Water games for the kindergarten + an antinomic and fun reading to do in summer.

Water games for kindergarten and a winter fairy tale?

 

 

 

Of course! Why not read a fairy tale that tells of winter on a sunny and torrid summer day...

 

 

 

 

Playing with water: resources and activities for the last days at kindergarten.

 

 

 

 

June, last hot school days.

 

The section space is almost totally empty: toys and materials washed and rearranged.

 

The heat is so torrid that it takes your breath away and the desire to be in section.

 

Under these conditions, offering structured activities to children becomes less and less satisfying and productive.

 

The solution to this age-old problem is to enhance what still resists: the desire to play!

 

Next to propose and try, decanting, bowl, bubbles and all those fun and refreshing activities that have the water at their center.

 

Step by step, game by game, that’s how we got to this last fun activity.

 

 

 

 

Outdoor water games, fun and without a pool.

 

 

 

 

For this activity you need to have:

 

 

 

• costumes and slippers, or a change of clothes, for each boy and girl
• hose for water
• garden sprinkler.

 

 

You may have already understood... just a sprinkler and a plastic pipe, connected to the tap and the most fun game of the year is done.

 

In our case, we placed the sprinkler in the middle of our outdoor space, on a wide paved platform: they do not need a jet too strong, nor particular water games.

 

Children and girls have a lot of fun, simply because of the contact with water and the freshness it gives.

 

Usually, in these situations, there are those who run, who are cautious, who keep their distance, everyone lives the experience as they see fit.

 

 Even today it was so and really all the boys and girls, in the end, were satisfied and happy.

 

As teachers, it is useful to have the foresight to put an alternative to what you propose, for all those boys and girls who feel the need.

 

This is also a sign of openness and respect and helps us, as teachers, to create the habit of not thinking and acting in an unequivocal way and

Not to demand that children with a divergent trajectory, feel uncomfortable to comply with our demands.

 

My choice, in this case, was to bring with me the soap bubbles, in this way, who did not want to get wet, could still have fun and have a center of interest.

 

Once finished the beautiful game with water and once cleaned and dried boys and girls it was time to find peace, so we opted for reading a book.

 

It was so that, by pure chance, my gaze fell on an all-winter fairy tale: The Winter Bird, by Kate Banks with illustrations by Suzie Mason.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Winter Bird: an antinomic reading to do in summer.

 

 

 

 

I smiled among myself, because when I showed them the book that I had chosen to read, the boys and girls immediately reacted as I expected:

Teacher we already read it!!! And now it’s summer! 

 

Yes, but things can and must be seen from different points of view!

 

So we read the fairy tale, somewhat in reverse, letting us be surprised by all the smallest differences between the beautiful descriptions made by the author and

the radiance of the summer that surrounds us in these days.

 

Not only the temperature, but also the colors, the climatic characteristics of the sky, the length of the days, the behavior of the animals, the clothing worn by children

the presence and type of food for animals and us, the ice of history and that of ice cream...

 

Everything narrated in the story, he lent himself to create a parallel between summer and winter, which the children experienced in a completely spontaneous and natural way

Competing for differences and similarities.

 

 In the end, I’m sure it was much more incisive and effective, talk about the characteristics of the two seasons now and in this way rather than during the winter season.

 

Try it yourself and enjoy watching the effect.

 

Well now that the school year is really over, I hope in these months, to have given you some ideas, some ideas and above all

an unusual and new way to look at things, always from different angles.

 

What I would like to give you is a divergent view, which helps us understand that there is no one way of doing things, being and living.

 

This applies to both adults and children, and understanding it makes us better people and teachers and makes all our children feel good or at least better.

 

It is for them that, also this year, we have spent energy, time and passion.

 

Without passion I would not have written and you would not have read all these articles. So thank you very much for the journey we made together and have a good summer.

 

                                                                                            

 

 

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