As a selfless people's teachers, from time to time you need to use the lesson plan, the lesson plan is the general organization of teaching activities and the program of action. How to write a lesson plan? The following is my carefully organized selection of 10 kindergarten art lesson plans.
Kindergarten art lesson plan Part 1
Activity Objectives:
1. Recognize the five-star red flag, know that it is our national flag.
2. Understand the symbolism of the flag.
3. Feel the solemn atmosphere and respect for the flag when it is raised. Activity preparation: experience preparation: children have seen the national flag, watched the flag-raising ceremony in kindergarten.
Material Preparation:
The world's national flags card, the national flag fluttering courseware, Tiananmen flag-raising ceremony video, homemade flag-raising flash, the production of national flag materials.
Activity process:
(a) Observe different national flags.
Observe different flags. Teacher: Children, look, what are these? How many national flags are there? Which is your favorite flag? Why?
(2) Recognize the five-star red flag and know that it is our national flag.
Recognize the five-star red flag. Teacher question: in these flags, the teacher's favorite is this flag, why do teachers like this flag? (Because it is the national flag of China.) Do you like it? What does it look like? What color is the flag? What's on it? (The flag is red and has 5 golden five-pointed stars on it.) Are the five-pointed stars on the flag the same size? (No, there is 1 big pentagram and 4 small ones.) How are they arranged? Are they in a straight line? (The four small stars are circled to the right of a large star, and each has a corner tip facing the center of the large star.)
1. The four yellow stars are aligned;
2. The three yellow stars are aligned, and the five five-pointed stars are arranged in which corner of the flag? (Use the action to indicate the upper left)
3, know that the five-star red flag is our national flag. Teacher: This red flag is composed of five five-pointed stars is the five-star (red flag), five-star red flag is which country? What is the name of our Chinese flag?
(C) understand the symbolism of the flag. Discuss where you have seen the national flag.
Teacher:
1. Children, where have you seen the five-star red flag? (The flag-raising ceremony is held every Monday in kindergarten, cars, boats, wars, factories ......) Do you know why there are our five-star red flags in so many places? (Because they love our country very much.)
2. Look at the national flags of each place on the PPT and know where the flags represent China. Teacher: Why do so many places have our five-star red flag? It means that all these places are ours in China, and all places in China can put up the five-star red flag.
3. Look at the PPT athletes, astronauts clothes on the flag logo, know that the flag represents the Chinese Teacher: In addition to the places mentioned by the children, what are the other places that have the flag? Let's see, (athletes) you find the five-star red flag? Where is it? Why is there a five-star red flag? Because these athletes are Chinese and go to foreign countries to participate in competitions, see, how are they competing? Why? (Our five-star red flag is hanging.) (Our five-star red flag hangs the highest, it is the champion, the first place.) Teacher: (Wu Minxia) Who is it? Which country is it from? (Chinese) How do you know?
Teacher: We children are that country? We are all Chinese what is this? What else do you see, this is us Chinese (more photos of athletes).
(D) feel the solemn atmosphere and respect for the national flag when it is raised.
1. Watch the flag-raising ceremony, feel the solemn atmosphere Teacher: The five-starred red flag on behalf of China, in our capital, Beijing, Tiananmen Square will be held every day a very grand flag-raising ceremony, let's look at a video to see who is raising the flag? How is the flag raised? How do the spectators watch the flag-raising ceremony? (They are looking at the flag, standing motionless) teachers and children to conclude: watch the flag-raising ceremony to stand spirit, do not speak a, eyes on the flag.
2. All rise for the flag-raising ceremony.
Teachers: we are now also to carry out a flag-raising ceremony, watch the flag-raising ceremony to stand upright, do not speak, eyes on the flag. Now please all stand up, raise the national flag, salute and sing the national anthem.
(E) making the national flag.
kindergarten art lesson plan Part 2Activity Objectives:
1, learn to use the finger pointing to draw round red flowers, yellow flowers and green grass.
2, in the point drawing activities, experience finger point drawing and the joy of butterflies looking for flowers.
Activity Preparation:
1, children's books, white paper on the blackboard, colored chalk.
2, red, yellow, green paint each group a disk, rags each group two.
3. One music tape.
Activity process:
1, music activity "Spring is coming".
(1) Teacher: children, do you know what season it is? Let's sing along with the music, "Spring Dance", okay?
(2) Teachers and students perform the song "Spring is Coming" together.
