lHow to use rural resources to make kindergarten teaching aids

Government Kindergarten Wang Mei In recent years, due to the higher authorities’ emphasis on early childhood education and market demand, the early childhood education in our district has developed rapidly. Central kindergartens have been established in various towns and villages. Most of these kindergartens have open spaces. The supporting facilities are relatively complete, and the conditions for running the kindergarten have been greatly improved compared to the past, and are recognized by the society and parents. In the process of teaming up with these kindergartens to help, I also feel that these kindergartens have a lot of room for development, and there are also many things that are not done well. The first point is that there are too few toy teaching aids, especially homemade toy teaching aids. There are often phenomena such as children fighting for building blocks, teachers dictating too much during teaching, children operating too little, and outdoor games mostly involving free activities.

Toys can be said to be the first wordless textbook for children to understand and explore the world. Children cannot do without play and toys; and the development of various activities in kindergartens is even more inseparable from play. Teaching aids, and self-made teaching toys always occupy an important place in teaching toys, because they not only meet the needs of children's psychological development, but also have the characteristics of easy material selection and production, economy and uniqueness. They are an important supplement to industrialized teaching toys. Being good at making and using educational toys is also an important criterion for a mature preschool teacher. As an old teacher with more than 20 years of teaching experience, I would like to talk about my superficial experience in this area.

The key to making educational toys is the utilization of waste. Today's society is particularly rich in commodities and also pays attention to packaging. The packaging materials of many commodities can become good teaching toys with a little modification and arrangement. Usually we can prepare several large cartons to collect these items and place them in categories. They are ready. use.

1. Production and use of various types of beverage bottles, shampoo, dish soap and other plastic bottles.

This type of item is the best to collect and relatively easy to make. For example, transparent beverage bottles of different sizes can be directly filled with colorful water (mixed with advertising paint and water) and the bottle caps can be tightened, allowing children to count objects and recognize various colors in scientific activities; in health classes, children are allowed to lift "dumbbells" ", bottle rolling competition, tying the two larger bottles to both ends of the mop pole to learn to carry burdens, etc. You can also cut the bottle from the neck

and make the upper part into a small funnel and the lower part into a cup for playing with water and sand. Shampoo and dishwashing liquid bottles are more colorful and come in different shapes and sizes. They can be slightly cut and decorated according to the appearance characteristics and can be made into various small buckets, small shovels, and small dustpans, which are especially suitable for children to play with water outdoors. Sand, beautiful and economical. Teacher Chen Tingting from our kindergarten won the prize in the 2011 provincial preschool teacher play teaching aids competition with such a colorful and diverse set of water and sand playing tools. I also filled several large empty oil barrels with light blue water in an art class, and asked the children to cut and paste various small fish and aquatic plants on them to create a beautiful "underwater world", which was displayed on the decoration On the cabinet, it has been well received by teachers and parents. In addition, with a little more effort, these items can be turned into cars, flatbeds, trains, etc. by attaching axes made of wire or small sticks to the bottles and small pulleys made of bottle caps. Toy teaching aids made of this type of material are simple, practical and durable. They can be collected in large quantities and made at any time.

2. Utilization and production of various paper packaging boxes, product labels, hang tags, etc.

Various shapes can be cut into large cardboard boxes at appropriate locations, allowing children to put their bodies in them and play the game of "driving a train"; the boxes can also be opened and connected one by one for children. Children in small classes can practice crawling and play various games on it; the box can also be opened and connected to form the tracks of a tank, allowing one or several children to crawl in the middle and "drive the tank". Smaller boxes can be used for children to learn geometric figures; children can be allowed to decorate these boxes in art classes and make them into beautiful pen holders, jewelry boxes, etc.; with a little more trouble, they can be made into tables, chairs, and stools for playing "passing" "Family" games; if there are many boxes of the same size, children can also play construction games such as building and stacking.

In addition, there are a large number of product labels and hangtags for children to play freely, such as counting, splicing, drawing patterns on them, writing names, and making their own little business cards. Perhaps children will also invent many kinds of labels. Different ways to play. I remember one time when our kindergarten participated in a workshop competition, I collected two shoe boxes full of the tags on the clothes and shoes I purchased, and then put them into the district corner activities. The children really liked it.

They counted points and stacked them high, just like adults playing cards, you and I took them one by one and played them around; one child actually put the longer tiles into the bottle and shook them. Shaking and learning the fortune teller's fortune telling, although it is ridiculous, it is a kind of imitation and creation of life after all; later, after learning the "traffic rules" lesson, many children used these small cards to join zebra crossings and let themselves The little animal in your hand learns "to walk on the zebra crossing to cross the road." The children played with these little tags for a whole month.

Paper toy teaching aids are easily damaged, so be careful when storing them. They need to be stored in categories, not squeezed together, and updated regularly.

3. Collection and utilization of unique materials in rural areas.

Many village-run kindergartens are built on the edge of market towns. Outside the window, you can see the scenery of the four seasons. They are the closest places to nature. Looking up, you can see wheat fields, rice waves, and various wild grasses and small flowers beside the field ridges. With a panoramic view, the available natural resources are not found in kindergartens in the city. For example, various plant straws can be used for braiding and making. Just like some kindergartens in Jiangnan, pottery making has become a compulsory course for children and has become a feature. Seeds of various plants in autumn can be collected in transparent bottles for young children to observe and understand the characteristics and propagation methods of seeds. In spring and summer, you can pick various wild flowers and grasses to decorate the classroom and help children understand the diversity of plants. You can also take your children directly into nature to search, touch and take a look. When each child gently blows on the dandelion seeds and watches the small umbrellas float away in the wind, this may become the most beautiful memory of their childhood. Also, after heavy rain, you can go to the field to dig some mud for your children to create freely. I still remember the "cannon-throwing" game I played when I was a child: a group of children would each take a piece of mud and shape it into a bowl-like shape, and then throw it hard on the ground. With a "bang" sound, a hole would open in the middle of the mud. Then everyone competed with each other to see whose hole was bigger and whose sound was louder. The sound of "bang", "bang" and "bang" is still so dear to my mind, better than any beautiful song. ?Etc. These are the unique resources of rural kindergartens and should be made good use of to live up to the gifts of nature.

In addition to the materials classified in the above three points, as long as you use your heart and brain, many materials in life can be used to make toy teaching aids. I hope that my little experience can play a role in attracting new ideas. In short, making toy teaching aids is a major event in kindergarten, making making toy teaching aids a habit for every teacher.

Finally, let me talk about some principles that should be followed when making toy teaching aids. First, safety and hygiene must be ensured. The production materials should be non-toxic, and the materials should be washed and dried before production. Secondly, it must be playable, strive to be simple, and easy to operate. Toys that are too exquisite will become "viewing tools" and lose their function. Finally, we must pay attention to the combination of education, science and artistry. Educational means that it should have the function of promoting the comprehensive physical and mental development of children of different ages, enlightening children's intelligence, and conducive to the development of various activities. Scientificity means that it should comply with scientific principles, be focused, and have multiple uses. Artistry refers to making the toy teaching aids vivid, colorful, and humorous on the premise of being educational and scientific, so as to stimulate children's pursuit of beauty and make them want to play, love to play, and never tire of playing.