Project "Social and communicative development in play" for older children

Project “Social and communicative development in play” for older children

APPENDIX 4

Municipal budgetary preschool educational institution "Child Development Center - Kindergarten "Smile"

Pedagogical project

"Social and communicative development of preschool children during play."

Author of the project:

Educator: Levashova S.G.

2018

Introduction

Modern society lives in a constantly changing world in the information age and the introduction of the latest technical means of information; the constant lack of time changes the usual norms and forms of intra-family and interpersonal relationships. Many parents believe that the intellectual development of a child is most relevant in the modern world of information technology. Teaching a child from an early age the latest technical means and developing certain skills that, in the opinion of parents, correspond to the requirements of today, should prepare the child for an independent life and make him competitive. In pursuit of new trends, parents forget that a competitive, capable person is not only intellectually developed, capable of solving intellectual problems of the modern world, but also a person successfully adapted to society, able to build interpersonal relationships, and having constructive communication skills. But modern parents do not pay due attention to these areas in the child’s development.

Therefore, one of the main directions of the kindergarten’s work with preschoolers and their families is to create conditions that facilitate the child’s successful adaptation to social reality through the development of social and communicative spheres of activity. This direction of work has been confirmed in modern educational innovations: Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia dated October 17, 2013. No. 1155 “On approval of the federal state educational standard for preschool education.” The Federal State Educational Standard for preschool education determines the mandatory minimum content of the program, which is implemented in preschool educational institutions, so “Social and communicative development is aimed at:

- to assimilate the norms and values accepted in society, including moral and ethical values;

— development of communication and interaction of the child with adults and peers;

— formation of independence, focus and self-regulation of one’s own values;

— development of social and emotional intelligence, emotional responsiveness, empathy, formation of readiness for joint activities with peers, formation of a respectful attitude and a sense of belonging to one’s family and to the community of children and adults in preschool educational institutions;

— formation of positive attitudes towards various types of work and creativity;

— formation of the foundations of safe behavior in everyday life, society, and nature.” [15].

Such special attention to the social and communicative development of a modern preschooler is due to the fact that this period of child development is one of the important stages in personality development. This is the initial period of a child’s socialization, his introduction to cultural and universal values, the time when intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships with adults and peers begin to be built. This time is also characterized by the accumulation of important experience of cognition, activity, creativity, comprehension of one’s capabilities and self-knowledge in a preschooler under the direct guidance of an adult.

Therefore, on the one hand, they need vivid emotional impressions, and on the other hand, games and exercises that help children learn to manage, correct, and realize emotions.

The social and communicative development of preschool children is multifaceted, complex and often delayed in time. Therefore, the goal of adults is to help children adapt to the modern world, which is characterized by complex, dynamic, negative experiences and manifestations.

The relevance of the formation of social and communicative skills of preschoolers at the pedagogical level is determined by the social order of society - the formation of a socially developed personality of the child. A sufficient level of development of social and communication skills, being one of the necessary components of a child’s readiness to learn, provides him with the opportunity to successfully master the school curriculum. The first society for a “little” person is the collective of the kindergarten group, and it largely determines the further path of his personal and social development. The experience of these first relationships is the foundation for the further development of the child’s personality and largely determines the characteristics of a person’s self-awareness, his attitude to the world, his behavior and well-being among people.

This is especially true nowadays, since communication is disappearing from a child’s life. Children spend a lot of time in front of the TV and computer, without paying enough attention to playing with their peers. The ability to communicate with each other is one of the necessary conditions for the normal personal and social development of a child. Poor speech leads to aggression, since the child cannot always express in words what he wants to say.

The development of a child’s personality, and in particular the formation of social and communication skills, as proven by pedagogical science, occurs through activity. The leading activity of a child in preschool age is play. Psychologists (L. S. Vygotsky, [3], D. B. Elkonin, [25], A. N. Leontiev, S. L. Rubinshtein, A. V. Zaporozhets, etc.) and teachers (N. K. Krupskaya, A. S. Makarenko, E. A. Arkin, M. Ya. Basov, etc.) paid extreme attention to the child’s play.

