How to organize a duty schedule?
Whatman paper can serve as the basis for organizing duty in kindergarten, creating a schedule and schedule. It is best to place photographs of the students on the sheet or assign each child his own symbol. This notation will be useful later. The line of duty can be arranged in alphabetical order of the children's surnames, if desired, or according to the principle of desks, the children at the first table are on duty first, and at the end of the month - the children at the last.
For good behavior, help and attentiveness, the child will receive a card at the end of duty. If, for example, the paper is red, it means that the child coped with his duties perfectly. If something didn’t work out during duty, the card may be a different color.
On whatman paper with your own kindergarten duty schedule, you can add small pockets under the photographs of the pupils, in which leaflets indicating the child’s achievements will be stored. Or you can do without photographs of children and put images of special symbols that would characterize the pupil directly into a special handbag.
For example, the duty officer chose a squirrel as his own symbol, and for successfully completed work, red cards with the image of a squirrel will appear in his pocket. This will mean that this particular student copes well with all tasks.
Thus, being on duty develops another trait in children - the ability to fantasize. After all, when creating a duty corner in a kindergarten with their own hands, students will be able to fully demonstrate their creative abilities, as well as when choosing a personal picture that will become a symbol of successful work.
MBDOU "D/s No. 47"
Recommendations for the work of duty groups
From the Decree of the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory dated 04/04/2020 No. 81-ug
“The Ministry of Education of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, heads of municipalities of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, private educational organizations must ensure from April 6, 2022 to April 30, 2022 inclusive, the work of duty groups for pupils of preschool educational organizations (kindergartens), whose parents (legal representatives) perform labor functions in organizations operating in areas in respect of which restrictive measures have not been taken by decisions of the President of the Russian Federation or this decree.”
- During the period of declared non-working days from April 7 to April 30, 2020, in educational organizations implementing educational programs for preschool education, childcare and supervision (hereinafter referred to as preschool educational institutions), organize duty groups for pupils at the request of parents (legal representatives), who are both (or in a single-parent family alone) work in structures that ensure the necessary functioning of society, determined by Decree of the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory dated March 27, 2020 No. 71-ug “ On additional measures aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus infection caused by 2019-nCoV in the territory of the Krasnoyarsk Territory” ,Decree of the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory dated 04.04.2020 No. 81-ug “On amendments to the decree of the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory dated 27.03.2020 No. 71-ug “On additional measures aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus infection caused by 2019-nCoV in the territory of the Krasnoyarsk Territory "
- To enroll a child in the duty group, the employer must provide information to the education department, parents (legal representatives) must provide the following documents to the preschool educational institution:
- — an application addressed to the head of a preschool educational organization (Appendix 1), if this is a child from another kindergarten;
- — employer’s certificate (Appendix 2), approved by the Decree of the Government of the Krasnoyarsk Territory “On approval of the Procedure for establishing and complying with regulations and restrictions by citizens of the self-isolation regime during the spread of coronavirus infection (2019-nCoV) in the Krasnoyarsk Territory” No. 188-p dated 04/01/2020.
- If the parent does not have a certificate from the employer, he is sent to his organization to the employer.
- Children are admitted to preschool educational institutions with a certificate, which parents can obtain in the first-aid room at the clinic at their place of residence, starting from 04/07/2020.
- Duty groups work a 5-day work week (with days off on Saturday and Sunday).
- The number of duty groups in preschool educational institutions is established by order of the head.
- The group size is no more than 15 students.
- Duty groups can be formed either on a same-age or multi-age basis.
- Duty groups operate in accordance with the operating hours and hours of the preschool educational institution.
- The organization of the work of duty groups provides for the mandatory presence of the necessary sanitary, hygienic, anti-epidemic conditions, and compliance with fire safety rules.
- The reception of pupils is accompanied by temperature measurement (“hard morning filter”). When receiving children, kindergarten staff and medical workers use personal protective equipment (masks, gloves).
- It is mandatory to have a medical worker in the preschool educational institution for the entire period of operation of the duty groups (working schedule of medical workers, the possibility of changing workers during the day, as well as during the period of work of the duty group).
