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Article 1 "Japanese kindergarten education with game activities as its main activity"

Abstract: Different from kindergarten education in China, Japanese kindergarten education mainly focuses on game activities, and hardly accepts professional theoretical knowledge education. The environment construction of Japanese kindergartens is extremely simple and natural. Children enjoy games in such a simple environment, which makes them closer to nature and feel nature more fully, and exercises their strong physique and outstanding creativity in games.

Keywords: Japan; Kindergarten; Education; Game activities; environment

1 Game activities in Japanese kindergartens

1. 1 Japan's kindergarten education focuses on game activities.

In China, although kindergarten education includes painting, singing, dancing, playing harmonica, calligraphy, storytelling and other early childhood education courses to cultivate children's interest. However, most kindergartens, especially key kindergartens, often cater to parents' requirements and educate their children in some subjects, such as English, arithmetic, ancient poetry and composition. There are few group activities arranged by kindergartens. Different from the kindergarten education in China, the Japanese kindergarten education mainly focuses on games, and basically does not provide some subject knowledge education. Children attending kindergartens in Japan do not need to deal with any written theoretical knowledge at all, but only need to enjoy games and childhood happiness under the organization of kindergarten teachers. In Japan, almost all kindergartens will take game activities as the main teaching content, which is also the uniqueness of Japanese kindergarten education.

1.2 introduction to the classification of Japanese kindergarten game activities

The game activities in Japanese kindergartens can be divided into indoor activities and outdoor activities according to the venue. Children are generally willing to do outdoor activities as long as the weather is fine. Game activities can be divided into free activities and group activities according to organizational forms, and free activities in kindergartens are longer than group activities. Kindergartens usually enter kindergartens in the morning and start their free activities. Besides traditional painting, singing, dancing, handcrafting, playing simple musical instruments, telling stories, performing and other courses to cultivate children's interest, teachers will also organize students to actively participate in traditional Japanese festivals. Through these games and activities, not only children's hobbies are cultivated, but also their ability to communicate with others, create independently and arrange their own time is cultivated. Through group activities, children's strong sense of collective cooperation is also exercised, and they are deeply aware of the importance of the spirit of collective cooperation in dealing with practical problems. In short, in kindergartens in Japan, it is almost impossible to see teachers educating children about academic knowledge indoors, all for children to exercise their abilities and cultivate their sentiments in different games.

1.3 game equipment and facilities provided by Japanese kindergartens

Japanese kindergartens provide abundant outdoor sports facilities, including large outdoor sports facilities: seesaws, slides, swings, tracks, ladders and so on. Smaller sporting goods include: ball, yo-yo, sandbag, rope, frisbee, water gun, gyro and so on. Some kindergartens with better conditions will also build water pools and sand in the park for children to have water fights and paint on the ground with sand. In addition to these traditional ready-made facilities, kindergartens will also put some useless cardboard outdoors for children to expand their imagination and design some handmade works at any time. Compared with outdoor activities, indoor activities are less. The tools for indoor games generally include puzzles, building blocks, brushes and drawing paper, dolls, animals and humanoid dolls, plush toys, plasticine, balls and so on. In the same way, put some tools indoors, such as waste paper boxes, cloth, glue, string, small wooden blocks, etc., so as to facilitate children to design toys according to their own imagination and fully cultivate their imagination and practical production ability. Children like playing in kindergarten very much, because they don't need to learn academic knowledge, but only need to play games in an orderly way under the arrangement of teachers. In the actual game activities, they have cultivated their respective hobbies, exercised their ability to communicate with others and arrange their personal time reasonably, further enhanced their sense of collective cooperation, and made them fully experience the importance of collective cooperation. In the game activities, they can also make good friends, thus making their childhood colorful without feeling lonely.

2 Japanese kindergarten game environment

2. 1 the environment of outdoor games in Japanese kindergartens

The environmental construction of kindergartens in China generally pays more attention to decoration. The more famous kindergartens are very concerned about the decoration of their kindergartens, laying smooth and flat floor tiles, painting the walls bright and clean, and then sticking tablecloths with children's colors on the walls to decorate the kindergartens like fairy tales in dreams. The environmental construction of Japanese kindergartens is very simple. Often after stepping into the gate of Japanese kindergartens, you can see the layout of outdoor games in the park, which is very natural and simple. Usually, there are only some natural plants, such as flowers, grass, trees and so on. The floor is not deliberately paved, mainly natural soil. In order to facilitate people to walk, the soil will be covered with a lawn. This bad environment construction is not because Japan is unwilling to invest in building a kindergarten environment, but because Japanese preschool education experts believe that it is very beneficial to let children grow up in the natural environment. Children can play in the natural environment and fully cultivate their ability to observe nature. They can always observe the natural growth process of flowers and trees, observe the activities of ants and insects, and help them develop their creativity. They can grab the dirt on the ground at any time to shape each other. Children who grow up in such a natural environment can spend a happy childhood in games, get in touch with nature and feel the beauty of nature. Play in the natural environment, don't worry about injury, because the soil and lawn are very soft, even if you fall to the ground, you won't scratch the panel. Children can enjoy games and exercise their agility and strong physique in games.

2.2 Japanese kindergarten indoor game environment

The design concept of indoor game environment in Japanese kindergartens is the same as that of outdoor, and both of them keep a natural environment layout as much as possible. In kindergartens in China, cartoon characters or lovely animal tablecloths are often pasted on the indoor walls, and the whole kindergarten is decorated with colorful colors through the walls. However, in Japanese kindergartens, there are almost no brightly colored children's tablecloths on the indoor walls, and only pictures of children's paintings and handmade works can be seen on the walls. This is because Japanese preschool education experts do not think that colorful wall layout will have a good impact on children's education, and only natural environment layout can be more conducive to children's growth. So Japanese kindergartens never decorate their walls beautifully. They pay more attention to children's indoor activities, hoping that children will grow up happily and healthily in game activities.

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[1] Japanese kindergartens attach importance to children's game education [J]. Family education * * * Parents of children * * 2009 Z 1.

[2] Xin Wang. Creation and utilization of natural environment in Japanese kindergartens [J]. Early education, September 2003.

Brief introduction of the author

Wu Jujie * *1992—* * *, male, Han nationality, Shanghainese, studying in shanghai dianji university. Amateur research includes Japanese culture, Japanese etiquette, Japanese education, Japanese literature and history, and appreciation of Japanese film and television animation works.

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