Kindergarten environment, like teachers, is stimulating to children's cognition, which makes children in a state of active exploration, using materials in various attempts, finding problems and solving problems, thus gaining an understanding of the world; Kindergarten environment is also a key factor in the interaction between children, children and adults, and children and objects, which has a potential and profound impact on children's social development.
(A) to promote children's cognitive development
Children's cognition is constantly developing in the interaction with the surrounding environment. As a stimulating condition for children's development, kindergarten environment can purposefully shape some behaviors and habits of children. Once the creation of kindergarten environment has a clear direction, it can affect or promote the development of children in specific aspects.
According to children's learning interests and contents, we can display learning contents or achievements in the corridors and classrooms of kindergartens, or create problem situations in the environment, stimulate children's interest through the environment, present learning contents and extend learning activities, so as to give full play to its functions.
For example, in the theme activity of "Our Animal Friends", children sort out the animal pictures and models collected by themselves and their parents and display them around the classroom, which makes people feel like they are in the animal world, thus stimulating children's desire to explore independently. In addition, children use various materials, such as bricks, pebbles, shells, wood blocks and so on. , laying different shapes of paths outdoors. Children can feel smoothness, roughness, width, length and so on by stepping on them with their feet and touching them with their hands. In the interaction with the surrounding environment and materials, children's desire for active activities is effectively stimulated, thus stimulating their interest and desire for learning and exploration.
Promote children's social development.
The so-called socialization of children means that children gradually master social norms independently, correctly handle interpersonal relationships and properly manage themselves under certain social conditions, thus objectively adapting to the psychological development process of social life. The development of children's sociality is realized in certain environment.
The communication between children, children and teachers, children and materials can not be separated from the intervention of environmental support language. Many aspects of kindergarten environment, such as the content of environment layout and the atmosphere it creates, the arrangement of activity space, the delivery of activity materials, etc., will affect children's social development by affecting their emotional state and the number of communication objects. For example, kindergarten classrooms are divided into different areas, which is convenient for children to study in groups with different numbers, making it easier for children to communicate, compete and cooperate with their peers; All kinds of tools, materials and equipment in the corner of the area are placed at the children's fingertips, so that children can choose their favorite materials and concentrate on exploring and learning in their favorite way; Set up a private space under the stairs, at the end of the corridor or in the corner of the classroom in kindergarten to meet the emotional needs of children to be alone, because when children are tired, fail and have conflicts with their peers, they can rest quietly in this small space or talk with their peers, so that their hearts can be released or comforted, which is conducive to the social development of children.
In addition, in the process of creating an environment with teachers, peers and parents, children communicate and cooperate with their peers to express their frustration and depression when they encounter difficulties and problems, and their joy after completing the task. In this process, children gradually understand the norms and skills of interpersonal communication, and then gradually adapt to social life and realize individual socialization.