How to Cultivate Children's Interest in Board Games
I remember Lenin, the great revolutionary teacher, once compared chess to intellectual gymnastics. Using board games to enrich children's study life during their study can effectively train children's thinking and, more importantly, cultivate their ability to get along with partners. In kindergarten classes, some children have become interested in board games, and some chess games, such as checkers and gobang, have gradually entered children's lives, but now only a small number of children are doing well. How to make more children actively participate in board games? I discussed it with Teacher Shi and made the following attempt: 1. Children like intuitive things when placing chess materials. Therefore, when selecting materials, in addition to collecting some children's favorite chess, such as checkers, gobang and digital chess, there are many famous chess champions and chess masters in China on the wall of our class, so that children can actively imagine and participate in the environment. We arranged the layout of chess appreciation and designed various board games, such as chess, maze chess, nine-ring chess and so on. Stimulate children's interest in participating in game activities in an intuitive game environment. We also mobilize parents, especially some elderly parents who can play chess, to play with their children at home and bring their own chessboards for other children to learn to watch. In each regional activity, we will put all kinds of gobang and checkers. During the activity time, we will choose our favorite chess activities according to each child's different hobbies. In such a chess environment, children's desire and interest in participating in chess games are greatly stimulated, which provides a good foundation for us to better develop chess games. 2. When children lose interest, some chessboards look complicated, so many children who want to play but can't play have to give up. Seeing this situation, I immediately organized children to listen to and tell the story of "pulling radishes" and discuss why there are radishes of different colors in the chess manual. What does this mean? Learn the rules of playing chess together. Children want to play, so they learn quickly, and after several attempts, they gradually become proficient. After learning to play radish chess, other similar forms of board games were also learned after the children's experience was moved, and the enthusiasm of children to participate in the game was once again high. 3. Keep close contact with parents. On the one hand, actively promote the benefits of children's board games to parents. On the other hand, we ask parents to play with their children at home and bring their homemade chessboards to other children to learn and watch. Many parents also bought all kinds of children's game of chess at home, and let their children take them to the kindergarten to play with them, which expanded the space for chess activities. We also suggest that parents write down the situation of their children playing chess at home in the contact column at home, so that we can get to know each other better. A semester has passed, and since the board game was launched, children's thinking has been active, their attention has been more focused, and their class routines have made great progress. We also organized our own chess competition, which not only got a result, but also let the children see their own shortcomings in order to improve in the future. It is particularly worth mentioning that when children play chess, they choose their own chess and find their own partners, which invisibly cultivates their autonomy and initiative in participating in activities. After playing chess, the child loses his temper and grows up from scratch. The quality that children are not afraid of losing and failing is constantly cultivated in the process of playing chess, which is very helpful for their future study and life.