Natalia Levanova
Lesson notes with sand (middle group)
Lesson summary on experimental activities in the middle group
"MAGIC SAND"
Goal: to introduce children to sand as a natural component and its composition, to give an idea of the properties of sand . To develop children's cognitive activity in the process of experimentation.
Tasks:
1. Help children better understand the inanimate world around them;
2. Create favorable conditions for sensory perception, improving such vital mental processes as sensations, which are the first steps in understanding the world around us.
3. Through games and experiments, teach children to determine the physical properties of sand .
4. Teach children to make independent conclusions based on the results of the examination.
5. Nurture the moral and spiritual qualities of a child during his communication with nature.
Material for the lesson :
Large children's sandbox, set of molds, scoops, watering cans, napkins, magnifying glasses, cocktail straws,
Playing with sand during a walk in the middle group
Game activity for a walk with children 4-5 years old “Magic Sand”.
Author: Eremina Anastasia Nikolaevna, preschool teacher, teacher at GBDOU kindergarten No. 14, St. Petersburg.
The lesson is designed for preschool children, parents and educators. Play is the leading activity in preschool age. And playing with sand is one of the child’s natural activities. Sand is a natural and therefore very pleasant material, malleable and capable of taking on a variety of shapes. Playing with sand develops children's coordination of movements and new tactile sensations, fine motor skills of the fingers are formed and improved, and the development of fine motor skills of the hands contributes to the development of intelligence. Develops imagination and logical thinking. The properties of sand carry a certain mystery and mystery and can fascinate a person. Sand seems to “ground” negative energy. Manipulations with sand, both wet and dry, calm impulsive, overly active children and liberate tense, constrained and anxious children. Goal: to introduce children to sand as a play material. Objectives: - To introduce children and reinforce with them the basic properties of sand; — Development of fine motor skills, tactile sensations and coordination of movements; — Development of observation skills; — Development of attention, imagination and creative abilities of children; — Consolidation of motor skills; Materials:
sand (sandbox), water, flower, sandbox toys, ball, plastic fruits and vegetables, counting sticks.
Introductory part. Introduction to the topic of the lesson. The teacher asks all the children to come up and begins to tell (DO NOT READ) a fairy tale: “In a distant, unknown country, there lived a grain of sand “Krokha.” She wandered alone through the fields, through the meadows, across the plains, through the mountains. And I have never met other grains of sand. This upset Little One very much, because living alone is boring, scary and lonely. And then one day, high, high in the mountains, she met the wind. He picked up a grain of sand in his hands and spun it around like a whirlwind. But the grain of sand was not afraid, the baby just laughed. The mighty and great wind was surprised and asked: “Why are you laughing?” Usually everyone is afraid of me, trying to hide, but you are not! And the grain of sand answered: “I’ve been wandering around the world for a very long time, I’m bored, sad and lonely.” I am no longer afraid of anything or anyone, not even water. And when I met you, I was very happy, suddenly you would become my friend! The wind liked the sincere and kind grain of sand Tiny and decided to help her. He picked up a grain of sand and carried it to the land of sands.”
Teacher:
I also have a riddle for you, it will help you understand what we will meet today.
Children really need him, He’s on the paths in the yard, He’s at a construction site and on the beach, And he’s even melted in glass.
The children unanimously answer “SAND.”
Teacher:
yes, that’s right, we will get acquainted with sand.
Every day you see him, play with him, but you know so little about him. Let's see what sand can be? Main part. Teacher:
Now you and I will briefly turn into scientists and conduct several experiments.
Experimental games with sand “Properties of dry and wet sand.” Experiment 1.
Pour dry sand into your hands and “release” it like a stream of water. We will see that the sand is free-flowing. Then take a mold and pour sand into it, turn it over - the sand will spill out again and will not retain its shape.
Experiment 2.
Pour water into dry sand. Now let’s try to pick it up and pour it out like we did with dry sand. Why doesn't it work? The sand has become wet and cannot be poured out of the palms. But now it’s like plasticine, you can mold it into any shape until it becomes dry. We make sand figures with children. It is possible to compose a composition.
Experiment 3.
Plant a flower in dry and wet sand.
What will happen? Invite the children to plant a flower in dry sand first - nothing will work, the sand does not hold the flower - it crumbles. Then plant the flower in wet sand, now the flower will grow. Teacher:
what a great fellow you are, you carried out all the experiments.