Play is the most natural activity for children. It constitutes the main content of life, acts as a leading activity, and is closely intertwined with work and learning. All aspects of the personality are involved in the game: the child moves, speaks, perceives, thinks, during the game all his mental processes actively work: thinking, imagination, memory, emotional and volitional manifestations intensify. It is through play that a child learns about himself and the world around him.

To promote the social and communicative development of a child, an adult needs to encourage all kinds of forms of play as a leading activity. Communication is an integral part of it. During the game, the child’s development moves at a rapid pace: social, mental, emotional. How children play: most often they reproduce the life of adults in a playful way - they play at the store, at the doctor, at the kindergarten or school, at “mother and daughter”.

When creating an imaginary situation in a game, the child learns to participate in social life and “try on” the role of an adult. In the game, options for resolving conflicts are practiced, dissatisfaction or approval is expressed, children support each other - that is, a unique model of the adult world is built, in which children learn to interact adequately.

Of the existing variety of children's games, this work pays special attention to director's play.

A preschooler's director's play is an individual game, during which the child creates play situations with toys and substitute objects.

It is a type of independent story-based games that arise on the initiative of the child.

Children's director's games are very close to role-playing games, but there are clear differences between them. In director's play, the child uses partners, who are inanimate objects (toys or their substitutes). In such a game, the child seems to be preparing to communicate with peers. Director's play appears at about 3 years of age. At this time, children do not play together yet. They usually play nearby. And director's play helps children prepare to interact with other children. From 4-5 years old, the content of the director's play is much more diverse; it reflects the content of favorite fairy tales, cartoons, and events from personal life. At the age of 6-7, children also play out familiar fairy tales, films, and cartoons in their games, but at the same time they bring their imagination into the development of the plot of the game and invent more.

Director's play is a type of children's play that has been least studied. Information about it and its features appeared in the pedagogical press quite recently. Most likely, this can be explained by the fact that the task of education was to form a team of children. The director's play is individual and could not be used for these purposes.

Of course, every child should be involved in group games, children should feel and understand other people, but this does not mean that there should not be individual games in preschool educational institutions. Even the most sociable child periodically has the desire to make a building on his own or play with his favorite toy.

It is in the director's game:

children show initiative and independence;
speech, imagination, thinking are activated;
The ability to observe, analyze, and compare develops.

Directing is one of the few ways to unite an adult and a child and makes it possible to understand each other. Only a few scientists and researchers of director's play are known - E. M. Gasparova, [4], E. E. Kravtsova, [11], G. G. Kravtsov, etc.

In their opinion, director's play in preschool age is the initial stage of game development, followed by figurative-role-playing, plot-role-playing and other types of games.

Practical part

The leading pedagogical idea of the study is the formation of social and communication skills through director's games, which contribute to the formation of independence in artistic speech and theatrical play activities, the formation of dialogic and monologue speech of preschoolers as an integral part of the process of personal socialization based on the method of director's play. This work is based on a modern methodological approach: the interpenetration of various sections of the program, in other words, their integration, uniting all the main directions, giving high results in the development of children’s cognitive, creative abilities and their communication skills, the necessary organization, and qualitatively new preparation of children for life.

Target:

Development of social and communication skills of preschoolers with peers, correct self-esteem, cultivation of a friendly attitude towards others in the process of director's play

Tasks:

• develop children's social and communicative abilities using director's play;

to form a child’s coherent speech, his speech creativity through play activities;
promote the formation of independence in artistic, speech and theatrical and gaming activities;
to form dialogical and monological speech of preschoolers as an integral part of the process of socialization of the individual based on the method of director's play.

Thus, the basis for organizing work with children is the following system of didactic principles:

The principle of educational training. L. Tolstoy wrote: “You cannot educate without passing on knowledge; all knowledge has an educational effect.”
The principle of developmental education. The idea of developmental education was proposed by L.S. Vygotsky: “Training must go ahead of development and lead it along.”
The principle of systematicity and consistency. Y.A. Kamensky wrote: “From simple to complex, from close to distant, from known to unknown.”

