在手工活动中培养孩子的创造力

今天我们用手工彩纸和废报纸做蔬菜和水果。把报纸搓成团，外面包上绿色纸，变成一棵卷心菜。用菊黄色包住一个扁园球就成了一个小南瓜。孩子们又把红色纸团成一个个小团，下面粘上嬉戏的绿纸，就变成了一个个草莓。她们又“变”出了洋葱和番茄。孩子们玩得既开心又投入，充分发挥了她们的创造力和想象力。
其实，这个手工创意来自其中的一个孩子。
在有一次手工活动时，我让孩子用一张菊黄纸“变”一个橙子（剪出，画出，或撕出一个园即可）。没想到一个孩子随手检起身边的一个球，用纸一包，信心十足地说“看，橙子。”哇，多好的创造力。我当即给她鼓励和肯定。

一个午餐袋的回馈

洁纳斯妈妈昨天告诉我前天回家的路上，洁纳斯拿着她的手工作品——午餐袋，很开心。里面放着各种她自己做的水果和蔬菜。弟弟也喜欢，要拿她的袋袋。她不愿意。争执之下，撕破了袋子。洁纳斯哭了，并打了弟弟。妈妈当时没有出声，因为她觉得是弟弟不对。可是过了不久，洁纳斯主动对弟弟说“弟弟对不起。可是我真得很喜欢这个袋袋。”

听了这个故事，我感到很欣慰。我为自己设计的这个活动被孩子们喜爱而欣慰，更为洁纳斯的情感发育欣慰，也为洁纳斯有这样理解孩子的妈妈感到欣慰。

孩子的探索

一个18个月大的孩子正在玩磁性的钓鱼游戏。偶然地钓鱼竿吸到了金属的门框上。小男孩奇怪地看着这一现象。过了一会儿，他便一个接一个地把鱼贴到门框上。多敏感的观察力和探索兴趣。我从此更多地给他智力玩具玩（拼图，开锁和建筑积木），他总是表现出极大的兴趣和能力。

孩子的喜好

我有这样一个喜欢蛋糕的孩子：

有段时间，只要画图，她总是最爱画蛋糕。如果你问她想唱什么歌？她一定选“生日快乐”。咖啡色的铅笔用的最快，因为她要把蛋糕加上巧克力。沙池里玩做蛋糕是最开心的游戏。蛋糕的第一个英文字母是C很快就能记住。有一次她住了医院。每次送饭进来，她都会唱“祝你生日快乐”。

可是，她实际并不爱吃蛋糕。她的父母每次要动脑筋找她生日蛋糕的替代。

  如何解释孩子的喜好？不用有准确的答案。但我根据她的这一兴趣让她数蛋糕上的蜡烛，或者分割蛋糕的块数时，她总会表现出比起它任何时候更专心和认真。

玩瓶盖的启示

Yesterday my sister in China told me her grandson has become interested in playing with bottle caps.

This reminded me of something that happened 3 years ago. At that time, a girl who was 1 year old liked playing with bottle caps too. 

One day while I was helping the girl twist open the bottle cap, I put a small ball inside the bottle, so that every time she shook the bottle, there would be a nice sound. The girl loved the toy, and repeatedly played with this bottle "rattle" for many days, and stayed interested in it every day.

One day, when it was hometime, the girl didn't want to leave the bottle behind and I let her take it home with her.

Next morning, the girl's mum told me that the girl loved the toy, and had only played with the bottle all night. However, the bottle accidentally rolled under the sofa. She quickly crawled down to look for it, and started crying when she couldn't find it. Her dad tried to give her lots of different toys, until finally her dad moved the sofa to fetch the bottle. Only then did the girl stop crying, and happily continued to play with the bottle.

This story tells us that a good toy doesn't have to be expensive.

昨天我在中国的姐姐在网上告诉我，她的孙子开始感兴趣玩开瓶盖。

这使我记起3年前，当时我这里一个一岁多的女孩也喜欢玩开瓶盖。

当时我引导她旋开盖子，把一个小球放进瓶里 然后拧住盖子，摇摇小瓶，就会听到好听的声音。女孩专心地学着这些，玩得非常开心。她反复玩着这个玩具，一连好几天，每天保持着她的兴趣。

一天，当她回家时，她还舍不得离开她的瓶子，在我的允许下她开心地把它带回了家。 

第二天早上，女孩的妈妈告诉我，女孩非常喜欢这个玩具。这天晚上她只玩这个玩具。一不小心，小瓶滚到沙发下面。她很快自己爬下去找。拿不到她便伤心地哭了。爸爸试图给了她很多不同的玩具，但她还是不停地哭。爸爸只好搬开沙发，帮她取出来，她才停止哭，继续开心地玩起来

这个故事告诉我们，好的玩具不一定需要花大价钱去店里买。

音乐的魔力

Some months ago, I was playing some Snow White music to some children under my care.
The children started following along to the music, using different toys (hammer, golf stick, drum stick) to walk one by one like the 7 dwaves.

Hayden, a boy who was only 10 months old at the time, picked up a home-made "music roll" made of cardboard onto his shoulder and with a smile, also moved his body to the music rhythm. 

After that day, every time we played the same Snow White music, he would repeat this action.


From this play Hayden became interested in all types of music, even as he began to learn to walk. Not only would he point his "music roll" at the radio every time, but he shared the "music roll" with his friends, and invited them play together with the music. 

Hayden also started paying more attention to different music types, even classic music. Once we were playing some classical violin music, Hayden started walking very slowly at the beginning, then following the increasing pace of the music he began walking faster and also yelled with excitement. 

Music has stimulated Hayden's emotional and cognitive development or is Hayden a special child who is especially sensitive to music?

 几个月前，在我的照顾下孩子玩起了白雪公主音乐。孩子们跟着音乐，用不同的玩具（高尔夫球棍，锤，棒鼓），一个个像7 小矮人似的行走。

Hayden，当时只有10个月大的男孩，拿起自制的“音乐卷”放在他的肩膀上，面带微笑，也随着音乐的节奏运动他的身体。

那天以后，每次我们放相同的白雪公主的音乐，他就会重复这个动作。


起于这个游戏，海登表现出对音乐的兴趣。学会走路后，他不仅会点着录音机要放音乐，还主动把音乐卷给小朋友，邀请他们一起玩音乐游戏。

渐渐的，海登关注起不同的音乐类型，甚至古典音乐。在他14个月大的时候，一次我放了经典小提琴曲，海登先是缓慢行走，然后速度加快，因为音乐的旋律变化了。随着步伐加快，他兴奋地大叫起来。

是音乐激发了海登的情感和认知能力的发展，还是海登是一个特殊的音乐敏感的孩子？

What do you want as a parent from your child's school?

Teacher   teach me laugh, love and live.

One of the parents of a child that I look after gave me an art poster as a present which had these words.

Do you think this is most important for your child at school or child care ?