Focus on children's development and prepare for school.

As a kindergarten affiliated to a primary school, relying on the advantages of integrated management, our kindergarten and the primary school set up a teaching and research group for young children's connection. Through effective management measures such as double teaching and research, double walking and double practice, we deeply explored and reflected on the practical problems existing in the process of young children's connection, and established a curriculum for young children's connection.

in order to slow down the slope of the connection between young children, we integrate the educational objectives and content requirements into the daily life and game activities in kindergartens, and use regional and outdoor activities as a starting point to carry out inquiry, experiential and practical activities with children as the main body purposefully and planned to help children achieve effective connection in psychology, habits, skills and knowledge.

Healthy physical and mental support

School preparation education is a step-by-step process, and we always take promoting children's physical and mental health as the focus of our work, which runs through the education of children of all ages.

After entering primary school, children should actively face the changes in the environment, be willing to meet new friends and be mentally prepared. We break class boundaries and organize mixed-age activities in an orderly manner by carrying out integrated activities in the form of classes, grades and the whole park. In the "big class" of the multi-function hall, children read and discover together with their friends in the parallel class; In the "Reading Club" and "Enjoy Games Day", children play games with their friends in different classes and meet new friends and teachers through exploration and discovery. Teachers lead children into children's libraries, community supermarkets and other places, make full use of community resources, establish an effective cooperation mechanism, and deepen children's understanding of themselves, others and society. Kindergarten breaks the traditional mode of upgrading from small class to middle class and from middle class to large class in the past, and tries a new form of independent class selection. Children can choose their favorite classes and teachers through early knowledge, understanding and experience under the witness of parents, which not only relieves the anxiety of children and parents, but also cultivates their ability to adapt to the new environment and lays the foundation for children to enter primary school.

A day's life is skillfully connected

Education is the cultivation of habits, and good habits benefit people for life. Through "double teaching and research", everyone agrees that it is very important for children to adapt to primary school life and establish self-confidence to cultivate self-management and service consciousness.

Based on the children's daily life in large classes, we carried out the activity of "What time is the most suitable to get to the park". Children concluded through practice that the time to enter the park should be before 7:5, so as not to affect the follow-up activities. Through independent recording, weekly statistics and monthly evaluation, children produce class "attentive baby", feel the time in life, and constantly strengthen it in recording rewards, and finally cultivate good work and rest habits. The ability to arrange time reasonably helps children adapt to primary school life. In the "Happy Ten Minutes Between Classes" activity, we encourage children to plan and practice independently. What do you want to do? What can you do? What to do first? ..... Through constant trial and practice, children sort out: do what is important in advance, and do what you like afterwards. Children's planning of time is further enhanced.

We improve children's life management ability in various forms and guide children to participate in labor. Classes carry out weather broadcast and statistical activities, and children choose clothes according to weather conditions, and increase or decrease clothes according to weather changes in their lives, thus enhancing the independence of life management. When carrying out the "ten minutes between classes" activity, teachers gradually reduce language reminders, children arrange their lives reasonably, and develop the habit of drinking water and going to the toilet independently; Through the activity of "I am an expert in tidying up", teachers guide children to learn to tidy up toy cabinets and schoolbags, and master tidying tips; The class will be a "Happy Labor Day" every week, and the "I am a student on duty" activity will be carried out every day to guide children to master the labor skills in line with age characteristics, consciously undertake labor tasks, and stimulate children's awareness of serving themselves, others and the collective.

at the same time, our garden has built a safety and health defense line. In terms of safety, kindergartens carry out monthly safety drills and create "I know safety" wall decorations to help children master the necessary knowledge to deal with fires, earthquakes and other situations; Encourage children to participate in the safety inspection of classes and families, and make safety signs; Parents are invited to participate in safety drills in kindergartens, and their homes will work together to build a safety defense line. In terms of hygiene, through the selection of "healthy baby", children can wash their hands and go to the toilet in the right way in their daily life, and form hygiene habits; Health care doctors lead nurses to learn together, record eye-care gymnastics that is scientific and childlike and conforms to children's age characteristics, persist in implementing it in children's daily life, and transition to doing eye exercises in primary schools in the next semester of large classes, so that children can know how to care for their eyes from an early age.

Intelligent connection of game activities

Kindergarten takes games as its basic activity, which can effectively connect the key abilities in learning preparation in all aspects, such as game situation, peer communication, task challenge and problem solving. Therefore, we fully tap the value of the game, dock key capabilities, and promote effective convergence in the game.

Regional game activities are diverse in form and rich in value. Teachers have planned to skillfully integrate the key points of young learning content into them, so that children can grow up in free and independent games and gain cognitive, emotional, language and logical thinking development. Before the regional game, children use their own way to plan the content of the game, from simple drawing of regional signs to purposeful selection of content, use of materials and presentation of step diagrams, and the purpose and planning of the game are gradually enhanced.

In the process of regional games, children naturally develop key abilities in learning preparation. In the reading area, the "sequel story" expresses the sequel content in the form of symbolic painting. Children make story books, create stories according to roles and record them, and their pre-writing ability and logical expression ability are gradually enhanced; Using the inquiry-based operation materials and record forms in the science area, children constantly stimulate curiosity and thirst for knowledge in guessing, exploring, verifying, recording and sharing with peers; Observing, experimenting and recording the growth of plants in the plant corner has improved children's concentration ... We have specially set up a "primary school" area, where children take turns to experience and feel, and in the process of playing the role of "little teacher", their abilities of planning, thinking, designing content, language expression and peer communication have been continuously improved.

Reading activities are connected with wisdom

After long-term continuous excavation and accumulation, our garden has gradually formed a "happy" reading feature, focusing on promoting children's development in many aspects through reading. Teachers found that reading is not only a learning process, but also a learning method, which can play an active role in children's physical and mental preparation, language expression and pre-writing.

with the help of picture books, learn to control emotions. Faced with primary school life, children are both curious and worried: "What if I can't find a classroom?" "What if I don't have time to go to the toilet?" "What if the teacher criticizes me for being late in the morning?" ..... Teachers and children together in "Little Ali's Big School", "Mood Diary" and other picture book stories, looking for ways to solve problems and reasonably vent their emotions, so that children are full of yearning for primary school life.

create picture-book dramas and exercise written expression. In the process of creating their own scripts, in order to make the story more reasonable, children gradually try to think about the link between the plots and develop their logical thinking ability; In order to make the performance more vivid, children constantly enrich the details in their scripts, and initially experience the description of action, language and psychology, which is conducive to the transition to primary school.

borrow books independently and accumulate writing experience before. In book drifting activities, children in large classes write their names and dates before borrowing books, and record their understanding, feelings and problems about the contents of books through painting after reading. Their reading habits and speaking ability are constantly cultivated and improved, and children are more interested in words in natural activities.

reading games promotes comprehensive development. Teachers use picture book elements to design language games suitable for children's age characteristics, and integrate five fields, learning quality and other aspects into them. Children observe, tell, express and understand in the game situation, collect relevant materials and books in individual or cooperation, record them in their favorite way and share them in the class. In reading games, they read rules, diagrams, contents, words, stories and actions ... All kinds of input information are externalized, which promotes the development of thinking, improves the ability of active learning, active thinking and problem solving, and lays a good foundation for future study.

(The author is the kindergarten affiliated to Dayu No.2 Primary School in Mentougou District, Beijing)

China Education News, 2nd edition, January 23rd, 222

Author: Liang Hongyan.