- Restrict the access of parents (legal representatives) to the preschool premises. Children are accepted at the entrance to the preschool. To optimize the reception procedure, there should be an administrator on duty near the entrance (or several teachers on duty), who escort students to groups.
- Pupils of duty groups are provided with nutritious meals in accordance with the approved 10-day (20-day) menu.
- Teachers of duty groups keep records of group visits by pupils entering duty groups in the prescribed manner, as determined by local acts of the preschool educational institution.
- In duty groups during this period, children are supervised and cared for in accordance with the daily routine, current sanitary and epidemiological rules and regulations, taking into account the age of the pupils. There are no educational activities. Direct organized activity is replaced by play, music, physical education, productive activity, and observation. Walks are carried out in accordance with San PiN, maintaining a distance of at least 2 meters from other groups. Strictly on playgrounds.
- The work of preschool employees is carried out according to the schedule for the period of non-working days.
DINING DUTY IN JUNIOR GROUPS
· Duties are of great importance in raising children:
. Those on duty always perform work that has social significance and is necessary for the team. Forms a desire to work for the sake of others, to show a caring attitude towards one’s comrades, to develop the ability to help an adult, to notice where help is needed.
· Being on duty in the canteen develops in children moral and volitional qualities and skills, the ability to accept a goal and achieve results.
· From the age of 2, children are involved in the preparation of the feeding process, carry out simple tasks: place chairs correctly at the table, place plates with bread in the middle of the tables, place spoons on the right side of the plates standing on the table.
· Dining room duty is carried out from the 2nd junior group.
· Tasks: help the assistant teacher set the table at which he and his friends are sitting. Distribute spoons, put out bread bins, vases with napkins.
· Before introducing duty, the teacher organizes special classes in which he shows and explains in detail all the actions, involving children in their implementation.
· While on duty, the teacher explains the need to work hard and encourages any attempt by the child to show independence.
· Reminds you of the order of priority in completing assigned tasks:
“Today Ira will take care of his comrades and will be on duty at his desk. Dima will set this table... Let them work for everyone today, and let other children do it tomorrow.”
· The teacher teaches children to carry out the assigned task without being distracted, without fussing, without rushing, without finishing one task, not to move on to another.
The teacher says in a friendly tone: “Kolya, don’t rush. Why are you in such a hurry? You will have time to do everything. Lay out the spoons carefully for all the children.”
Supervising the work of those on duty, the teacher reinforces the skills of laying out cutlery: “Spoons should be taken by the handle, one at a time, placed on the right side of the plate.” If forks are given, then the fork lies closer to the plate with its sharp ends up, and then the spoon with its convex side down. Now put the bread basket in the very middle of the table so that it’s easy for everyone to reach, and then put the napkins. First you need to finish one thing, and then start another.”
· “Let's see how you arranged the spoons. Did you miss anyone?
· The teacher supports indecisive children, encourages:
“I know, Nadyusha, you will set the table well now. Start handing out spoons: to Katya, and Sasha, and your friend Anya.”
· You should not constantly set the same children as an example and assign them to duty. Slightly higher demands can be placed on them.
· As children master skills, the teacher’s role in supervising those on duty changes. Initially, he reminds the kids of work techniques, the sequence of operations, and helps them cope with the task.
· Later, the adult limits himself to advice, general reminders, control, and approval.
· It is important that the duties of duty officers are performed by all pupils, and not just active and skillful ones.
Duty in a preschool educational institution in different age groups.
Topic: Duty in a preschool educational institution in different age groups.
Plan:
- Pedagogical value of duty.
- Types of duty, their content in different age groups.
- Methodology for managing the work of duty officers.
- Pedagogical value of duty.
Duty
- Requires a high degree of independence from the child. It is of great importance in raising children: those on duty always perform work that has social significance and is necessary for the team.
Unlike running errands, while on duty children have the opportunity to make independent decisions. The content of duty in preschool age is very diverse. During duty, not only labor operations are repeated, but also typical life situations arise. At the same time, when performing work tasks, children are required to have coherent actions, the ability to establish correct business relationships, organization, and a desire to work for everyone. Constantly performing such tasks evokes a special emotional mood in children and contributes to the formation of such qualities as hard work, perseverance, perseverance, and a friendly attitude towards others. This, in turn, creates favorable conditions for cultivating a positive attitude towards this type of work.