(3) Imitate the song "Spring is coming".
Teacher: Spring is coming, besides red flowers and yellow flowers will smile at you, what other flowers will open?
Teachers according to the children's narrative, with the corresponding colored chalk drawings on the blackboard, and then lead the children to sing the spring ......
2, to understand the basic method of finger point drawing small flowers and grass.
(1) Let the children observe the paint on the table, teacher: what is on the table?
(2) Teachers show the children's book, inspire children to think and say: no pen, how to add to the earth painting flowers and grass?
(3) Teachers according to the children's narratives, in the blackboard on the white paper point drawing grass and flowers, while drawing and saying: "grass sprouted!" "The flowers are opening!"
(4) focus on letting children understand the process of finger painting: first dip the finger in green in the blank place to draw a lot of grass - and then wipe the finger clean on a rag - and then dip the finger in red paint to draw a lot of round small red flowers! --Wipe your finger clean - dip it in yellow paint and draw little yellow flowers.
3, show the children's book, encourage children in the children's book on the point of painting many small flowers and grass, the teacher toured to observe, give specific guidance and help.
4, show children's work.
(1) Ask the children to push the small chairs inside the table.
(2) Play music, ask the children to look at each other on the table grass and flowers, and then play the role of small butterflies, around the table, in the "flowers" red fluttering ......
Kindergarten Art Lesson Plan Part 3I. Design intention:
All the children's work should be displayed on the table, and the children's work should be displayed on the table, Design intent:
After the children entered the big class, their hearts are full of pride. In order to let them further feel that they have grown up, become a kindergarten big brother big sister, I organized a wealth of big with small activities, on the one hand, sprouting young children to do the older brother and sister of the sense of pride and love and care for the younger siblings of the emotions. On the other hand, it also makes the new kindergarten children adapt to the collective life faster and better, and experience the happiness in kindergarten. From the usual art activities, I found that children are more interested in paste activities, and they are more sensitive to color, in line with the principle of everything from the interest, I designed this art activity "cute caterpillar".
Second, the activity objectives:
1, explore the basic structure of the caterpillar and production methods; learn to connect a section to a section of the performance of the caterpillar.
2, through appreciation, observation, games, group work and cooperative creation and other learning methods, independent inquiry.
3, in the activities of bold attempts to take the initiative to socialize, share *** with the activities brought about by the joy, try to cooperate with the fun of expression.
Third, the activities of the preparation:
paper, newspaper, paste, sponge glue
Fourth, the process of activities:
1, the introduction of the part
Teacher: Today it is time for us to pull the small hand, older and younger siblings to play together. time, where is the small hand? (small class raised their hands) where is the big hand? (Big class raised their hands) you happy? (Happy) Then let's play a musical game with your good friends! Play the music "happy to know you ah".
Teacher: good, now please brothers and sisters with younger siblings to find a small bench to sit down, to see which brothers and sisters today the best, can take good care of younger siblings, you Weiwei, you have to take good care of the little treasure Oh! The first thing you need to do is to take care of the baby, and then you can take care of the baby!
2, show the baby caterpillar
(1) Teacher: You see, there is a teacher here what ah? (Caterpillar baby), there is a caterpillar ah hide behind me refused to come out, hey ho, hey ho, hey, guess who this caterpillar will be? (Caterpillar mom), it turns out that one of them is the older brother, one is the younger brother, just like our children, it is the older brother and sister with the younger sibling, then you see
Look at what their bodies are like? What's the difference? (Caterpillar brother's body is short, only one section of the body, caterpillar brother's body is long, one section at a time) Let's count, how many sections of the brother's body? (1, 2, 3, -----), the caterpillar brother ah also want to grow up, want to grow into the caterpillar brother as big as the same length, you have what good way to help him grow up? (with the paper kneaded into a small ball and then put it on) then we come together to try, take a newspaper, small hand grab a handful, pinch, knead, knead, ball a ball, into a small paper ball. Pick up the sponge glue, forefinger thumb kisses, twist a force, stick on the small paper ball, tear off the white paper, stick a force, ah, a section of the caterpillar's body is done ah? (done), your method is awesome, I believe that this way caterpillar brother will soon be able to grow into a caterpillar brother.