Now we know that sand really is not afraid of either water or land. Let's play with the sand? Playing with sand “What kind of treasure?
The teacher selects one child with a counting rhyme and closes his eyes or takes him to the other side of the playground. Then, the rest of the children choose a toy and bury it in the sandbox. Afterwards, the child chosen by the teacher comes and slowly digs up the “treasure”. Based on the parts that open, the child must name the object. The game is repeated several times.
Examples of rhymes:
*** The cat sat on the window. She yawned: “It’s all the same, Even though I’m not sitting on the roof, I’m taller than everyone around me. And no one argues with me! Whoever I tell will drive!” *** Once upon a time, once upon a time, there were two cheerful geese with a grandmother: One is white, the other is gray - Two cheerful geese. One ran, the other jumped - Two funny geese. One could not fly, the other could not walk. If you don't believe it, you will drive. *** Behind the high mountains there is a Bear with pies. - Hello, Mishenka-friend, How much does the pie cost? - The pies are not for sale, they are put into the mouth themselves, but the one who takes them will drive with us. Teacher:
what a wonderful game we have!
Let's remember where you can find sand. Let's play with the ball. Ball game “Where does sand live?”
Children stand in a circle, the teacher in the center of the circle throws the ball to the children one by one and asks the same question: “Where does sand live?” Children must answer where sand can be found. Possible answers: in the sandbox; in water - river, sea, ocean; on the beach; at a construction site; on the street; in a desert; in asphalt; in glass.
Teacher:
how many interesting places you named, even I didn’t know so many.
Well done. And now it’s time for us to play, kids! Outdoor game “Catch the ball”.
The players form a circle, standing apart from each other at a distance of arms outstretched to the sides.
Using a rhyme, a driver is chosen: “Past the forest, past the dachas A red ball floated down the river.
A pike saw it. What is this thing? Grab, grab! Don't catch it. The ball surfaced again. He started to swim further. Come out, you can drive.” The driver takes a step back.
His place in the circle remains empty. The fifth child from the driver is given a large ball. The children say in unison: “One, two, three - run!” At this signal, the players begin to pass the ball to the right in a circle, and the driver runs behind the circle in the same direction, trying to reach his place before the ball reaches him. The game is repeated with a new driver, chosen using the same counting rhyme. Teacher:
We jumped, ran, and rested.
You must be very hungry? Let's go to the garden and plant our future harvest! Playing with sand “We came to the garden.”
We take plastic fruits and vegetables from the kindergarten to the playground in advance.
We invite the children to plant them one by one; the main condition is to describe the fruit/vegetable by shape, taste and color. Information to help: Carrots, beets, potatoes, turnips have fruits that grow in the ground, we don’t see them. And the stems are above the ground; Cucumber, cabbage, and zucchini have fruits that grow on the ground; Tomatoes, peas, peppers, and eggplants have fruits that grow on branches. Sample story: Onions are vegetables. Onions growing in the garden. It is small and round. The color of the onion is brown. Hard onion. It tastes bitter. Onions are added to soup and main courses. Onions are very useful!
Conclusion . Teacher
: what a great fellow you are, you did a great job! It's time to finish exploring the sand. I suggest you take counting sticks and build a fence out of them (stick the sticks in the sand), you will get a real road along which you can drive your cars or tractors.
Additional material for teachers, poems about sand:
A. Smetanin
My mother and I are on the beach We built a sand castle: Walls, stairs, loopholes, The tower rises steeply to the heights.
S. Kashlev
We play in the sandbox, We build a house out of sand, We get carried away, we don’t notice that our socks are full of sand. They brought water in a bucket, So that the house, which stood on a hillock, would not break down, We will water it with water. A. Poletaeva They brought us sand for the garden, I’m incredibly happy about this! I’ll play with him all day, make Easter cakes, sunbathe! I'll make holes in the sand, then I'll pour water in there. I’ll build a garage for cars, and a new house, and a hut! I don’t eat shortbread cakes, but why am I so small?! I. Fink Sandbox, sandbox! And there is sand in it, sand. Sandbox, sandbox! Let's go play, buddy. Sandbox, sandbox! We have a scoop in our hands. Sandbox, sandbox! We are scooping up sand. V. Bredikhin The sand lay, the sand was bored, probably for a hundred thousand years. He was terribly lonely, and it was bad. The songs of thunderstorms were not a joy, The rain from clouds was not a joy. He was bored in the heat, he was bored in the cold - The whole world was boring to the sand... And so for another hundred thousand years He would have remained despondent, But he was brought to us at dawn, And he is not bored, not at all, In the sandbox from now on.
