I want to say here that there are no children who don't like watching English animated children's songs, only parents who can't find resources.
In childhood, especially between the ages of 2 and 6, about one-third of children will have a strong interest in a certain subject. There is an appropriate term in psychology to describe children in this period-extremely strong interest, abbreviated as EIIs.
Investigation on Electronic Information Integration System of Yale University and University of Virginia
It can be seen from the survey report that preschool children's interests are very close, and boys prefer transportation, dinosaurs and ball games; Girls like playing house and reading stories. The power of interest can be known from the fact that children are holding their cars and sliding around in the hot sun, sweating and not knowing it.
When children are really interested in something, they will seek more ways to learn and play in order to absorb as much information as possible. If parents can master their children's EII and give them relevant English resources, their acceptance will be improved a lot.
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We always say that interest comes first, so what are the categories of English animated nursery rhymes? What do the children at home like? Today, I will focus on this matter and how to help children find their favorite animation resources.
Nowadays, animation resources are very rich, and Mao Ma has compiled many children's songs for everyone before. You can enter keyword search resources in the WeChat official account dialog box.
But today I mainly introduce three animations: square touch fox, babybus and cocomelon.
They have their own characteristics, satisfying different children's interests in various topics, from nursery rhymes to short stories. What parents have to do is to download resources and test their children's preferences.
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Pingfeng touches the fox
Ten themes, comprehensive and rich.
Pingfang is a cartoon image of early childhood education created by SmartStudy, a Korean educational and entertainment company, and the well-known children's song "Little Shark" came from him.
One of the characteristics of "Touch the Fox" is that the animation theme is very rich and comprehensive, taking into account the preferences of almost all boys and girls.
According to the survey data of Yale University and University of Virginia about EIIs and the experience of English enlightenment, I selected ten topics that children are most interested in, including: animals, insects, oceans, transportation, dinosaurs, space, body, living habits, farms and fairy tales.
The duration of a theme video varies from 30 minutes to 80 minutes, and there are nearly 10 children's songs under each theme, which is convenient for children to continuously consolidate and extend a theme and really learn related vocabulary and sentence patterns.
The songs of "Touch the Fox" are more "tasteful", with bright colors, faster rhythm and language speed, magical melody, full expression of characters (animals) and strong joyful atmosphere.
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Baby bus
Song+story, natural upgrade difficulty
BabyBus is an early education brand series in Chinese mainland. As can be seen from the poster, the baby bus is based on two giant pandas and their friends. They are the national treasures of China.
The theme animation of Baby Bus adopts a combination of songs and story lines. While listening to songs, children naturally absorb more difficult daily dialogue language, laying the foundation for watching animated videos later.
Baby buses are especially good at catching boys' hearts. There are many videos of various cars, and many scene stories are set for engineering vehicles, fire engines, police cars, ambulances and trains.
Take the fire truck as an example, there are scenes in which ladders are used to save people, fire hoses are used to put out fires, stories in which rescue teams that children like very much go out to rescue trapped people, and stories in which fire trucks are personified and have self-doubt because of rescue failure.
Generally speaking, its story is better than touching a fox, and its speech speed is slower, because there are some plot dialogues, and the difficulty is slightly higher.
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Coconut melon
Life+'s cognitive scene is dominant.
Cocomelon focuses on family life and cognitive scenes, and the rhythm is much slower than the other two animations.
The theme of family scenes is very grounded, such as "No No" bedtime songs, bath songs, food songs and so on. , widely played on youtube. Let children learn high-frequency vocabulary easily in daily contact through the warm and natural interactive scene of the family.
It has also adapted many well-known folk songs, all of which are of very high quality, such as Rain, Rain, Go Away, Wheels on the Bus, Mary Has a Lamb and so on.
Its cognitive themes are also very rich, including numbers, letters, animals, shapes and colors. And teaching cognition is not boring, but integrating knowledge points into life scenes. For example, when teaching numbers, three children go fishing with grandpa, and the children's acceptance is naturally much higher.
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The three cartoons introduced today have their own characteristics and different themes. The theme of touching the fox is very rich, especially the dinosaur animation is very popular with children. Baby buses have many modes of transportation. In addition to songs, it also incorporates a simple storyline. Cocomelon focuses on life and cognitive scenes, with slow pace, warmth and nature.
There is no difference between the two, only whether it is suitable for your child. What parents need to do is to stay one step ahead of their children. First of all, they should browse all the video content roughly, help children to screen first according to their preferences and the difficulty of the video, and arrange the order of watching so that children can have a better "watching" experience.
It is worth noting that if children really like cars, but are not interested in three animated videos with the theme of cars, then the difficulty should be considered. Some children may not be able to get into the state quickly, and the picture and sound are combined, so even simple animated children's songs can't be accepted.
At this time, we should first reduce the difficulty, let the children contact the key words first, accumulate 300 words and then input English nursery rhymes.
Suggest starting with this readable English jelly sticker: