Theoretical aspect of preparing and conducting a walk
A walk is the most suitable way to introduce children to the nature of their native land. This is why regular outdoor activities are an important component of the kindergarten educational program. The duration of the walk in the older group is 3–4 hours in the summer (before lunch and after a nap) and 1–1.5 hours in the winter (only before lunch).
The duration of the walk depends on the topic and type of leisure activity, for example, a target walk lasts a little longer than a regular daily walk
Why do preschoolers need walks?
In addition to the main purpose of taking walks in kindergarten, namely increasing immunity and improving general health, outdoor leisure contributes to the implementation of the triune direction of the educational process:
- Teach kids to find, record and analyze changes in the world around them associated with the change of seasons and human activity (for example, by removing leaves from a park bench, a janitor made it possible to use it for its intended purpose).
- Work to develop and improve the skill of observing nature, people, space.
- Fostering a positive attitude towards people, animals, plants, as well as the results of human labor, aimed at preserving and increasing existing natural and material wealth.
Playing games together fosters a positive attitude towards each other and the people around you.
Walking tasks
In order to achieve the set pedagogical goals, the teacher solves a number of educational tasks at each walk, as well as during preparation for it:
- Shows children the uniqueness of nature in all its manifestations.
- Shows interesting places in his native land, presents the results of the work of people who are engaged in landscaping and improving the city, town, village, village.
- Teaches you to analyze observational facts and draw conclusions on this basis (for example, to understand that, despite the differences between spruce and pine, they have a lot in common, which means they are “relatives”).
- Continues to teach children the ability to dress for the weather.
- Finds ways to improve the culture of health, in particular, through developing the habit of relieving yourself and cleaning your nose before going out.
- Instill a responsible attitude towards coexistence with the outside world.
Walking requirements according to educational standards
For productive leisure time on the street, the Federal State Educational Standard (FSES) defines 4 conditions:
- Each age category of children should have their own separate area.
- Children should have a sufficient selection of toys for playing in the sandbox (moulds, buckets, shovels and scoops).
Playing with sand is important for the development of a child’s fine motor skills, so there should be a sandbox in every area
- On the territory of the group site there should be a gazebo that hospitably welcomes children and adults in case of unexpected bad weather.
- Purity. Special attention is paid to this parameter: janitors regularly clean the area, and teachers monitor the condition of the area throughout the day.
Types of walks
- Daily walks - regardless of the season, but keeping an eye on the weather.
- Sports walks organized on the street. On average, there are 3-4 such “outings” per academic year. In the older group, children are involved in activities that involve competition, such as relay races.
- Targeted walks: during them, children and a teacher go outside outside their area, for example, to a park, a museum, etc. If the walk is long, the route is additionally agreed upon by the teacher with the kindergarten administration. Also, during such a walk there must be at least two adult accompanying persons.
- Unusual walks. The main condition for carrying out these is the creation of an unusual situation of going outside. For example, going to visit some fairy-tale character and completing tasks along the way. Often these outings are accompanied by a costumed transformation, when a teacher or a guest animator plays the role of a fairy tale character.
An example of a non-standard winter walk - a trip to visit Zimushka-Winter
Progress of observation
Playful icicles sat on the cornice.
Playful icicles looked down.
They got tired of hanging down and started throwing droplets.
The ringing goes on all day long - drip-drip! Don-don! Yu. Klyushnikov
Guys, please note that icicles form on the sunny side of the house. "drip" come from?
? Stand quietly and listen to the drops falling.
Let each child look at the icicle, touch it with their hands, find out what it is like - smooth, rough, etc. Invite the children to look at the world around them through the icicle. What is visible? Is it transparent or not? What does an icicle look like? Let the children make their suggestions: why is it shaped like that, how is the sharp tip formed? Why do icicles “grow”
tip down? (When a drop flows down an icicle and falls down, it seems to stretch out and the tip becomes thin.)
The teacher asks the children a riddle.
What grows upside down? (Icicle.)
There is a sign: long icicles mean a long spring.
Watching the dog
Objectives: to systematize ideas about animal life in spring;
— teach to find the causes of changes in the lives of animals, establish cause-and-effect relationships; develop evidence-based speech; foster a sense of responsibility for those who have been tamed.
Preparing for the walk
The algorithm for going for a walk is simple, but it requires adults to concentrate:
- Kids need to be divided into 2 groups. The principle of separation is the level of development of self-service skills. In other words, if a child independently takes off sandals, a T-shirt, shorts and puts everything in its place in the locker, and also relieves himself in the toilet without the help of adults and blows his nose before starting to get ready to go outside, then such a child can be assigned to the first group .