The teacher, assessing the work of each of the duty officers, points out mistakes, notes which of the children have already learned to be on duty, and which still needs to try. He explains to the children that the work of the duty attendants is very necessary for the whole group, praises those who diligently complete the task: “Olya and Seryozha were real duty attendants, they took care of everyone”; “Igor wasn’t distracted at all today and quickly laid out everything he needed.”
Gradually, the teacher develops a positive attitude towards the work of the duty officers.
2. Types of duty, their content in different age groups.
For middle group students, assignments remain the leading form of organizing work activity. Based on their constant and successful implementation, children begin to develop the ability and desire to work, the habit of labor effort, a caring attitude towards others, and an interest in work activities. It should be borne in mind that children of this age cannot always cope with the assigned task, although they see how the teacher acts and show diligence and desire to complete the work successfully. In this case, the adult must explain to the child how to complete the task, help him or work with him.
A large place in working with children of the fifth year of life is given to individual work assignments, with the help of which preschoolers are taught techniques for performing work actions and cultivate their interest in work, as well as consolidate insufficiently acquired work skills, knowledge and abilities. Gradually, the instructions given to children become more complicated. If at the beginning of the year their implementation consisted of one or two actions (give something, move something, lift), then later the child performs several actions, while observing a certain sequence. To this end, the teacher invites the student to first list what items will be needed, then together with him he checks to see if anything has been forgotten, and helps to put things in a certain order.
At the same time, children are taught to follow a sequence of actions. For this purpose, it is good to use object pictures that the child can first lay out on the board or flannelograph. By adhering to the plan and method of action clearly presented in the pictures, the student will be able to complete the task without much difficulty.
In the middle group, children continue to be on duty in the dining room. Such duties ensure the systematic participation of all children in work. The attendants place bread bins and vases with napkins on the tables, hand out spoons, check that all children have chairs, so as not to carry them or move them when the nanny is handing out food.
When organizing duty, the teacher must remember that children of the fifth year of life do not yet perceive this activity as their responsibility, therefore it needs stimulation, instructions, reminders, and often direct help from adults.
In the second half of the year, duties are introduced to prepare for classes. The teacher motivates the need for this work by the fact that the children have become older, and the classes have become more complex and therefore constant assistants are needed. The attendants, together with the teacher, prepare the items necessary for classes on a separate table. Then each student prepares his/her workplace. At the end of the lesson, the children take their items to the common table. The attendants wash equipment and put everything back in its place. This order teaches children to be independent.
The main form of organizing the household work of children in the older group is their inclusion in collective labor activities of socially significant content.
3. Methodology of work management.
In the older group, children are on duty in a corner of nature. When organizing duty, the teacher conducts a lesson in which he introduces children to the duties of those on duty, reminds them of ways to care for objects in a corner of nature, and introduces them to new ones. 2-4 people are on duty at the same time. It is important to select groups in such a way that children with insufficiently developed skills are also on duty together with children who have good skills. The duration of duty is up to two days, or up to a week. Long-term duties develop a sense of responsibility, efficiency, and stability of interests. If children are on duty for a whole week, it is possible to change responsibilities in the middle of the week. The order and sequence of assigning children to duty is recorded on the duty board aimed at developing organizational skills and the ability to care for animals and plants, developing relationships and nurturing a positive attitude towards work. Those on duty must be able to agree on who will do what and in what sequence. The teacher's help consists of advice, questions, reminders, etc. If the attendants are doing work caring for animals that are new to them, the teacher initially performs all work processes together with the children.
Duty assessment plays a major role in managing the work of duty officers. All children are involved in the assessment. When transferring duties, children tell the whole group how they cared for animals and plants, what new and interesting things they noticed in the development of plants and in the behavior of animals. When assessing duty, the good condition of animals and plants should be emphasized. Children evaluate the work performed by those on duty, express judgments about the quality, about their attitudes towards responsibilities and towards each other in the process of work. When assessing, one should also note the negative manifestations of the attendants (arrived late, did not have time to water the plants).
