Games for teaching children 3-4 years old to swim
Games for the development and teaching swimming of children of primary preschool age
Author: Shinkareva Galina Gennadievna, physical education instructor, MADOU MAYACHOK, Nizhny Tagil.
In the work of a physical education instructor who conducts educational activities in the pool, it is necessary to take into account the individual and age characteristics of preschool children. So that classes in the pool have not only an educational function, as a means of learning to swim, but also the development of mental processes - memory, attention, thinking, perception, I use traditional and non-traditional types of work in my activities. In order to create a favorable emotional background and interest in the upcoming activity, I use musical accompaniment with different rhythmic patterns. Didactic games on water generate the greatest interest, response and results from students. In this regard, I developed a card index of didactic games that allow you to develop mental processes and consolidate swimming skills. I present to your attention several games from my library. “Mirror”
Goal: development of mental processes, improvement of swimming skills. Objectives: develop attention, visual memory, thinking; be able to reproduce what you see. Description of the game: children line up in a circle, a leader is selected who takes a place in the center of the circle. Holding hands, the children walk in a circle and say the words in unison: In an even circle, one after another, We go step by step, Stay still! Do this together with Dima! After the words, the children stop. The presenter shows a swimming exercise, and the children repeat the exercise. The leader chooses a new leader and the game repeats. Rules of the game: all exercises are performed simultaneously, while holding your breath.
“We are magicians”
Goal: development of mental processes, improvement of swimming skills. Objectives: to develop attention, auditory and visual perception, figurative memory, observation, logical thinking; consolidate the ability to freely immerse yourself in water while holding your breath and perform the “star” exercise; teach gliding on the water, improve footwork in the crawl style. Didactic material: cards with images of sea animals: starfish, seahorse, crocodile, crab, crayfish, fish.
Description of the game: the instructor invites children to play little wizards and learn to transform into various sea creatures. Showing a card with a picture of a sea creature, he offers to draw it. All exercises are performed while holding your breath while immersing yourself in water. Crocodile, crayfish, crab - moving along the bottom of the pool on your hands while immersing yourself in water while holding your breath (crawfish - moving backward, crab - moving sideways, crocodile - moving forward). Moving along the bottom of the pool on their hands, on command, children take a deep breath and lower their heads into the water. The winner is the one who holds his breath the longest. Seahorse - bending backwards with your hands to grab your legs. Starfish - lying on the water, holding your breath, arms and legs tense, spread apart. Medusa is the same, but the arms and legs are relaxed. Fish - gliding through the water, arms along the body, legs working in a crawl manner. To make it more difficult, you can suggest swimming into an underwater tunnel (a hoop is lowered under the water). Rules of the game: we perform all transformations using a whistle, you cannot wipe your eyes with your hands, you can blink your eyelashes. When children learn to correctly perform all swimming movements, you can play a variation of this game “Guess the riddle” . The instructor asks a riddle, and the children show the answer. 1. I’m sitting in the shallows, I’m moving my mustache I’m walking backwards ( crayfish ) I live on the bottom of the sea, with a strong shell on top, I’m like a spider, I’m walking sideways on the sand ( crab ) 2. Here’s a green log that floated down the river. If this river is the Nile, then there is a log in it... ( crocodile ) 3. A transparent umbrella floats. “I’ll burn you!” Don't touch me! My paws are from my belly. What's my name? ( jellyfish
) 4. Deep at the bottom it is visible as if in the sky.
But it doesn’t shine and doesn’t warm, Because it doesn’t know how. ( starfish
) 5. I look like a horse, And I live in the sea too.
I jump briskly, jump and jump - My name is sea... ( horse ) 6. I swim under the bridge And wag my tail. I don’t walk on the ground, And I don’t speak at all, I have eyes, but I don’t blink, I have wings, but I don’t fly ( fish
)
“Scuba divers”
Goal: to develop memory, observation, auditory perception, to teach diving under water with your head and eyes open, to develop the ability to act in concert with a partner. Description of the game: children are divided into pairs and hold hands, at the same time squatting, immersing themselves under water, opening their eyes and looking at each other. Rules of the game: perform the dive only at the command of the instructor; after emerging from the water, do not wipe your face with your hands, and blink your eyes.