Teacher: Teacher there is a caterpillar sister, see, this caterpillar sister's body and the body of the caterpillar brother just what is different? (Caterpillar brother's body is a small paper ball, the caterpillar sister's body is a paper ring) caterpillar sister ah also want to grow, long, long into the caterpillar sister, you use your little brain, think of a teacher previously taught a what can help it? (Use a strip of paper to pass through the paper ring, and then stick the two ends together.) Let me ask you to try and see if you can succeed (ask the children to come forward to demonstrate.) Did you succeed? (Successful) You're great! The caterpillar sister thank you very much for this good idea.
3, show today's operating materials
Teacher: Today, the teacher prepared for the children colorful strips of paper, newspaper, paste, sponge glue, what kind of caterpillar you want to do? How are you going to divide the work with your partner?
(1) (do a body is a paper ball caterpillar), ready to do how? (Let your little hands knead paper balls with paper, and then your big hands sponge glue them together.)
(2) (Make a caterpillar with a paper ring for a body.) How are you going to do it? (big hand dipped in paste on the paper strips, the small hand put the paper strips through the past glued up)
It seems that you have thought about how to work with your good partners, then start doing your caterpillar, do it when the big hand to help the small hand, the small hand encountered difficulties can also ask for the big hand to help. See which group of caterpillars to do the most beautiful, the most lovely, after doing so, but also to your caterpillar to take a nice name Oh.
4. Evaluation
Ask the children to introduce the name of your caterpillar?
5, conclusion
Teacher: Today we made a lovely caterpillar, take your caterpillar and ask the guest teacher her favorite caterpillar? Then introduce its name!
Activity Objectives:
1, appreciate the different patterns of celadon plates, feel the beauty of the pattern of blue and white.
2, the use of cotton swabs dipped in color, the use of the center of the symmetry of the method to decorate the blue and white plate.
3. Experience the beautiful and happy emotions that come with the success of the work.
Activity Preparation :
1, different patterns of celadon disk objects 2, 3.
2, PPT multimedia courseware.
3, a paper plate manpower (half of which is the circle in the middle of the disk is blue, half of which is a circle on the side of the disk is blue); manpower 2 cotton swabs.
4, each group a palette, put two colors: blue and white.
Activity process:
I. Talk to lead to the porcelain plate Question: home dishes, eating bowls have some patterns, please ask the children to briefly say some of what patterns. (Prepare for the following appreciation of different patterns of ceramic plates)
Second, through the classroom, gradually feel the beauty of ceramic plates.
1, show a picture of blue and white porcelain, guide children to focus on observing and analyzing its pattern and pattern.
(1) Children carefully observe and talk about the regularity of the pattern, the different lines.
(2) According to the children's answers, the classroom materials to show a pre-drawn corresponding sketch pattern. Let the children have a gradual process of understanding the pattern and structure of the blue and white porcelain, in line with the law of internalization of young children from abstract to more concrete.
2, show a picture of blue and white porcelain again, guide the children to observe and analyze the pattern is dispersed from the center, feel the beauty of the center symmetry.
(Children carefully observe and tell the regularity of the pattern from the center outward, the different lines. Specific methods with 1)
3, and then show 2, specific observation from the outer ring to the center of the centralized beauty of the pattern.
4, named "celadon plate".
(1) show the above 4 pictures of blue and white porcelain and the corresponding 4 sketch patterns, simple decoration of different methods (center to the outside, the outer ring to focus on the heart) and the different patterns and lines.
(2): These plates are white with a blue flower on the bottom, so they are called celadon plates. It was invented by our people.
(This session canceled the teacher and children's demonstration of painting, but also to give the children a better and wider imagination. Because in normal times, after the teacher demonstrates, the children paintings are mostly demonstration of the appearance, limiting the children's thinking space, which is also a breakthrough in the usual design of the activities required by the steps)
Third, the children paintings, the teacher guides.
Teacher: Today we also come to do plate designers, all with a green and white to decorate to do a lapis lazuli plate.
(a) the requirements:
1, show the disk in the middle of the circle is blue and a circle on the side of the disk for the blue round paper plate, know dipped in blue paint painted in the white space, dipped in white paint painted in the blue space.
2, the use of center symmetry method of painting, pattern arrangement must be regular, bold play imagination and creativity.
(2) children painting, the teacher circuit counseling to encourage children to boldly use the method of center symmetry, dipped in blue or white paint to decorate, and guide children to pay attention to the pattern arrangement of regular and uniform.
Fourth, show and share the work.