In a corner of nature there is no literal repetition of the same actions, so children must constantly show initiative and ingenuity. All this obliges the teacher to carefully plan the children’s work to care for the inhabitants of the corner.
Before the appointment of the first duty officers in the nature corner, a conversation is held: the teacher shows and tells what the duties of each duty officer are, introduces the contents of the cabinet in which the items needed for those on duty are stored, shows where aprons hang, where floor brushes are, etc. ., explains in what order they should be left after duty.
At the end of duty, the teacher checks whether everything was done correctly: whether the feeders and drinkers are under the perches, whether the perches are clean, gives an assessment of the work and indicates how to correct the mistakes that were made. It is better to appoint people on duty by the end of the year for two or three days.
Cleaning of the corner of nature is carried out periodically with the participation of the entire group. When properly organized, cleaning is calm and fun. All items that children used during cleaning should be left clean and put in order in designated places. At the end of the work, the teacher conducts a conversation with the children about how each participant in the cleaning performed, what the importance of general cleaning is, and how those on duty should maintain cleanliness and order in the corner.
To successfully organize duty in a corner of nature, it is important to pay attention to familiarizing children with items for caring for plants and animals, to show and tell where everything lies, hangs, what is needed for what, and agree on the procedure for using the equipment. Children must correctly name the objects they use.
Features of organizing duty in the second junior and middle group of preschool educational institutions
The organization of duty begins with the second junior group in the second half of the school year. Children begin to be involved in helping prepare for breakfast, lunch or dinner, by being assigned to perform simple actions, for example, correctly placing chairs near the table, napkin holders and bread bins on the table, etc.
Before involving children on duty, the teacher has conversations with them, in which they talk about how to prepare for duty (wash hands, put on aprons and headscarves, etc.). At first, the teacher reminds the children of the sequence of preparation and helps them get ready. This is done until the children master the sequence of actions and perform them independently.
At the first stages of organizing duty in the second junior group, the teacher and assistant teacher use the following techniques:
- setting the table together with the child;
- conducting thematic didactic games (“Mishka’s Birthday”, “Dolls Drink Tea”, etc.);
- conducting conversations, discussions, etc.
Note 2
Thus, in the second junior group, at the first stages of organizing duties, children are given the task of providing all possible assistance to the junior teacher in setting the table. The task of the teacher and junior teacher is to establish friendly interaction, create a positive emotional and psychological attitude towards work during duty.
In the middle group, children continue to help in the dining room. The difference is that a couple is assigned to be on duty, who completely sets the tables (arranges dishes, lays out napkins, etc.) and helps the junior teacher clear the tables.
In the second half of the year, class duties are introduced in the middle group. While on duty, children independently prepare tables for study sessions (lay out brushes, place jars of paste, place individual napkins, etc.). At the end of the lesson, the children help the teacher clear the tables.
The teacher’s task is to show the child the significance of his work and maintain positive motivation for being on duty. The teacher teaches children to work in pairs, organize their work, share responsibilities, and help each other. Each time, while on duty, the teacher reminds the children the importance of their work not only for the entire group, but also for the teacher himself and the junior teacher whom they provide assistance.
Note 3
Thus, in the middle group, the content and form of work during duty become more complex. The responsibilities of the duty officer are expanding.
Organization of independent activities of older preschoolers
By the age of 5–6 years, important changes occur in the behavior and quality of children’s mental and physical actions. This is due to the formation of the basic processes of the nervous system, the development of various types of memory and thinking abilities. When preparing conditions for independent activity and thinking through methods for organizing children's activities, the teacher of the senior group takes into account the age characteristics of the students:
- In children 5–6 years old, attention is more stable than in younger preschoolers. At this age, the basic processes of the nervous system improve, self-regulation of behavior occurs, and children are less likely to become overtired. Children are able to observe any object or process for a long time, create large-scale buildings from a construction set, and assemble a mosaic from a significant number of parts.
