How to cultivate children's love for their hometown

The emotion of loving the motherland, hometown and collective is the foundation of people's ideological and moral development, and it is also a powerful driving force for people to explore various undertakings. Therefore, the "Guidelines for Kindergarten Education (Trial)" proposes that children should be educated in love from an early age. Among them, the education of loving hometown is the emotional concretization of love. Only by loving their close hometown can children further sublimate their feelings of loving the motherland. Therefore, when carrying out education in this area, we should make use of all available resources as much as possible to make children have more vivid feelings and experiences, thus stimulating their feelings of love. It is an important topic for kindergarten curriculum development to study how to use all kinds of natural and social resources to educate children to love their motherland and hometown in various forms, to guide them to feel the richness and Excellence of their motherland culture, to feel the changes and development of their hometown, and to stimulate their feelings of loving their hometown and motherland.

There are abundant resources around us that are suitable for carrying out hometown-loving education. Generally speaking, it can be divided into material resources, cultural resources and human resources. In teaching practice, it is very necessary to make comprehensive use of these resources to educate children to love their hometown.

First, use a variety of educational resources to let children feel and experience the beauty of their hometown.

1 directly perceive the beauty of the environment, culture and art in my hometown. Educator Chen Heqin once said: "Nature and society are living teaching materials". Therefore, fully tapping the educational value of local natural resources and leading children to feel the history and culture of their hometown is one of the important ways to cultivate children to love their hometown and motherland. We lead children to visit various parks and representative buildings in Fuzhou, so that children can feel the beauty of their hometown environment while playing in a state of physical and mental pleasure. Ask parents to show some Fujian culture, let parents perform programs and let children feel the beauty of Fujian culture.

2 indirectly perceive the beauty of hometown. We mobilized parents from all walks of life and collected many things that could not be directly perceived. For example, parents who work in the tourism bureau have brought pictures of Fujian's tourist scenery and posted them around the activity room. Walking through the activity room corridor is like traveling in Fujian. Children can experience the beauty of scenery, culture and art in Fujian. They can communicate with their parents and get their support. Parents can take their children to visit Fujian scenic spots on weekends, winter and summer vacations, collect their children's photos and post them in the cognitive area, and communicate with each other in regional activities, so that children can discover and feel their hometown environment in a free, relaxed and excited emotional state.

Second, use a variety of educational resources to let children feel and experience the art and culture of their hometown.

1 Let children enjoy the folk art in their hometown and learn about the local culture in their hometown. Fujian, our hometown, has a long history and rich cultural accumulation, and its folk arts are all-encompassing, including gaojia opera, muppets, folk dances and so on. However, under the constant impact of foreign culture, the new generation of children are increasingly alienated from the local folk art in their hometown. Therefore, it has become one of the focuses of our work to let folk art enter the kindergarten and our classroom, so that children can feel the charm of folk art and understand the local culture of their hometown. We excavate, screen and sort out excellent and healthy works of art and carry out various activities. We use parents' resources to invite parents who work in the puppet troupe to hold a lively and interesting muppet activity for the children in the class. During the puppet show, the children raised many questions that they wanted to know but didn't know what to do. When the puppet appeared in the parents' hands, the children couldn't help applauding warmly and kept asking the parents how he could move, and so on. Children show high interest in folk art and culture, which not only helps to cultivate children's artistic interest and artistic talent, but also helps to develop children's whole brain function and creativity, which can stimulate children's sense of identity and belonging to folk art and understand the local culture of their hometown. Inspire children to love their hometown.

Let children taste the traditional snacks in their hometown and experience the food culture in their hometown. As an ancient city, Fuzhou has formed many delicious and unique flavor foods from the precipitation of traditional history to the development of modern economy, such as fish balls, tender cakes, oyster omelet, brown meat, batter, mixed noodles and flat food. We introduce these traditional foods to children, so that they can feel the folk customs of their hometown while watching, eating and playing, absorb the food culture of their hometown, and then stimulate their love for their hometown. In the theme activity of "Fujian Snacks", children use various methods and channels to find and collect information about Fujian's food culture and history, and deepen their understanding and love of hometown food. At the same time, combined with the traditional festivals in Fujian, we can watch and taste all kinds of snacks in Fujian by using the local atmosphere, starting with children's nature-eating. In the activity, let children fully perceive the color, fragrance and taste of Fujian cuisine, let children know the meaning of Fujian cuisine and stimulate their interest in traditional snacks. Through parent-child activities-making "tender cakes" and other operational activities, children and parents can make traditional food together and cultivate their cooking ability. In the process of understanding, tasting and making, let children experience the food culture of their hometown, so that their feelings of loving their hometown can be further sublimated.

Third, use a variety of educational resources to let children know the history and present of their hometown, feel the changes in their hometown and experience the beauty of their own labor.

1 Use multimedia resources to let children feel the history of their hometown and the hard-won life now. We contacted the parents of the TV station and lent a documentary about the history of Fujian to let the children know about the changes before and after the liberation of Fujian. When the children saw that the dilapidated shanty towns had turned into beautiful new villages in full of green, and the voice of the commentator was passionate, they really felt the changes in their hometown and realized the beauty of the workers' labor in their hometown, and burst into cheers involuntarily.

Use the resources of Fujian historical and cultural celebrities to provide children with an example of loving and building their hometown. When children know the stories of many successful people in their hometown in modern times, such as the writer Bing Xin's grandmother and mathematician Chen Jingrun, they are inspired, grow up and express their ideals. Some children say that when they grow up, they want to be landscape designers, become laborers in their hometown, build many hanging gardens for Fuzhou, and be cool in summer.

Fourth, use a variety of educational resources to provide children with opportunities to express their love for their hometown.

1 Provide various materials for children to express their feelings of loving their hometown in their favorite way. For example, in painting activities with the theme of "I love my hometown, my future hometown", let children boldly try to draw what they see and think with gouache paint. After the visit, the teacher provided paper, pens and pebbles in the area to guide the children to start painting. Some painted Baita Wuta, some painted big banyan trees, and some decorated small paper umbrellas. These simple, childlike and lovely pictures are full of children's love for their hometown.

2 Use community resources and social activity resources to express their feelings about life and community. We let the children in the community know that they are part of the community and should do their part for the community. For example, in the "Double Ninth Festival", we get together with the elderly in the community activity center, giving our own programs and small gifts to the elderly in the community, and offering the love of our children; Use the walking time to pick up pebbles for the grass in the small park of the community to make the grass greener. Teachers cultivate children's feelings for people in the community, and then expand to love the whole community, and then expand to love their hometown.

The process of children expressing their love for their hometown from feeling and experiencing the beauty of their hometown, folk art and food culture-experiencing the beauty of their hometown is hard-won-is a process in which our teachers comprehensively use various resources to let the children experience it themselves. Today, with the increasing emphasis on diversity and integration in education, kindergartens, families and society should all become important resources for kindergarten education. Each of our preschool teachers constantly develops and utilizes all kinds of educational resources, enhances the integration consciousness of all kinds of resources, comprehensively utilizes all kinds of educational resources in various forms, and better carries out the education of loving hometown, so that children can love their hometown from childhood and build their hometown when they grow up.