“Dung dang dung de. Dặt trẻ đi chơi…”
Nursery rhymes associated with folk games associated with the memories of old rural children seem strange to urban children with full of modern toys, televisions, computers, but in kindergartens across the country, folk games are gradually being introduced into children’s recreational activities.
At Van Han Kindergarten during outdoor activities, everyone will feel like returning to the old countryside with groups of children sitting together playing folk games, singing nursery rhymes: Chi chi chanh chanh, cai nanh thu lua… or games that seem to only be found in the countryside or returning to old memories: o an quan, blindfolded goat catching, blindfolded ball hitting
Children in the 5-year-old Lang Hoa Kindergarten class are playing “O an quan”
Very excited with the game “Cat chasing mouse”
Folk games are becoming richer in materials and richer in ways of playing under the creativity of teachers to suit the conditions of ensuring safety and development for children of each age. Folk games are not only organized in outdoor activities for children, but also in classroom activities and especially organized in purposeful activities for children.
Van Han Kindergarten is one of the schools that has successfully organized folk games in children’s play activities and purposeful activities in recent years. Creating organizational forms to bring folk games into the play activities of nursery school children and the learning activities of preschool children is a very creative activity, requiring teachers to have good creativity, understand folk games and be close to children. The lesson of applying folk games not only requires effective organization of games but also ensures the development of each age group of preschool children.
The game “Blind Man’s Catch”
With creativity, ingenuity and love for the profession, teachers of Van Han Kindergarten have skillfully brought folk games into the purposeful activities of children. The combination of games and discovery activities helps make the lesson more exciting, attracting children to participate in the activities. Teachers and children play and explore together, a lesson with a harmonious combination of folk games, nursery rhymes and learning activities creates a positive and friendly learning environment between teachers and children. During the activities, teachers and children change roles, there is friendly and open communication between teachers and children, between children and children, between children and people around them.
Bringing folk games into play and teaching activities aims to build a friendly and close environment between teachers and children, between children and children and create a developing and pure working environment, an activity that the collective of Van Han Kindergarten has applied creatively and successfully.
(Source: Thai Nguyen Department of Education and Training)