- Children are capable of intentional memorization. Listening to the teacher’s explanations and instructions, students record the stages and methods of action in their memory and reproduce them later in independent studies: for example, they conduct experiments in the research corner or create crafts in the creativity center.
- The intellectual capabilities of children are improved. At the age of 5–6 years, a child quickly makes assumptions and predicts the results of actions. He independently establishes cause-and-effect relationships and navigates the temporal and spatial relationships of objects. Conscious experimentation, independently planned and executed, becomes possible. If a child wants to experiment with substances, he must first tell the teacher the safety rules. The teacher observes from the sidelines the children’s independent experimentation in the mini-laboratory.
- Cognitive interests expand, children study distant objects: planets, spaceships, the depths of the sea, dinosaurs, and children create drawings based on new information. Gaming activities become more complex: role-playing games are built according to rules discussed in advance, and roles are distributed among the participants.
- Fine motor skills are developed, children work and play with small objects: they assemble construction sets from small parts, make jewelry from beads and seed beads.
- Children willingly cooperate within the group. They like to independently choose partners for experiments, games and conversations, and discuss topics that interest them.
Older preschoolers are able to cooperate with each other during research and play activities
The development of independence is one of the conditions of the educational process in preschool educational institutions, aimed at raising a comprehensively developed personality. The Federal State Educational Standard (FSES) does not call children’s independent activities as a separate area of learning and pays more attention to the joint work of the teacher and students. However, the target for each developmental area (cognitive, physical, social-communicative, speech, artistic and aesthetic) is to encourage initiative in children's activities (mental or practical), stimulate independence in choosing methods of activity and their implementation. Forming a research type of thinking and creating positive motivation for creative solutions to problem situations creates a solid basis for successful learning at school. The goal of organizing independent activities in kindergarten is to develop the child as an independent creator and researcher.
Developing the skill of independently searching for information is one of the target foundations of education in preschool educational institutions
Tasks of organizing independent activities in the senior group
- Formation of strong-willed qualities: psychological resistance to the influence of external factors (street noise, voices of other children) and other people’s opinions, the desire to bring the plan to the final result. Older preschoolers begin to develop the ability for self-analysis and evaluation of completed actions.
- Improving self-regulation processes: the ability to calculate energy expenditure to perform planned actions, feel the need to change the type of activity or rest. At the age of 5–6 years, the processes of the nervous system actively develop: the child has perseverance, reacts positively to advice and constructive comments.
- Development of the ability to independently construct a game plan, observation, research, employment, the desire to implement ideas without the help of adults.
- Strengthening self-care skills. The actions of dressing and undressing, observing the rules of personal hygiene and cleanliness of the room should be brought to automaticity.
- Development of independence through carrying out work assignments: duty in the dining room, play area, bedroom, etc.
When planning classes for the development of independent activity, the age and individual characteristics of children, their interests and passions, consistency with thematic planning for educational activities and creative activities, and the material base for play and children's experimentation are taken into account. The subject-spatial environment in the group room should be developmental. Children receive positive emotions from independent activity and acquire new knowledge about the properties of objects and the connections between them. This environment is organized by the teacher, and children are free to choose ways of acting in its conditions. The principles of functioning of children's activity centers: accessibility, safety, enrichment with temporary materials (for example, in the center of cognitive activity you can organize an exhibition for Cosmonautics Day, in a corner of nature in the spring you can display boxes with bulbs of hyacinths or tulips, supplement the play area with a set of road signs while studying traffic rules on ECD classes and walks).
Drawing up a duty schedule - a technique for developing self-service skills through work assignments
Forms of organization of the subject-spatial environment
- Center for educational and research activity: science center, knowledge corner, experimental workshop, laboratory, experimentarium. Equipped with a selection of encyclopedias and albums with educational illustrations, diagrams, cards, models and figures of objects to study, materials (including natural ones) and tools for conducting experiments. Before independently conducting any experiment in the laboratory, students must seek permission from the teacher and first discuss the safety rules. For public holidays and events in the kindergarten, temporary exhibitions are organized in the research corner: “Taking care of the planet”, “Secrets of the Solar system”, “Structure of a volcano”, “How primitive people lived”.