• The principle of material availability.

The principle of visibility. K. Ushinsky wrote: “Teach a child some five words and he will suffer for a long time over them, but connect them with clarity and he will learn them on the fly.”
The minimax principle ensures that each child can progress at his own pace, taking into account age and individual characteristics.
The principle of activity is that new knowledge is not introduced in a ready-made form, but through the independent “discovery” of it by children.

Conditions for the formation of experience:

• using the principle of integration of educational areas in various types of activities;

• enrichment of the subject-development environment in the group and in the preschool educational institution;

communication with children based on subject-subject relationships: teacher - child - child;
The system of interaction and cooperation with the pupil’s family has been improved.

An integrated approach to the education and development of social and communication skills in children is the methodological basis of practical activities.

The work is built in three stages:

Organizational stage (immersion in the project, activity planning)

The main stage is the implementation of activities to solve the problem

The final stage is registration and evaluation of the results

Organizational stage

developing a scheme of sequential actions together with children;
organization of children's activities, organization of parents' activities;
analysis of scientific and methodological literature;
development of a project plan for the development of the subjective position of preschool children in the director’s game “We play, we fantasize.”

To develop social and communicative skills through director’s play, a plan for the “Let’s Play, Let’s Fantasize” project has been developed.

Working with parents

Before starting work on the project, parents get acquainted with the goals and objectives of the project; they must be convinced of the need to provide assistance and take their children’s research, tasks and games seriously.

Parental participation in the implementation of assigned tasks:

assistance in equipping the group with gaming materials;
assistance in making costumes and attributes for games;
familiarization with the materials of the information stand for parents “Playing with children”, “Psychology of director’s play”, “Director’s play in the life of a preschooler”.

The main stage is the implementation of activities to solve the problem

implementation of a project in a group using innovative technologies;
work to enrich the child’s life and play experience;
enrichment of the subject-development environment.

Work to achieve the set goal is carried out by consistently complicating game tasks and dramatization games in which the child is included. The following stages of work are defined:

The game is an imitation of individual actions of humans, animals and birds (the children woke up and stretched, the sparrows are flapping their wings) and the imitation of the basic emotions of a person (the sun came out - the children were happy: they smiled, clapped their hands, jumped in place).
The game is an imitation of a chain of sequential actions combined with the transfer of the main emotions of the hero (the cheerful nesting dolls clapped their hands and began to dance; the bunny saw a fox, got scared and jumped behind a tree).
The game imitates the images of well-known fairy-tale characters (a clumsy bear walks towards the house, a brave cockerel walks along the path).
Improvisation game to music (“Cheerful Rain”, “Leaves fly in the wind and fall on the path”, “Round dance around the Christmas tree”).
A single-theme wordless improvisation game with one character based on the texts of poems and jokes (“Katya, little Katya...”, “Baby, dance...”, V. Berestov “Sick Doll”, A. Barto “Snow, Snow”).
Improvisation game based on the texts of short fairy tales, stories and poems (3. Alexandrova “Christmas tree”; K. Ushinsky “Cockerel with his family”, “Vaska”; N. Pavlova “By the car”, “Strawberry”; V. Charushin “Duck with ducklings").
Role-playing dialogue between fairy tale heroes (“Rukavichka”, “Zayushkina’s Hut”, “Three Bears”).
Dramatization of fragments of fairy tales about animals (“Teremok”, “Cat, Rooster and Fox”).
A single-theme dramatization game with several characters based on folk tales (“Kolobok”, “Turnip”) and author’s texts (V. Suteev “Under the Mushroom”, K. Chukovsky “Chicken”).

Director's plays are classified according to the variety of theatres.

When working to develop communication skills in children, the following are used:

types of theaters like

Tabletop toy theater. Toys and crafts are used that stand steadily on the table and do not interfere with movement.

Tabletop picture theater. Characters and settings - pictures. Their actions are limited. The state of the character, his mood is conveyed by the intonation of the player. Characters appear as the action progresses, which creates an element of surprise and arouses the interest of children.