“Treasure Seekers”
Goal: development of mental processes, improvement of swimming skills. Objectives: develop visual memory, voluntary attention, logical thinking, fine motor skills, dive under water while holding your breath. Didactic material: sinking small and large objects of different colors. Game description: children dive and retrieve objects from the bottom of the pool. Task options: “Pick up large objects in the red container, small ones in the blue.” “Lift a certain number of objects.” “Pick up an object of a certain color.” Rules of the game: you need to dive while holding your breath, open your eyes under water, find one object and deliver it to the container.
When children have mastered most of the swimming exercises, you can organize the game “Dancing on the Water.”
Goal: development of mental processes, improvement of swimming skills. Objectives: to develop imagination, memory, attention, the ability to determine the nature of music and select movements. Didactic material: inflatable balls, hoops, flowers. Description of the game: the task is to prepare the performance of synchronized swimming athletes. Children independently come up with joint movements and swimming exercises, depending on the nature of the music. Rules of the game: complete independence. The use of didactic games in classes in the pool helps children become familiar with the variety of movements in an unusual environment, develop activity and independence in performing them, and develop creative orientation.
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Formation of a healthy lifestyle through swimming in a preschool educational institution
author: Popova Valentina Grigorievna
physical education instructor (swimming) MBDOU “Kindergarten No. 9 “Kristallik”
Formation of a healthy lifestyle through swimming in a preschool educational institution
Municipal budgetary preschool educational institution
"Kindergarten No. 9 "Kristallik"
| PROJECT “Formation of a healthy lifestyle through swimming in a preschool educational institution” NGO "Physical development (Swimming)" with children with disabilities and visual impairments. Author: Popova Valentina Grigorievna, physical education instructor (swimming) ) |
Swimming is one of the most important means of physical education; it is included in the content of physical education programs of preschool institutions and secondary schools, in accordance with the standards of the Federal State Educational Standard.
The main target groups the project is aimed at:
- children preparatory to school group;
- parents (legal representatives);
- teachers.
Project type:
physical education and health.
Implementation deadlines:
1 year (September 2022 – May 2022)
- Relevance, innovative significance of the project
Swimming occupies a special place in the physical education, development and health promotion of preschool children. This is especially true in areas of the Far North that are unfavorable for health.
Swimming helps to develop physical, moral and volitional qualities and the ability to prevent unpleasant situations on the water in future graduates of preschool educational institutions. By attending swimming classes at our preschool from the age of 3, children successfully complete the swimming course. But unfortunately, there are a small number of children who, for a number of reasons, rarely or not at all visit the pool in a preschool educational institution; (frequent m/o, black and white, fear of water and other reasons). Based on diagnostic testing, at the beginning of the school year, several children 6-7 years old with low swimming skills were identified. The ability to swim is a skill acquired in childhood that guarantees safety on the water and saves the child’s life.
The results of many studies have shown that the reason for avoiding attending classes and reluctance to learn to swim is due to psychogenic tension, in other words: self-hypnosis. The main difficulty for such children is psychological - plunging headlong into the water, opening their eyes in the water, exhaling into the water. These features significantly complicate the process of mastering swimming skills during training. state (relationship) to water “slows down” the educational process and the implementation of the swimming program.
This project is designed for additional individual work with children of senior preschool age 6-7 years old, with low scores.
- Goal and objectives of the project:
Target:
Creating optimal conditions for the implementation of an individual route with children of a low level of swimming training, through swimming training.
Tasks:
- Strengthening and hardening the child’s body;
2. To form a stable interest and motivation for systematic swimming lessons;
3.Form motor skills;
- To develop knowledge about the types and methods of swimming;
5.Take care of your health;
6. Cultivate moral and volitional qualities: perseverance, courage, confidence, and a friendly attitude towards each other.
- Involving parents and teachers in joint activities and cooperation in working with children to overcome the child’s fears of water.
The main form of project implementation is classes and individual work with children.
- Novelty of the project
This project represents a new look at organizing the work of a modern teacher in a preschool educational institution with children who are often ill through the use of additional individual lessons. The method of group individualization is used. Its meaning is that students learn swimming movements that are common to all, but they master these movements in different ways. The same material is used in classes with each child in a different sequence and dosage. This technique allows you to increase the motor density of classes and interest children.