At the center of cognitive and research activities, students participate in the search for new knowledge
- Game center: areas with sets of toys and costumes for role-playing games (“Traffic officer and drivers”, “Hospital”, “Grocery store”, “Kitchen”), a center for educational games (shelves with board and educational games, puzzles). To consolidate and improve self-service skills, play corners are supplemented with materials on relevant topics: clothes for toys with various types of fasteners, items for acting out problem situations (“Who made a mess in the kitchen”, “Doll Katya, put things in order in the closet”, “The bear is going to the kindergarten").
In a playful way, children reproduce what they have learned during classes
- Sports section. The physical activity center can be equipped with special equipment: hoops, balls of different sizes, jump ropes, elastic bands for jumping, sets for playing small towns, skittles.
The physical activity center provides children with equipment for outdoor games and exercises
- Center for environmental activities: a corner of nature, a living corner, a winter garden, a mini-vegetable garden (boxes with soil on the windowsill for growing herbs and vegetables). Pupils of the senior group independently conduct long-term observations of plant growth, engage in labor activities with knowledge of the characteristics of representatives of the plant world: water, moisten leaves, loosen the soil, monitor the light and temperature conditions in a corner of nature.
Senior preschoolers independently care for plants in a group
- Center for art/artistic and aesthetic activities: a corner of art or folk crafts (reproductions of paintings, small copies of architectural and sculptural objects, toys, dishes and interior items in folk style), a theater corner (scenery for staging fairy tales, puppet and finger theater, masks and character costumes for children, face painting), a productive creativity zone (materials for modeling, drawing, paper construction, including origami), a musical island (a collection of audio recordings - children's and holiday songs, sounds and voices of nature with instrumental accompaniment, musical instruments - xylophone, tambourine, children's synthesizer, castanets, balalaika, etc.).
Dramatizing episodes of favorite stories and improvising in acting out various plots is one of the forms of independent activity of preschoolers
- Psychological comfort center: relaxation corner, quiet zone, magic room (tent, marquee, hammock, sofas where children can relax and chat quietly). Children independently choose ways to relax: looking at a book, quietly playing with a doll, calm conversation with each other.
In the group it is necessary to organize a place where the child can be a little quiet and relax
Types of independent activities of older preschoolers: table
Type of independent activity | Forms of implementation |
Research | In the modern world, it is important to teach a child not only to assimilate and accumulate ready-made information, but also to develop the ability and desire for independent knowledge. Through visual observation, tactile contact and sound perception, children can learn new things about objects. A small, but independently made discovery causes delight in a child and a desire to gain new knowledge. Older preschoolers conduct research consciously. They make observations in a corner of nature, a science center, during a walk and conduct experiments in a mini-laboratory. The teacher is always ready to answer the children’s questions. |
Gaming | Children independently act out scenes from fairy tales, cartoons, or everyday situations using toys. By older preschool age, there is a difference in the themes of games between boys and girls: boys play with cars, soldiers, robots, build fortresses and ships from construction sets, girls prefer to play with dolls, dishes, and plush toys. Children’s play activities are often imitative of people’s professions and social events: “In the store”, “Mothers and daughters”, “Hairdresser” or “Beauty salon”, “Bank”, “In the doctor’s/dentist’s office”, “Traffic officer and pedestrians”, “Playing at kindergarten/school”. |
Artistic speech | During the school year, children get acquainted with literary works and learn to answer questions about the content of the text and retell the plot. Independent artistic and speech activity is manifested during the staging of fairy tales in the theater corner, where there are scenery, costumes, and masks of familiar fairy tales. The teacher can encourage the children in the play area to take action by placing in the corner a set for a finger or puppet theater based on the fairy tale they have studied. The ability of artistic retelling is realized in students’ conversations with each other, when they want to share a particularly liked episode of a work of art. |
Motor | For older preschoolers, physical activity is realized in role-playing outdoor games: “Polar bears on an ice floe”, “Mousetrap”, “Hares and Hunters”, “Don’t stay on the floor”, “Cossacks-robbers”, “The sea is worried - once!” etc. Girls learn to jump rope and rubber band in a variety of ways. Boys love to play football. |
