Spring equinox - planting carrots, Gu Yu - catching insects, Qingming - making small books, stunning - making pear soup, Qingming - going to tug-of-war, frost - making persimmon egg tarts ......The reporter recently learned from Fengyun Kindergarten in Karamay District, Karamay City, Xinjiang that a series of activities carried out by the park following the solar terms have opened the eyes of children.
I love the activities in the kindergarten and we learn a lot about the interesting culture. Ayala Yelbauli, a kindergarten child in Fengyun Kindergarten, said happily. In recent years, Fengyun Kindergarten has followed the law of children's physical and mental development, and built a curriculum with "colorful solar terms" as the core in accordance with the concept of "inheriting the classics and beautifying the child's heart", so as to cultivate contemporary good children who love life, understand gratitude, enjoy aesthetics, and are good at thinking.
It is understood that according to the educational value and characteristics of the solar term course, Fengyun kindergarten divides the educational objectives into "cognitive goals", "ability goals" and "emotional goals", and integrates the "colorful solar terms" curriculum around the "three major goals", which plays a guiding role in the entire education and teaching process.
In terms of "cognitive goals", teachers lead children into traditional solar terms life situations, cultivate children's physical and mental health, and promote the development of children's cognitive and social-emotional abilities.
In terms of "ability goals", teachers encourage children to boldly express their understanding and feelings about the solar terms through language, painting and other forms, and at the same time adjust their lifestyles according to the changes in the solar terms and develop good health habits. In the activity, teachers pay attention to improving children's ability to nature, so that children can negotiate and cooperate with their peers, complete tasks together, and know how to protect the environment around them.
In terms of "emotional goals", teachers lead children to experience the joy of interacting with nature, feel the wonders of nature, understand the cultural connotation behind the 24 solar terms, guide children to inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and enhance national self-confidence and pride.
The solar terms course is closely related to the season, temperature, precipitation and phenology, and Fengyun Kindergarten integrates the "colorful solar terms" course into many fields to infiltrate and inherit the classics. By excavating the diet, painting, dance, literature, climatic characteristics, phenological phenomena, farming rules, festivals, folk customs, traditional virtues, etc., the teachers create a "beauty, fun, and wisdom" solar term situation that integrates the goals of multiple fields.
Fengyun Kindergarten has various unique venues, such as "Drawing Yaxuan", "Architectural Pavilion", "Vocal Bay", "Corner Time" and so on. The kindergarten integrates the "Colorful Solar Terms" curriculum into these venues, and children can independently carry out activities such as painting, building, singing, and reading, and grow up in fun and exploration.
In addition, the park is also linked with the Karamay Science and Technology Museum and Fengyun Community, using natural and cultural resources as curriculum resources, so that children can walk into nature, science and technology museum, and into the community, and learn and explore, live practice, and aesthetic experience in a refreshing, relaxed and pleasant situation.
Wang Peng, director of Fengyun Kindergarten, said that family is an important resource for kindergarten education, and parent-child activities are also an important way to implement the curriculum.
In order to do a good job in labor education, the kindergarten is specially equipped with a "life experience hall", with vegetable washing sinks, side dishes, electric ovens, etc. Here, children can learn basic housework skills and carry out themed cooking activities. The kindergarten will also organize parents and children to sow seeds together, so that children can learn planting skills such as burying soil and watering. In the process of daily labor, children scramble to be the first to do it themselves, showing high enthusiasm, and also perceive the changes of the seasons in the pastoral atmosphere, and cultivate the emotion of loving nature.
The mother of Zhang Jiexi, a kindergarten toddler, said: "The child learned about the traditional solar terms in the kindergarten, not only experienced the laws of nature, but also germinated the healthy emotions of friendship, diligence and kindness. ”
Life is a practice, an engagement, and an experience. We pay attention to children's 'learning by doing, learning by playing', so that children can fully experience the fun of doing their own things, enrich their life and labor experience, and incorporate the content that children need and are interested in into the activities in a timely manner. In this way, the needs of young children are truly valued, and children's learning is closely linked to their real lives. Wang Peng said.
*: China Education News.