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Progress of the lesson:
— We’ll play in the morning: It’s time for us to study, but not with modeling or reading, experience and play await us. Today we will conduct experiments with you.
Guess the riddle:
It is yellow and friable,
In the yard, piled up,
If you want, you can brother
And play (sand)
- Right. This is sand. Tell me, do you like to play with sand ? (Children's answers)
. Let's play with it a little and get acquainted with its properties. But first, let's agree that during the game:
— we don’t put sand in our mouth;
- don’t rub your eyes with dirty hands;
— don't cover yourself with sand.
“We need to work with sand carefully so that it doesn’t get into our mouths or eyes.”
1 EXPERIENCE
-Let us see what sand consists of. Place the plates in front of you. Take a pinch of sand and rub between your fingers, sprinkle with “rain”
.
- How did you feel? What kind of sand?
(children’s answers)
(Dry, loose, loose, etc.)
- Now take this device, who knows what it’s called, (magnifying glass, magnifying glass)
.
— It’s called that correctly, because it magnifies, and you can also say magnifying glass.
2 EXPERIENCE
Let's take a magnifying glass and carefully examine the sand.
- What does it consist of? (children's answers)
(Grains, pebbles)
.
— These small pebbles are called grains of sand, which do not stick to each other.
-What do grains of sand look like? (children's answers)
- They are very small, round, translucent (or white, yellow, brown, light brown depending on the type of sand ).
-Are grains of sand similar to each other? (Children's answers)
- How are they similar?
- What is the difference? (children's answers)
3 EXPERIENCE
Take the straws and gently blow on the sand in the bowls.
— What happens to the sand ? (children's answers)
— They scatter because the grains of sand do not stick to each other.
4 EXPERIENCE
- Guys, try to make something out of it.
- What's happening? (children's answers)
(sand crumbles)
CONCLUSION: Dry sand consists of small grains of sand that are different in shape, color, size and do not stick to each other. You can't make anything out of it.
- Guys, let's relax, play a game, and then continue.
- But first, before the game, we will wash our hands.
Outdoor game “Grains of Sand”
(repeated 2-3 times)
.
Goal: To introduce children to natural phenomena, to know, be able to depict, move easily and naturally, act on a signal.
Game "Sand Hide and Seek"
Goal: development of visual memory, tactile sensations.
Progress of the game: an adult invites the child to play hide and seek with small toys. Then the toys need to be hidden using a sand funnel, a scoop, or simply filling the toys with sand from the palms of your hands. Next, the teacher asks the child to help the “driver” in the game and remember where, for example, the horse is hidden, or who is hidden in this mound, etc. If the child incorrectly finds the place where the toy is hidden, it must be re-hidden.
Games in a sandbox with a transparent bottom
Game "Match a Pair"
Goal: development of tactile sensations, fine motor skills, and the ability to establish patterns.
Progress of the game: In this game, the child is asked to find a connection between pairs of pictures (mother - baby, object - shape, animal - what it eats). The child is asked to connect pairs of pictures with a sand path.
Game "Find the pictures"
Goal: development of tactile sensations, fine motor skills, memory.
Progress of the game: the child is asked to remember where the pictures are located, previously located under the glass, then hide them by covering them with sand (palms or a special tube). Next, the child needs to remember where the picture was, for example, with a bunny.
Sandbox games with lights
Game "Sand paths"
Goal: development of tactile sensations, fine motor skills, ability to establish patterns
Progress of the game: The adult begins to lay out a pattern of multi-colored pebbles, buttons, beans, and the child continues. A child can, according to his own plan, lay out a path, and an adult, as if to help him, continues the series, but with mistakes, and the child must find them and correct them.
The game will be more productive if there is a plot, for example, a track for the trainer.
Game “What is this color?”
Goal: development of tactile sensations, fine motor skills, generalization of knowledge about sensory standards.
Progress of the game: the adult asks the child to remember what is, for example, green. The child names several objects and draws them with his finger (a brush or a special tube), while turning on the appropriate lighting in the sandbox.