Artistic | Creating visual images using paints, paper, plasticine, and natural materials. Children's creative works reflect their ideas about objects. Mastering the techniques of drawing with pencil and paints, sculpting and appliqué, the child begins to feel the desire not just to show, but to do beautifully. Preschoolers love to draw in their free time! The older group children have a plot in their drawings. Their drawings are a vision of objects and situations and an attitude towards them at the same time. What caused bright, positive emotions, the child tries to convey colorfully and positively. The corners of developmental activities must certainly contain a variety of materials for children's crafts, decorations for finished works: threads, beads, sequins, stickers, natural and waste materials, buttons, pebbles, shells, ribbons, postcards, glitter. |
Labor education | The best incentive for preschoolers to work independently is an example before their eyes. The children willingly help the teacher in cleaning the territory of the kindergarten or group room, take care of the plantings on the site, and clear the paths and benches of snow in winter. The introduction of a duty schedule improves the ability to take a responsible approach to instructions from seniors and try to complete the work efficiently. Visual material in the form of printed algorithms on the wall motivates children 5–6 years old to independently cope with the task (arrange cutlery and dishes) and then compare their actions with the given scheme, evaluate the result - whether everything was done correctly. Older preschoolers love to help the younger ones: take them from the gym to the group, fasten their clothes, dry themselves, etc. |
Environmental education | Caring for nature is a valuable personality trait in the modern world. Children enjoy caring for plants in the nature center and on the site, feeding animals and birds. |
Self-service | Self-care involves the child mastering hygiene standards and how to comply with them (washing, washing hands after a walk and before eating, brushing teeth, taking a shower), mastering the skill of dressing and undressing, the culture of eating and rules of behavior at the dinner table. Self-care is considered the main type of work activity for preschoolers; it allows children to feel independent from an adult. In older preschool age, the skill of monitoring one’s appearance and the order of the surrounding environment, and following the rules of hygiene are consolidated. |
Game activity remains one of the leading types of activity in older preschool age
Motivating start to class
Children's independent activity manifests itself in various routine moments during the day: upon arrival at the garden in the morning, on a walk, during leisure time in the afternoon. In order for children to be able to use their imagination and a set of skills to occupy themselves in their free time in employment centers, the teacher must achieve the effectiveness of children's activity during educational classes. Interacting with students, the teacher, by directly showing verbal instructions, forms and develops in the students the ability to highlight the main thing - a question or problem. Those activities will be the most interesting and productive, which were aimed at achieving a specific result (making crafts, experimenting, compiling a completed story from pictures, completing a work assignment, playing a sports game). Having mastered the algorithm of actions and methods of implementation, children transfer the forms of activity worked out with the teacher into individual activity.
It is important not to occupy the time allocated for children's games with other activities. Play for older preschoolers still remains a way to consolidate practical skills, relieve mental stress, and interact with peers.
A game for preschoolers is not only entertainment, but also a form of communication
The structure of independent activity of preschoolers consists of three stages:
- motive,
- action,
- result.
The role of the teacher is to create motivation for further actions of students in the conditions of the subject-spatial environment organized by the teacher. The desire to work independently can be of different natures: playful, cognitive, volitional, social and emotional. Creating a friendly and trusting atmosphere is an indispensable condition for the children’s successful activities. The teacher makes sure that each child is in a good mood before and during the lesson. The social orientation of motives for work is expressed in a positive attitude towards collective activity, the desire to discuss what is being studied or created, and the ability to listen to the opinions and desires of classmates. Volitional motivation means the direction of a child’s actions towards achieving a specific goal, interest in demonstrating his abilities. Playful and educational motives often arise spontaneously, but the teacher can initiate these types of motivation by predicting the independent activities of students within the framework of thematic planning.
