Educator Mr. Chen Heqin once said: "Nature is a treasure house of our knowledge and a living teaching material." Nature is the source of happiness for rural children and the familiar living environment for rural children. However, children are ignorant and have no goals when they are in contact with their surroundings. Often the things closest to life are most easily overlooked, but at the same time only the living things are most easily perceived and experienced by children. Therefore, according to the new concept of regional activities, combined with the environment of our park, starting from reality, we should tap all available local resources and carry out rich and colorful regional activities with local characteristics.
Mr. Chen Heqin thinks: "What kind of environment, what kind of impression do you get?" Environment is an important educational resource, which should be created and used to effectively promote children's development. Moreover, the environment is the best first teacher for children. It not only satisfies children's curiosity, stimulates children's sense of participation, but also greatly arouses children's desire to explore. To carry out regional activities, we must first collect various resources. How to collect local resources with educational value, we organize teachers to study together and carry out collection activities from the following two aspects:
First, encourage teachers to actively participate in activities, boldly display their collections, expand their activities ideas through mutual exchanges and discussions, and clarify the scope and methods of collections. Teachers are required to collect local materials in a targeted manner and classify the collected materials. According to the local rural characteristics, the local materials are divided into plants, sand and gravel, folk labor tools, insects and animals and other waste daily necessities, which lays a material foundation for developing the characteristic regional activities of rural kindergartens.
The second is to expand the collection channels and mobilize parents and children to participate in the collection activities. Parents should be informed of the importance of collecting various items for their children's regional activities through parent-teacher meetings, so that children can truly understand the functions and functions of various items. At the same time, let parents enjoy some finished and semi-finished teaching toys made of collected materials to stimulate their enthusiasm. In parent-child activities, letting parents use the items collected by themselves and their children to carry out various creative activities can also greatly stimulate parents' interest in participating in kindergarten activities.
The collection of resources is of course important, but in the process of activities, how to make good use of resources is also a very critical issue. The material in regional activities is teachers who can't talk. They build a bridge between children and knowledge, are tools for children to acquire knowledge and develop their abilities, and are effective carriers for children to carry out various learning activities in the region. Appropriate materials can arouse children's interest in activities and develop their intelligence. In the process of operating and fiddling with materials, children will not stop thinking, think positively and challenge themselves. Therefore, our teachers attach great importance to the provision and utilization of information.
20 10 in may, Chen Fangfang, a teacher from our garden, took part in the evaluation of experimental excellent courses with the theme of "creating a suitable learning and development environment for rural children", and her pre-school teaching activity "Flying and Flying" won the second prize. During the activity, Chen Fangfang first discussed with the children what can fly according to their existing experience, and asked parents to collect flying objects and pictures and put them in the activity room. During the whole activity, because the children know something about flying in various regions, the learning atmosphere is very active and the knowledge they have mastered is more solid.
We have specially opened up a planting area in the kindergarten to plant some simple and easy-to-grow vegetables and crops, such as lettuce, mustard, tomatoes and so on. Let children know the growth characteristics, growth environment and growth process of vegetables and crops, and guide children to make observation records. Teachers also organize children to pick, pick and dig, and lead them to cook and taste vegetables, so that children can not only appreciate the harvest of labor, but also know how to cherish the fruits of labor. We also display the collected labor results in natural corners for children to observe, compare, identify and classify, and skillfully use all kinds of seeds, leaves, bamboo, straw, peanuts, etc. collected by teachers and children: in the art area, the seeds are labeled with "five senses" to make seed dolls, or the seeds, stones and shells are pasted together; Creative production of vegetables and fruits, shaping some lively and lovely dolls, small animals, small toys and so on. Be a scarecrow, a straw hat, a bird's nest, etc. Use straw; In the performance area, the headwear and clothing are woven with leaves, weeds and wild flowers, and the "My Fashion Show" is staged. We also brought small animals into the classroom. In spring, we bring tadpoles to the natural corner. Teachers and children explore the growth and change process of tadpoles together. As soon as the children arrive at the kindergarten, they go to the natural corner to see tadpoles. They will find that tadpoles grow hind legs first, then front legs, and then shed their tails. For every discovery, children will tell each other in a hurry and write this change on the recording paper in the natural corner. According to this series of records, they also created a pantomime "Little Tadpole Looking for Mother". We also built a simple henhouse in the garden. The children were surprised to find that the hen laid eggs the next day. Seeing that children are so interested in learning, Teacher Zhao Chan of Middle Class designed a teaching activity "Delicious Eggs" to teach children how to distinguish raw eggs from cooked eggs, and also discussed how to help hens hatch chicks. Every day after that, I will go to the henhouse to see if the chicken has hatched. The name of the chicken has been debated for a long time. A "mud play area" has also been created, so that children can make all kinds of vivid and interesting animals and fruits with mud and pigments. Also take children to play with water, let children understand that water is fluid in the process of watching, touching and grasping, and carry out the teaching activity of "crows drink water". During the activity, children were taught to love their mothers and the people around them according to the little knowledge fed back by crows.