- Together with the teacher, the “first” go to the toilet and blow their nose.
- Then they get dressed and go out.
- The latter, together with the assistant teacher, begin and end the toilet.
- After that they get dressed and go out.
This is important: pay special attention that sick children are the last to go outside and the first to come in. If some children do not go for a walk for one reason or another, they should remain under the supervision of an adult who is able to bear responsibility for their life and health.
An important stage in preparing for a walk is to dress the kids for the weather.
Progress of observation
The teacher asks the children questions.
By what characteristic features can you recognize mountain ash?
Tell a poem about rowan.
What proverbs and sayings do you know about her?
When does mountain ash bloom?
Who will be the first to visit the fragrant rowan flowers? Why?
At the end of April, in May, our mountain ash comes to life again, waking up after hibernation. Carved green leaves grow slowly, and the rowan tree begins to bloom. The first bee guests buzz happily near her. With its fragrant aroma, it involuntarily attracts the attention of passers-by.
Observing the height of the sun
Goal: to consolidate knowledge about the influence of solar energy on the life of plants, animals and humans.
Types of organized activities for children during a walk
The structure of the educational program of the kindergarten involves the organization and combination of 4 types of activities for children during walks in different combinations.
Observation
Regarding the disclosure of the theme of the walk, observation as an organizational stage is in first place among other types of activities . On walks with children 5–6 years old, the following objects are considered:
- animals, plants, insects living in the area;
- precipitation (snow, fog, rain, etc.);
- the process and results of the work of representatives of different professions (builder, driver, janitor, etc.);
- remarkable places of the native land.
When choosing an object to consider, the organizer of the walk determines its type:
- short-term observation (for example, the position in space, size, shape of an object);
- long-term (for example, accumulation of information about the development cycle of a plant from seed to flower or bush).
For a correct analysis of the facts, it is important that the children in the senior group adhere to the algorithm for obtaining information during observation:
- Tracking facts and phenomena. For example: flying leaves, sudden changes in weather, short-term rain.
- Establishing a relationship between the observed elements: leaves fly off more intensely, and it becomes colder with strong gusts of wind.
- Accumulation of data on the phenomenon: the wind also drives clouds, which means it may start to rain.
- Comparing data with each other and with already known information (or trying to determine what young observers already understand and what has just been discovered).
- Formulation of conclusions (one of the signs of autumn is a strong wind, which is a harbinger of changing weather conditions, causing leaves to fly around and bringing probable rain).
Experiments
In order for the observation stage to be most productive, it is supplemented with experiments, during which children come to certain conclusions in practice. The use of this technique is especially effective when the topic of the walk coincides with the topic of the lesson on the environment. The children are happy to be involved in experiments, and yet methodologists do not recommend conducting more than 3-4 experiments per month, since satiety may set in.
There should not be too many experiences, otherwise the children will get fed up with them
Table: card index of experiments during a walk in the senior group (fragments), author Olga Ivanovna Ivanova
Name | Target | Materials | Content | Bottom line |
"Properties of Water" | Introduce children to the properties of water (takes shape, has no smell, taste, color). | Several transparent vessels of different shapes, water. | Pour water into transparent vessels of different shapes and show the children that the water takes the shape of the vessels. | Water has no form and takes the shape of the vessel into which it is poured. |
"Sand Cone" | Set the properties of sand. | Clean sand. | Take a handful of dry sand and release it in a stream so that it falls in one place. Gradually, a cone forms at the site of the fall, growing in height and occupying an increasingly larger area at the base. If you pour sand for a long time, then in one place, then in another, alloys appear; the movement of sand is similar to a current. | Sand can move. |
"Life cycle of flies" | Observe the life cycle of flies. |
| Peel the banana and put it in a jar. Leave the jar open for several days. Check the jar daily. When the fruit flies appear, cover the jar with a nylon stocking and tie it with an elastic band. Leave the flies in the jar for three days, and after this period, release them all. Close the jar again with the stocking. Monitor the jar for two weeks. | After a few days you will see larvae crawling along the bottom. Later, the larvae will develop into cocoons, and eventually flies will appear. Drosophila are attracted to the smell of ripe fruit. They lay eggs on fruits, from which larvae develop and then pupae are formed. Pupae are similar to cocoons into which caterpillars turn. At the last stage, an adult fly emerges from the pupa, and the cycle repeats again. |
“Dependence of snow melting on temperature” | Bring children to understand the dependence of the state of snow (ice) on air temperature: the higher the temperature, the faster the snow will melt. | On a frosty day, invite children to make snowballs. Why don't snowballs work? The snow is powdery and dry. What can be done? Bring the snow into the group, after a few minutes we try to make a snowball. The snow has become plastic. The snowballs were blinding. Why did the snow become sticky? | The condition of the snow depends on the air temperature. The higher the temperature, the faster the snow melts and changes its properties. |
Labor activity
In the process of implementing this stage of the walk, kids learn to take responsibility for completing a particular task, and also, having realized the expected result, select the right tools and carry out the sequence of operations to implement the task. In other words, if the teacher gives the order to clean up the area, the kids take brooms and dustpans and use them for their intended purpose.