Arrange the children's works on the display board with small shelves and ask: Which plate is your favorite and why? (Make some comments in response to the children's questions).
kindergarten art lesson plan Part 5Activity Objectives
1, the initial learning skills of tearing, sticking, interest in color.
2, the development of children's observation and expression.
Activity Preparation:
A few pots of different colors and shapes of flowers, a number of pictures of bonsai, calendar paper, graph paper and cut out a small flower pot each one, glue, rags.
Activity process
First, arouse interest, show the shape, color different pots of flowers.
Guide children to observe, talk about the color and shape of the words, these flowers are beautiful there?
Second, the display of bonsai pictures for children to enjoy
Ask the children to talk about their favorite pictures in terms of color and shape.
Third, learn how to tear and paste.
Teachers introduce the materials and methods of operation:
1, first of all, they will choose the small flower pots pasted in the appropriate location of the drawing paper
2, in the small flower pots around the need to paste the place evenly smeared with glue
3, and then selected the calendar paper with the forefinger, thumb pinched the paper to tear the paper into a small piece of a small piece of glue 4. 5, covered with a dry rag with the palm of your hand to press down hard
6, remove the rag and then continue to paste down.
Fourth, the children operate.
Teachers coaching less capable children to learn the skills of tearing paper,
guidance for children with strong ability to choose the right color of calendar paper paste a certain shape.
V. The children's work will be arranged in a "small garden".
The children boldly tear the paper and paste, the choice of bright colors to give praise and encouragement.
Activity Objectives
1, know the characteristics of oranges.
2. Make a beautiful flower field with orange peels.
Activity Preparation Orange peels, ballpoint pen caps, woodworking glue
Activity Process
[Introduction]
1. Introduce oranges to the children by riddles.
I am an orange fruit. I am sweet and sour and my rind is a little hard.
Inside the rind is all half-moon shaped flesh, who am I?
[Expand]
1. Talk about oranges.
Have you ever eaten an orange?
What does an orange taste like?
How do you feel when you eat an orange?
2. Talk about the characteristics of an orange.
How does an orange taste?
(Oranges are a little sweet and a little sour, with a light aroma.)
How does the color of the orange change?
(Oranges start out green and turn orange when they are ripe.)
Where do oranges grow?
(Oranges grow in warm places.)
What are oranges used for?
(Besides being eaten as a fruit, oranges are also used as an ingredient in perfumes and cosmetics because of their refreshing aroma...)
What are some other fruits that have a fragrance like the orange?
(Orange, Lemon, Grapefruit, Tangerine Berry )
3. Decorate the patio with orange peels and study the materials used to make them.
How do you make a patio out of orange peels?
4. Decorate the courtyard with orange peels from the activity sheet.
① Prepare the orange peel by peeling the orange.
② Make small round shapes of orange peels by stamping them with a round ballpoint pen.
③ Use different sizes of ballpoint pen caps to make different round orange peels.
④ Decorate beautiful flowers with the orange peel.
⑤ Glue the flowers on the paper.
[End]
1. Let the children introduce the decorated yard to their friends
2. Summarize the activity.
Kindergarten art lesson plan Part 7Activity Objectives
1, can use the right way to mend the holes.
2, play the imagination, try to add a variety of images according to the shape of the hole.
3, experience the fun of hole painting.
Activity Preparation
1, oil stick, glue stick, markers
2, a variety of clothing magazines, colored paper, colorful newspapers, etc.
3, PPT: teachers hiking photos; a variety of images (animals, cars, fruits, people, etc.)
4, music: "Tear the newspaper," "Forest Rhapsody"
Activity process
I. Talk to introduce the subject.
Teacher: A few days ago on vacation, did you go out to play? (went to the park, did not go out) Guess where I went? (open the mountain climbing photos) Yes, I went to climb the mountain! Climbing is very happy. I had a great time! There's only one thing that made me particularly depressed. I made several holes in my clothes! (Show the T-shirt with the holes scratched out)
What do you think I should do? （
Teacher: You are really smart! (showing various papers) If this is a piece of cloth, I patch it on the back of the hole. Look at the hole mended. How to make the hole look more beautiful? (Fill in the inside, decorate with patterns)
Second, the game - tear holes.
Teacher: You are very good! Today I invited you here, is to let you help me put these holes design.
