Consolidate the foundation_Use "green" to consolidate the foundation of campus culture

For many years, Qinye Kindergarten in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province has been based on the harmonious interaction, harmonious penetration, and harmonious mutual growth of green concepts, green environment, and green humanities, and has strived to improve a green campus with the characteristics of "Qinye" culture and achieved outstanding results. 1. Infiltrate green concepts and take root in green soil

We believe that only when the school’s hardware and software are “greened” can the quality and innovative abilities of the educated continue to change qualitatively. To this end, through the three-party linkage of kindergartens, teachers, and families, we can truly realize the "greening" of people in the process of mutual transmission, mutual exchange, and mutual improvement of the green concepts of kindergartens.

First, green concepts penetrate management. Our kindergarten has established a "Green Culture Core Group", with the principal as the leader and the deputy principal, health teacher and childcare director as deputy leaders. The core group regularly holds a special working meeting on "green culture" every month, assigns monthly green tasks, and assigns subject penetration, theme education and social practice, environmental transformation, event publicity, etc. to the logistics, teaching and research departments. Because the goals are clear, the content is clear, and responsibilities are implemented in place, all departments cooperate with each other and work in an orderly manner, so that all aspects of work have achieved obvious results.

Second, green concepts should permeate teachers. We pay attention to a series of kindergarten-based training for teachers. On the one hand, we invite experts to give special lectures to all teachers to make everyone clear the characteristics of "green schools" and the connotation of "green culture"; on the other hand, our kindergarten also organizes all teachers to conduct "green culture" training. "Building a Beautiful Home" speech contest and the "My Views on Green Education" salon, everyone's ideas were collided during the discussion, thereby gaining a deeper understanding of the true meaning of green schools and improving their own environmental quality.

Third, green concepts penetrate into the family. Every semester, we will reach a consensus on home education through parent meetings, special lectures, online interactions, etc., and issue "Environmental Protection Search" questionnaires to enable parents to enhance their awareness of environmental protection under the influence of their children's behavior; at the same time, we will issue environmental protection initiatives to community residents. Books, collect environmental protection ideas from parents, and carry out environmental protection activities with communities and families to allow more parents to become part of environmental protection activities. On World Environment Day on June 5, we held a series of activities called "Little Green Guardians in Action", allowing parents to take their children and hold small flags that read "Protect the environment, start with me" in a "You throw it and I pick it up" activity. ", "Fly Life" and other theme activities; on March 8, an activity was carried out to help mothers go to the supermarket to "buy green food and build environmental awareness" to help children establish a green consumption concept. This made everyone realize that "environmental protection must start from me, starting from the small things around me", which truly has the effect of one child driving a family, and one family driving a community.

2. Create a green environment and create a green atmosphere

Human development is obtained through the interaction with the environment. Therefore, the kindergarten always regards nature and energy saving as the creation of the kindergarten environment. important starting point.

First, nature. In recent years, with the strong support of higher-level governments, kindergartens have invested hundreds of thousands of yuan in greening and beautifying the campus. In the small planting area, seasonal flowers and trees are planted for children to appreciate and understand, green lawns are laid, and pools for children to play with water and sand are set up. Whenever children walk on the winding cobblestone paths, observe and communicate around small trees, or play in the water and sand area, we always feel the beauty of harmony between man and nature. At the same time, we also cleverly conceived the idea of ??painting an exterior wall in the park with a background color and adding a blackboard, designing it into an art gallery where children can freely graffiti and create to their heart's content, so that the beautification and greening of the park can embody the concept of education and returning to nature. Ambient atmosphere. The construction of class environment characteristics is also based on the purpose of "cultivating children full of vitality using the natural environment", allowing children to participate independently. Breeding gardens and planting corners are set up on the windowsills and corners of the area, allowing children to cultivate various animals and plants themselves and observe their growth process. This allows the children to feel the hardships of hard work and the joy of harvest, and at the same time, they develop self-awareness. They can truly care about the emotions of the animals and plants around them, thus truly arousing their urgent desire to protect the environment, and turning the characteristic environment into an effective internalized value.

Second, energy saving. In terms of energy conservation, the kindergarten insists that energy conservation starts with me and energy conservation starts from small things. It not only installs solar water heaters and energy-saving flush valves, but also requires each class to complete the three levels in a timely manner. The first is a multi-purpose warehouse. There are three very beautiful Rubik's Cube boxes on the playground of the kindergarten.