Stand-book. The dynamics and sequence of events are depicted using alternating illustrations. Turning over the sheets of the book stand, the presenter demonstrates various scenes depicting events and meetings.

Flannelograph. Pictures or characters are displayed on the screen. They are held in place by flannel, which covers the screen and the back of the picture.

Puppet theater (bibabo, finger theater, puppets) - put on the hand or fingers. Children use finger theater figures in improvisations on given topics.

The dramatization game is considered within the framework of theatrical games as included, along with the director's game, in the structure of the plot-role-playing game. The process of mastering includes mini-productions based on the texts of folk and original poems, fairy tales, and stories.

Situations resolved through theatrical activities are used.

1. “Immersion in a fairy tale” with the help of “magical things” from a fairy tale. Creating an imaginary situation. For example, children’s attention is drawn to some thing: a bench (“Didn’t an egg fall from it?”), a bowl (“Perhaps they baked Kolobok in this bowl?”), etc. I ask if they learned these things from which fairy tale.

2. Reading and joint analysis of fairy tales. First, a fairy tale is read and a conversation is held aimed at getting to know emotions and feelings, then characters with different character traits are highlighted and the child is invited to compare himself with one of the characters.

3. Playing excerpts from a fairy tale that convey various character traits, with a parallel explanation or clarification of the moral qualities and motives of the characters’ actions.

4. Director's play (with construction and teaching materials, using small toys).

Drawing and coloring of the most vivid and emotional events from fairy tales for children with verbal commentary and explanation of the personal meaning of the events depicted.
Verbal, board-printed and outdoor games aimed at mastering moral rules and setting moral goals in the free activity of children after class.

The final stage is registration and evaluation of the results

The result of work on the project is the following productions:

“Let’s Play Together” (director’s play based on the fairy tale “Teremok”);

“Colors of Autumn” (director’s play based on the fairy tale “Turnip”);

"Winter Beauty"; (stage performance “New Year's Adventures of a Snowman”)

“Meeting of Spring” (director’s play based on the fairy tale “Zayushkina’s Hut”).

Evaluation of results:

Questioning parents to obtain feedback for subsequent improvement (positive and negative aspects in the work).
Observing the progress of the director's game and recording the results of the observation.
Analysis of children's activity products.
Analysis of children's activity in presenting project materials.

Predicted result

The presented project is only planned for implementation, therefore, if it is implemented, the following results can be predicted:

the topic of the developed project was chosen taking into account the age characteristics of children of senior preschool age and the amount of information that can be perceived by them, which will have a positive impact on various types of their activities (game, cognitive, artistic speech, musical and gaming);
a positive reaction and emotional response of children to being introduced to different types of gaming activities is expected, children will show interest and desire to participate in the game;
the developed topic will contribute to the formation of independence in artistic speech and theatrical play activities, the formation of dialogic and monological speech of preschoolers, as an integral part of the process of personal socialization based on the method of director's play;
We assume that during the implementation of the project, children will communicate more actively with each other and with adults, conflict situations will arise less often among children, children will begin to show greater interest in director's games, discipline and organization of children will increase, information about the environment will expand, children's vocabulary will be enriched and activated , relationships between children in the group will improve;
it will be possible to achieve good results in the interaction between teacher and parents, provided that parents take an active part in the implementation of the project;
through the implementation of the project, the child is placed in a favorable environment where he can demonstrate his socially significant skills;
Purposeful work will create the basis for the development of positive moral qualities in children, among which the most important are mutual assistance and responsiveness, kindness and patience; in the process of upbringing, children will gain practical experience in applying these qualities in everyday life.

The result of the work is the transfer of the child to a new level of social functioning, which allows him to expand the circle of his relationships and creates conditions for a more harmonious and personally relevant socialization of the child in a changing world.

Conclusion

1. The formation of social and communicative skills in preschool children is an extremely pressing problem, since it represents one of the components of psychological readiness for learning at school - social and communicative.