Using a motivational start to the lesson, the teacher predicts children’s independent activity in games
Motivating start to class | Predicted independent activity of pupils |
Studying visual material. The teacher examines with the children a model of the earth in prehistoric times: dinosaurs reign on earth, in water and in the sky. The guys name the differences between ancient lizards and determine the structural features (plates, spines, partial plumage, powerful claws). | Search for information, expanding ideas about dinosaurs in the cognitive center: consideration of an illustrated encyclopedia. Game with dinosaur figures. |
Conducting a conversation. — Guys, what do we do before we sit down at the dinner table? - Wash your hands. - Why are we doing this? — To wash away dirt, to protect yourself from germs from unwashed hands entering the body while eating. — When else during the day should you wash your hands and face? — In the morning after waking up, upon returning from the street, after working with dirty materials or playing with pets, before going to bed. | Playing with dolls and a washbasin, stylized as Moidodyr from the poem by K. I. Chukovsky. |
Conducting an experiment. The teacher demonstrates the ability of salt to dissolve in water. | Research activities in an experimental laboratory to expand understanding of the ability of substances to dissolve in water (sugar, food coloring, sand, clay). |
Surprise moment. The group receives a package from a fairy-tale character, in which the students find a kit for creating a puppet theater. | Dramatization in a playful form of fairy tales known to the pupil (“Teremok”, “Kolobok”, “The Hare and the Fox”, “The Fox and the Wolf”). |
Reading poems, riddles. The teacher asks the children riddles about toys and for each correct answer reads the corresponding poem by A. Barto from the “Toys” series. | Activity in the play area with artistic and speech activities. |
Attraction to the game. The teacher shows the children a rubber band and asks what methods of jumping over it and game options they know (“Olympics, mom’s lipstick,” “Confusion,” etc.). Instead of a rubber band, you can offer jump ropes for the game. | Outdoor games with a rubber band. |
If you invite children to show how they can play with a familiar object, they are drawn into the game
Examples of independent activities in the senior group of kindergarten
We invite you to familiarize yourself with the options for independent activity of older preschoolers in various regime moments.
Role-playing game “Polyclinic”: video
Senior game - free activity (outdoor game): video
Game activities on traffic rules: video
Conditions for organizing independent activities during a walk: video
Theatrical activities: video
Independent activities (didactic games): video
Corner of solitude in the senior group: video
Why is duty necessary?
The first word that is associated with the concept of “duty” is “responsibility,” and not only for the life and safety of the child on the part of the teacher, but also for the development of the individual. This type of labor education, when the child independently needs to help the teacher as much as possible in organizing a lesson or setting the table, forms in children the initial understanding of the word “labor.”
This technique allows the child to realize that everything around us did not appear by itself, someone created it. This thought creates a desire to also try to do something and encourages independent work.
Some interesting ideas for decorating duty corners
As a rule, the stand, that is, the base of the corner, is made in the form of a panel on which the name, pockets for pictures-signs (or photos) and decorative elements are located. Several design ideas will help to diversify and make the corner unusual.
There are usually no difficulties with the name of the duty officers’ corner, since in most groups it is called that way: “Duty duty corner.” There are also options: “We are on duty, they are on duty today.” But how much more interesting and useful in terms of the development and upbringing of children is to name the corner “We love to be on duty”, “Little Helpers”, “Hardworking Suns, Bees, Daisies” (depending on the name of the group).
The kids will definitely want to know what the inscription means, and it will be much more pleasant to hear in response not just a phrase, but praise. This will create a desire to participate in the labor process and may even serve as the topic of a fascinating educational conversation: “Why do you think our corner is called that? Who is called hardworking? How can you help the teacher, the nanny, your group friends?”
There are also several options for individual symbol cards:
- Figured: in the form of flowers, clouds, mushrooms with an individual picture and the child’s name. In this case, the stand itself should be designed accordingly - like a lawn, a sunny sky, a clearing in the forest.
- With fastening on stud buttons. In this case, pictures indicating the types of duty are placed on the stand, and under them there are buttons with a protruding plastic part, the so-called studs. In this case, children's cards are made with loops or slits, hanging them on buttons. The buttons must be secured to the stand securely, not just by sticking them in, but additionally secured with superglue so that they do not fall out and cause injury.
- In the form of flags. Under the pictures of those on duty in the dining room, nature and activities there is a shelf, and on it there are two holders for flags for each type of duty. Individual pictures or photos of children are glued onto the flags and inserted into the holders.