Environmental games in kindergarten are very important for the formation of young children's ideas about the surrounding world, living and inanimate nature. They can bring a lot of joy for children, if the teacher takes care of the diversity of games on an environmental theme. Specificity of ecological games for preschoolers is that the material delivered to the child should not only be useful and informative, but also interesting. Therefore, it is best for carrying out ecological games for toddlers to involve children in active participation in the game.
Games for environmental education
"Knock Knock"
Rules. Only those children who are appointed by the educator leave the circle.
The course of the game. The children are sitting in a circle; four (with them the teacher agrees about this before the game) depict different animals (a cat, a dog, a cow, a horse). These children stand behind the circle. "Cat" comes to a circle and knocks: "Tuk-tuk-tuk." The children ask: "Who is there?" "Cat" answers "meow-meow-meow". "It's a cat," children guess and ask: "Do you want milk?" "The cat" enters the middle of the circle and pretends to drink milk. Behind the cat, a "dog" approaches the circle, and similar questions and answers are repeated. Next knock on other animals. The game is repeated 2-3 times.
"Score"
Material. Potatoes, beets, onions, peas, tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, carrots, or apples, plums, pears, cherries, raspberries, currants.
Rules:
- Say hello to the seller and thank for the purchase.
- Correct and clear call vegetables and fruits that you want to buy.
The course of the game. The teacher says: "Let's arrange a store. The store has many different vegetables or fruits. We will appoint Cyril as the seller, and we will all be buyers. Consider what vegetables (fruits) are in our store and call them. " Further explains the rules of the game: "We will take turns to go to the store and wish to make purchases. First I'll go to the store. " The tutor comes into the store, greets and asks to sell potatoes. The "seller" gives the potatoes (puts them on the table). Then the children come in, and the caretaker monitors the implementation of the rules of the game.
"What's Growing in the Forest"
Rules:
- Who said the wrong way, where the flower grows, gives a phantom.
- The one who never made a mistake wins.
The course of the game. The teacher calls the flowers, and the children must quickly tell where the flowers grow. Field, forest and field flowers should be called mixed, for example: rose, calendula, chamomile, bells, snowdrops ...
Moving environmental games
"It will be raining"
Rules:
- Only those children who are called by the educator come out.
- Sit on the chairs only after the words of the tutor "it will rain."
The course of the game. The game is played on the site. Children sit on the chairs, arranged in two rows, with backs one to one. The presenter is selected. The first presenter - the teacher - approaches children and asks what "vegetables" or "fruits" are "lying" (the children agree with each other). Then he starts to walk around the children and says: "It's very cool to get up early in the summer and go to the market. What there is not! How many vegetables, fruits! Eyes run up. So I once got up early and went to the market to buy vegetables to cook borsch. First I bought potatoes, then carrots, dark red beets. And here are the heads of cabbage. It is necessary to take one! Nearby lie bunches of green onions. I'll take it in my purse. Well, without tomatoes, will it be a delicious borsch? Here lie round, red, smooth-bodied tomatoes. "
Children - "vegetables", which the educator calls, get up and follow her. When the teacher has purchased all the necessary vegetables, he says: "Here is a delicious borsch! We must hurry home, otherwise ... it will rain! "
Hearing the "passphrase", the children run up and sit on the stools. Who does not have enough space, he becomes the lead.
"Find yourself a pair"
Material. Flowers - dandelions, bells, chamomiles, carnations, dahlias.
Rules:
- After the words of the tutor: "Hold out the handles - show flowers," stretch out your hands and look at the flowers well.
- To the words: "Look for a couple!" Find a child who has the same flower.
The course of the game. Each child receives a flower and hides it behind his back.
A similar game can be conducted with the leaves of trees.
Do not forget that the game as a method of environmental education and a means of ecological education is the best way to introduce the child to the world around him, to activate his vocabulary on this topic, however, it is much more intensive to compare and generalize observed phenomena, to establish the dependencies between them, children learn in the process of real work on the site, and also, taking care of indoor plants in kindergarten.