Types of work for children 5–6 years old:
- caring for flower beds (watering, for example);
- cleaning up garbage (janitors do this work regularly, so kids can only sweep away leaves from benches, rake snow or remove dust from toys on the territory);
- replenishing grain supplies in bird feeders (children regularly pour grain into birdhouses);
Caring for birds is part of the work block of the walk
- sorting and folding game material before returning to the group.
Play activity
This stage traditionally takes the most time. Games can be active with jumping, elements of running (in good weather) and calm without sudden movements and the need for extensive free space (if it was raining the day before, for example, and now it’s slushy). The latter include skittles, towns, etc.
In the older group, children are introduced to 3-4 new games per week, and most of the fun is competitive.
The most famous outdoor games in Rus' were heroic games
Video: outdoor games for walks
Individual work
This stage of the walk involves a selection of tasks that will help identify children’s preferences by involving them in different types of activities. For example, some of the children will be happy to play with the ball, while the rest will enthusiastically catch butterflies.
All activities can be accompanied by music. That is, the teacher pre-selects melodies suitable for the rhythm for each type of activity, or makes part of the task of the game stage musical (for example, a competition - who can dance the longest on a newspaper / tile, as well as a competition in the sense of rhythm, when kids must change the style of dance in depending on the piece of music heard).
Summer afternoon walks usually include playful and individual activities. This is due to the fact that children are picked up at different times, which means that it is difficult for the teacher to coordinate not only the children’s activities, but also to pay attention to mothers and fathers who are interested in how their child’s day went.
The development of tasks for individual work should be based on knowledge of the temperament and character of children
Remote material
For adequate and interested learning of any activity, children need visual materials that they can touch, feel and play with.
Table: sets of takeaway material depending on the topic of the walk
Subject | Kind of activity | Materials |
"Insects: Spiders" | Observation | Pictures of a spider, magnifying glass. |
Work | Small boxes for collecting flower seeds. | |
A game | Balls. | |
Individual work |
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"Freight transport" | Observation | Pictures depicting a dump truck, truck, fuel tanker, etc. (can be from the cartoon about the Levu truck). |
Work | Brooms and dustpans for collecting fallen leaves. | |
A game | Toy cars, dolls. | |
Individual work |
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"Professions: janitor" | Observation | Pictures depicting representatives of different professions. |
Work |
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A game |
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Individual work | Nets. |
Despite the fact that kids do not know how to properly use a shovel, it is their responsibility to take it outside
Progress of observation
The teacher asks the children a riddle and conducts a conversation.
On four wheels,
With windows and doors. (A car.)
What does a passenger car look like?
How is it different from a cargo truck?
What types of cars do you know?
Is the person who drives a car called a driver or a chauffeur?
Watching the drop
Goals:
— consolidate knowledge about changes in water depending on temperature;
- teach research activities.
Time plan for the walk
Like any other activity in an educational institution, every minute of leisure time in the fresh air should be beneficial. To do this, the teacher should carefully plan all stages of the walk:
- Organizational issues (collecting take-out materials, going to the toilet, getting dressed) – 30 minutes.
- Observation – 5–25 minutes.
- Labor activity - 10–15 minutes.
- Game - 15–40 minutes.
Play activity is the longest during a walk
- Individual work - 10–20 minutes.
It turns out that without taking into account the organizational aspect, on average, a walk lasts 40 minutes in winter, and up to 1.5 hours in the warm season. Timing is calculated based on weather conditions.
For each month, 10 to 12 walking topics are planned.