Use of game moments. standard and non-standard equipment., is one of the effective ways to increase the motivation of preschoolers to learn the elements of swimming, allows you to move from an explanatory and illustrated method of teaching to a productive one. from simple to complex.
- Expected result
(planned educational results)
This project:
- Will increase the level of knowledge, skills and abilities of swimming readiness;
- The foundations of a pupil’s healthy lifestyle and caring attitude towards their health will be formed;
- The acquired swimming skills will allow you to successfully implement program requirements and pass diagnostic swimming tests;
- Conditions will be created for effective interaction between preschool educational institutions and parents and students;
- Children will have positive motivation to visit the preschool swimming pool and continue to improve in swimming in the city swimming pool of the youth sports school, including together with their parents;
- Mechanism and phased implementation of the project
Preparatory stage
: (
September-November 2016)
- Diagnostic cross-section of knowledge, swimming skills and abilities;
- Project planning;
- Selection of methodological and didactic material.
- Acquaintance with the swimming pool of the city youth sports school.
- Selection of methodological literature, replenishment of the card index of games on the topic.
- Selection of games and game exercises.
Practical stage
:
(November 2016 - April 2022)
- Development and implementation of a project on the topic: “Teach me to swim”;
- Production and acquisition of standard and non-standard equipment;
- Homework with practical recommendations for parents;
- Replenishment of the media library of the virtual methodological office.
- "Game exercises in the bathroom." "Bathing without tears."
- implementation of main activities according to the project plan
Generalization stage: (May 2022)
- Diagnostic testing of swimming skills at the end of the year;
- Analysis of the results of the project: “Teach me to swim”;
- Participation in competitions and entertainment. open classes in pre-school educational institutions, between municipal pre-school educational institutions of the city.
- Generalization and dissemination of experience on the website, teachers' council of preschool educational institutions, municipal physical education instructors of the city.
- Project plan and implementation
Methodological and didactic material has been selected to overcome the negative psycho-emotional state of children in the pool.
A calendar and thematic plan has been drawn up for the implementation of an individual route with children with a low level of swimming skills.
The implementation of the training project is divided into three stages, the main task of each of which is:
- teaching children to float on water using swimming aids
- teaching children to float without flotation devices
- teaching elements of swimming using the “Crawl” method on the chest and back
The long-term plan for lagging children in swimming includes the following topics:
| date | Subject | Content | |
| Preparatory stage | |||
| September | Excursion with children of preparatory groups | Excursion to MAUK TsKiS "Geologist", visiting a training session in the pool of MAUK TsKiS "Geologist" of former graduates | |
| Diagnostics N.U. of the year | Identification of children with a low level of swimming training, reasons. | ||
| October | Creating a Project | Selection of methodological and didactic material | |
| Planning | Writing plans for individual work with children. | ||
| Practical stage Organized educational activities (classes) NGO "Physical Development" | |||
| November | Introduction to the properties of water. | Walking, running. jumping in different directions with or without supports, in a hoop. Moving along the bottom of the pool in different ways | |
| Breathing exercises | Training exercises: inhale-exhale, a series of exhalations, 5-8 times. Exercises: “Beep”, “Whale”, “Geyser”, walking in a squat with an exhalation and sliding with an exhalation into the water, with a board in your hands. | ||
| December | Leisure, physical education “We swim, we play, we don’t forget to dive...” Footwork of the "Crawl" type. Preparing for the dive. | Exercises to prepare for immersion and exhalation into water: “Bridge”, “Put on the hat”, “Dolphin Jump”, “Round Dance”, in pairs: “Swing”, “Counting tables”. Footwork: “Fountain” sitting, lying on the chest, back, arms supported, u n\o (handrail.) | |
| Diving and ascent. Gliding with flotation devices. | Exercises and games: teaching diving and ascent: “Round dance”, “1-2-3”, : gradually in a squat: mouth-nose-eyes »; with holding your breath: “Jellyfish”, “Float”. In pairs: “Cross the bridge”, “Go into the house and come out.” | ||
