How to Give Full Play to the Educational Opportunity of Traditional Festivals

The National Day is coming. How can kindergartens make full use of this educational opportunity? Five ministries and commissions, including Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, have previously issued the Notice on Promoting the Excellent Tradition of National Culture by Using Traditional Festivals, calling on everyone to respect traditional festivals and putting forward special requirements for schools, kindergartens and other education departments. "The excellent traditions of national culture contained in traditional festivals are valuable resources for ideological and moral education for young people."

Festival culture contains extremely rich educational content and great educational value, which is a valuable resource that can not be ignored in preschool education and an important part of children's education. Develop the potential resources of different festivals, cooperate with appropriate and effective activities, create a good atmosphere for festival education with parents, let festival cultural education enter children's lives, let our children get close to nature, get in touch with society, understand festival customs, cultivate children's good social feelings such as caring for each other and loving nature, promote their emotions, attitudes, cognition, behavior and ability to develop together, and inherit our China.

How to choose festivals for education

The types and connotations of festivals are varied, but not all festivals are suitable for children. China has the largest number of traditional festivals in the world. According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 500 festivals of 56 ethnic groups every year, of which 378 are more influential than traditional festivals.

We should grasp the core meaning of festivals, grasp the main points, make value judgments, and carefully screen out those festivals that are interesting, have important educational significance and are beneficial to children's physical and mental health as the content of kindergarten holiday education. The following basic principles should be followed when choosing festival education activities:

Scientific principles. Festivals are related to certain social background and historical culture, and the development of festival education activities must be based on certain social knowledge. When choosing festival education activities, we must study carefully to ensure that the content is true, accurate and scientific, otherwise the activities will lose their educational value. Teachers should look for information with a serious attitude, understand the ins and outs of festivals, dig deep into the educational value of festivals, and set educational goals to promote the development of children's emotions, attitudes, knowledge and abilities.

The principle of the times. When choosing festival education activities, we should consider whether the content of the festival has positive practical significance. Teachers should choose those festival education contents that are of strong times, closely related to children's lives and full of positive social significance, such as Children's Day, Labor Day and National Day. Some festivals have little connection with children's lives or are not easily understood by children, such as April Fool's Day and Valentine's Day, which are not suitable for activities in kindergartens.

Activity and fun principle. Vacation education activities should avoid knowledge indoctrination and empty preaching, and teachers should organize various activities that are popular with young children and conform to their understanding ability and physical and mental development characteristics, such as visits, performances, games and so on. At the same time, we should pay attention to arouse the enthusiasm of children to participate in activities, give them the right to choose their own activities, and give full play to their awareness of active participation.

Systematic principle. When choosing festival education activities, we should avoid duplication of content, and plan the festival activities that classes of all ages should carry out every semester as a whole to avoid randomness. The arrangement of activities should be in line with children's age and learning characteristics, from low to high, from shallow to deep, from easy to difficult, so as to combine point with surface, step by step and spiral upward.

The principle of mutual cooperation. Strengthen contact with society, make full use of social resources, and actively participate in social festivals. Strengthen the contact with parents, let families enter the cultural atmosphere of holiday education, and form a joint force of education. Teachers should cooperate with each other, and everyone should have the consciousness and action of developing and utilizing school-based curriculum to realize the coordination and education of society, family and kindergarten.

How to organize holiday education activities

Visit. Every major festival, there are always celebrations in the society. At that time, the kindergarten can show the children around, let them experience the joyful atmosphere of the festival, observe people's activities to celebrate the festival and understand the specific significance of the festival. For example, on National Day, colorful flags are flying, neon lights are flashing, pictures and slogans can be seen everywhere, and people are beaming, from which children can feel the prosperity of the motherland and the well-being of the people. Another example is the Double Ninth Festival in 1999, which can lead children to visit nursing homes, give gifts and performances to grandparents, help the elderly to do what they can, and inspire children's feelings of respecting, caring for and helping the elderly.