Table: thematic card index of walks for the older group (fragments), authors Tatyana Dolgova and Irina Kravchenko
date | Subject | Type of activity (estimated completion time) | Target | Content |
October | "Transport" | Truck surveillance (20 minutes) | Learn to distinguish a truck from a passenger car. | Powerful transport - a truck I'm used to carrying heaviness. What does a car need a body for? To carry cargo in it! The teacher asks the children questions:
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Labor (10 minutes) |
| Cleaning up fallen leaves | ||
Game (40 minutes) |
| Game "Burners":
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Game "Wolf in the Moat":
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Individual work (10 minutes) | Improve your walking technique while maintaining your balance. | Walking on a log | ||
October | "Pets: Horse" | Observation (10 minutes) |
| The teacher asks the children a riddle and conducts a conversation:
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Labor (30 minutes) | Generate interest in tree planting | Planting Christmas trees on an ecological trail. | ||
Game (30 minutes) | Achieve correct technique in previously mastered types of walking. | Game "Sentry":
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Game "Hot and Cold":
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Individual work (10 minutes) |
| Walking from heel to toe, swinging your arms. | ||
February | "Traffic rules: pedestrian path" | Footpath observation (10 minutes) | To develop knowledge about the pedestrian part of the road, traffic rules |
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Labor (15 minutes) | Foster a desire to collectively improve your area. | Clearing the area of snow. | ||
Game (10 minutes) |
| “Hit the target”: children take turns hitting the ball into a basket or box, being at the same distance from it. | ||
Individual work (5 minutes) | Strengthen the ability to move with an extended step. | Walking with side steps | ||
March | "Migratory birds" | Bird watching on site (15 minutes) |
| “The grass has turned green again, And the forests have curled up. "Spring! Spring! It's time to get down to business!" - The voices of birds are already ringing. They carry dry twigs, straw, pieces of moss - Everything will be useful for them at home, To create comfort for the chicks. And tits, sparrows, starlings are pouring on the branches, Because soon there will be babies in the nests - Their yellow-throated chicks.” The teacher asks the children questions:
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Labor (15 minutes) |
| Sprinkling sand on the paths on the site. | ||
Game (15 minutes) |
| Game "Catch and throw":
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Individual work (10 minutes) | Develop jumping ability, the ability to concentrate muscle efforts, combining strength with speed. | Jumping up from a place. |
All types of activities during the walk are combined taking into account the goals and objectives set by the teacher. Thus, experiments and observations can be applied throughout the walk.
Activities during the walk can be combined at the discretion of the teacher
Table: summary of a walk in the senior group on the topic “We are not afraid of frost” (fragments), author Elena Sholomitskaya
Kind of activity | Content |
Observation (experiment) | <... - People say: “In February there are two friends - frost and blizzard.” Guys, let's check if there is frost outside today. I suggest you conduct an experiment. What did you and I do to avoid freezing? Children: Dress warmly. “ I have water and a handkerchief in a cup, I’ll dip the handkerchief in the water and hang it on a rope, and after a while we’ll see what happens to the handkerchief.” (The teacher performs the actions)…> <…Now let’s check if it’s frosty outside, let’s see what happened to our handkerchief. Look - what has he become like? (children's answers). It’s hard, touch it with your hands, which means it’s frosty outside today. Conclusion from the experiment: the handkerchief froze, we know that water freezes in the cold, turns into ice, and our handkerchief was wet, and it froze, froze...> |
Work | Children clear the paths of snow. |
A game | Outdoor game “Frost-Red Nose”:
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“Let’s play the new game “Penguins and the Bear.” Goal: to teach children not to run outside the playground, to cultivate friendliness and attention to each other, to practice running while dodging, and spatial orientation.
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Individual work | Ice skating downhill, sledding. |
The final stage |
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Progress of observation
Lay down in the snowstorm fields
In snow-white beds.
It's time to rest!
Drops are ringing at the porch,
The sparrows are cheerful
Drive winter out of the yard! P. Obraztsov
March is the first month of spring. But look out the window: it’s snowing, the wind is shaking the bare branches of the trees. Everything feels like winter, and I can’t believe that winter is already behind me. But spring is still approaching. The sun rises before seven o'clock in the morning and sets around eight in the evening, which means that the day has increased by almost five hours.
March 21 is the day of the vernal equinox, i.e. the day is equal in length to the night. Then it will continue to increase, and the night will decrease.
March is the spring of light . There are days when the clouds clear in the morning, the sun comes out and illuminates the snow-covered land. This is where you can immediately say that the snowstorms and blizzards are coming to an end. You involuntarily squint your eyes and don’t want to leave the yard.
The teacher asks the children questions.
List the signs of spring.
What month is it?
What happens to snow in spring?
How does a person's life change in spring?
Observing the behavior of birds on the site,
Encourage children to come to their own conclusions - how the spring revival in the life of birds is manifested: the ringing song of tits, sparrows selecting pairs for themselves, crows sitting on eggs.