2. The essence of the formation of social and communicative skills of preschoolers through theatrical activities is a pedagogical process in which, in an organized, gradual and continuous manner, in imaginary, corresponding to the role, plot and real situations, the assimilation of knowledge and norms of the child’s relationships with other people is carried out, the formation of the ability to perceive and exchange information, establish and maintain contacts with adults and peers; adequate evaluative activity is formed, aimed at analyzing one’s own behavior and the actions of others.

3. The specificity of the formation of social and communicative skills of preschoolers through play activities is that in the process of director’s play, the child uses various symbolic means (facial expressions, pantomimes, plastic movements, speech, singing, etc.) in various spheres of cognition, transmission and reproduction of information, implemented in interpersonal relationships, increasing the degree of social competence of the child in the process of interaction with others.

4. The formation of social and communicative skills of preschoolers through play activities occurs under the following organizational and pedagogical conditions:

organization of a subject-developmental environment in a preschool educational institution, acting as a stimulator, a driving force in the holistic process of personality development, which will contribute to the formation of social and communication skills;
creation of a unified value-semantic cooperation between teachers and parents based on an understanding of the essence of the problem, forms and methods of effectively developing social and communicative skills of preschoolers through play activities;
creating a communicative and dialogue basis for relationships between preschoolers and adults and peers as an aspect of the child’s moral development and the formation of the preschooler’s personality with regular involvement in play activities.

In this work, we examined the social and communicative development of children and noted that a sufficiently high level of development of social and communicative skills, being one of the necessary components of a child’s readiness to learn, provides the child with the opportunity to successfully master the school curriculum. In their study, they once again identified the main role of play, as a natural activity of preschool children, in the development of the child’s social and communicative qualities. The games of a preschooler are varied and varied, all of them are very valuable and important in the development of the social and communicative skills of a preschooler, but in our study we focused in more detail on director’s games, which are a type of independent plot games. In the pedagogical literature, unreasonably little attention is paid to these games, and they, in turn, in our opinion, are of decisive importance in the formation of a child’s personal qualities. In our work, we identified director's play as the highest stage in the development of children's play activity. Director's play has a social nature and is built on the child's ever-expanding understanding of the life of adults. Directing games promote the child’s social development, the ability to perceive and understand life situations, imagine relationships between people, their actions and deeds; help children gain gaming experience and thereby create the prerequisites for the transition to developed role-playing games; develop the child’s independence, the ability to occupy himself in a new life situation; help to acquire the skills and abilities necessary to organize independent theatrical activities; are a means of developing adequate self-esteem in a child - a necessary component of educational activity and an indicator of readiness for schooling; help children overcome communication difficulties, uncertainty, timidity, shyness, and isolation; provide an opportunity to develop children’s individual characteristics and play creativity. Unfettered by gaming stereotypes and the demands of peers, the child departs from the learned model in constructing the plot. He independently models a new situation from elements of familiar plots.

This study showed that the process of developing the social and communicative abilities of children of senior preschool age requires targeted pedagogical guidance, which consists of establishing influential ways to guide this process. By guidance we mean a process in which methods and techniques are used that would contribute to the better development of these abilities. We propose to carry out pedagogical guidance in the process of developing children's social and communicative abilities through creative exercises and tasks.

During the implementation of the project, the following pedagogical technologies are used:

Gaming technology
Technology of museum pedagogy
Technology of project activities (author E.S. Evdokimova.)
Collaboration technology
Information and communication technologies

The use of pedagogical technologies contributes to the realization of children's need for movement, the preservation of their psychological health, as well as the formation of social and communication skills in preschoolers.

The participation of parents plays a major role in the implementation of the project. Thanks to their participation in the project, children develop a sense of pride, increase self-esteem, and those children whose parents often act as assistants experience significant developmental progress.

By involving parents in working on the project, additional opportunities are created in the group to reveal the individual abilities of their children, identify the creative potential of all project participants, and expand the possibilities for implementing the project. The participation of adults in children's projects contributes to the social and personal development of each child.

Most often, a child’s director’s play occurs at home, where the child can retire, feel more relaxed, and fully enter into an imaginary situation, so the role of parents in creating conditions for the development of director’s play is invaluable.

