Long-term project “We will save health” for children of the senior group.”

Pedagogical project “Healthy children are happy children!”

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Introduction

Type of project: Sports and recreational.

Project type: creative, practice-oriented.

Project implementation: Long-term.

2013 – 2014 academic year (September – May).

Project participants: senior children, parents, physical education instructor, music director, senior teacher, nurse, teachers.

Today, the changes taking place in society and in education place new demands on the nature and quality of relations between preschool institutions and families. The Law “On Education of the Russian Federation” states that preschool education is becoming an independent level of education and will be regulated by federal state educational standards. A special role is given to the family and it is emphasized that parents are the first teachers of their children, and a preschool institution is created to help them. Preserving and strengthening the health of preschool children is one of the most pressing problems of our time. The federal state standard of preschool education identifies the educational area “Physical Development”, the content of which is aimed at achieving the goals of developing children’s interest and value attitude towards physical education, harmonious physical development through solving the following specific tasks:

– development of physical qualities (speed, strength, flexibility, endurance and coordination);

– accumulation and enrichment of children’s motor experience (mastery of basic movements);

– formation in pupils of the need for physical activity and physical improvement.

Solving these problems, teachers of preschool educational institutions not only strive to ensure that children do not have illnesses, but also to ensure that children develop full physical and emotional well-being in harmony.

Currently, the state of health of children in our country is of serious concern to society. According to the Research Institute of Hygiene and Health Protection of Children and Adolescents of the National Center of Economics of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, in Russia, 60% of children aged 3 to 7 years have functional health problems and only 10% of children come to school absolutely healthy. Unfavorable environmental conditions lead to weakened immunity, and, as a result, to an increase in colds and infections. In an educational institution and at home, children spend most of their time in a static position (at the table, in front of the TV, computer, etc.) This increases the static load on certain muscle groups and causes them to fatigue. The strength and performance of skeletal muscles decreases, which leads to poor posture, curvature of the spine, and flat feet. An equally serious impact on the health and development of a preschool child is exerted by deviations in the musculoskeletal system, which are the root cause of many diseases that cannot be treated with medication.

We can say that the fate of society depends on how well the work with preschool children and children in the “risk zone” is organized. Modern society is aware of the need to strengthen children's health not only through medicine, but also through education.

Today the state’s attitude towards the family has changed, and the family itself has become different. The center of work on the full physical development and health of children should be the family and kindergarten as two main social structures that mainly determine the level of health of the child.

The Concept of Preschool Education emphasizes: “The family and kindergarten are chronologically connected by a form of continuity, which facilitates the continuity of the upbringing and education of children. However, a preschooler is not a baton that the family passes into the hands of teachers. What is important here is not the principle of parallelism, but the principle of interpenetration of two social institutions. The most important condition for continuity is the establishment of trusting business contact between the family and the kindergarten, during which the educational position of parents and teachers is adjusted.”

Everyone knows that even the best physical education and health program will not be able to give full results if it is not implemented together with the family, if a child-adult community (children - parents - teachers) is not created in the preschool institution, which is characterized by assistance to each other, consideration the capabilities and interests of everyone, their rights and responsibilities.

An important task in educating the younger generation has always been and remains the education of patriotism and citizenship, since this is the basis of the viability of any society and state, the continuity of generations. In the implementation of this task, a special place is given to tourism and local history activities, which allows the child, through thematic walks, excursions, hikes, to get acquainted with his land, study his small homeland, and learn the patriotic, labor, and moral traditions of the people. During tourism and local history activities, on campaigns, patriotic feelings and impulses are carried out with particular force and leave a deep mark on the young soul. Such complex, strong feelings mature gradually, they are strengthened and deepened by the parents’ attitude towards what surrounds the person.

To raise a child competently, it is necessary to have unified educational influences on him from all adults, to take into account the age and individual characteristics of the child, and to understand what he should know and be able to do at this age. But as practice and scientific research show, parents often make typical mistakes in raising children and experience certain difficulties. The task of a physical education instructor is to help parents in the physical education of their children. Strengthening and developing the interaction between kindergarten and family provides favorable living conditions and upbringing of the child, forming the foundations of a full-fledged, harmonious personality. The main value of pedagogical culture is the child: his development, education, upbringing, social protection and support for his dignity and human rights.

