What role does the kindergarten class environment play?

The Importance of Creating Kindergarten Class Environment

Environment is an important educational resource, just like a teacher who can't speak. As a kind of "hidden curriculum", the creation of kindergarten class environment has an educational function that cannot be underestimated in developing children's intelligence and promoting children's personality development. Let's look at several key words: class environment creation, importance, intelligence development, environmental awareness, and interest in exploration.

The environment of kindergarten refers to the sum of all the material and spiritual conditions that children in kindergarten must have for their physical and mental development. Children's growth is inseparable from the environment, which has a far-reaching impact on children's development. China had an incisive exposition on this in ancient times. For example, "Those who are near Zhu Zhechi and Mexico are black" emphasizes the contagious effect of the environment on people. Another example is the story of "Three Movements in Meng Mu", which shows that we should pay attention to the choice of environment when cultivating talents. Yan Zhitui, an ancient educator, believed that the environment had a profound and lasting influence on children in a subtle way. Piaget, a Swiss psychologist, believes that human potential behavior is adaptability, and environment is one of the most important factors for children's development. Therefore, the environment plays an important and irreplaceable role in children's development. Environment is not only the third teacher for children, but also an indispensable part of our teaching process. In the creation of class environment, we have the creation of theme environment and game area environment. The Guiding Outline of Kindergarten Education clearly requires that "kindergartens should provide healthy and rich living and activity environments for children, meet their diversified development needs, and make them gain experiences beneficial to their physical and mental development in a happy childhood". It can be seen that the environment is an important educational resource in kindergartens, and the creation and utilization of a good environment can enable children to develop their abilities in all aspects in the interaction with the environment. All these fully illustrate the importance of environment. As a "hidden course", environment plays an educational role that cannot be underestimated in developing children's intelligence and promoting children's personality development.

First, the creation of environment can develop children's intelligence. Marx said: "man created the environment, and the environment also created man." Walls, activity areas, etc. It is part of the curriculum implementation environment. They recorded all kinds of courses that have been implemented and are being implemented in an intuitive way and materials, so that the courses are constantly extended. For example, let children find problems in activities, then solve problems, and let new problems arise from the solution of old problems. Therefore, the process of constantly creating and improving the environment is to constantly expand and extend the curriculum; For example, according to the theme "natural language" created by our class, a weather record table was arranged on the auxiliary wall, and children recorded the daily weather by looking at the sky, so a question arose: "Why does it rain? How is the wind formed? " Wait a minute. For another example, children and teachers make a "water drop travel map" together. The images they drew were lovely, and they were deeply attracted by the theme. They are not only subtly educated and know the three-state changes of water, but also greatly improve their cognitive development, language ability and practical ability through their mutual communication. The children were lost in thought. The children imagined the scene of water droplets turning into clouds and hugged each other, vividly simulating the phenomenon of water droplets turning into clouds. They also raised more questions about this. Children learn and explore in the interaction between environment and materials, thus stimulating their interest in learning and desire for knowledge.

Second, the creation of environment can stimulate children's interest in exploration. Provide a large number of waste materials for children to operate, which stimulates children's desire to learn and start work. Various materials and tools suitable for children's development are arranged in the scientific exploration area, which can stimulate children's curiosity and make them take the initiative to participate in interesting scientific exploration activities, relaxed and happy. Our class put a magnifying glass, magnets, teachers' homemade scales and so on. There are also cards of various shapes for children to puzzle. In the art area, eggshells, pigments and discarded bottles and cans are provided to encourage children to interact with the environment, so as to gain rich direct experience, find the connection between things and have a strong interest in science. In short, let children feel the meaning and value of creation and let them be willing to create and explore. Enhance the child's desire to explore. In the future, whenever they encounter waste materials, the children will say, let's do something and rack our brains. It not only gives play to children's imagination, but also improves children's practical ability. In the corridor facing the sun in our class, there are some plants, such as sprouted potatoes, soybeans, rice, garlic and so on. The secrets of these natural corners often make children involuntarily discover, explore and find answers. The Rightists in our class suddenly said one day that sweet potatoes are moldy, why? He just wants to study it.