For children in the older age group, you can offer the following games and exercises:
Game "Walk"
Goal: development of quasi-spatial concepts.
Progress of the game: The teacher encourages the child to perform those actions with toys in the sandbox that the adult names. For example, the animals decided to go to the right, the elephant went first, followed by the giraffe, then the zebra, and the parrot. Which one was the parrot, who was next, who was previous? The path became wide and the giraffe decided to go to the right of the zebra, and the parrot to the left of the elephant, and the monkey stood between the zebra and the elephant. Who is walking to the left (right) of the giraffe, between the elephant and the parrot? Etc.
Game "Guess what's hidden in the sand"
Goal: development of quasi-spatial concepts.
Progress of the game: The child is asked to find miniature figures using the description of the place where the toy is hidden. For example, find a toy to the right of the tree, the toy is hidden between the tree and the stone.
Game “Decorate the sand city”
Goal: development of imaginative thinking, perception, ability to use a plan diagram.
Progress of the game: Children, according to a scheme prepared in advance by the teacher, improve the sand city (lay out paths, plant flowers in flower beds, etc.).
Games in a sandbox with a transparent bottom
Game "Sand Patterns"
Goal: development of tactile sensations, fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination.
Progress of the game: the teacher invites the child to be a real artist and draw a sand pattern with a special pencil (a sample of which lies under the glass).
Game "Connect the dots"
Goal: development of tactile sensations, fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, attention.
Progress of the game: The child connects the figures given by the teacher to each other on a sheet of paper and receives one or another image (square, triangle, etc.).
Sandbox games with lights
Game "Pictures Alive"
Goal: development of tactile sensations and fine motor skills, imagination.
The teacher invites the child to be an artist today and draw pictures himself, which will then come to life. The adult begins to tell the story, and the child draws in the sandbox with his finger, palm, comb or special tube. If the child finds it difficult to depict what the teacher is talking about, then the adult helps.
Example text:
A gentle sun appeared in the sky, it shone brightly, its long rays spread far, far in all directions (yellow backlight).
But suddenly a huge blue cloud flew in and hid the sun (blue backlight), and it began to rain, lightly at first, and then harder and harder.
Soon the rain stopped and the sun (yellow backlight) appeared in the sky again, its warm rays reached the very ground and warmed it.
Blades of grass began to appear from the ground (green illumination), they stretched higher and higher, and then beautiful red flowers bloomed, there were so many of them that the clearing turned into a huge red blanket.
And then night came (turn off the backlight).
And when the clouds in the sky began to clear (white illumination), a huge white moon became visible.
The transfer of traditional pedagogical classes to the sandbox provides a greater educational effect than standard forms of training.
The sandbox not only develops the child’s creative potential, activates spatial imagination, figurative and logical thinking, trains fine motor skills, but unobtrusively, gradually sets children up to comprehend the moral truths of good and evil, and builds a harmonious image of the world.
It has been proven that children who actively played in the sand as children are more likely to grow up to be successful and confident adults.
Experiment, come up with new and interesting things, play with your children!
Sand rain Purpose: regulation of muscle tension, relaxation. Equipment: Sandbox. Progress of the game: Teacher: in a fairyland, an unusual sandy rain may fall and a sandy wind may blow. It is very nice. You can make such rain and wind yourself. Watch it happen. The child slowly and then quickly pours sand from his fist into the sandbox, onto the palm of an adult, into his palm. The child closes his eyes and places his palm with his fingers spread out on the sand, the adult sprinkles sand on a finger, and the child names this finger. Then they change roles.
Sand wind Purpose: to develop the ability to control inhalation and exhalation. Equipment: Sandbox, cocktail straws. Progress of the game: Children learn to breathe through a straw without drawing sand into it. Older children can be asked to first say a pleasant wish to their friends, give a wish to the sandy country by “blowing it into the sand”, you can also blow out depressions and holes on the surface of the sand. For these games, you can use disposable cocktail straws. This exercise can be combined with aromatherapy (however, psychologists who have undergone some training in this area have the right to use aromatherapy). The child inhales the smell of an aromatic mixture specially selected for him (tonic or relaxing). When exhaling, the child easily blows sand onto his palms, blowing it into the sandbox.
