On this topic, it can be said that the old woman is right and the public is right. My two children have been in kindergarten for more than two weeks, and they can't reach the age of three in public kindergartens. They stayed in private kindergartens for a while, and then transferred to public kindergartens.
My family Bauer is now 4 years old and 5 months old. He is currently studying in a private kindergarten. Kindergarten has taught children pinyin, counting and writing, and the education method does not meet the age characteristics. Just like primary school students, the teacher writes on the blackboard that children can't sit still when they are studying below. I don't approve of this kind of education. After the National Day, Bauer will be transferred to a public kindergarten.
Because both my children have had the experience of public kindergartens and private kindergartens, I want to talk about how I view the problem that private kindergartens teach everything and public kindergartens can't teach anything.
Some parents think that kindergarten is to let children play and have a happy childhood. Some parents say that children must win at the starting line, learn primary school knowledge in advance, and then take a step ahead when they go to primary school.
I don't think either view is correct. The former thinks that learning just can't give children a happy childhood, and children should be allowed to play happily before school. But are learning and playing really opposites? Will learning make children feel unhappy?
Every night, I will accompany Bauer to read picture books and be a logic dog (a German product that develops thinking). The children are very happy. Our family can't watch TV from Monday to Friday. After school starts, children don't want to turn on the TV. After dinner, Bauer will ask anxiously, "Who will read with me?" This shows that children like reading very much.
I don't think kindergartens don't need to learn knowledge. The key is what to learn and how to learn. Public kindergartens mainly advocate learning by playing, such as graffiti, origami, paper-cutting, plasticine kneading, singing and dancing. However, the trend of primary school in private kindergartens is very obvious. Let children sit in their seats regularly to learn pinyin, math and writing. This is a hard way of learning, which does not meet the age characteristics of children and allows children to learn too early.
These things taught in public kindergartens are useless in primary schools. What's the use? Many parents will question this. It is true that the content taught in public kindergartens is useless in primary schools, but it does not mean that it is useless. As the saying goes, children are ingenious and have strong hands-on ability, and their minds must be smart.
According to my observation, most children who graduated from public kindergartens have difficulty in learning Pinyin in the first grade of primary school (for example, children have strong learning ability, and parents in the first grade can keep up with it with a little guidance, as my boss did). In the first grade, their grades may not be as good as those of children in private kindergartens, but in the second grade, the gap is not obvious. After the third grade, children in public kindergartens are likely to accumulate a lot of money. Why?
Children who graduate from private kindergartens learn first-grade knowledge in advance, and some kindergartens even teach second-grade knowledge. After they go to primary school, they will be very relaxed. They don't need their parents to worry too much, and often neglect the cultivation of study habits. It is also easy for children to mistakenly think that learning is easy. As the grade grows, they will gradually fall behind and no longer have an advantage.
Parents of children who have graduated from public kindergartens are worried that their children will not adapt to the first grade. Parents can teach their children pinyin in advance when they attend kindergarten classes, so that they can write a small amount every day. If they can't write well, they can start with red strokes, just two or three lines a day, and they don't need too much, because they haven't practiced at all. In the first grade, they may not even hold the pen in the right position, write slowly and askew, and spend a long time doing their homework every day.
My boss writes two lines every day from the kindergarten class next semester. In the first grade, he would write quickly and not worry about doing his homework.
In the pre-school stage, children are not allowed to play at random, and play is the main thing, so that children can learn happily in play. So, what should children learn? I think two points are very important.
First, the cultivation of reading habits.
Cultivating children's reading habits will benefit them for life. Is a kind of children with strong learning ability and reading ability, not only learning Chinese well, but also helping to learn science.
Cultivating children's reading habits mainly depends on the guidance of parents. In fact, every child is born to like listening to stories. If parents can spare some time to read with their children every day, or take out their own books to read, children will develop reading habits in a subtle way, instead of parents holding their mobile phones and desperately asking their children to read.
In addition, in the choice of reading picture books, parents are advised not to always choose picture books with storylines, but also to choose some popular science picture books, such as Magic School Bus, so that children can not only read stories, but also learn scientific knowledge and broaden their thinking.
Second, literacy.
Literacy is to lay the foundation for children to read independently. 4-7 years old is the sensitive period of children's literacy, which means that children can study when they are in the middle class of kindergarten, but parents must pay attention to the methods and methods, not too boring, otherwise children will not learn.
My family, Bauer, is now 4 years old and already knows some Chinese characters. I prepared 100 Chinese building blocks for him. There are Chinese characters and pictures on the building blocks I told my child that every time he knew a word, I would put it on it to see how high it could be, so that the child could regard literacy as a game of building blocks and liked it very much.
In addition, to teach children to read, we should use spare time, anytime and anywhere. Don't ask primary school students to study for half an hour every day. Their concentration is very short, that is, 10 minutes. How can they sit quietly for half an hour? When reading a picture book to a child, we can meet the Chinese characters that have been taught to him and deliberately stop to ask him what to read this word. If children can say it, they will have a great sense of accomplishment.
No matter where my second child sees the words he knows, he will tell me excitedly. He will take his children to the supermarket or take a walk in the street. There are words on the product names and billboards in the supermarket, and he can teach them. After getting into the habit, children will ask questions when they see unfamiliar words.
Third, cultivate children's habit of active thinking and make them interested in knowledge.
In children's learning, we should let children actively explore, rather than passively accept knowledge. For example, when teaching children to know graphics, we can show them what is round in our home. You can also play some observation and comparison games with your children. I will point to the pictures of frogs and turtles and ask children what they have in common and what are their differences. Children will say that they all have four legs and two eyes, and they will tell me that turtles have shells and frogs don't. We can also tell our children that they are all amphibians and tell them something about amphibians by the way.
I like playing logic dogs with children. This is a German product, which is of great help to cultivate children's logical thinking ability. Both children in my family like it, both hands and brains.
In short, in the pre-school stage, parents should make their children interested in learning and eager to learn knowledge, which is more useful than memorizing how much knowledge, because it gives children wings to explore and opens their knowledge journey.