Third, the creation of the environment can cultivate children's spirit of small masters. In the past, the kindergarten environment was generally provided by adults to children, and children were in a passive position, unable to participate in environmental layout, which affected their thinking and creativity. Therefore, today's kindergartens pay attention to providing children with excellent opportunities to acquire new knowledge, experience and practice their hands-on ability, which can also make children feel kind and satisfied with the environment arranged by themselves and their brains. So as to cherish the environment more, encourage a sense of accomplishment and encourage children to fully interact with the environment. In particular, the activity area is designed and equipped with operating materials, materials and tools suitable for children's age characteristics and educational curriculum requirements, which are convenient for children to take and put, and cultivate children's good habit of putting them back after playing. Because children like to integrate into the environment and experience their own behavior process, we pay attention to the guidance of environmental design process when creating the environment, so that children can constantly exercise, grow their talents and play their main role in the creation of the environment. Children are the masters of the environment, so it is more meaningful for children to design and create the class environment according to their own wishes and ideas. In the process of children's participation in the arrangement, give full play to their main role. For example, with the help of teachers, the children in our big class create a theme environment of a happy home. The background is the earth, which means our happy home. Under the heated discussion of the children, we decided to adopt the method of drawing and cutting, and division of labor and cooperation. Children process and paste their own origami frogs, their own painted and cut clouds, their own small houses and their own self-portraits on the "earth". The children were very excited when the whole creation was completed. This form of combining children's works to decorate the environment also makes every child feel the joy of success and cooperation. More importantly, I have a deeper understanding of the earth, love life more and love my home more. Through hands-on, brains and personal participation in the educational process of environmental layout, children have gained new knowledge and experience, and their abilities have also been cultivated. Moreover, children also have a special affection and intimacy for their environment, which will stimulate children to interact with the environment more fully. Experienced the joy of cooperation. In regional activities, we will find that children's communicative competence can be fully demonstrated.

Fourth, environmental creation can guide children to have environmental awareness. In the environmental creation of each region, there are materials and works provided by children, which is an important way for them to participate in the creation of class environment, and also a very important and effective educational process to cultivate their environmental awareness of turning waste into treasure and not wasting any resources from an early age. In the process of creating the environment in various areas of our class, the children collected all kinds of bottles, straws, eggshells and other waste items from home. Inspired by the teacher, the children made tall buildings and cars out of cardboard boxes. Materials are taken from the surrounding resources (mostly waste). This kind of education enables children to learn to be diligent and learn to cherish and use resources. Also let children learn to create, and let waste materials play a greater role through their own creation. Children are really happy to decorate all areas of our class with these works. They are more interested in collecting and looking for all kinds of waste materials. In the process of active participation, children not only develop their imagination, creativity and practical ability, but also cultivate their awareness of environmental protection. When our class was collecting waste materials, the children went back and told their parents that our teacher wanted everything. Fengfeng saw this and said, "garbage." Later, we used these "rubbish" to make all kinds of toys, and so on. The children saw that the original garbage can also be turned into treasure. For example, for all kinds of dishes and foods in Wangwang cuisine, we use old bamboo sticks to string together discarded square paper to make various mutton skewers, and simply decorate cans as stilts in the sports area and make paper balls with waste newspapers. In the "living area", we use cardboard and ribbons to let children learn to wear shoes and tie shoelaces. In short, no matter which district we are in, we put in more or less waste materials to let children understand that "waste can also be turned into treasure if you want." In the activity, through observation and operation, let children know the utilization value of waste materials and stimulate their creative desire and interest in activities.

Fifth, improve children's feelings about beauty. Following the principle of creating kindergarten environment, children can participate in the arrangement of activities and guide them to shape different images according to their education and their own wishes. The fixed part is made by the teacher. So on the outer wall of the classroom, our design theme is "our work". All the works are made by dolls themselves, and then they post them. The purpose of doing this is to give dolls an intuitive feeling, so that they can see at a glance the works of themselves and others, and then find the advantages of others through comparison and reference, make up for their own shortcomings, and learn to appreciate them unconsciously. It is important to learn to appreciate. Appreciating others can learn from others' strengths, and being appreciated will increase self-confidence and exert potential. We also hang children's pictures in the classroom. These designs and creations are not only aesthetic, but also contain knowledge, guiding children to appreciate the beauty of color and form, so that children can be naturally promoted. It also allows parents to understand their children's situation more directly. Environmental creation is a process in which teachers and children walk into the theme together, and discover, express and create beauty together in the theme. Enhance the aesthetic feeling, make the environment a flowing landscape, and let children actively express their personal aesthetic experience.

Sixth, let children feel happy. In the Hometown column, we will inform parents of the weekly curriculum, and we will convey the latest and best information about educating children to parents so as to communicate with them in the first time. Of course, our class also has a weekly little star posting column to let parents and children feel progress, success and pride. Children have experienced the happiness of success in the process of creating a beautiful environment by themselves. This kind of happiness makes him more consciously care about the things around him and generate new expectations. These environments created around educational goals can not only enable children to acquire relevant knowledge and cultivate good habits of loving nature and caring for the environment, but also strengthen communication between children and enhance emotional communication. It also enhances parents' understanding of kindergarten teaching trends and plays an auxiliary role in the development of the theme. And let the children deepen their impressions.