Types of activities
The process of developing knowledge about traffic rules in children in the middle group can be carried out through the use of various types of activities, didactic material, illustrations, fiction, and multimedia applications.
Introducing your child to road signs
The objectives of the classes, both in a long-term project and during a short-term period of familiarization with the topic, are:
- Introduce children to the meanings of traffic lights, expanding existing ideas.
- Introduction to modes of transport.
- Providing knowledge about the street, sidewalk, roadway.
- Familiarity with the basic rules of the road.
- Fostering a culture of behavior in transport and on the street.
Mastering the basics of safety is the daily work of both teachers and parents. To achieve the set goals, any available forms and methods of interaction can be used, both in the form of entertainment and educational activities.
Conducting a conversation at a preschool educational institution
Short term projects
All classes conducted in preschool institutions comply with pre-drawn plans. Short-term projects are carried out as regular activities aimed at studying traffic rules. They may be dedicated to certain holidays. Most often, parents are involved in participation.
The projects involve holding exhibitions. For example, children, together with their parents, make models of roads, traffic lights, and pedestrian crossings at home. A city or regional work competition may be organized.
A short-term project can be a group activity in which children create a collage of appliques, drawings or crafts around a theme.
This method allows not only to consolidate the acquired knowledge about transport and road signs, but also to show creativity.
Organization of exhibitions on traffic rules
Conversations
Conversing with preschoolers in kindergartens is one of the most common forms of acquiring knowledge. It can be carried out both in the morning circle and in extracurricular activities, for example, on a walk. Any trip to the theater, museum or library can be compared to a conversation about traffic rules, when the teacher uses live examples to tell the child about behavior on the road.
Didactic games on sensory education for preschoolers
Additional Information! This type of educational activity such as conversation should be carried out comprehensively. Parents play an important role in this situation. The task of educators is to explain to parents the meaning of their conversations with their children.
Open classes
Open classes can be held in various forms. These could be theatrical performances in which the children themselves take part, or inviting representatives of the traffic police to conduct a lesson.
The objectives of the classes are:
- expanding children's understanding of the street, sidewalk, roadway;
- familiarization with the concept of pedestrian crossings, traffic lights, rules of use.
During the classes, the children not only acquire new knowledge and consolidate existing knowledge, but also develop a desire to help others on the road.
Form of open classes
Integrated classes
An integrated lesson means a combination of different types of activities in a certain period of time. For example, holding a quiz after watching a play or reading a story about traffic rules.
The lesson can be structured as follows. The fairy-tale hero Traffic Light will come to the children and tell him about his friend the dog, who ran across the road at the wrong red light. The traffic light will tell the kids that the car didn’t have time to stop and ran over the dog’s paw. He is now in the hospital. After this, you can conduct a drawing lesson, ask the children to draw drawings for the dog, which will reflect the rules on how to cross the roadway correctly.
Traffic rules week
According to the standards of the Federal State Educational Standard for preschool education, social and communicative development should be aimed at mastering the basic values and safety standards accepted in society. It is recommended to divide the educational process into thematic weeks.
A separate week should also be devoted to studying traffic rules, which includes complex activities. These could be combined open lessons, organizing meetings with traffic police officers, quizzes, and theatrical skits. In parallel, work should be carried out with parents.
Note! Classes can be conducted both collectively and individually. The variety of methods makes it possible for each child to find exactly what is more understandable to him. If a child does not like to draw, but listens to stories with great pleasure, he will better perceive information during conversations and reading fiction.
What should a child in the middle group know about traffic rules?
In the middle group, great emphasis in the educational process is placed on developing children's orientation in the environment. The task of educators, both during walks and during thematic classes, is to pay children’s attention to the rules of safe behavior on the road.
In the middle group, preschoolers continue to familiarize themselves with all types of transport and study road signs. Children should begin to learn the basic norms of behavior on the road, the rules of safe movement on the roadway.
Studying traffic rules in kindergarten
At the age of 4-5 years, a child should know the purpose of traffic lights, understand what a zebra crossing is and how to cross the road along it, how to wait for a bus at a stop. The teacher introduces preschoolers to the concepts of “pedestrian”, “roadway”, “sidewalk”, “two-way, one-way traffic”.
Examples of projects on traffic regulations for preschool educational institutions
Projects on the topic of traffic rules can be both creative, playful and educational. The teacher can combine them at his discretion.
Additional Information! One type of project could be conducting classes on the topic “Safe Street”. It is appropriate to hold a set of events in September, when children have returned from summer vacation. The goal of the project is to introduce and consolidate the child’s knowledge of road signs and the rules for using them.
For children of middle preschool age, it is recommended to conduct classes in a playful way with the involvement of fairy-tale characters. For example, a sparrow flies to class and tells how his friend’s ball jumped out onto the roadway where there is no pedestrian crossing or traffic light.
After watching the skit, you can conduct a drawing lesson or quiz. Then arrange an exhibition and presentation of the drawings. The project can be implemented jointly with parents. For example, hold a mock-up or crafts competition in advance, and after viewing the skit, hold a vote and determine the winners.
Theatrical scenes on the topic