Unusual traces Purpose: development of tactile sensitivity and imagination. Equipment: Sandbox. Progress of the game: “The bear cubs are coming” - the child presses forcefully onto the sand with his fists and palms. “Hares are jumping” - the child hits the surface of the sand with his fingertips, moving in different directions. “Snakes are crawling” - the child, with relaxed/tense fingers, makes the surface of the sand wavy (in different directions). “Spiderbugs are running” - the child moves all his fingers, imitating the movement of insects (you can completely immerse your hands in the sand, meeting each other with your hands under the sand - “bugs say hello”). “Crocazyable” - children leave a wide variety of traces in the sand, come up with a name for the fantastic animal that left such traces (later this animal can be drawn and made it an inhabitant of the sand country).
“Underground inhabitants” (“Moles”) Goal: development of tactile sensitivity, relaxation, activation of interest. Equipment: Sandbox. It is first necessary to introduce the child to animals that live underground. Progress of the game: Teacher. Today our hands can turn into moles. Like this. (The adult waves his hands and folds them like a duck, showing the child the eyes, nose and two teeth drawn on his knuckles.) Do you want to turn your hands into moles? I need to help my mole complete an important secret mission underground. (At the child’s request, the adult carefully draws a nose and eyes on the child’s knuckles). Well, why are we plunging into the sand? Look and do like my mole. The adult plunges one hand into the sand, moves it under the sand (draws the child's attention to changes in the surface of the sand), and then carefully digs out each finger. Then the child does the same. After that, they dig out each other’s hands (you can blow on the sand, use a feather, sticks, brushes). Option: carry out all actions with your eyes closed - look for each other’s fingers in the sand, shake them (the moles greet each other affectionately or shake each other’s paws forcefully).
Sand hide and seek Goal: development of tactile sensitivity, visual perception, imaginative thinking, arbitrariness. Equipment: Sandbox, pictures, fairy-tale characters, miniature figures. Progress of the game: First option Teacher. The toys want to play sand hide and seek with you. Choose the toys you like. You close your eyes, and they will hide in the sand, and after I say: “The eyes open, the game begins,” you must find them in the sand. You can blow sand, dig with your fingers, use sticks, brushes. To diversify the game, the adult shows the child a toy - a “mine” that cannot be completely dug out. As soon as part of it appears on the surface of the sand during excavation, the child must stop his excavations and continue them in another place. If a child forgets a rule, he will receive a game penalty, so he will be forced to dig out the toys very carefully. Second option To play, you need to have laminated pictures from different fairy tales and fairy-tale characters; you can make them yourself by wrapping bright pictures from children's books with tape. For games with children, use color pictures with a clear image (at the initial stage - easy to understand, depicting one object). To develop search activity, the image becomes gradually more complex. So, for older preschoolers, the image can be black and white, silhouette. First, the adult talks with the child about his favorite fairy tales and heroes, about the reasons for positive and negative attitudes towards different heroes. Teacher. Fairy tales and fairy-tale heroes love to hide in the sand. Let's play sand hide and seek with them. Close your eyes and say the magic words: “One, two, three, fairy tale come.” (An adult buries a picture from a fairy tale well known to the child in the sand. For kids, leave a corner of the picture visible.) Take a brush and start looking for this fairy tale in the sand. To avoid frightening the tale, unearth it slowly and carefully. You cleared away the sand from part of the picture: what kind of fairy tale do you think this is? The child gradually opens the picture, at some stage he is able to name a fairy tale or a fairy-tale character. If he cannot guess and name the fairy tale based on the elements of the picture, you can introduce a training stage. The child himself buries the picture in the sand, and the adult digs it up and talks out loud and analyzes what he saw.
“Secrets of dry and wet sand” It is advisable that the child already knows the properties of dry sand and playing with it. Teacher. In our sandy country, sometimes it rains, and real rivers and lakes appear. Want to see how it happens? An adult divides the sand in the sandbox into two parts and shows the child how to moisten the sand: “A stream flows” - the adult pours water onto one part of the sand in a thin stream from a jug. “It’s drizzling” - another part of the sand is moistened through the sprinkler. The adult draws the children's attention to the changed color and smell of wet sand. Then the child independently moistens the sand (there should be enough water for moistening so as not to overfill the sand). Teacher. Let's say hello to wet sand. With it you can play amazing games - you will turn into wizard builders. Then exercises are carried out similar to those that took place with dry sand: “Hello, sand” and “Unusual traces”. Game “Minks-mounds” The child makes holes in the sand with each finger in turn, then with all of them at once - a home for a mouse, sculpts mounds - a home for a turtle.
