Work in My Backyard

Travaillez dans ma cour!

1) Learning objectives: To stimulate children’s love for labor and improve their self-care awareness and sense of responsibility.

2) Theoretical guidance: The basic condition for human survival and development is labor, and the love for labor is China’s traditional virtue. Childhood is the period for the development of children's self consciousness and a good period for children to conduct and practice independent activities. Therefore, based on the age characteristics of children, the game cultivates children’s good qualities of hardship endurance, respect for laborers and cherishment of labor results in the labor process.

3) Creative learning: In the game “Work in My Backyard”, children can make their own home, which completely cultivates their labor awareness, enhances their independence, and promote the formation of excellent personalities. After clearing, the garden is completely new again, which enables children to enjoy the happiness of labor and stimulates their passion for labor.

4) Suggestions for parents: When guiding children to labor, parents should notice the following: 1. To stimulate children’s interest in labor through various forms, such as pictures, videos, songs including the “Painter” and “Labor is the Most Glorious” etc. that are related to labor; 2. To create an environment for labor and labor with the children. For example, to raise small animals and plant plants together. 3. Labor should be appropriate. Don’t take children as workers and ask them to do something beyond their capacity. Labor can help children to form responsibility for family and then to social responsibility, helping them to become social persons.