At the end of each construction game, children always like to push the built work down and then shout loudly at the moment when the toy falls to the ground: "Wow..."
After each game activity, the children will end the game in their own unique way, and what makes me wonder is why they always push the toys down and keep pushing the toys in a mess. I decided to walk into them to hear what they really thought about it.
Me: Today the teacher would love to come and hear the little secret that you have overturned every time you have toys.
Lin Xin: Teacher, don't you know? It's fun and exciting! In fact, we overturned it first, but then we will slowly put it away.
Peilin: It would be easier to do so, otherwise I would have gone to great trouble one by one and overthrown them all, and I feel very happy.
Potatoes: I think it's super cool to push them all down.
Chenchen: I was about to jump up when I overthrew them all.
Dodo: It's so exciting and so happy, I scream.
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When the toy is pushed down, what kind of feeling is it that super cool in the hearts of the children? So I asked the children to paint this feeling in the form of a painting.
Step into the kids' "wow" moments
Before we look at this moment of children will have a lot of presets, we will find the moment when children grow, understand, and explore from their learning in the process of play, we often continue to expect and capture them, I always feel that the child's wow moment is a learning process and experience.
But the children's wow moments are not just what we think, but many bits and pieces of life, sometimes even in the eyes of the teacher. When the children pushed the toy down, what came into my eyes was actually a kind of "destructive" behavior, but fortunately I resisted, when the children described their mood at the moment I saw the kind of enjoyment and heartfelt joy that flashed in their eyes, which made me think that the moment was actually not as bad as imagined, and I thought that if I were them, maybe I would do the same, and maybe even more crazy.
I think that no matter what happens, if we can calm down and listen to the children's thoughts, and enter their world, we will reduce a lot of complaints and accusations, we will find the precious innocence and innocence of the children, and we will also enjoy how happy the children's world is.
Walking into the child is not only listening, but also more should be understood, behind each child's behavior will have a wonderful story, some of the small ideas in each story are actually a wonderful journey, the children's wonderful need to be respected and understood, we can slow down a little slower, with the way to understand themselves, so that the brilliance of the journey we will see.
Text Author: Lou Hong
Photo author: Lou Hong
April 25, 2022
【Source: West Lake Education Network_Preschool】