| Imitation of leg movements, “Crawl” type. Sliding with the board, face in the water, with eyes opening in water. | Exercises with footwork: “Fountain” sitting, lying on the chest, back, u n\o (entrusted)b.), with p\o(board); Sliding: "Arrow", "Torpedo", "Tunnel", "Who's Next?"; "Tow"; Game: “Divers” (we get vertical objects) ; In pairs: “Tug”, “Stars”. | ||
| Floating and lying on the chest, back at the bottom. Sliding without support | Exercises for floating and lying on the chest: “Star” on the chest, back, in pairs: “Swing”, “Cross the bridge”, “Come into the house”, “Float”. Game: “Collect sticks from 1 to 10” from the bottom. | ||
| January | Floating up and lying on the chest, back with p\o. Imitation of hand movements with n\o, with n\o | Exercises for floating and lying on the chest: “Float”, “Jellyfish”, “Star”, in pairs, in a circle. In place, hand work at the handrail, “Crawl” type on the chest, same with footwork. | |
| Floating and lying on the chest, back, in pairs. Sliding with footwork | Exercises for floating and lying on the chest: “Float”, “Jellyfish”, “Star”, in pairs, in a circle. "Torpedo", "Float". In pairs: “Bridge”, “Come into the house”, vol. | ||
| Floating and lying on your chest, back, sliding with a board, without a board, face in the water. | Exercises for teaching sliding: “Arrow”, with a push of the legs, “Tug” in pairs, with a noodle. “Whose arrow will slide further?”, “Boats into the tunnel”; “Whose arrow will glide faster? " Game: "Divers". | ||
| February | Floating and lying on your chest, back, independently. Sliding on the chest, with support on the back. | Exercises teaching diving and sliding: “Round dance”, “1-2-3”, we will hide in the water: mouth-nose-eyes”; "Arrow", "Torpedo". Game: “Jump over Noodle”, “Pike”, etc. | |
| Sliding with a board, without a board, sliding on the back, on the chest and back with footwork. | Exercises for teaching gliding without a board: with different names of hands: “Arrow”, “Torpedo”, “Shark”, on the back: “Sea inhabitants”, Games: “The Sea is Troubled”, “Golden Gate”, “Screw”. | ||
| Sliding with footwork in fins | Swimming around the perimeter of the pool in fins, with a swing, a ball, a board in your hands. | ||
| Physical entertainment "February 23" Games and relay races | Consolidating swimming skills in games and relay races. Demonstration exercises with hoops (girls), boys(in flippers ). Games: “Border Guards and Violators”, “Scouts, Infantry and Ambush”, “Types of Troops”. | ||
| March | Breathing exercises when swimming front crawl | Exercises teaching how to slide with an exhalation into the water, with a board in your hands, with alternate work of hands.!” Game: “Sorcerer”, “Sea Figure, Freeze” | |
| Front crawl, with arm and leg work, breathing | Swimming 6-9m front crawl, 1 arm, 2, full coordination of movements: Game: “Waterman”, “Pike”, “Divers”, “Round Dance”, “Geyser”, | ||
| Front crawl, back crawl with arm and leg work, breathing | Swimming 6-10 m front crawl, 1 arm, 2 arms, in full coordination of movements. Game: “Squat Trap” | ||
| The final stage | |||
| April | Swimming combined, non-sports method on the chest, back | Swimming on the front: arms like “Breaststroke”, legs Crawl.” Swimming on the back: arms, to the sides, draw “8”, legs way: “Crawl”. Game: “Hunters and Ducks”, “Rescuers” | |
| Sliding on the chest and then connecting the legs; hands; breathing. | Exercises: sliding on the chest, back: “Arrow”, with different I. p. hands; “Torpedo”, with footwork, followed by exhalation into the water, with a turn of the head. Swimming 6-10 m front crawl, 1 arm, 2 arms, in full coordination of movements. | ||
| Stage 1 competition in the swimming group. Rules of the game and elements of the game: “Water polo” | Swimming competitions: boys, girls: “Torpedo” on the chest, back; lightweight “Crawl” on the chest, back 10-15m. Training in the elements of the game “Water Polo”: passing the ball in pairs, shots on goal, hearing the whistle. | ||
| Open lesson | Consolidation and improvement of swimming skills. Demonstration performance in sliding with footwork in fins: with a ball, a stick, a stick “Whose arrow is faster?” Games and relay races with standard and non-standard equipment. Game: "Water polo". | ||
| May | Diagnostics | Test tasks: Lying down for duration: "Arrow" on the chest, back. Sliding on the chest, back at speed. Swimming on the front, back 8-15m. | |
| Games, relay races. | Improving swimming skills in games and relay races. Sports game: “Water polo” | ||
Working with children is impossible without cooperation with parents and teachers. Working with parents plays an important role in organizing classes; it is necessary to clearly monitor the reasons why the child does not want to go to the pool and, accordingly, carry out explanatory work with parents, convince them of the need for swimming lessons, and invite them to classes.