The relevance of this topic is that all parents want to see their child healthy, strong, physically developed, loving his family and Motherland. Caring for the environment, family, and one’s health must begin from preschool age. Most parents understand perfectly well that movement is necessary for normal growth, good health and moral well-being. In our opinion, local history tourism trips will contribute to this.

Maintaining in children a positive attitude towards an active lifestyle, and in the future the desire to maintain and strengthen their health are important components of upbringing in the family. The best way to introduce a child to a healthy lifestyle is to show by example how to approach physical education and sports. If a child sees that their parents enjoy healthy, active leisure, they will definitely imitate them.

The best way to organize interaction between a physical education instructor and parents is to create an effective system of cooperation. It is the parents who make up the child’s first social environment and are the main educators, on whose position the child’s development largely depends.

Formulation of the problem

Currently, the main problem of preschool childhood is the poor physical development of children upon entering kindergarten. The overall picture is this: children experience a “motor deficit”; age-related development of speed, agility, coordination of movements, endurance, flexibility and strength is delayed. Children are overweight and have poor posture, as a result of which they are visually clumsy, baggy, have sluggish gestures and facial expressions, drag their legs behind them when walking, feel stiff, insecure, have their heads down, and have no pride in their posture.

A survey of parents of children who attend kindergarten showed that parents have insufficient knowledge of how to strengthen their child’s health through hiking, physical exercise, hardening, and outdoor games. They often protect their children from physical exertion (“don’t run, don’t jump, don’t climb, otherwise you’ll fall, sit”), even from healthy competition in outdoor games.

These indicators determined the relevance of the chosen topic, the purpose of which was to preserve and strengthen the health of children of senior preschool age through tourist walks.

To achieve this goal, the project objectives were defined:

1. Create conditions for physical education and recreational work in preschool educational institutions using non-traditional equipment.

2. To develop in children vital motor skills and abilities that contribute to emotional self-expression and emancipation of children during hiking trips

3. Improve children’s conscious attitude towards physical education and health activities.

4. Enrich parent-child relationships when conducting joint events, while paying special attention to preserving and strengthening the physical health of children of senior preschool age through hiking trips

Hypothesis : The physical qualities of children will effectively develop, and their health will be maintained and strengthened, provided that a system of working with children on physical education and health improvement is developed by a physical education instructor together with parents of preschool children.

Research base: MKDOU “Kindergarten “Smile”.

Organization of the environment:

• equipment for the gym and sports ground: gymnastic wall, gymnastic corner, gymnastic benches and boards, cubes, hanging ladders and ropes, arches of different heights.

• aids for conducting outdoor control and internal affairs activities: gymnastic sticks, flags, handkerchiefs, ropes, cubes, plumes, medicine balls, skittles, rings, rubber balls (of different sizes), massage balls, hoops (of different diameters).

Expected result:

Parents:

• enriching parent-child relationships in joint physical education activities;
• increasing interest in the life of kindergarten;
• increasing the physical education and health literacy of parents.

Children:

• reduction in morbidity rates;
• increasing the level of physical fitness;
• awareness of the need for physical education, sports and a healthy lifestyle.

Project implementation stages:

• Stage I – organizational;
• Stage II – preparatory;
• Stage III – basic – practical;
• Stage IV – final.

Work on the project includes the activities of teachers, children and parents. It is distributed as follows by project stages.

Project implementation

Due to prevailing economic reasons and busyness at work, modern parents devote most of their time to issues of financial support for the family, thus, the child’s natural need to move in the family, albeit unconsciously, is suppressed. And, having started taking their child to a preschool institution, parents often shift responsibility for their physical education onto the shoulders of teachers.

It is possible to properly raise a healthy child only when the uniform requirements of the kindergarten and family in matters of education, health improvement, daily routine, and development of motor skills are met.

Thus, the further search for effective ways to preserve and strengthen the health of preschool children should include increasing the role of parents in improving the health of children, introducing them to a healthy lifestyle, and creating traditions of family physical education. An important place in solving these socially significant problems is occupied by a kindergarten, which can act as a kind of center for promoting a healthy lifestyle, nurturing a family culture, and developing in parents knowledge, skills and abilities on various aspects of preserving and promoting the health of both children and adults.

The functions of parents in organizing the physical education of children:

The functions of parents in organizing the physical education of children can be grouped as follows:

• creating the necessary material and technical conditions for studying at home;
• monitoring and facilitating children’s compliance with the daily routine, personal hygiene rules, hardening, morning exercises and homework;
• direct participation in health days, sports leisure activities, physical education and music festivals, games, entertainment, walks, excursions, family team competitions.