Celebrations and commemorative activities. During the festival, celebrations and commemorative activities can be held according to the contents of the festival. Activities should be suitable for children's characteristics and should not blindly imitate the cumbersome rituals of adults. Celebrations should be colorful, and children's comprehensive understanding of the festival connotation should be deepened through activities such as enjoying stories, singing performances, painting and handcrafting. You can also invite relevant social personnel to participate, such as inviting mothers to participate in the March 8 th Festival, inviting grandparents to participate in the Double Ninth Festival, and inviting scattered children or children from welfare homes to participate in the celebration of Children's Day on June 1. In addition, it is necessary to mobilize children's initiative and creativity, encourage children to decide the content and process of activities themselves, and arrange the environment for activities. When organizing the New Year's Eve party, children can be encouraged to participate in the layout of the class environment, so that children can understand the significance of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new in a festive atmosphere. Children can deepen their understanding of festival culture, deepen their patriotic feelings and improve their positive emotional quality in various activities.

Game activities. Games are children's favorite activities and an important form of holiday education. The game itself is a child's imitative understanding of the world, and entertainment itself is an optimistic intervention in society. Therefore, festival education places special emphasis on "entertaining through education", so that children can receive education through games and entertainment. During the festival, children can be organized to play role games and performance games related to the theme to understand the significance of the festival. For example, on Teacher's Day, children are organized to play the game of "I will be a teacher today", so that children can realize the sacredness and loftiness of the teaching profession.

Family parent-child activities. Children's holiday education also needs the support and cooperation of parents. There are many festivals in winter and summer vacations. We should make effective use of parents' resources and mobilize their enthusiasm and initiative to participate in children's holiday education. During the festival, families can carry out festival celebrations and guide parents to take their children to visit, travel, collect information and make parent-child production in the form of "parent-child questionnaire". After the holiday, we can also organize some activities, such as discussions and reports, exchanges and sharing, competitions and games. Turn what children see and hear into inner experience, so as to achieve the purpose of * * * education.

How to Develop the Effective Value of Festival Education

Traditional festivals in China are an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation. Different festivals contain different cultural connotations and educational values. For example, the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival show people's love for their families, unity and harmony, and courtesy. Lantern Festival reflects people's pursuit of a better life and optimistic personality; Tomb-Sweeping Day embodies people's root-seeking consciousness of remembering their ancestors; Dragon Boat Festival embodies people's mourning for patriotic pioneers; National Day, the birthday of the Party and the Army Day can also cultivate children's love for the motherland. Therefore, educating children on holidays can awaken their love for China's long and rich culture and stimulate their national pride.

Festival education is an important carrier of moral education, ethics education and code of conduct education, which can promote the formation and development of children's good social quality. Many customs and habits of traditional festivals reflect the requirements of social morality, norms and etiquette. The children are immersed in a thick festive atmosphere, and are subtly influenced and infected. They learn about festivals through personal experience, and regulate their behavior according to the moral requirements of festivals, and gradually complete the transformation to a sound social person.

Children's festival culture education can promote children's all-round development. The educational function of traditional festivals for children goes beyond the scope of conventional education and social education. Festival education can provide colorful life practice, let children learn a lot of knowledge and methods, improve their practical ability and promote intellectual development. Participating in activities such as dragon lantern dancing, flying kites, swinging, dragon boat racing and mountain climbing can develop children's basic movements and enhance their physical fitness; Participating in activities such as cutting window grilles, making lanterns, solving riddles on lanterns, and singing poems can cultivate children's aesthetic ability, improve their cultural taste and cultivate their beautiful sentiments; Participating in activities such as sweeping dust, planting trees and flowers can cultivate children's labor concept and improve their labor skills.

The process of festival education is also the process of educating teachers and parents. Under the effective cooperation and benign interaction of their homes, teachers and parents can further realize the value of traditional festival education, enhance their interest and understanding of festivals and China culture, enrich their knowledge and emotions, meet high-level spiritual needs and enhance their spiritual strength. The growth of teachers, children and adults is more conducive to the development of education and the all-round development of children.