Each ancient poem is accompanied by hand-drawn illustrations and a focused interactive game designed according to the content of the poem.
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Ancient poetry is a kind of language as well as a kind of communication. The obscurity and images between the lines give children unlimited imagination.
When we recite ancient poems, we usually encounter two problems: we don't know how to use them and how to extend them. The Children's Game Book of Ancient Poems helps us to solve these two problems.
First, how to use ancient poetry?
One meter sunshine children's library compiled a game book of children's ancient poems, including classic ancient poems 100.
The key point is that I found the scenes of this 100 ancient poem very vivid, because the young readers of this set of words are children aged 3-8, so the scenes involved in the book are very easy to understand.
Why combine the scenes? "Field" is time and space, where children can stay and think, and "scene" is situation and interaction. In the scene, there are scenes and interactions that will trigger children's emotions, and emotional memory will last longer than factual memory.
For example, seasonal ancient poems, such as Singing Willow, Delighting in Rain on a Spring Night, Evening Scenery of the Spring River in Hui Chong, Qingming, Xiao Chun, Spring Day, Spring Tour in Qiantang Lake and Early Spring in the East of the City;
Summer, such as "Summer quatrains" and "Xiaochi"; Autumn is like autumn dusk, autumn words and an autumn dusk in the mountains; In winter, such as Qu, Mei, Bai Xuege Farewell to Tian Shuji's Home, Jiang Xue, etc.
There are the most ancient poems describing spring. Maybe this season makes people want to express themselves directly. It is very touching to read the poem "Artemisia selengensis with short reed buds all over the ground, just as the puffer fish wants to go up" in Su Shi's "Game Book of Ancient Poetry", and the picture is particularly spring.
I went back to my hometown in Anqing in early March and lived by the Yangtze River, where there was a lot of game. My mother-in-law is very capable. When she was young, she liked catching fish and shrimp, digging lotus roots and pulling vegetables. When we came back, she said that she would try some games for us.
We went to the river together, and my mother-in-law took us around the bend to find a small piece of wild Artemisia selengensis, almost as high as a calf.
Mother-in-law proudly told us: "This place is unknown to others and has been dug up long ago. Selling this kind of wild Artemisia outside is more than 20 yuan a catty. Today, let's eat something cheap. "
Just looking at the wild Artemisia selengensis on the ground makes me happy. What my mother-in-law said made me feel that I had found the treasure.
Mother-in-law began to cut with a sickle, and Mike learned to pull Artemisia selengensis like grandma. His strength is too small. He pulled hard and sat down on the ground. Xiaomei frowned with a headache, curled her mouth in a circle and smoked straight there, which made us happy for a long time.
"Mike, this is Artemisia selengensis. Touch its stem and look at its leaves. Find out where there is Artemisia selengensis? " I took Mike to find Artemisia selengensis and let him identify Artemisia selengensis.
"Artemisia selengensis is covered with short reed buds, which is the time for puffer fish to go." I watched it several times, because he is not two years old, but he can babble already. After repeating it several times, he also learned to say "Artemisia."
"What is a reed bud?" Reed bud is actually a bud of reed, because there was no reed by the river at that time. I just asked a question without delving into it, hoping to arouse his curiosity and find the answer myself at some time in the future.
The same is true for children over 3 years old. If you can understand a sentence, say it. We don't have to expect children to remember an ancient poem at a time. Ancient poetry is not for teaching, but for understanding.
I like the sentence "If there is no today, will there be yesterday tomorrow?" "The essence of art is that it can stimulate our thinking and make us speak." The same is true of ancient poetry. All appreciation and feelings are to stimulate children to think more.
When we regard appreciating ancient poetry as an experience and combine it with the scenes in life, it will arouse children's infinite curiosity and want to know more about the secrets of ancient poetry. This is not rote learning, but inquiry learning.
As Artemisia selengensis brings Mike memories, it is not only a seasonal dish in spring and its delicacy, but also a family bond.
Perhaps when he recalls spring when he grows up, there is a picture of pulling Artemisia with his grandmother in his mind, which is full of warmth. And this feeling will be more profound with his gradual understanding of the whole poem, his exploration of artistic conception, his exploration of imitating people by borrowing things, his research on Su Shi's background and his understanding of the infinite possibilities brought by an ancient poem.
There are many classic ancient poems like this in The Game Book of Children's Ancient Poems, and the pictures are fresh and elegant. It is suggested to experience ancient poetry with children in combination with scenes.
For example, it refers to ancient poems in the morning, afternoon and evening, ancient poems on festivals such as Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day, and ancient poems on nouns such as bees, willows and grasses. When we go on an outing, we should choose an ancient poem, feel the artistic conception and aestheticism of the ancient poem with our children at any time, and improve their aesthetic ability.
After all, aesthetics is not a thing without a threshold, and it needs "aesthetic experience" to support it.
Second, how to better understand the meaning of ancient poetry?
The game book of children's ancient poems directly gives us a very useful way: games.
It is the most beautiful thing to stimulate children's nature with games. Let's just say that this song "Night Scene of Hui Chong Riverside" is for antonyms.
It is a very effective way to improve cognition through comparison.
For example, we should teach children the concept of "big" and compare the concept of "small" together, which is both concrete and vivid.
The game book of children's ancient poems confuses the vocabulary related to the concept of contrast, so let the children find the corresponding words themselves, as shown in the figure.
Games like this involve a lot and are quite professional, because they are set for children's psychological needs of playing games, such as puzzles, mazes, finding similarities and differences, rules, numerical reasoning, sorting and so on. Exercise children's discrimination and logic. These are the basic ways to cultivate children's thinking ability.
For example, there is a game related to Li Bai's Sleeping in the Mountain Temple in the Children's Game Book of Ancient Poems, which allows children to draw the temple with lines, which are composed of orderly points.
Children learn the concept of order through hands-on practice, which is an extension of the content of ancient poetry.
Richard feynman, the Nobel Prize winner in physics, has such an example in childhood education. After dinner, his father will play a game with him: put the tiles one by one and arrange them in a long strip. Then dad allowed him to push down the last tile, and the whole tile fell down.
Later, my father asked him to put one piece of white, then two pieces of blue, then one piece of white and two pieces of blue, so that all the tiles were arranged.
The teaching wisdom implied in this game is to let him like a game first, and then slowly add educational content to it! The same is true of the design concept of "children's ancient poetry game book", which first makes children like ancient poetry, and then involves corresponding games in ancient poetry to cultivate their basic thinking ability.
The perfect combination of the imagery beauty of language and the enlightenment of thinking ability is the biggest difference between this book and other dry ancient poetry books.
It is much better to make ancient poetry a companion that children want to carry with them than to carry an IPAD with them.