Taste folk customs and enjoy the beginning of summer—Haibei Kindergarten creates a "Hello, Summer" themed activity

In order to guide children to understand the Beginning of Summer, know the auspicious meanings of solar terms and customs, and appreciate the cultural charm of traditional festivals, Haibei Garden actively organized a variety of practical activities from May 2 to 5.

? Activity 1: Discuss customs and celebrate the Beginning of Summer

? The kindergarten uses the school website and class WeChat group to publicize Beginning of Summer health care knowledge to families. Under the enthusiastic encouragement of teachers, the children in the top class not only shared with their peers what they knew about Beginning of Summer customs such as trying new things, weighing people, and fighting eggs, but also actively held a large-scale poetry and singing session, reciting aloud "A shelf full of roses and a courtyard full of fragrance" Pomegranates are blooming all over the curtains, "the lotus breeze brings fragrance, and the bamboo dew drops are clear"...

? Activity 2: Bean peeling competition, passionate Beginning of Summer

? China has always known "Eat broad beans at the beginning of summer". Based on their understanding of broad beans, children in primary and middle classes successively organized into small groups, large groups, and classes to engage in exciting and climactic bean-peeling competitions, with shouts and cheers coming one after another.

? Activity 3: Hand-painted egg treasures, colorful Beginning of Summer

? The teacher led the children to carefully observe the appearance characteristics of eggs and duck eggs prepared in advance, and competed to use various art materials Decorate it carefully. Everyone was swimming in the ocean of joy, with excited smiles on their faces.

? Activity 4: Fancy egg-fighting, fun at the beginning of summer

? The middle and large grade groups rushed to carry out a unique egg-fighting competition to promote children to experience the fun of traditional games and have fun "The Beginning of Summer Addiction". Everyone was divided into groups to discuss competition projects such as erecting eggs, turning eggs, bouncing eggs, and peeling eggs. After the teacher explained the rules, they immediately entered the competition mode in groups of three or five, and bursts of cheers resounded throughout the campus.

Activity 5: Homemade meals, delicious Beginning of Summer

? Combined with Haibei Garden’s “Weekly Homemade Side Meals” activity, the children are ingenious and have fun with their families Design and depict "special cold noodles", and intuitively perceive sesame oil, soy sauce, vinegar, pepper powder, sugar and other seasonings by looking at the color, smelling the aroma, and tasting the taste, and then add cucumber shreds, carrot shreds, bean sprouts, etc. to make noodles in groups . Everyone praised the homemade cold noodles and took the initiative to share the delicious food with their friends and teachers to savor the different tastes. After discussion, teachers and students unanimously decided to record their thoughts and feelings in the form of a "noodle diary".

? At a time when traditional culture is increasingly being forgotten, this series of activities serves multiple purposes and has far-reaching implications. It not only leads children to improve their hands-on skills to a certain extent, stimulates their sense of competition and innovation, and enhances the relationship with their families. We also vigorously encourage children to deepen their understanding and experience of solar terms, develop the beautiful emotion of "love me, China", keep the essence of traditional culture in mind in pleasant activities, learn harvest and gratitude in simple life, and work together to create a harmonious atmosphere. Inherit folk culture.