using local resources

enriching children's play activities

The first kindergarten in Yumen City, Gansu Province

Zhang Ping

Play is an emotional

contextual activity in which children spontaneously and independently interact with space, materials and playmates. Kindergarten is the main place for children's games. The level of children's games and the development of children's < P > in games directly depend on the game environment created by teachers and the game < P > materials provided. Our garden is based on the reality of township kindergartens, combined with the development of localized theme activities,

developing and utilizing local resources purposefully and in a planned way, carrying out game activities with local characteristics

, extending game activities to nature, society and family, so that every child can obtain free, independent, harmonious and pleasant development in the environment

, which truly reflects what Mr. Tao Xingzhi said

.

first, use local resources to enrich regional activities.

Regional activity is a proactive activity process in which children can freely choose, develop independently and communicate freely according to their own interests and needs in a certain game environment. According to the needs of children's cognitive, emotional, motor, language and social development, we make full use of

local resources to create different forms of regional activities for children with local characteristics, such as role area, exploration area, art area,

music area, sports area, etc., and provide children with a game environment with hands, brains and activities according to their own interests and abilities. For example, in the theme activity of "Spring in Hometown", the teacher led the children to create a natural corner, and the green garlic seedlings,

carrot seedlings, bean seedlings, wheat and corn, the lovely turtles, tadpoles and small fish in the corner, together with grotesque pebbles, created a rich and vivid micro-

nature for the children. When carrying out the theme activity "Sand Fun", the teacher prepared a large basin of fine sand in the corner of the district, and put in different sizes of beverage bottles, cartons, small sieves and shovels for young children to explore the characteristics of sand. At the same time, they also provided beverage bottles for children to make their own shovels and small buckets to play with sand, from which children's wisdom buds and sparks of innovation can be found more. In the theme activity of

"Wonderful Use of Seeds", children brought peanuts, wheat,

beans, peach stones and other seeds from home for children to observe, and teachers and students arranged the "seeds I know" in the exploration area together, which provided children with the opportunity to observe, compare and discuss the seeds. In the art area, all kinds of seeds, latex, cotton swabs, double-sided

glue, foam boards and other materials are provided, so that children can freely carry out "seed stickers"

. Those immature < P > works are flashing the sparks of children's creation. In the theme activity of "Fun Stones"

,

the teacher took the children to pick up stones of different sizes and colors and put them in the activity area, where the children

practiced counting, sorting and comparing, painted on the stones, printed, rolled and collaged with stones, and played so many tricks. The use of these materials not only enriches the content of regional activities, but also beautifies the environment of kindergartens.

second, use local environment and materials to enrich children's outdoor play activities.

Many inexhaustible environment and materials in local resources can be used to carry out distinctive outdoor games. We organize children to go for an outing, swim in spring, pick up fallen leaves, pick up stones and catch insects, so that they can get in close contact with nature and feel the flowers, trees, birds and flowers in nature. At the same time, children not only cultivate their love for nature, but also exercise their bodies in the activities of crossing ditches, walking on ridges and climbing slopes. In autumn, the teacher took the children to the farm to break corn cobs,

pick corn leaves, pump corn ears and rub corn seeds, and took the children to make spears, grenades and grenades from corn cobs, corn cobs and corn seeds, and play the game of "learning to be a PLA". Play the sports game Yunguale with pumpkin,

wax gourd, watermelon and melon

; Play all kinds of back, lift,

roll, jump and climb games with waste tires. Mobilize parents to use local materials to make all kinds of equipment for children to play, do and exercise, such as sorghum poles, wood, yellow sand, sawing,

shavings, etc. After processing, they can all become good outdoor activities equipment: small

carts made of wood, shoulder poles for carrying water, gyroscopes and battens; Use wooden sticks to make wooden horses and sedan chairs; Use wicker to make

caves and

gymnastics rings;

Use saws to make sandbags,

Use yellow sand to make sandbags,

Use unstable sticks to pick sticks ...

These toys are beautiful and practical, far more interesting and aggressive than sports equipment bought in stores, and can make children happy in exercise and games.

Third, use local materials to enrich role-playing activities.

In the process of role games, children, parents and teachers are all

collectors of game materials. In the process of collecting materials, we discuss and discuss the characteristics and uses of various materials with children, which lays the foundation for developing role games. In

games in shops and supermarkets, there are packaging boxes and plastic

bottles of all kinds of food and daily necessities collected by children themselves; In hospital games, there are earphones made of disposable paper cups,

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optical machines made of paper boxes, and

various pills made of waste newspapers. In the doll's home game, after being processed by teachers and children, all kinds of packing boxes have become computers, televisions, air conditioners, laundry machines, furniture and cookers in the doll's home, and beautiful buildings in various cars and communities on the road. In the

food city game, children use gauze, sponge, foam paper, plasticine and waste cloth

to make carrots and green peppers, lotus roots, noodles and various barbecues. These game materials are clean

sanitary and economical, which are close to children's lives and leave more room for children's imagination and creation.

Fourth, use local materials to enrich the construction of game activities.

Stones, sand, yellow mud and so on are inexhaustible natural materials in rural areas, and children

have a natural affection for these materials. In the construction game, we wash the stones and choose

clean yellow sand and delicate and safe yellow mud for children to carry out construction activities. Children cover their houses with stones, build and shape various shapes with yellow sand, and make small animals with yellow mud. In addition,

we also provide paper boxes of different sizes and various beverage cans for children to pile up into buildings of various shapes

; Provide wood blocks of different sizes for children to create shapes.

A granary made of strings of ears of grain, corn, peppers and straw in the "farm yard"

; Pumpkin

dolls made of vegetables, potato pigs, corn grandfathers, radish boats, and giraffes made of shredded melon pulp are all proud creations of teachers and children. These activities not only exercise children's practical ability < P >, but also enrich children's imagination.

the use of local materials in children's game activities broadens children's horizons, enriches children's experience, makes up for the shortage of educational resources in township kindergartens, expands the educational content of children's

gardens, and makes children care more about society, understand

their hometown, pay more attention to the changes in their hometown, and experience a feeling of being accepted and valued by society

. At the same time, it also reflects the teacher's educational thinking and wisdom, and embodies our educational philosophy.