Director's play, like other creative games, is of a social nature and is built on the child's ever-expanding understanding of the life of adults. A new sphere of reality that a preschooler masters in this game is the motives, meanings of life and activities of adults. The child's behavior is mediated by the image of another person. The preschooler takes the point of view of different people and enters into relationships with other players that reflect the real interaction of adults. At the same time, the ability to display in the game relationships between people, ways of behavior in various situations, ideas about which children draw from the stories of adults, books read, fairy tales, and films watched, grows. Thus, not only the rules of behavior are revealed to the child, but also their meaning for establishing and maintaining positive relationships with other people.

A properly created subject-development environment undoubtedly contributes to enriching the gaming experience of children

The general principles of building a developing environment in kindergarten are aimed at implementing a personality-oriented model of interaction between an adult and a child and determine the modern pedagogical strategy for the spatial organization and maintenance of the play area in kindergarten groups. The space, divided into play areas, allows children to organize different games at the same time in accordance with their interests and plans, without interfering with each other. Timely updating and replenishment of the gaming environment also stimulates children's play activities.

Perspective:

• Constantly improve the level of professional skills through the introduction of innovative techniques for creating game situations.

Get productive results from innovative activities.
See stable results in the upbringing and education of students.

Use modern forms of pedagogical partnership (teacher-children-parents).
Obtain high quality results in your teaching activities.

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MAGAZINE Preschooler.RF

Social and communicative development of preschool children through project activities

“A child by nature is an inquisitive explorer, a discoverer of the world

So let a wonderful world open before him in living colors, bright and vibrant sounds, in a fairy tale, in a game, in his own creativity, in beauty. Through a fairy tale, a game, through unique children’s creativity - the right path to a child’s heart.”

V.A. Sukhomlinsky.

In modern conditions of social development, changes in the socio-economic sphere, culture and education, the issues of education, training and development of the younger generation are of particular importance. Today, preschool education in Russia is rightfully recognized as the initial link in the system of continuous general education.

In the Federal State Educational Standard for Preschool Education, much attention is paid to preserving the uniqueness and intrinsic value of childhood as an important stage in the overall development of a person; The emphasis is placed on the development of the child’s personality, socialization, and the disclosure of his potential capabilities and abilities.

In this regard, the main range of tasks of modern preschool educational organizations is shifting to creating conditions under which children fully develop, mastering the stage of preschool childhood, and move to the next level motivated to receive education at school. One of the priority areas of education for children of senior preschool age, which reflects the social order of society and the family, according to the Federal State Educational Standard for Education, is their social and communicative development.

Many preschoolers experience serious difficulties in communicating with others, especially with peers. Some children do not know how to address another person on their own initiative; sometimes they are even embarrassed to respond appropriately if someone addresses them. They cannot maintain and develop established contact, adequately express their sympathy and empathy, and therefore often conflict or become isolated.

A child’s mastery of culture and universal human experience is impossible without interaction and communication with other people. And a child’s ability to communicate positively allows him to live comfortably among people. Thanks to communication, he not only gets to know another person, be it an adult or a peer, but also gets to know himself more and more.

The relevance of the social and communicative development of preschool children is increasing in modern conditions due to the characteristics of the child’s social environment, in which there is often a lack of good manners, kindness, goodwill, and speech culture in relationships between people. Teachers of preschool educational organizations are concerned about changes in the moral, social and communicative development of children, and their behavior. The problem of introducing a child to the social world, developing his ability to adequately navigate an accessible social environment, realize the intrinsic value of his own personality and other people, express feelings and attitudes towards the world in accordance with the cultural traditions of society at the present stage of social development remains one of the leading ones.

What is social and communicative development? This is a complex process during which a child learns the values, traditions, culture of the society or community in which he will live.

Social and communicative development is implemented in several directions:

Development of gaming activities
Patriotic education
Formation of the foundations of safe behavior in everyday life, society, and nature.
Labor education

We would like to share our experience in integrating pedagogical initiatives to implement a program of socio-communicative development and social education of preschool children through patriotic development.