Working with parents
| № | Forms | Content |
| Individual conversations, recommendations | — Identify the reasons for reluctance to visit the preschool swimming pool; — Recommendations with practical tips at home in the bathroom; — Overcoming hydrophobia in children for successful learning to swim; — “How to teach a child to swim independently”; — Providing photos and videos of classes. | |
| 2 | Consultations | “Teaching children to swim in home baths” “Overcoming hydrophobia in children” “Hardening a child at home” “Children’s adaptation to water in preschool educational institutions” "Games you can play at home" “Swimming is one of the means of healthy lifestyle” “Hardening is one of the forms of preventing colds” “Formation of swimming skills in children at home” |
| Sliding folders | “Hardening with air, sun and water” "Prevention of postural disorders" “How to teach a child to swim independently” | |
| 3 | Parent meetings, excursions to the preschool swimming pool | Introductory tour with a visit to all areas of the pool; Attendance at classes is optional Presentation: “Recreational swimming in preschool educational institutions” Introductory tour to the swimming pool |
| 4 | Information on the preschool educational institution website | “Have fun in the pool!” “Be healthy in the new school year!”, “Adaptation to the preschool swimming pool was successful!”, “Our children are great - all future swimmers” |
| 5 | Visual information stand of the preschool educational institution “Learning to swim” | “Swimming is a unique way of hardening”; “Teach your child not to be afraid of water”; “Hardening is the key to success”; "How to teach a child to swim." “Holidays with dad, with mom”, “Catch the wave, baby!” |
| Parent corners | “Children’s adaptation to water in a preschool swimming pool”, “Requirements for visiting the pool” | |
| Presentations | “Non-standard equipment with your own hands”, “While playing, we learn to swim.” | |
| Open classes, holidays, entertainment | "Cruise". Relay races and games. |
- Project implementation conditions
7.1 Educational and material support
| Sections | |
| Comprehensive thematic planning of preschool educational institutions. | Project plan |
| Long-term and scheduling | Calendar-thematic plan for 2016-2017. |
| Demonstration materials for learning to swim | — Methodological manual with illustrations of swimming elements, — cards. |
| Demonstration materials on TB in the swimming pool. | — Poster: “Rules of behavior in a pool on water,” — cards on safety in the pool and in the water. |
| Didactic games for learning to swim | — Schemes of constructions and compositions, digital, color; -Soft designer (sea transport, sea creatures, animals and numbers) ; — Games: Summer sports, swimming; — Marine inhabitants of rivers and seas. |
| Card index of games and game exercises, gymnastics. | - Games and exercises on land and in water: — P/games of different mobility; — Folk games of the peoples of the North; - breathing exercises; — visual gymnastics exercises; — articulatory gymnastics exercises; |
| Card index of poems, riddles, nursery rhymes | A selection of poems, nursery rhymes, riddles about water and swimming. Counting books, riddles, proverbs, sayings about water, healthy lifestyle |
| Standard Equipment | — Inflatable sleeves and vests; - Goggles; — Foam sticks (nudols); — Swimming boards; — Inflatable rings, balls, toys — Floating and sinking toys and objects of different shapes and sizes — Balls, hoops of different sizes — Hoops floating and with weight — Plastic sticks — Rubber weights — Kolobaski and spatulas for hands |
| Non-standard equipment | — “Bombs” (inflatable balls with salt), “Multi-colored pebbles” ( capsules with plasticine from under shoe covers), “Amber” (from kinder), “Dumbbells” ( colorful children’s bottles with salt). — Indicators from a soft constructor (sea animals, little animals and vehicles, and geometric shapes: (circle, square, rectangle, triangle), digital and color indicators. |
| Card index of warm-ups and outdoor switchgear | — Complexes of morning exercises; — Outdoor switchgear complexes; — Outdoor switchgear complexes, aqua aerobics; — Card index of special exercises. |
| Availability of TSO: music center | — Carrying out morning exercises, entertainment, holidays; — Direct educational activities, free activities and public events of preschool educational institutions. |
| Laptop | — Preparation of presentations, notes |
| Availability of information for parents | — Movable folders — Consultations - Recommendations — Information for the preschool educational institution website, conversations |
| Musical material | Audio library Audio recordings of musical works, songs. |
| Camera, video camera | Recording fragments of children's activities for teachers' councils, parent-teacher meetings, designing photo exhibitions and photo albums to replenish information on the preschool educational institution website. |
7.2. Staffing (information about the main project implementers)
| № | Full names of specialists | Position in the project | Responsibilities | Place of work, position held |
| 1 | Popova Valentina Grigorievna | Author and participant of the project | Project implementation | Physical education instructor (Swimming ) |
- Evaluation criteria and methods
(description of indicators of achievement of results and diagnostic methods)
Monitoring of project implementation results will be carried out through:
- Diagnostic tests on swimming skills at the beginning and end of the school year.