Project implementation principles:

• the principle of science (reinforcement of all ongoing activities aimed at improving health with scientifically based and practically proven methods);
• the principle of activity and consciousness (participation of the entire team of teachers and parents in the search for new, effective methods and targeted activities to improve the health of themselves and their children);
• the principle of complexity and integrativeness (solving health problems in the system of the entire educational process of all types of activities);
• the principle of targeting and continuity (maintaining connections between age categories, taking into account different levels of development and health status);
• the principle of effectiveness and assurance (realization of children’s rights to receive the necessary help and support, guarantee of a positive result regardless of the age and level of physical development of children);
• the principle of diversified personality development (intensifying the mental activity of children, creating conditions in which the child himself seeks a rational solution);
• the principle of humanization (physical education and health activities are based on comfort, taking into account the desires and moods of children);
• the principle of individuality (providing a healthy lifestyle for each child, taking into account his health, interest, selection of optimal physical activity);
• the principle of cyclicality and systematicity (gradually increasing the load as physical fitness increases);
• the health-improving principle (ensuring a rational general motor regime, alternating motor and cognitive activity of children in productive activities);
• the principle of relationship with the family (compliance with the uniform requirements of the preschool educational institution and the family in raising a healthy child and involvement in health-preserving and recreational activities and their evaluation).

Forms and methods of project implementation

Integration of educational areas

The project allows you to integrate information from different fields of knowledge to solve a problem and apply it in practice.

Integration of the educational field “Physical Development” with other areas

Integration with the educational field “Socio-communicative development”:

To interest parents in the development of children's play activities, ensuring successful socialization and the assimilation of gender behavior. Create motivation to preserve and create family sports traditions, involve in drawing up a cooperation agreement and interaction plan. Recommend using every opportunity to communicate with the child, the reason for which may be the child’s achievements and difficulties in physical development. Encourage help to establish relationships with peers. Involve parents in cooperation that is varied in content and form - participation in the activities of the parent club, preparation for sporting events. To promote the development of free communication between adults and children through joint physical education activities.

Integration with the educational field “Cognitive Development”:

To orient parents to the development of their child’s need for cognition by reading fiction about sports. Show the benefits of walks and excursions that evoke positive emotions. Hold competitions and games with your family.

Integration with the educational field “Speech Development”:

Recommend and guide parents in choosing feature and animated films aimed at developing interest in sports. Involve parents in project activities (designing albums and collages, illustrated together with children on a sports theme).

Integration with the educational field “Artistic and Aesthetic Development”:

Organize exhibitions of family art on a sports theme, highlighting the creative achievements of adults and children. To reveal the possibilities of music as a means of beneficial “impact on a child’s mental health.” Show parents the influence of family leisure (holidays, entertainment) on the development of parent-child relationships. Involve parents in various forms of joint physical education and musical activities with children in kindergarten.

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Theme of the weeks and content of activities

1st week

“What is hardening?”: getting ideas about hardening, the benefits of hardening for the human body.

Contents of the activity: viewing paintings and talking about their content; role-playing game “For health in kindergarten”; printed board game “Towards the road to health.

2nd week

“How can you harden?”: introduction to different types and methods of hardening.

Contents of the activity: printed board game “Name and Show”; quiz “Who knows more about hardening?”

3rd week

“Walk”: gaining knowledge about air hardening, the need for annual walks in the fresh air, ideas about exercises for the development of hardening nasal breathing.

Contents of the activity: viewing the paintings “Walks in different places” and talking about their content; reading (the poem “Walk” by A. Barto); experiment “Why is it more useful to breathe through your nose while walking?”

4th week

“Country of Hardening” (collective compilation of fairy tales and stories about hardening): the formation of a conscious attitude towards hardening, the ability to react emotionally to hardening events and actively participate in them (with the desire to talk about hardening)

Contents of the activity: inventing riddles about hardening; listening to a fairy tale; joint activity with parents “Tempering with Mom.”

5th week

“The sun, air and water are our best friends!”: introduction to the rules of hardening the body with the help of natural factors, various hardening procedures.

Contents of the activity: examination of the illustrations “Morning. Running", "In training"; reading the proverb “Sun, air and water always help us”; drawing “Oh, healthy water!”; creation of the album “Hardening with Mom and Dad”; excursion with parents to the “Healthy Gallery”.