School-based Curriculum
The featured school-based curriculum of Tsinghua Daoxiang kindergarten has started! Children are given opportunities to participate in different activities in school. In addition to the two to three-hour fixed course and Montessori work, the School-based curriculum is an important part of the school’s overall education system. The K class regularly organizes various school-based courses every week, including P.E, Music, Dance, Roller skating etc.
Music and Movement
Music
Music can play a transformation role in your child’s education, promoting cultural literacy and improve the key skills such as creativity, critical thinking and collaboration. There will be music lessons every week for K class, whose content is also consistent with the theme, focusing on children’s skills development in the different areas.
Through the Listening practice, singing, performance and instrumental ensemble, children will learn some theme-related songs and actions, children can use percussion correctly and perform instrumental according to the chart. We have the opportunity to perform for various activities, Let’s have a look at our music class!
Orff
Orff’s music style is the original way of Education - close to nature and derived from life. Children can participate in free creative music and art education. At the same time, it is not only a simple music education, but also a comprehensive art. It combines language, rhythm and music teaching, so that children can not only participate in music activities with interest, but also comprehensively improve their language ability, understanding and performance ability.
Through Orff music activities, we can cultivate children's musical interests and hobbies, develop children's creativity and expressiveness, improve children's awareness of cooperation and communication with other.
Musik Garten
This course uses the textbook “growth in four seasons” of musikgarten to draw the central theme from nature, with the purpose of bringing children and their lives into the experience of music, sports and environment. The course adopts a large number of music and rhythm activities, fully considers and respects the increasing independence and developing abilities of preschool children, and lays the foundation for the development of sensory movement for children’s learning. This course improves students ability to learn in happiness and grow in music.
Chorus
Chorus is one of the important means and ways to cultivate students' comprehensive quality. This course uses the form of chorus to drive students to sing in the way of interesting voice, experience the beauty and interest of chorus and stimulate interest. Chorus can help children establish a sense of teamwork and promote the development of social interaction among students.
Picture Book Music
Taking picture books as the carrier, this course will perform picture book stories in the form of music activities, mobilize students' senses to participate in and feel picture books, guide students to enjoy melody, experience rhythm, express feelings in music activities, and understand the meaning of picture book stories. Let students experience the beauty of the combination of literature and music in the performance of music picture book stories, and improve students' aesthetic expression.
Zither
Zither is "the instrument of benevolence" and elegant music. The temperament of regular learners tends to be elegant. This course is an introduction to Guzheng. By teaching the basic knowledge and playing skills of Guzheng, we can understand Guzheng, a national instrument with a long history, stimulate students' interest in Guzheng playing and improve students' national music literacy.
Piano
The piano is known as the "king of musical instruments" and is the basic instrument for the introduction of all musical instruments. Piano can intuitively present the level of children's sound and the strength of children's sound, which plays a very important role in the cultivation of children's sense of music. Both finger ability and understanding ability are the best age to learn piano. One-on-one teaching can help children to introduce their interests. Through the technical support of teachers, it can promote teaching through performance, mobilize children's enthusiasm, promote whole brain development, improve aesthetics and improve personality quality.
Art creation course
Children are born artists. The first time children Scribble and pinch mud and play with earth is the bud of their artistic ability. For young children, painting and handicrafts are games that enable them to obtain a sense of achievement and the source of their happiness. Lines, with thickness and length; Color, light and shade; Shape, size and radius. In the process of interacting with rich artistic elements, children gain an understanding of themselves and the world from a unique perspective. Painting and handicrafts have also become important means for them to express their understanding of the world.
We take the law of children's physical and mental development and the characteristics of children's artistic ability of different ages as the basis of curriculum design, and explore curriculum resources from children's actual life and classic art works consistent with children's aesthetic and cognitive ability, so that children's artistic creation originates from life and finally returns to life.
Gigo course
With a new educational concept, Gigo course improves children's thinking and logic ability, innovation ability and practical ability, so that children can easily obtain rich extracurricular knowledge in the atmosphere of learning, playing and middle school, and improve their learning ability in an all-round way.
Explore science through model building and operation experiments, and recognize mathematics through a series of mathematical games, so as to improve children's analysis and coping ability. Encourage students to think hard, advocate multiple solutions to one problem and seek multiple answers. Guide students to dare to innovate and innovate, and cultivate children's creativity and innovation ability purposefully.
Baking course
Children are naturally curious. They have to see, smell, touch and even lick any ingredient. Flour, butter, egg beater, all kinds of tools, children are interested. Children naturally learn some common sense of life in baking!
