The emergence of the theme:
The children in the small class are rich in emotions. They like animals and seem to have an inevitable connection with them. The ever-changing animal world always arouses their excitement. Big attention. They are always full of curiosity and desire to explore all kinds of animals.
When children are doing outdoor activities, they can often be seen squatting in the grass and searching... It turns out that they have a strong interest in little ants. The cute little ants attracted the children's attention. They had many questions during their direct contact with the ants, such as "Where is the home of ants?" "Do ants have a mother?" "What do ants eat?" "Can ants live?" How long?" Wait.
It can be seen that ants, as a kind of moving insects, attract the attention of children. The world of ants is full of vitality and fun. Whether it is the colorful spring or the scorching summer, ants can be seen busy everywhere in nature: among the beautiful flowers, on the green grass, in the deserted corners... In the face of all this, we adults may disdain For a moment, the children cheered, watched with curious eyes, listened with spiritual ears, and chased with their lively little feet. The interesting ants arouse children's curiosity and stimulate their desire to explore.
To this end, we use ants as the starting point, and based on the age characteristics of children, we hope that through a series of activities in a colorful way, we can learn a lot about ants with children and learn about the fun of ants. Wherever you go, actively pay attention to and experience the life of ants, explore the mysteries of ants, become friends with ants, and experience a pleasant and fun journey to the ant kingdom!
Theme objectives:
A. Social life:
1. Acquire various knowledge about ants and understand the interesting life scenes in the ant kingdom.
2. Understand, respect and love ants, and be able to treat small animals in an appropriate manner.
B. Body movements:
1. Learn to crawl ants, learn to crawl forward on hands and knees, and exercise the flexibility and coordination of movements.
C. Language communication:
1. Understand the content of the children's song "Funny Ants", learn to recite the children's songs expressively, and initially try to change the words in the middle section of the children's songs and imitate the children's songs.
2. Learn to listen to stories and produce emotional responses - love ants, understand and respect ants.
D. Scientific inquiry:
1. Explore various methods to find, capture and observe ants.
2. Observe the appearance characteristics of ants and understand the unique function of ant antennae.
3. Understand the main living habits of ants, know that ants live in groups, and understand the division of labor and cooperation of the ant family.
E. Artistic expression:
1. Learn to express the appearance characteristics of ants in the form of painting, and boldly express interesting life scenes in the ant kingdom.
2. Able to sing with natural voice and perform singing performances with self-composed movements according to the meaning of the words.
F. Parental participation.
1. Issue notices of theme activities to parents and make corresponding suggestions for parent-child family activities.
2. Ask parents to introduce knowledge about ants to their children, and use weekends to lead children to observe ants outdoors and look for mud holes, the home of ants, to enrich children's understanding of ants.
3. Mobilize parents and children to collect various information about ants.
G. Environmental creation:
1. Raise and take care of ants with young children in the natural corner, and open up a breeding corner.
2. The language area provides books, pictures, children's songs, recorders, and related tapes about ants. Enrich children's understanding of ants.
3. The educational area provides glass bottles with ants inside for children to observe the living habits of ants.
4. Art area: collage various pictures of ants, watercolor pens, crayons, semi-finished products, brickwork, waste items, scissors, glue, etc.
5. Use corridors, corners and other places to post pictures of various ants. Based on children’s cognitive development, gradually participate in the arrangement of various wall decorations and conduct exhibitions of children’s works.