The problem of patriotic education of the younger generation is one of the most pressing today. Patriotic education of preschoolers is not only about instilling love for one’s home, kindergarten, city, native nature, the cultural heritage of one’s people, one’s nation, and a tolerant attitude towards representatives of other nationalities. But also fostering a respectful attitude towards the worker and the results of his work, his native land, defenders of the Fatherland, state symbols, state traditions and national holidays.

It is very important that children understand as early as possible that the big Motherland is Russia, the Russian Federation, it is one for everyone who was born in its vastness, who loved it, who makes efforts to make it even more beautiful, richer, and become a powerful power. And each of us needs to be able to be useful to her. And for this you need to know and be able to do a lot; From childhood, do things that would be for the benefit of your home, kindergarten, city, and in the future - for the benefit of the whole country. If a person cares about the Motherland, it means that he is its son, and that means Russia is the Motherland for him.

The child cannot organize such activities independently. An adult should help him using new modern technologies. This technology is design technology, which is based on participation in activity. The use of design technology makes it possible to develop search behavior that is relevant for a person and allows the teacher to make the first contribution to the culture of the individual: cooperation, creation, dialogue, friendship, tolerance - components of the “culture of peace” . The project method will allow you to take into account one of the main principles - the principle of integration: combining several types of activities.

In the course of joint work with children on a project, adults help introduce the child to culture: children master positive patterns of behavior in nature and society; acquire a positive and responsible attitude towards themselves, others, and nature; children receive the right to self-development.

Therefore, one of the main means of patriotic education in preschool educational institutions is the project method. Based on a personality-oriented approach to teaching and raising children of senior preschool age, he develops cognitive interest in various areas of knowledge, develops cooperation skills; opens up great opportunities in organizing joint search activities of preschoolers, teachers, and parents.

The teachers of our preschool institution developed a long-term project “Little Patriots” . The project is designed for children of senior preschool age.

Objective of the project:

Formation of patriotic qualities of a child’s personality through introducing children to family traditions and values.
Raising a citizen and patriot of his country, who loves his family, home, and people close to him.
Developing the ability to work in a team and collaborate.

We worked on the project for 6 months. The project includes 4 thematic blocks.

block – “My family”
block – “Green Street”
block - “I love you, city of Yekaterinburg” .
block – “Victory Day”

Let's take a closer look.

Block 1 - “My Family”

The love of a small preschool child for the Motherland begins with the relationship with the closest people - father, mother, grandfather, grandmother. For a child, a family is a world in which the foundations of morality and attitude towards people are laid. Family members are united by blood, love, common interests, traditions, and holidays. It is in the family that such concepts as “compassion” , “mercy” , “kindness” , “masculinity” , “femininity” , “cohesion” , “unity” , “helping others” , “respect for elders” , “feeling responsibility .

To interest children in studying this topic, we held fascinating conversations and trainings on the topics: “My friendly family” , “Tell me about your family” , “ My household responsibilities” , “If mom is tired” , etc.

The children were very interested in the topic; everyone wanted to tell as much as possible about their family, and for this they, together with their parents, created video presentations and organized a photo exhibition “Our Family Vacation” .

Parents responded to all the proposed tasks related to project activities, took up the work with interest, everyone contributed interesting ideas,

Almost no family was left behind.

The children with great love made various crafts with their own hands, both from paper and from available materials: “Gift for Mom” , “Rug for the House” ; willingly sculpted, constructed from building materials and Legos, and actively took part in the “A Home for My Family” .

The final event for working on the theme “My Family” was the holiday “Inseparable Friends are My Whole Family .

Block 2 – “Green Street”

The feeling of love for one’s native nature is another component of patriotism. It is by nurturing a love for nature that one can develop the patriotic feeling of preschoolers: after all, natural phenomena and objects surrounding the child are closer to him and easier for him to perceive, and have a stronger impact on the emotional sphere. Trying to instill in children a love for all living things, we, together with our parents, carried out various forms of work, such as: the campaign “Clean up the Planet” , “A Cozy Home for the Starling” , “Animal Food” , Operation “Sprout” , within the framework of which, We were planting trees, shrubs, and flowers. We organized a “Nature Corner” We held competitions, “Best Flowerbed” , “Miracles in the Garden” , and a photo competition “Portraits of Wildlife” .

