Fujian Daily·New Fujian Client September 21 (Reporter Chen Shengzhong Correspondent Xu Shuangping Text/Photo) Washing vegetables, frying eggs, and compose fruit plates... On the afternoon of the 20th, a fragrance came from the "Happy Kitchen" of Meizhou Island Experimental Kindergarten, and a unique life experience class was being staged here. In the small kitchen, there are all small appliances, pots, pans, knives, etc. Under the leadership of the nurseryman, the children transform into kitchen experts, reap the joy of food making through hands-on practice and experience the joy brought by labor.
"Now, the kitchen has become one of the favorite places for little babies." Gao Liying, director of the care and care of Meizhou Island Experimental Kindergarten, said that last year, the kindergarten set up a "Happy Kitchen" activity area with the educational concept of "life is education everywhere" to build a life-oriented course for children. Children can prepare ingredients, make food, clean and clean them by themselves, learn more about life knowledge, exercise hands-on ability, accumulate life skills, and let the seeds of loving life and labor take root in the hearts of children.
Cultivation work is an important part of early childhood education and the cornerstone of children's healthy growth. Meizhou Island Experimental Kindergarten is currently the only noon-time kindergarten on the island. In the fall of 2019, the Meizhou Island Management Committee recruited 13 nurserymen for the kindergarten through the human resources service outsourcing . The salary and benefits of all nurserymen are paid by financial appropriations. Over the past few years, the park has strengthened research and exploration on the management of child care work, effectively improved the comprehensive quality of child care workers, and steadily promoted the scientific, standardized and refined child care work.
The living environment of kindergartens directly affects the quality of childcare. In recent years, Meizhou Island Experimental Kindergarten has taken the creation of a good living environment as an important task to improve the quality of childcare. In terms of children's diet, the kindergarten is equipped with a constant temperature water dispenser, water purifier, pastry room, etc., and a nutritional meal system for the kindergarten's weekly recipe and quantity is provided to ensure the nutrition of children. At the same time, an outdoor induction sink, large-scale building blocks, game cabinets, comprehensive game areas, etc. have been added to greatly improve the living and learning environment of young children.
Bamboo stools, fishing nets, hemp ropes... These common utensils in Meizhou Island farmhouses have become favorite game toys for children in kindergartens. "Children aged 3 to 6 should strengthen basic movement skills training such as struggling, running, jumping, and leaping." Gao Liying revealed that during the children's game, child care teachers will also participate in it, becoming observers and guides of children's games, and always pay attention to protecting their health and safety.
Cultivating children's ability to take care of themselves is one of the main teaching tasks of kindergartens. Meizhou Island Experimental Kindergarten focuses on nourishing the spiritual background of young children, integrates labor education into all aspects of children's daily life, and makes labor an important means of education. The kindergarten combines various links such as entry, meals, drinking water, washing, nap, and leaving the kindergarten. Through the forms of "little duty student" and "I am the little master of the class", the kindergarten guides children to develop the awareness of actively serving others and the collective and good working habits.
At the same time, the kindergarten has formulated different childcare development goals based on the characteristics of primary, secondary and senior classes. For example, the small class needs to meet the requirements of independent dressing and undressing and independent meals; the middle class will have simple service work, such as learning to wipe tables and make beds; the large class has combined the needs of primary and secondary classes to learn to organize stationery and schoolbags. Carry out children's self-care ability competitions in a planned manner to provide children with opportunities to exercise, experience labor tasks that are close to life situations, and improve children's self-care ability.
It is worth mentioning that the park also combines the local characteristics of Meizhou Island to teach children to learn to make red balls , Mazu cake, Mazu noodles , and carry out special theme practice activities according to different festival customs, such as making rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival, making moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival, and glutinous rice balls on the Winter Solstice. A planting experience course is offered to let young children learn to grow mushrooms, potatoes, vegetables, etc. by themselves, and learn and grow happily in diverse experiential farming activities.
Source: Fujian Daily Client