- assessment of the satisfaction of parents (legal representatives) with the quality of services provided by the preschool educational institution (questionnaire).
- Risks and ways to overcome
| Negative consequences | Remedies |
| Parents' reluctance to cooperate with the teacher |
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| Insufficient level of preparation of the child to work on projects. |
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| Lack of modern demonstration material for teaching swimming. |
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- Project Performance Analysis
Description of the positive changes that will occur as a result of the project implementation
(prospects and practical significance of the work; the opportunity to use ideas, projects, methods in other educational institutions)
The success of my teaching activities is confirmed by the results of monitoring according to the following indicators:
— static exercises lying on the chest, back “Star” (sec);
— sliding on the chest, back: “Arrow” (m), “Torpedo” (min);
- swimming in an easy way "Crawl" on the front, back (6-8-15m)
Diagram of the effectiveness of mastering swimming skills.
(see Appendix No. 1)
This project will allow:
- Increases self-esteem and self-confidence in the team;
- Will increase the results of diagnostic tests of swimming skills among project participants;
- Receive positive feedback from parents;
- Improving swimming monitoring indicators in preschool groups.
Conclusions:
- Development in children and their parents of a desire to continue swimming and maintain a healthy lifestyle;
- Increase the efficiency of the educational process;
- To increase the competence of teachers and parents in mastering methods and techniques in the formation of swimming skills; the ability to apply them in the educational process;
- The project is aimed at expanding the knowledge, skills and abilities of swimming, physical education and sports of children and parents;
- Create conditions for effective interaction with parents and ensure family participation in the educational process;
- The project will show the need for cooperation and interaction between teachers, parents and students;
- To increase the likelihood of joint recreational activities and entertainment with parents, not only in the preschool educational institution, but also in the city swimming pool “Geologist”, to improve swimming skills in “deep” water;
- To increase motivation to introduce preschool children to a healthy lifestyle, readiness for further swimming training in the city pool;
- Create a bank of methodological non-standard games and gaming aids, with the hands of children and parents
- provide work experience (presentation) at the teachers' council, physical education instructors' organization, preschool educational institution website.
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What equipment should I use to teach swimming to preschoolers?
The ability to swim is a vital skill and it is advisable to master it at an early age. For a preschooler, swimming is health promotion, entertainment, educational activity, and enrichment of motor experience. The benefits of swimming in the pool are undeniable, and that is why having a pool in a preschool institution is a definite plus.
Do not forget that the leading activity of a preschool child is play. Mastering new skills, social norms, nurturing personal qualities - all these processes occur through gaming activities. And, as you know, play requires toys, and swimming pool activities are no exception.
Swimming, as we are used to seeing it in adults, is essentially a rather boring and monotonous activity, despite its obvious usefulness. Children enjoy “swimming” in the pool, but mastering the elements of competitive swimming and learning the skill of staying afloat requires something more. And here a variety of equipment comes to the rescue, used both as a toy and as a teaching aid.
Swimboards
. Boards for kids are not like the boring product for adults lying on the side of any pool. They should be smaller in size and have a grip suitable for a child's palm. A variety of colors and images on the board help maintain the child's interest in swimming. Plastic boards have now given way to products made from foam rubber - EVA.
