitivity, balance and endurance, to meet the needs of children's games and the desire to explore, and to cultivate children's cooperation, competition, toughness, bravery, sense of responsibility and other qualities.

First of all, the activity plan should be carefully formulated. According to the "Outline" and "Guidelines" on health and other related areas of the age of the cultivation goals, requirements, combined with the interests of young children and the theme of teaching, carefully planned to sports games, role games or other exploration of the game of the main outdoor activities, the choice of content to highlight the fun, scientific and integrated.

Daily outdoor activities mainly include skillful activities such as ball flapping, rope skipping, shuttlecock kicking, hopscotch, sandbag throwing, skinny-dipping, and walking on the balance beam (suitable for early exercise); classic sports games such as cutting watermelons, blowing bubbles, and netting small fish in small classes; delivering letters, pulling out tails, and looking for caves in small rabbits in middle classes; and sticking people, electrifying goats, and when the lotus flowers bloom in large classes. Traditional folk games, such as "Throwing Handkerchiefs", "The Eagle Catches the Chicken", "Grabbing the Four Corners", "Stir-Frying Yellow Beans", and "Rolling Iron Rings", etc.; other games combined with thematic teaching; regional games in the park with large and medium-sized outdoor toys and sand and water pools (suitable for outdoor activities in the afternoon); and a variety of forms of morning exercises combining exercise, fun, and artistry.

In addition to daily outdoor activities, we should also organize some large-scale activities to render the atmosphere of the activities and mobilize the enthusiasm of all participants, such as holding spring and autumn children's games, outdoor activities observation, parent-child sports. You can often take children to the park, hiking, field trips, etc., to enrich children's life experience and explore the mysteries of nature. Carry out social activities, such as visiting museums, fire departments, elementary school, post offices, and carrying out activities such as "little environmental protection guards", "little messengers of civilization", "little planting masters", etc., so that the children can accumulate experience and improve themselves in practice. The company's website is a great source of information about the company's products and services.

Purchased toys and homemade toys combine to enrich the activity materials

Whether the activity materials can arouse the interest of the children and whether they are conducive to achieving the activity goals is the key to the success of outdoor activities.

Outdoor activity materials include two main categories: large and medium-sized outdoor toys, such as colorful worlds, swings, climbing walls, swinging boats, etc., and physical activity equipment, such as balance beams, sponge mats, gymnastic hoops, dumbbells, etc. The other category is homemade outdoor activity toys. The other category is homemade outdoor toys, such as homemade plum piles made from cans, homemade tensioners made from yogurt bottles, and streaming balls made from Coke bottles. Large and medium-sized outdoor toys and sports equipment are matched by the kindergarten according to the needs of the activities and the number of people, and are relatively durable and fixed.

Homemade outdoor toys are supplemental materials for children's interests, health development goals and theme teaching needs, and should reflect the characteristics of environmental protection, safety, lightweight, practical, creative, and multi-play, and require more than four pieces per hand.

Homemade toys can be mobilized parents, drive the children to work together to ensure that the number of toys, quality and practicality, to strengthen the parents' participation in the sense of cultivating children's hands. Some parents are very skillful, make the toys exquisite and creative, such as plastic cover and woolen thread made of stickers with self-painted cartoon sun pattern of the Frisbee, with the waste bicycle parts made of beautiful, durable trolleys, with bamboo and plastic bags made of small fish kites, etc., these exquisite and creative toys not only triggered the children's interest in the activities of the activities of the goal of effectively achieving the activities of the child can be inspired by the exploration, imagination and creative thinking. The newest addition to the lineup is a soft toy that can be used for a variety of different purposes.

Software and hardware conditions are developed in concert to ensure that safety is well protected

Safety is a guarantee of the smooth running of educational activities. The key to ensuring the safety of young children's outdoor activities is to do a good job of thorough and meticulous protective measures. First of all, to ensure the safety of the activity site and equipment, the kindergarten should have a person to carry out regular inspections, found problems in a timely manner to rectify, eliminate security risks. Secondly, teaching staff should be in place on time, each class must have two teachers to the scene to organize, guide and monitor the activities of young children. Secondly, teachers should strengthen safety education, teach children the correct way to play and matters to be noted, and enhance children's awareness of safety and self-protection. In addition, to establish a safety management system for outdoor activities, strict control of class size, so that the layers of control, to build a safety barrier for outdoor activities.

In short, as long as the persistence and dedication to do, two hours of outdoor activities will be able to ensure the quality and effectiveness of the children's physical and mental health.