As for the significance of children's poetry, Soviet children's literature writer Chukovsky said: "Educators should make use of this 'poetry stage' in young children's lives. At this stage, poetry plays a vital role It can help children perceive the world around them. "Carrying out children's poetry education is to guide children to discover and feel every detail of life, and to use their own experience to recognize, coordinate, and innovate, so as to form a good and upward force. life force, thereby constructing a life philosophy that affects their lives.
Reading children's poems puts children in spring. Reading children's poetry is the primary task of carrying out children's poetry education. Tagore said: "Children like dust, and their whole body and mind are like flowers longing for sunshine." The process of reading children's poems is the process of children absorbing sunshine and nutrients. Excellent children's poems often convey the life values ??of truth, goodness, and beauty. Through various forms of reading and appreciation, they can make children's feelings more delicate, their hearts softer, and their lives more energetic. Children's poetry is like that spring season when flowers bloom, where there is warm sunshine, moist soil, and the power of growth. To guide children to read children's poems is to put them in spring.
Creation of children's poems, using words to interpret childhood. Children's poetry creation is the key core of children's poetry education and is an experience for children to observe, imagine and innovate. In the creation of children's poems, we guide children to observe the world attentively, observe every flower and grass in nature, and every word and deed in life; we encourage them to transform everything they perceive into something through their childlike imagination. Novel form. In their unique creations, the grass can be stubborn and tenacious, the sunshine can be affectionate, and the wind can be gentle and pleasant... So some children wrote about the playground: "The playground is a piece of drawing paper. We are like that paintbrush. The uneven ground is the mark of our fall. The colorful runway is our laughter.” It is precisely because children have this unique creative thinking that their childhood can be truly captured in words. interpretation.
Poetic dwelling brings life back to the good times. Poetic dwelling is our ultimate ideal for children's poetry education. In addition to guiding children to read and write children's poems, children's poetry education also needs to give poetic power to their lives, studies, and thoughts. We must create poetry in the external environment, such as adding more small bridges and flowing water, and more poetry and picturesqueness in the construction of the campus, so that the campus no longer only has rigid modern buildings; we must highlight the poetry culture in the construction of campus culture, including school mottos and building names. , road names, etc., to make kindness, innocence, and beauty the common sense of teachers and students in the school; we must also make full use of poetry clubs and expanded curriculum construction to enrich poetry activities, and carry out campus children's poetry festivals, Children's poetry recitals, children's poetry writing competitions... these seemingly superficial forms will invisibly help children internalize the poetic qualities in their hearts and externalize them in their actions, and walk on the road of poetic dwelling.
Children's poetry is a precious "revelation" in a child's life and a thick and powerful "energy package" for a child's growth. To carry out children's poetry education, on the one hand, we must make unremitting efforts to improve children's Chinese literacy, on the other hand, we must guide children to perceive life and create beauty. This is also the endless pursuit direction of each of us educators.
(The author is the vice principal of Yucai Campus of Huancheng Primary School, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province)
"China Teachers News", Page 16, July 8, 2020
Author: Zhu Dekang