Through children's baking class, in order to improve children's practical ability, cultivate children's interest in learning and labor, and let children realize that food is hard won, they will learn to cherish food and be grateful to all those who pay!
When implementing the Dance Curriculum, creativity is encouraged, it is a good way to boost children’s social, emotional, and intellectual development, as well as character, attention and artistic development. Through scientific and systematic training methods, emphasis of dance learning is placed on children's nice posture, good qualities, physical coordination, body's sensitivity to rhythm, and artistic development. Chinese dance learning let boys and girls into the learning, let’s happy dance, happy growth!
Physical Education
“No sports not Tsinghua” has been one of the traditions of Tsinghua motto. Physical education is an important part for the whole child development. Scientific and suitable physical activities are the most active and effective element to enhance children's physical fitness and to improve children’s health.
Physical education of preschool consists of three parts: physical education, physical activities and parent-child sports meeting. Come and see how interesting our PE class is!
Roller Skating
In addition, the kindergarten also has the roller skating course. Learning roller skating can improve sports potential in an all-round way. It will improve the physical fitness, endurance, flexibility of body balance, coordination between brain and various parts of the body, and quick and accurate movement reflection can effectively improve and have a good promotion effect on children’s cerebellum development.
Learning roller skating helps to cultivate children’s good personality and the spirit of not fearing hardship or fatigue. Completing each set of movements will make children feel a sense of self-satisfaction.
Children's physical fitness
Piaget, a famous child psychologist and educator in the 20th century, believes that the root of wisdom comes from the sensory and motor development in early childhood. Giving children enough exercise plays a very important role in promoting children's healthy development, stimulating children's interest and making them like sports. The goal of children's physical fitness training course is to try to use different sports equipment and auxiliary materials in the process of mastering basic activity skills such as walking, running, jumping, throwing, balance, kicking, drilling, climbing and climbing, Be able to practice basic physical activities in different climatic conditions, site conditions or space, with a sense of success and self-confidence.
PE Games
“The environment is an important educational resource, which should stimulate children’s interest in activities and effectively promote children’s development through the creation and utilization of the environment”. It is very necessary for children to actively create a good activity environment for children. Through fun sports games suitable for children, such as small boats crossing bridges, fast growth of small saplings, bravery of small animals, children can feel comfortable, happy in activities such as running, jumping and drilling etc. Through activities, children’s desire for activities and physical function can be stimulated, and children can gradually love sports in games, PE games promote the physical development in kindergarten and improve the communication and interaction between children.
Swimming course
Early childhood is the most important and fastest growing period in one's life. Using this golden period to carry out swimming activities is very good for children's physical and mental development. As one of the characteristic courses in our park, swimming plays a role in exercising children's whole body, which is conducive to their growth and development, helping children overcome their fear of water, enhance their physique, promote their healthy growth, and make good use of this golden period. Swimming activities according to local conditions are very beneficial to their physical and mental development.
Basketball
Children learn through passing, dribbling, shooting and other skills, games and competitions, and carry out targeted exercises from five aspects: physical fitness, skills, tactical literacy, psychological quality and intelligence.
Here, children will receive professional basketball skill training. With teaching methods suitable for age characteristics, let the child have interest in basketball or love sports more, make the child more adapt to the form of team cooperation, and constantly improve his communication ability with his teammates. Therefore, basketball not only improves physical fitness, but also enables children to learn cooperation, and temper their will and quality of not being afraid of setbacks in attack and defense.
Football
Football is the most popular sport in the world. More than half of the world’s population have a strong interest in football, and this love of football can speed up the learning process.
Young children are naturally interested in ball shaped objects, because this is the first object they are born with that can influence. With only a slight touch, the ball can begin to roll. Such interaction can create a sense of independence for children. At the moment of playing football, you always need to stand on one leg, which has certain requirements for the instantaneous balance ability. When you need to play football with your right foot, your left leg needs to find the correct way to balance the whole body, which stimulates the brain to coordinate the bilateral body and left and right hemispheres, and stimulates the overall balance skills of the body, Children's coordinated posture is also an essential part of life.
The purpose of featured school-based curriculum is to achieve rich classroom atmosphere and improve the quality of all aspects of children. Classes are the cells of school and the place for students to learn, live, grow and develop, while the class culture is an important condition affecting the development of students. Tsinghua Daoxiang Kindergarten combines the featured school-based curriculum, to create a characteristic cultural atmosphere. Let's have a look at our featured school-based curriculum in this semester!