Sand builders Goal: consolidation of spatial concepts, development of auditory and visual memory. Equipment: Sandbox, miniature figures. Progress of the game: Teacher. The inhabitants of the sand country ask you to help them build houses. First, we need to mark in the sand where this or that house will be built. For example, a bun likes only round houses, a giraffe only likes rectangular ones, and a hippopotamus wants to live in a square house. Help the inhabitants of the sandbox. There will be a hippo living in the upper right corner. Select the desired mold and make an imprint. In a similar way, the adult gives the child the task of resettling all the inhabitants of the sandbox. The task can also be complicated by introducing more characters and distributing toys according to a plan drawn by an adult.
Who came to us? Goal: development of visual and tactile perception. Equipment: Sandbox, set of molds. Progress of the game: The child turns away, the adult makes bas-relief/high-relief prints using molds, then the child guesses the mold that the adult used. Then they change roles. The molds are first inspected and felt, and their contours are outlined. To complicate the task, play with new molds without first feeling them.
Patterns in the sand (1 option) Purpose: consolidating knowledge about sensory standards, establishing patterns. Equipment: Sandbox, natural material: pebbles, cones, etc.. Progress of the game: An adult with a finger, the edge of the palm, or a brush in the upper part of the sandbox draws various geometric shapes (in accordance with age standards for development), simple/complex patterns (straight and wavy paths , fences, stairs). The child must draw the same pattern below in the sand, or continue the adult’s pattern. Option: an adult draws on a board and gives verbal instructions to draw a specific pattern in the sand. The same patterns on sand are made by laying out objects in a given sequence, for example, pebbles, acorns, large buttons, etc. Teacher. Today you and I will decorate our sand house. See what patterns you can draw in the sand. Draw like me. Come up with your own pattern, drawing. There will be patterns of circles at the top of the sandbox, and triangles at the bottom.
Patterns on sand 2 var. Goal: development of hand-eye coordination, classification process, imagination. Equipment: Sandbox, miniature figures. Since wet sand produces clearer patterns and paths, they can be used in classification games. For example, only people walk along a wavy path, only cars drive along a straight path, and only birds sit on a fence - the child selects the necessary figures or pictures and places them on the indicated path. Subsequently, you can develop the plot and compose a mini-fairy tale “Who, where, why and what happened?” You can draw fairly clear faces on wet sand, teaching your child graphic ways to indicate human emotions: joy, sadness, anger, fear, surprise.
Sand circle Purpose: consolidation of knowledge about sensory standards, establishment of patterns. Equipment: Sandbox. Progress of the game: The child draws a circle in the sand by any means and decorates it with various objects: pebbles, seeds, buttons, coins, beads. The child can give his “sand circle” a name. He performs the same manipulations with the prints of his palms, and he can compose a story about each finger: “Who he was before, who he is now, who he will be in the future.”
How to spend Sand Day with children
Galina Panycheva
How to spend Sand Day with children
To ensure that preschoolers are not left to their own devices all the time during summer walks in kindergarten, educators should plan, in addition to children’s independent games based on their interests, joint activities with them. Invite teachers “ Sand Day ” with their students
. The article contains methodological tips on how to do this.
«sand day»
- a themed
day that does not require a special date on the calendar. Teachers can hold it on any sunny day . Traditionally, all age groups participate in the theme day. However, during this summer period, it is better not to unite children in common activities as part of Sand
Day ” , so as not to violate sanitary requirements, and
hold it separately in each group.
The goal of this day will be the same for everyone - to create a joyful mood in children. To celebrate " Sand Day "
, you need to think in advance what types of children's activities to include in the plan for this day.
A variety of activities should be provided both in the group room and during the morning walk, taking into account the age of the pupils in a particular group, in order to involve as many children as possible in joint activities. The content of activities with children of junior , middle, senior, preparatory groups within the framework of Sand
Day ” is at the end of the article.
Goals and objectives of “ Sand ”
The goals are to create a positive emotional mood in children, develop cognitive interest in research activities and playing with sand .
Tasks:
• create conditions for research and creative activities of pupils with sand ;
• introduce the properties of sand , tell in what areas and how people use it;
• improve children's communication skills, the ability to interact with each other while playing with sand .