Its function is also an ever-changing Rubik's cube. The concave and convex appearance is a position for children to train for rock climbing. The built-in storage space is also the most utilized sports warehouse storage room, killing two birds with one stone to achieve the most efficient use of resources. The second is the electronic ledger system. Our park has been trying to implement paperless office since 2006 and built an electronic ledger system. This eliminates the tediousness and waste of printing a large amount of materials. This measure alone saves the kindergarten nearly 300 yuan in paper consumption every month. The third is the comprehensive curriculum area. Through the design of nearly 200 smart square boxes, this area effectively organizes the knowledge about mathematics, science, society and other aspects that children need to master throughout the kindergarten stage according to the principle of from easy to difficult, step by step, so that children can enjoy To discover, understand and master in operation. Each class can come here regularly to carry out activities, which reduces the waste of manpower and material resources when repeatedly making teaching aids, effectively integrates resources, and achieves low energy consumption and high efficiency through recycling.

3. Shape green humanities and enhance green culture

The green culture pursued by Qinyou embodies respect, creativity, self-discipline and individuality.

First, respect the young mind. We focus on creating a harmonious, equal and caring educational atmosphere for children. Through the "I am the best" themed activity and the "Monthly Star" class selection activity, we pay close attention to the momentary "sparkling points" of each child and give each child Fully provide a stage for self-expression and carefully care for their immature minds. At the same time, we pay more attention to children's vertical development and individual needs in the evaluation mechanism, which meets children's needs for respect and desire for success, and promotes the comprehensive, harmonious and healthy development of each child.

Second, creation changes life. We make full use of parents to collect waste items together, and organically combine the teaching content to understand and classify waste items. At the same time, we also carry out a series of corresponding waste-to-treasure activities. For example, the design of the Love Corridor in our garden is a highlight. Each area of ??the Love Corridor has detailed operating steps, finished product display and material placement. Parents and children can freely choose and play as they please. Using waste items as raw materials, well-made works can be displayed on display racks. Write the name of the family and the price you want. Of course, each family can also purchase their own or other families' works according to the price. All these charity funds are used to help children from needy families in our kindergarten, and some children have benefited from this. There is also the maintenance area of ??the Little Doctor Science and Technology Palace in our park. We collect used and damaged household appliances and toys in daily life and let the children try to repair them. There is a saying that for children, "destruction is also a kind of creation." In addition, the production of beautiful Frisbees, stilts, three-section sticks, golf balls and other sports toys in the morning activities in the kindergarten, as well as the environmental layout of each floor, also reflect the intelligence of our kindergarten teachers, parents and children. These activities have made the children's hands and minds sharper, and the kindergarten has become more beautiful.

Third, details reflect self-discipline. In the plantation, we hung a sign for each sapling, which recorded the name, place of origin, and characteristics of the tree in detail. While greening, it also increased children's knowledge and helped them learn to care for trees more scientifically. At the same time, we also set up some child-like and anthropomorphic environmental protection slogans in the corners of the kindergarten, such as "Shh, be gentle", "The little fish said: 'Please take care of our home'", "It will hurt if you pick it." ", these creative slogan designs not only beautify the environment but also play a role in environmental protection propaganda. After a period of follow-up observation, we found that children's environmentally friendly behavior habits have gradually changed from being supervised by teachers to taking the initiative and being able to influence the people around them with their own behavior.

Fourth, the garden should show individuality. Since 2006, we have started research on environmental education and carried out various environmental education activities. In order to enable teachers to better grasp the teaching materials and explore the environmental education value contained in the teaching materials, we have carried out teaching and research activities such as environmental education lesson plan design and selection, environmental education activities, listening to lectures, and lectures, so that teachers gradually know how to analyze and process teaching materials, and improve their activity design ability and lecture ability. At the same time, it also enables young children to consciously pay attention to the environmental issues living around them, and understand the relationship between human survival and environmental protection. For example, in the lecture activity, we were asked to design an art activity "Bird's Home" for a cartoon "Little Bird and Bare Branches"; we were asked to design "A Young Woman in a Tiger Fur Coat Appreciating in the Mirror" for a painting. Please love and cherish animals" activity class.

Teachers rack their brains to design unique activities. These activities not only improve teachers' teaching ability to explore themes and process and analyze teaching materials, but also improve teachers' activity design capabilities.

Green concept, green management; green education, green action; green environment, green culture. Today, green seeds are sown in the young hearts of children, and green hope is released. We firmly believe that this green tomorrow will be even better!

Author's unit Qinye Kindergarten, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province

(Editor Luo Denlian)