How to play with a swimboard?
Transporting toys on raft-boards, either by walking along the bottom or using your legs, as in the crawl style of swimming, is much more interesting than simply covering the distance from side to side.
Races and relay races for older preschoolers are also fun learning experiences. And as a final task, ask the children to sit on the board and keep their balance.
Noodle
(from the English noodle - noodles) - a bright flexible stick, safe, suitable for swimming, and for mastering the elements of water aerobics, and for playing on the water. Noodles come in different colors, lengths and thicknesses. For preschoolers, it is advisable to choose “sticks” of small diameter, several length options and special additional devices included. You can ride it on horseback, saddle it like a horse, or use it as a swimming circle by connecting it with a special connector. With this device, a child can lie on the water both on his back and on his chest.
How to play?
- As you wish! In addition to the above-described use - stand with two legs, balancing, push towards each other in pairs, build a long floating structure using connectors. Finally, it's just fun to hit the water, creating a cloud of splashes.
Floating toys
. The same ones that are familiar to a baby from early childhood in the home bath. Only here it is advisable to use themed toys, for example a series of sea creatures or waterfowl and animals. Toys need to be changed periodically and the game must be accompanied by a story.
How to play?
We transport toys on boards, push with our heads and with our hands, blow to move, jump from the side, helping the rubber duck learn to fly while holding it in our hands.
Sinking toys
. Sticks and rings sinking to the bottom vertically, cheerful algae. The best equipment for learning to dive and dive into water.
How to play?
- Of course, collect from the bottom! First, one at a time, then several at once during one breath-hold, and then selectively in colors and shapes, in order to learn to open your eyes under water. Collect at speed, divide into teams, move to different ends of the pool.
Floating hoops
You can make it yourself by combining a noodle and a regular hoop, or you can buy a specialized one. There are also hoops that drop vertically to the bottom; they are a lot of fun to swim through, trying not to get hit.
How to play?
Everyone hold onto one hoop together, trying to organize a joint movement towards the goal, throw the ball, jump up out of the water and “fish” into the hoop lying on the surface.
Inflatable sleeves
. If your baby is just getting acquainted with the pool, this device can help. And they are more preferable, since, unlike a circle, they help you take a more physiological position that is conducive to proper swimming skills - horizontal. A little secret on how to wean your baby off them later is to gradually deflate, reducing the support and thus including the hands for strokes.
Kalabashka
– a special float that is suitable for older children. It is with the help of this device that the elements of sports swimming are mastered.
How to play?
Clamp your feet and swim across the pool using only your hands, lean with one hand and row with your free hand, build “houses with a roof” for toys on the side using two calabashkas and a board laid on them.
Balls
. Different sizes, colors, shapes and buoyancy. Massage and smooth, inflatable and rubber. And let there be many of them.
How to play?
Water polo, dodgeball, mastering somersaults with a ball pressed to your stomach, swimming on your back, hugging the ball and holding it, relay races, football without hands.
The presented set of water activities will allow you to diversify children's activities in the pool as much as possible, making them exciting and useful. Don’t be afraid of non-standard ways of using equipment; any physical activity in the water will expand the range of skills and abilities of a preschooler, even if at first glance it bears little resemblance to competitive swimming. All necessary equipment can be purchased from manufacturers and official distributors of equipment for equipping preschool educational organizations and swimming pools.
Swimming pool in kindergarten
The healing effects of swimming on the body of both adults and children have been proven many times. During exercise in the pool, all muscle groups are involved, which helps strengthen the entire muscle corset and form correct posture. During swimming, the muscles either tense or relax, this kind of work makes them stronger and stronger.
Also, during water activities, cerebral circulation increases, the nervous, respiratory and cardiovascular systems are strengthened. Metabolic processes are activated. Exercises in the pool are a good prevention of flat feet and colds; increase appetite, relieve nervous tension and stress, and make sleep deeper. Recently, even ophthalmologists have been recommending swimming pool exercises to improve vision.
In addition to learning different swimming styles, children are also taught diving, which helps increase lung capacity and breathing coordination. This allows you to saturate your brain cells with oxygen.
During exercises in the pool, being in the water itself, it is almost impossible to get injured, because... water is a soft substance, so swimming is often used for the rehabilitation of children with various pathologies, including birth injuries, etc. Swimming is also useful for hyperactive children, because has a calming effect and gives a lot of positive emotions.