Conversations in a group. Tell the children what sand is and what properties it has. Remind them of the safety precautions and hygiene rules to follow when playing with sand . Prepare a presentation “Sand Creations”
to tell preschoolers about exhibitions and competitions of sand buildings, to show sand in nature - deserts, dunes.
Drawing on the sand . Organize art activities in older groups in a format that is unusual for children - offer to draw in the sand or with sand . Tell us what drawing techniques are and show how to correctly draw using these techniques - see at the end of the article.
For example, the print technique is one of the most interesting. It provides space for children's creativity and imagination. Preschoolers can make prints with their palms, fingers, and use various objects depending on what kind of drawing they want to get.
You can also use different techniques together and separately in one drawing - it depends on the chosen subject. It is better to first draw your drawing with the children on a piece of paper , and then repeat it on the sand . At each stage of drawing, children will be able to make changes and add to the drawing. Sand paintings are short-lived, so the final result of children's joint activities can be photographed.
Surprise moment. On a walk on Sand Day
organize a surprise moment.
For example, the Sandman, the leader of the walk, can come to the children. He will tell preschoolers about himself, ask riddles, conduct a quiz and organize various types of children's activities.
Take on the role of the Sandman - put on the appropriate elements of the costume or use a toy and communicate with children on its behalf .
Experimental activities. This is an important component of a walk with older preschool children On Sand Day,
hold a Miracle Hour
.
Divide the children into “magicians”
and spectators.
Magicians will conduct experiments and experiments and show the properties of sand . Then the children can change roles and demonstrate other “miracles”
with
sand .
In this way, older children will practice their ability to explain and speak in public. Exhibition of sand . After the children decorate their buildings, they and the Sandman inspect them. Children present their building, show how it was built, and demonstrate how to play with it. The sandman takes photographs of all the buildings for a common photo album, which the children subsequently look at in the group.
Playing with sand . Organize on Sand Day
different types of games with
sand during a walk : didactic, active, relay games.
Labor activity. During an evening walk, organize the children's work activities. Invite them to remove sand from the veranda and collect sand in sandboxes.
Benefits of playing with sand
• encourage children to experiment and work independently;
• enrich their tactile experience;
• activate spatial imagination;
• develop attention, memory, thinking, fine motor skills;
• develop coordination of movements;
• develop creative abilities;
• develop communication skills, the ability to negotiate, give in, and share;
• have a positive effect on the emotional state of preschool children;
• learn to find non-standard solutions when working with sand .
Consider the age characteristics of children
In summer, children of all ages enjoy playing with sand . sand and water must be created in the areas of all kindergarten groups . Before the Sand Day _
,
check if you have the necessary equipment and game materials.
The modern children's toy industry currently presents a huge variety of sets for playing with sand , but you need to choose them taking into account the age characteristics of preschool children. For example, young children love to dig sand, sift it through a strainer, and sculpt it using molds. These games give children great pleasure and help them learn about the qualities of sand and the properties of the material: dry sand crumbles, but wet sand can be sculpted.
From simple manipulation with sand , sculpting pies, you need to gradually transfer kids to thematic sculpting, teach them to create a simple plot in games. For example, children make two mounds of sand and cover them with a plank to create a bridge. A small doll can walk across the bridge, or a car can drive by.
While playing with sand , make a simple building yourself, such as a house. Then invite the students to decorate it with flags and build a fence of twigs or sticks around the house. To help children organize a story-based sand building game, use small toys (people, animals, cars, etc.)
. At the same time, your help in the game should be non-directive, and suggestions and tips should be aimed at developing children's creativity.
Middle-aged children already have some experience in play activities and enjoy playing in the sandy courtyard. Their games gradually become more complex. They combine sand with planks and bricks and build houses, shops, and a tunnel through which trains pass. On " Sand Day "
divide the children into subgroups and suggest different themes for buildings: garage, garden, zoo. Show different techniques: how to sculpt from wet
sand , separate parts by smoothing them with a board, how to give sand a certain shape .
Older preschoolers are interested in creating complex buildings, preserving them and improving them. Such buildings require the participation of a team with a distribution of roles: builders, drivers delivering building materials, etc. In these games, the teacher’s task is to support the independence and initiative of the children and, if necessary, give advice and show new techniques for working with sand . It is also important to motivate children to use a variety of toys in addition to building. At the end of Sand Day "
Discuss and analyze with
the children the buildings and structures they have made themselves.
