By reading and studying related materials and the theme activities organized by our class in the past two weeks. In my opinion, to organize and carry out the theme activities well, we should do the following work well:
(a) the choice of theme.
"Theme" is the core of inquiry activities, which not only shows a series of activities that children will participate in, but also provides a guiding light for teachers to choose the content of organizational learning, carry out teaching process and create environment. Therefore, "theme" is the starting point and soul of inquiry activities. The choice of theme should be close to children's life experience, and make full use of the existing resources of kindergartens and community families to stimulate children's interest in learning. There are various materials that are convenient for children to operate, and the theme should also contain various educational values, so as to promote children's active development. In order to make full use of the materials around children to naturally generate theme activities, we chose Colorful Autumn, which is close to children's life, convenient for children to observe and experience, convenient for hands-on operation and rich in educational value.
(2) In the theme activities.
In the process of theme education, the greatest value of the course lies in the in-depth discussion of a theme by teachers and students. Through various forms of research-based learning activities such as independent inquiry, children's initiative can be brought into play, children's active exploration and learning can be promoted, and children's success and development can be guided in a pleasant experience, thus enriching their own learning and life experience and cultivating their awareness, habits and ability of independent inquiry. When I was teaching "Where are the seeds hidden?" I made full use of my children's initiative to find the seeds of fruits by themselves, and then with my help, I found and displayed the seeds of Luffa, peanuts, corn, apples and lentils respectively. Through autonomous learning, children not only know the seeds, but also know the different arrangements of seeds of different fruits through observation.
(3) Creation of environment.
Children's development is carried out in the process of interaction with the environment. To achieve educational goals, we must make full use of environmental resources in thematic activities.
1. Create an educational environment suitable for theme activities. Around the colorful autumn theme, our class has created different educational environments about autumn, such as Fruits of Autumn, Autumn in My Eyes, Fruit and Vegetable Modeling Exhibition, Sticking to Ye Zhan, Falling Leaves Background Wall in Qiu Shu and so on.
2. Decorate the wall with children's works. In the theme activity, the content and process of the activity should be displayed on the wall of the activity room in the form of pictures in time. In addition, it is necessary to show children's ideas in the form of pictures in time to attract children's attention and achieve the purpose of interaction with children. In the theme activity, we take "Autumn in My Eyes" as the theme, guide the children to draw autumn in their own eyes and post it on the wall, and show the autumn leaves that children can imagine and paste freely in the exhibition area at the door. The wall is no longer the teacher's thoughts and works, but entirely the child's, and the child is the master of the whole environment. In this way, the children's ideas are valued and their works are displayed. They not only developed their abilities in all aspects, but also achieved success and spiritual pleasure.
Make full use of parents' educational resources
In the theme activities, the power of parents is immeasurable. Parents' participation can enrich the content of theme activities and make children more enthusiastic about them. In addition, the participation of parents will also make the materials of the activities more diverse and provide a rich material foundation for the development of young children. In order to carry out the theme activity of "Colorful Autumn", we invited parents and children to look for the fruits of autumn together. In the process of finding autumn fruits, children's eyes are wide open and their interest is high. Some of them even went back to their hometown to look for rare cotton, sorghum, wheat, lentils and carrots. In the "Autumn Fruit" exhibition area, we showed all kinds of fruits that children brought from home, all the children. Last weekend, parents and children made fruit and vegetable shapes together at home and created many works that surprised us. We displayed all these works that concentrated the wisdom of children and parents in the "Fruit and Vegetable Modeling Exhibition". I believe these activities also promote the affection between parents and children.
In addition, parent-child activities can also promote children's active, harmonious and effective development. It also plays an important role in carrying out theme activities. Parent-child activities were originally planned, but they could not be held due to influenza A/H 1N 1. It is a pity.
In short, if you want to organize a good theme activity, you must choose the things that children around you are interested in to determine the theme of the activity, constantly pay attention to children's interests, autonomy, needs and creation, and let children learn and explore independently with the new concept of "taking children's development as the foundation". In the cooperation at home, through rich and effective activities, children can get loose, independent and individual development in the interaction with the surrounding environment and materials.