The result of the work on the “Green Street” was a generalization of our knowledge and participation in the “Ecological Path” .

Our work allowed us to expand children's knowledge about the nature of their native land, taught children to work in a team and respect each other. The children received answers to their questions and made recommendations for the residents of our city “How to preserve and decorate our planet”

Block 3 - “I love you, city of Yekaterinburg” .

Each person has his own small homeland. Most often, the favorite city is the place where a person was born and raised. To form the foundations of civic culture and social and moral development in children, it is necessary for children to acquire knowledge about their hometown.

Without sufficient knowledge, it is difficult to form in a child a respectful attitude towards the Motherland. Childhood memories are the most vivid and exciting. The more a child knows from childhood about his native places, his hometown, the closer and dearer his homeland, Russia, will become to him.

As part of this topic, together with the music director, we held conversations with children on the topic “I was born here!” , “We are proud of you, our native city ,” formed the children’s knowledge about the sights of the city, memorable places, we were able to visit some of these places. We designed a photo collage on the theme “I love you, city of Yekaterinburg .

Together with the physical education teacher, the children took part in the quest game “On the City Streets” .

A survey was conducted for parents : “Do you know your city?” , developed reminders “Famous people about love for the Motherland” , “A citizen is raised from childhood” .

We created an excursion and tourist route “Our City for Children”

The result of the work in this section was a generalization of our knowledge and participation in the musical festival “City of Miracles” .

Block 4 - “Victory Day”

Every year, fewer and fewer veterans of the Great Patriotic War remain alive. We, the current generation, are obliged to remember those who forged Victory at the fronts and worked in the rear. It is the direct responsibility of adults to help preserve the memory of the heroic facts of our history, to instill in young citizens pride in their Motherland, and to nourish the receptive soul of a child with sublime human values.

We adults have the task of expanding the social competence of children in matters of social significance of the national holiday of Victory Day within the boundaries accessible to children, emphasizing the importance of introducing preschoolers to the fact that war is always a tragedy and grief for people. At the same time, it is important for children to learn to admire the courage and heroism of the people who defended their Homeland; experience your involvement with distant events of history, feel the joy of the Great Victory, pride in your Fatherland.

This topic is loved by children. Heroism, courage, readiness to perform feats in the name of the Motherland - these traits of a Russian warrior are understandable to older preschoolers; they evoke respect and a desire to be just as courageous and brave. The project includes a number of activities aimed at the search and research activities of preschool children and the development of communication skills and abilities. We visited the “Museum of Military Equipment” in the city of Verkhnyaya Pyshma and laid flowers at the Great Patriotic War Memorial. Children and their parents are happy to take part in the “Immortal Regiment” , and I am proud to talk about veterans.

Having teamed up with other groups, in our kindergarten we organized an exhibition “Thank you for the victory,” which included photographs of the war years, military uniforms, photo albums of brothers, fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers who served in the armed forces of the Soviet and Russian armies, children “Victory Day” postcards .

We listen with interest to songs on military themes, they are easy to remember, their content is in tune with the desires of the children to be strong and brave defenders of our Motherland. Children and parents took an active part in the patriotic song competition “The song saved us in the trenches .

The result of the work on this section is the publication of the newspaper “We brought this day closer as best we could...” and the musical festival “Happy Victory Day!”

To summarize, I would like to note that the main task of a modern preschool educational organization is to ensure that pupils emerge from its walls not only with a certain stock of knowledge, abilities and skills, but also with a certain set of moral qualities necessary for later life, mastering social, ethical standards of behavior. It is important to develop in preschoolers the ability to build relationships with others on the basis of cooperation and mutual understanding, to ensure general mental development, to form the prerequisites for educational activities and the qualities necessary for social adaptation, including school learning.

As a result of using project activities, children became more liberated and independent, purposeful and self-confident, sociable, more attentive and caring towards peers and adults; capable of mutual understanding and cooperation.

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