Founded in February 1993, Yucai No. 4 Kindergarten in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, formerly known as the No. 4 Kindergarten of China Merchants Shekou Industrial Zone, is a kindergarten opened to solve the education problems of children in Shekou Industrial Zone in the early stage of China's reform and opening up. 30 years of wind and rain, peach and plum fragrance, Yucai four kindergartens have always been adhering to the "good teacher to morality first, educators to love-based" education concept, under the leadership of the previous principals, all the staff continue to forge ahead, pioneering and innovative, continue to promote the education reform and development of kindergartens, build an innovative practice of folk culture into kindergarten education, has won the Guangdong Province safe and civilized campus, Guangdong Province special education with class study demonstration park, Shenzhen high-quality characteristics of the demonstration kindergarten, Shenzhen Health Care Excellent Kindergarten and other honorary titles.
Deeply cultivate the subject and lay a solid foundation
On the road of promoting the reform and innovation of kindergarten education and the sustainable development, Yucai Four Kindergartens takes the "12th Five-Year Plan", "13th Five-Year Plan" and "14th Five-Year Plan" series of topics of the China Preschool Education Research Association as the starting point to carry out practical exploration, focusing on the curriculum concept of "celebrating millennium classics, revitalizing traditional culture, casting the soul of China, opening up the world's vision, and promoting all-round development", with the teaching concept of "child-oriented, teaching according to aptitude", and the main characteristics of "integration, pluralism and openness". The curriculum and related research have won a number of awards, the research report of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" of the Chinese Research Association won the first prize of the country, the research results won the second prize of the country, and the achievement book "Research and Practice of the Introduction of Folk Games into Early Childhood Education" was published by Jilin Education Press; "Inheriting Folk Games, Enjoying a Happy Childhood" Kindergarten Folk Game Characteristic Curriculum Construction Program won the first prize of Guangdong Province Kindergarten Characteristic Construction Program; The "Carrying Folk Culture, Infiltrating the Hearts of Children" Kindergarten Folk Culture Characteristic Curriculum Design Scheme won the second prize of Guangdong Provincial School-based Curriculum Design. Today, these achievements have been widely used and promoted in many kindergartens in Shenzhen and even across the country, enriching the resources of folk culture courses, and inheriting and promoting the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
The garden has characteristics and teaching is valuable
Since 2007, Yucai four kindergartens have started the introduction and attempt of the content of Chinese classics from traditional festivals, folk customs, classic recitation, folk games, etc., after 16 years of practice and exploration, it has initially formed a unique kindergarten culture. Children experience the joy of the game in the unique style, interesting and fun folk games such as "rolling hoops, shaking bamboos, jumping bamboo poles, jumping rubber bands, turning flower ropes", etc., which enhance their self-esteem, self-confidence and independence, and cultivate excellent qualities such as learning to think, cooperate, abide by rules, be brave and positive. Through the theme activities of folk art and folk architecture such as "Allegro", "Shadow Puppet", "Tie-dye", "Wok Ear Building", "Hakka Walled House", "Nantou Ancient City", "Dapeng City" and other folk art and folk architecture activities, feel the charm of traditional folk culture, establish cultural self-confidence, cultivate family and country feelings, and promote all-round development.
Ingenuity and silicon accumulation
The reform and innovation of kindergarten education and teaching is a necessary prerequisite for the future development of children, and it is also an important guarantee for the high-quality development of a kindergarten. Relying on the carrier of broad and profound traditional Chinese folk culture, according to the development requirements of the new era, combined with Shenzhen's unique cultural atmosphere and urban characteristics of scientific and technological innovation, Yucai Four Kindergartens has created a six-in-one collaborative cooperation mechanism of "experts, principals, teachers (preschool teachers, primary school teachers)-parents-children-social workers", and gradually built an innovative practice model of integrating multi-subject, multi-path and diversified traditional folk culture into kindergarten education.
The kindergarten makes full use of the resources of parents, teachers and the community, and uses questionnaires, literature review and other methods to carefully collect and carefully classify the content of folk games and folk art. Based on cultural inheritance, combined with the characteristics and requirements of the development of the times, we continue to explore the continuous innovation of folk gameplay and materials. At the same time, the kindergarten effectively infiltrates folk culture into one-day activities, and integrates folk culture into the kindergarten curriculum through large-scale activities parent-child games, traditional temple fairs, etc., which enhances children's experience and cognition of traditional culture and forms a new situation of home cooperation and co-education.
Radiation leads to growth
A single filament does not form a thread, and a single tree does not make a forest. The teaching results of Yucai Four Kindergartens are not only applied to the kindergarten, but also promoted the research results and experience practices to the educational peers through game experience, special lectures, and sending classes to the kindergarten in activities such as kindergarten assistance, secondary follow-up, and base park training. In recent years, it has received thousands of people to observe the education peers, one of which is a director from Xiangxi, Hunan Province, who once sighed after visiting: "Shenzhen is such an advanced city is inheriting traditional Chinese folk games, but so many of our local culture has not been effectively excavated and utilized, and I will also carry out practical ...... when I go back."”
After years of infiltration of traditional folk culture, Yucai Four Kindergartens has not only promoted the harmonious physical and mental development of children and the professional growth of teachers, but also won the praise of parents. In the follow-up survey of kindergarten graduates, it was found that the physical fitness and primary school adaptability of the children who graduated from the kindergarten were stronger than those of other children, which shows that the integration of folk culture into kindergarten education not only helps the scientific connection between young and primary, but also lays a good foundation for the lifelong development of children. Text: Qin Shilin, Shi Binjing, Plate Making: Li Bin, Liu Yanlan, Huang Yongwen.