Poem by I. Nikitin:
The tit is shading loudly
Near our window...
Soon there will be a knock on our door
Real spring!
— What do birds do in the spring? (they fly in, return to their native land, build nests, settle in birdhouses, hatch chicks, etc.).
Labor activity
Removing snow from the area.
Goal: to develop labor skills.
Outdoor games
“Who will remain in the circle?”
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"Living Labyrinth"
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Goals:
- develop a sense of balance, dexterity, speed of movement;
— train coherence of collective actions, speed of reaction and ingenuity.
Individual work
Development of movements.
Goal: practice running at speed, improve the technique of standing long jump.
March.
Card No. 2.
Sparrow observation.
Goals:
- continue to consolidate, clarify and systematize children’s knowledge about the familiar bird - the sparrow;
- enrich your vocabulary with artistic words about the sparrow;
- activate attention and memory;
— teach to see changes in the behavior of birds with the arrival of spring.
Open lesson-walk
Leisure in the fresh air quite often becomes the object of demonstrating the psychological and pedagogical achievements of kindergarten employees in the field of organizing the process of acquiring knowledge, skills and abilities for children. This trend is due to the fact that during a walk children can express themselves in different types of activities in a relatively short period of time.
Table: summary of an open lesson-walk in the senior group" (fragments), author Ekaterina Lysenko (Kemerovo)
Kind of activity | Content |
Organizing time | Educator: Guys, look how many guests we have! Let's smile at them and say hello to them. Guys, what time of year is it now? What's the weather like today? (Cold, cloudy, windy, calm, no precipitation). (Children's answers). |
Observation | Educator: Guys, look around! Inhale through your nose and feel the freshness of winter air. What's the winter air like? (Children's answers). Educator: What needs to be done to avoid freezing outside in winter? (Children's answers). Educator: What winter sports do you know? (Children's answers). Educator: What should you not put in your mouth or eat on the street? (Children's answers). Educator: I see that everyone is in a good mood, I suggest we play a game. |
A game | Game "Flies - doesn't fly":
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How to analyze outdoor leisure time
Like any other type of educational activity, leisure time during a walk is carefully analyzed in order to draw up methodological recommendations for working with a specific group of children. Such monitoring is carried out, as a rule, four times a year: at the end of autumn, winter, spring and summer.
This is interesting: the last - summer - analysis is carried out as an integral element of the analysis of the children’s readiness to move to the group of the next age category.
Table: scheme for analyzing walks in the senior group
Assessment aspect | Walk plan | Organization of exit | Observation | Work | A game | Individual work | Features of the end of the walk |
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Score from 1 to 5 (average for all components) | average rating | average rating | average rating | average rating | average rating | average rating | average rating |
Notes | Notes | Notes | Notes | Notes | Notes | Notes | Notes |
Walking in the senior group is an integral element of the daily educational process. During leisure time on the street, children get acquainted with the world around them, learn to analyze it and draw conclusions based on this. They also instill a love for their native nature. To put it in a high, pathetic style, children learn to love their homeland while walking.
Progress of observation
The spruce warmed up in the sun, the pine melted.
It's April in the forest, the drops are ringing. It's spring in the forest,
Droplets knock on the snow:
“Snowdrop, stop sleeping!”
And the fur coats of squirrels and hares
Wet again in the morning. And slowing down the cunning run,
Walking through the snow into the forest, Falling into the melted snow,
The fox drinks at the hole. Pearls fly down:
“Come on, catch us!”
All covered in holes from light splashes
There is a fragile crust under the tree. But still March , not April.
As soon as the sun goes down, the ringing drops fall silent
And again there is ice on the branches. 3. Alexandrova
The teacher asks the children questions and conducts a conversation.
On which side are the icicles longer - the sunny side and the shady side? (With solar.)
On which side do the icicles melt faster? (With solar - the sun heats the ice and it turns into water.)
Let's check. We place one vessel under the icicles on the shady side, the other on the sunny side. Let's see which container will hold the most water.
Labor activity
Collective work in the garden.
Goal: to consolidate gardening skills.
Outdoor games
"Catch up with your mate"
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"Trap, take the tape"
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Goal: explain the rules of the game, teach how to act on a signal, develop dexterity.
Individual work
Development of movements.
Goal: practice throwing the ball up and catching it with both hands.
March.
Card No. 10.
Watching a magpie.
Goals:
- awaken interest in the “fairy-tale person”
- white-sided magpie;
- teach to recognize a bird by its plumage and the sound it makes;
- enrich your vocabulary with artistic words;
- cultivate a caring attitude towards birds.