The most important advantage of the pool
The most important advantage of exercising in water is increasing immunity and hardening the body. When entering water, vasoconstriction occurs and the skin cools, because there is an outflow of blood from the superficial vessels, reducing heat transfer. After a few minutes, the vessels dilate again and the body temperature returns to normal. This adaptive reaction of the body gives such a powerful hardening effect. It has been proven that children who exercise in the pool get sick less often and miss less kindergarten.
Should children be forced to swim?
Still, as with any kind of sport, it is necessary to follow the golden rule - swimming should bring joy to the child himself, and not to his parents. You should not force your child to go to the pool. Also, you should not transfer your childhood dreams to your child. If you dreamed of becoming an Olympic champion in diving as a child, it does not mean that your child dreams of the same. It’s another matter if the baby, due to his age, does not understand what he would like to do, then he should be gently pushed, but still given the right to choose. If both the parents and the child have decided and the pediatrician does not mind, then you can safely visit the pool.
Some preschool institutions, especially newly built ones, have children's pools, and of course parents have a lot of questions.
The most worrying thing for parents, perhaps, is whether the child will get sick after visiting the pool? Of course, when visiting the pool, especially in the cold season, there is a risk of more frequent viral diseases, but you should not remove your child from classes after the first cold, because The child’s body will gradually strengthen and harden. To prevent your child from getting sick, safety standards must be followed.
Safety standards to reduce the risk of illness after visiting the pool:
- The air temperature in the room should be 2 degrees higher than the water.
- There should be no drafts in the pool area or locker rooms.
- Water must be treated with specially designed means.
- If a child feels unwell, he is suspended from classes that day, because a tired or weakened body becomes hypothermic faster. In addition, at least 2 weeks must pass after any illness to avoid getting sick again.
- A walk in the fresh air should be organized at least 40-60 minutes later to avoid hypothermia.
What do you need to visit the pool in kindergarten?
All swimwear must be brought on the day of class and taken home in the evening to be washed and dried thoroughly. The list of swimming accessories usually includes:
- a large terry towel and a small one for the feet;
- pajamas or terry robe;
- swimming trunks, swimsuit for girls from older groups;
- rubber shoes;
- a rubber cap for both boys and girls;
- soap in a soap dish;
- washcloth;
- Goggles.
Rules for visiting the pool
When visiting the pool, you must follow generally accepted rules and regulations. Firstly, before starting classes, a medical examination of the skin, hair and nails is required. Children are also asked to visit the toilet before starting classes.
Then the kids take a shower with soap and a washcloth.
It is forbidden to make loud noise during the classes themselves. All instructor commands must be strictly followed.
After classes, the students take a shower again and wipe themselves dry; younger children are usually helped by a nurse and an instructor.
Visiting the pool is not done on a full stomach.
How are classes held in the kindergarten pool?
Swimming lessons consist of three parts:
- Part 1 - preparatory: a short warm-up is carried out on the side of the pool to warm up the muscles;
— Part 2 — the actual lessons in the pool. Children are taught different swimming styles;
— Part 3 — final: children are allowed to swim freely.
Classes are conducted by a physical education instructor with specialized education. The instructor also conducts preliminary conversations with children about the rules of behavior on the water, and provides students with psychological and moral support.
For different age groups, different durations of classes are established, which are strictly regulated by sanitary rules and amount to:
- 15 - 20 minutes for junior and second junior groups;
- 20 - 25 minutes for the average group;
- 25 - 30 minutes for senior and preparatory groups.
Classes are conducted in small subgroups, usually 8-10 people, maximum 12, this is due to safety, because it is believed that the instructor cannot maintain attention on more children.
Children from younger groups are taught in a playful way, using various water equipment. Children learn not to be afraid of water, to enter it independently and play boldly.
By the end of the school year, middle school students can already swim short distances on water independently.
Graduates can swim in any way for more than 10 meters without aids, while using their breathing correctly.
Thus, by regularly attending swimming lessons, children overcome their fear and uncertainty, and they develop strong-willed qualities such as independence, determination, courage, and discipline. Children's self-esteem and self-confidence increase, which will certainly help them become successful in any business in the future.
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