Design Intention
After taking the children to visit the Tropical Botanical Garden, they became very interested in everything there. It not only brings visual novelty to young children, but also gives them a desire for psychological stimulation and adventure. Based on the interests of the children, I tried to let them appreciate Rousseau's "Jungle Series" and deeply feel the vitality contained in nature, thereby stimulating the children to express the tropical rainforest in their own eyes through bold imagination.
Activity goals
1. By appreciating the "Jungle Series", you can feel the strange scene of the jungle and experience its mysterious, peaceful and dreamlike feeling full of vitality.
2. Learn to use bright colors and bold imagination to express your impression of the tropical rainforest.
Activity preparation
1. Experience preparation: Visit the Tropical Botanical Garden and conduct a theme painting after the visit; learn about the story of the tropical rainforest.
2. Material preparation: Rousseau's "Jungle Series", photos and paintings of visits to the botanical garden, projector, 8-inch drawing paper, colored pens, and crayons.
Activity focus
1. Let the children feel the strangeness of Rousseau's "Jungle Series" in the mysterious scene, and express their feelings boldly and accurately.
2. Encourage children to boldly imagine and create their own tropical rainforest.
Difficulties in the activity
1. Through appreciation activities, you can truly understand the relationship between humans and animals in the tropical rainforest.
2. The layout of the picture is balanced, the plants are full of tropical rainforest characteristics, and the people and animals are full of plot.
Activity process
1. Introduction link.
Use the story as an introduction to appreciate the "Jungle Series".
Today I am going to tell the children a story about the tropical rain forest. There is a great painter in France named Rousseau. Like us, he has heard many stories about the tropical rainforest. He yearns for and loves the tropical rainforest very much, but for many reasons he has never had the opportunity to explore the tropical rainforest, but he imagines it every day. Scenery of the tropical rainforest. One day, Rousseau had a strange dream, in which many mysterious stories happened in the tropical rain forest, and he felt very excited. He immediately picked up a paintbrush to record his dreams, and gave those paintings a nice name "Jungle Series Paintings". Do you want to listen to the story of Rousseau's dream?
Analysis
The purpose of appreciating the "Jungle Series" is to let children have strange feelings and experiences, and the design of the story situation, It can make group paintings appear in a mysterious atmosphere, deeply attracting children.
2. Perception link.
(1) Show "Dream" and "Little Waterfall" to guide children to observe the forest, the appearance of people and animals, and experience the relationship between people and animals as well as the colors of the pictures.
Analysis
"Dream" and "Little Waterfall" appear in the first order, because these two works express a kind of peaceful and harmonious coexistence between humans and animals. A state of peace.
(2) Show "Strange Scenery" and guide the children to observe how the monkeys work and what is special about the flowers, leaves and fruits in the jungle, and let the children express their feelings about the jungle.
Analysis
"Strange Scenery" appears as a separate picture in order to allow young children to perceive the happiness and contentment of animals living in nature.
(3) Show "Hungry Lion", "Horse Attacked by Leopard" and "Black Man Attacked by Leopard" to guide children to observe what the beasts are doing and express their feelings.
Analysis
"The Hungry Lion", "The Horse Attacked by the Leopard" and "The Black Man Attacked by the Leopard" all show the struggle between humans and animals and the cannibalism between animals. phenomenon, these three works appear as the third order in order to allow young children to see the cruelest and most realistic side of man and nature.
(4) Display all the "Jungle Paintings" and ask the children to tell how they feel about Rousseau's dream, what they think of, and what they like.
Analysis
Inspire children to view the jungle world from different angles, not only to discover the bright natural colors and rich object images expressed by masters, but also to allow children to perceive the natural environment dangers, thereby imbuing young children’s imagination with elements of the real world.
3. Creative session.
(1) The teacher suggested that the children close their eyes and try to have a mysterious dream.
(2) Ask some children to talk about their "dreams" and encourage them to be bold and creative about the plot of their "dreams".
(3) Remind children that the plants they draw should have the characteristics of a tropical rainforest.
(4) Remind children that the picture layout is balanced, rich, and not cluttered.
(5) Encourage children to boldly use contrasting colors to make the picture bright and lively.
Analysis
Allow children to conceive their own tropical rainforest stories in the form of imitating masters’ dreams, so that children’s creations also have the same dream mood as Rousseau. This not only stimulates children's interest in active creation, but also promotes their bold imagination. At the same time, guidance during operation is also very important. It can remind children to use the master's works as a reference, effectively use colors to imitate the master's style, intentionally highlight the plant characteristics of the tropical rainforest in paintings, and encourage children to boldly depict their own tropical rainforest. dream.
Activity Comments
Seizing the most appropriate opportunity and selecting teaching content based on children’s interests and needs is a particularly outstanding feature of this activity. The scenery of the Tropical Botanical Garden deeply attracted the children, and it became their expectation to describe the tropical rainforest in their own eyes with a pen. During the activity, the teacher used Rousseau's "Jungle Painting" to take the children into the magical and dreamy tropical jungle. In the process of realizing their dreams, the appreciation of visual art was raised to a new level, allowing the children to learn to paint with their hearts and learn to use their own Use your imagination to reconstruct and describe your dreams in your mind.
What is worthy of appreciation is that the teacher not only seized the good educational opportunity, but also thought carefully. The introduction of the story and the order in which the works appeared reflected the teacher's attention to details, making it easier for children to learn better. Deeply understand and feel the inner vitality of works, and mobilize children's enthusiasm for creation.