The Significance of Games to Children's Development

The significance of games to children's development is as follows:

1, games can promote children's physical development. Childhood is a period of rapid growth and vigorous development.

Games are one of the effective activities for physical development. In the game, children can be fully exposed to sunlight, air and water, which can not only enhance the body's resistance to diseases, but also enhance the body's coordination, balance and flexibility. Especially in sports games and outdoor games, every organ of a child's body can be promoted and developed.

For example, folding plane games can exercise children's throwing ability and arm strength; Exercise children's reaction ability and action speed through catch-up games, and prepare them for the sprint. In the game of "the eagle catches the chicken", the children walk back and forth and run left and right, which exercises their dodge ability, while the "capable rabbit" exercises the development of the children's thigh muscles.

2. Games can promote the development of children's language communication ability.

Language communication ability is a basic ability for children to adapt to life and future development, and games are an important way to cultivate children's ability. For children, games are their earliest and most basic communication activities, and the game process itself is the process of children's communication.

Children often need to translate visual information, auditory information and subjective feelings, wishes or requirements into language in games, or make oral responses according to other people's intentions. In the game, communicative language learning can be seen everywhere in the two-way interaction between children and adults and between children.

It can be said that communicative language is constructed in the process of actively participating in activities. For example, in the role game "A Doll's House", the child who plays the mother has a bad attitude towards his peers, and the peers protest: "Mom, don't talk like this. Mom speaks very gently."

A child who plays the role of a mother must change her language style, try to imitate her mother's tone of voice, take care of the housework, take care of the children, assign work at home, communicate with people around her, and let her learn to communicate naturally.

For example, when performing the "My Career" game, let children play various professional workers (salespeople, teachers, scientists, painters, policemen, firefighters, etc.). ). According to the children's high, middle and low levels, ask different levels of questions for situational performance. If the level is high, can children be required to know all kinds of common occupations?

The fireman said, "I want to be a fireman when I grow up, because firemen can protect many people's lives." Let low-level children know the new word "teacher" and say, "I want to be a teacher when I grow up, because teachers know a lot of knowledge." Language is the most important communication tool for children, and language ability determines children's performance in activities. All languages are made up of certain forms of words.

Therefore, letting children master more vocabulary in activities improves the development of children's language expression ability to varying degrees.

3. Games can promote children's social development.

Childhood is a critical period of human social development, and games, as a basic activity of children, have extremely important development value. Games can help children acquire more knowledge to adapt to the social environment and attitudes and skills to deal with interpersonal relationships.

Games play an important role in the development of self-awareness, social role and moral quality. For example, folk games in the game have established rules, and children must abide by these rules in the game in order to keep the game going, which will urge children to control their own behavior.

In this process, children will encounter many problems, such as whether the number of people is large or small, and everyone's understanding of the rules is inconsistent. Through the mutual imitation and coordination of game partners, children learn to abide by the rules and get along well with others. Learned to solve interpersonal conflicts and control their emotions and behaviors.

In the game, every child constantly changes roles, and game partners will naturally produce "leaders", and these "leaders" will naturally be eliminated, which can cultivate children's sense of responsibility and organizational ability, and at the same time educate children to treat others equally, establish a sense of unity and cooperation, and overcome the bad atmosphere of willfulness and egoism.

Another example is to play the performance game of "bus", so that children can know to queue up and not to be crowded, and give their seats to the elderly, the disabled, pregnant women and children on the bus to cultivate their love and sense of responsibility. In the role game of "traffic police", children can know the role of traffic police and some traffic rules: stop at a red light, walk at a green light, walk on the sidewalk, and so on.

Children can further deepen their impressions through their own personal experiences in the game, so that children can gradually form a good personality psychology and positive emotions.

4. Games are conducive to the development of children's ability of independence, exploration, independent discovery and problem solving.

Games are children's favorite activities and a way for children to grow up independently and creatively. Games are naturally integrated with finding and solving problems, providing children with opportunities to explore and imagine freely. In the process of realizing the game intention, children will constantly encounter problems of one kind or another. They need to face different problems, think, explore various methods to solve problems, and experience the fun, so that the game can continue and finally be realized.

Example: In the game "Little Restaurant", I saw two children have problems. One said, "The twist you made was too hard, and it broke when you twisted it. I don't want to do it with you. " The other said, "Come on, let's figure something out together, shall we?"? . "After discussing for a while, they kneaded the broken twist into dough, added some water to the dough, and found that the twist was continuous. The child smiled happily. It can be seen that children's thinking is active through games.

Autonomy, exploration, ability to find and solve problems have also been improved. In addition, children often have new creations in games, such as folding candy paper, sticking leaves, making toys, building blocks and so on. Therefore, teachers should create conditions to provide children with opportunities to play games and let them experience the happiness of development and creation.