The weather is getting colder, and the children are wearing thick coats.
Winter is coming as promised, in this season of falling leaves,
The changes in nature also allow children to capture,
In the outdoor game of passage blocks,
A voice came out: Is this a seed?
The small brown seeds on the ground aroused the children's interest.
1. Discover the seeds
During outdoor playtime, Shao Ziqi found some small seeds on the ground, and he came to me and said, "Teacher, look, seeds." When Shao Ziqi said it, other children also heard it and came over to see what Shao Ziqi had discovered. It turned out to be a small seed. In this way, full of curiosity, the children began an intimate journey with the seeds.
When the seed enters the game
What happened to this little seed in the hands of the children? Let's take a look.
PART/ 01
Zhao Ruotong looked for seeds on the ground, and after finding them, she put them in her hands, and when she found more, she gave the seeds to Yu Yichen, who decorated her cake with seeds, and she placed the seeds one by one on the periphery of the building block cake, forming a circle, like flowers.
PART/ 02
Wang Yihao put the seeds on the longboard, which was his gem.
PART/ 03
Ru Yi made a cake out of building blocks, put the seeds on the cake, and put one on a cylindrical board, this seed is the chocolate on the cake, or is it strawberry flavored!
PART/ 04
Lou Shihan and Wang Yihao found a lot of seeds together, Lou Shihan put them on the board, and began to be Lou's boss, selling candy, with various flavors, strawberry-flavored, milk-flavored, and chocolate-flavored.
PART/ 05
Yu Yichen and Ru Yi built another cake together, and this time, they put seeds into each layer of the cake, and the seeds in each layer were different fillings.
PART/ 06
Sun Chengsen and Zhang Wenbo made a home for the seeds and let them hide in the house.
PART/ 07
Ru Yi made a different birthday cake again.
PART/ 08
Sun Ruiqing made a pipe, put the seeds on it, the seeds are the switch of the pipe, take the seeds, and the water can flow out.
Nature is a wordless book, is the children's living textbook, the children pick up the seeds on the ground, add him to their own games, so that the seeds are not only the existence of seeds, but also give it new vitality, in the hands of children, seeds are gems, is cake fillings, is chocolate, is a switch, children take the initiative to discover, take the initiative to explore, get the most real feelings.
2. Explore the seeds
The children were curious about this seed, what kind of seed is it?
The children expressed their thoughts:
— It fell from the sky
— is the seed of the green plant above
— The plants on it are so tall that the seeds can't get into the soil and they fall off.
— It's the seed that falls out of that spiky shell.
Yes, this pointed shell is the wisteria pod, these seeds that fall out of the pod.
Note: The toxicity in wisteria pods comes from "carobine", which is easy to be poisoned when eaten raw, and in severe cases, it can cause shock and hurt the heart. Wisteria seeds contain cyanide, once ingested, mild people can feel dizziness, fatigue, palpitations, chest tightness, etc., severe can have dyspnea, different degrees of consciousness disorders, shock and even cardiac arrest. Severe poisoning can occur in children if they ingest two seeds.
When the harvest is in progress
In the following days, the children were interacting with the seeds, and the first child to find the seeds, Shao Ziqi, found that there were a lot of pods on the top of his head, and he found a branch on the ground, and he wanted to use the branch to knock down the pods on the top of his head, so that there would be more seeds, but he couldn't reach it, so he ran to the seat again, stood up, and continued to pick pods with branches, at this time Sun Chengsen also joined in, Sun Chengsen picked up a pod from the ground, and began to throw it overhead, wanting to use the pod in his hand to knock down the pods on the shed。
Since neither of these methods succeeded, when they returned to the classroom, the children had a discussion, how to take it off?
1. Swing on the swing and you'll be able to get down.
2. Using a broom, climb up to the ladder and reach down with the broom.
3. Throwing it with a long stick is fine.
4. Jump on the trampoline and you'll be there.
5. Take the swing around and you can get down.
6. Jump Hop Hop, Jump so high, you can get it.
On the second day, the children went to find a ladder and moved under the wisteria together, Zhang Wenbo climbed the ladder, Shao Ziqi brought him a wiper, he took the wiper and stretched out to the wisteria, but there was still a distance, because he couldn't reach it, Sun Ruiqing went up and tried again.
In the science field of the "Guide to Learning Xi and Development for Children Aged 3-6", it is pointed out that young children often use their hands and brains to explore objects and materials, and enjoy them. In the social domain, it is pointed out that young children dare to try activities and tasks with a certain degree of difficulty. In the process of exploring, the children used a variety of methods to try to pick wisteria seeds. Willing to observe, have the courage to try, explore many times, and be able to adjust the tool based on their own experience.
Observation in progress
After picking the wisteria pods, the children began to observe,
— hairy
— Black black
— a little dark, press the seeds up
— hairy hairy
The "Guide" points out that the goal of children's scientific inquiry is to like to contact nature, be interested in many things and phenomena around them, and discover their obvious characteristics.
3. Play with seeds
01Make a baby octopus
What will this seed become in the hands of the children?
Together with the children, we used colored clay to turn the seeds into the eyes of a baby octopus.
When children appreciate the beauty of things in nature, they can pay attention to the characteristics of color and shape, and express what they see and think by painting, kneading clay, handicraft, etc., and we give children full respect and let them follow their own ideas and make small octopuses.
02 "Garlic" you are cute
Garlic itself is its own seed, and the children planted garlic together to observe the process of garlic seeds taking root and germinating.
The guidelines state that "children are genuinely accepted, supported and encouraged in many ways to explore their behaviors." "In the process of planting garlic seeds, in order to support the children to grow garlic themselves, we provide a wealth of materials and tools, and the children can feel and experience the joy of growing garlic through observation and hands-on.
In the intimate contact with wisteria seeds, children can explore, act together, harvest and grow together, and experience the harvest and happiness brought by discovery and creation. In fact, as long as we are good at discovering, life is full of educational opportunities, what we need to do is to follow the interests of children, follow the footsteps of children, be a careful observer, guide, supporter, timely participate in children's various exploration activities, decipher the 100,000 whys in children's hearts, and children into nature together, continue to explore, share the harvest.