1, the design requirements: Teacher prepared a variety of T-shirt paper, but now there is no hole on it, let's play a game together, the top of the tear out a variety of shapes of holes, and then come back to the design. (Remember: the stranger the shape of the holes, the better, and there should be a certain distance between the holes.)
2. Play the music "Tear Newspaper" to start the game.
3. Try to imagine the creation.
1, fill in the holes.
Teacher: Now there are many holes in the T-shirt, you put the holes around the full of glue, choose a favorite paper to fill the holes.
2, add imagination.
Teacher: holes mended, let's see what the holes can become? (Please individual children demonstration) Play PPT and "Forest Rhapsody" children began to create!
Fourth, the children's design of their own works of art a brief introduction.
Kindergarten art lesson plan Part 8
Teaching materials analysis
This activity in the appreciation of colorful national costumes on the basis of in order to deepen the children's understanding and awareness of national costumes, fully perceive the beauty of the national costume and national characteristics, to meet the large class of young children's interest in painting and production of national costumes, but rather the basic activities. This activity is based on the diverse patterns of clothing, and chooses the bipartite continuous pattern as the entry point, so that children can fully apply the new knowledge they have discovered and learned to painting, and perceive the beauty of the patterns of ethnic clothing.
Activity Objectives:
1. Recognize the bipartite continuous pattern, and understand the application of bipartite continuous pattern in national costumes.
2. To be able to use bipartite continuous patterns to creatively design novel and diverse national costumes.
3. Feel the colorful and diverse beauty of national costumes in creation and communication.
Activity Preparation:
Material Preparation:
1.
2. Tibetan, Uyghur, Mongolian and other ethnic costumes.
3. At least one outline drawing of ethnic costumes for each child, watercolor pencils, crayons, and so on.
4. Background music: "Moonlight Bamboo".
Experience Preparation:
Knowledge of bipartite continuous pattern.
Activity process:
I. According to the existing experience to tell, say which national costumes they like and why. Perceive the characteristics of national costumes.
Second, observe the costumes of various ethnic groups, learn to draw and decorate national costumes with bipartite continuous patterns.
1. Show the costumes of Tibetan, Mongolian, Uyghur and other ethnic minorities and guide children to observe the decorative features of their patterns.
Question: Which ethnic groups are these costumes? What are the patterns? Where are these patterns decorated.
Summary: Observe the styles, colors, and decorative patterns of the clothes, and understand that the decorative patterns are mainly on the neckline, cuffs, chest, back, and skirts, etc., so as to pave the way for the children to decorate the patterns.
2. Children appreciate the picture of bipartite continuous pattern and understand its pattern.
Question: What is the pattern of these patterns? What other bipartite patterns have you seen?
Summary: Some of them are the same pattern with different directions, and some of them are the same pattern with different colors, etc. They are regularly arranged and have been circulating in a band pattern called bipartite continuous pattern.
3. Children observe the teacher's demonstration, guiding children to decorate with bipartite continuous pattern, the teacher according to the children's statement of the pattern in the front chest of the dress decoration, to give the children inspiration.
3. Creative painting, try to use the bipartite continuous pattern in different parts of the garment creative decoration. Requirements:
1. To be able to use bipartite continuous patterns to creatively decorate different parts of the garment.
2. Encourage children to decorate national costumes with different patterns.
Fourth, the works of display, mutual appreciation, exchange of the design of national costumes. Feel the beauty of the diversity of national costumes.
1. Question: Which national costume are you designing? What is the use of two-sided continuous pattern? What do you think is good about the design?
Children appreciate each other's designs and share their ideas.
2. Play the background music, and the children dance in ethnic costumes.
Kindergarten art lesson plan Part 9
Activity Name:
Art Activities - Baby Fruits
Activity Objectives:
1, Preliminary performance of various fruits. Basic features.
2, try to show the overlap between the various fruits.
3, further stimulate the children's interest in painting.
Difficulties:
Showing the overlapping relationship
Activity Preparation:
1, an example, fruits in kind
2, children's drawing tools
Activity Flow: Introduction of the theme -Observation and discussion -Simple demonstration -Toddler's performance -Works display
Activities Guidance:
I. Introducing the theme
1, (show examples) Teacher: Last time, Ms. Yang took you to visit the fruit store, what did you see in the fruit store ah? (Apples, bananas, raw pears ......)
2, teacher: Do you want to know what fruits Mr. Yang likes to eat? En see what fruits Mr. Yang bought.
(apples, strawberries, watermelon)
Second, observation and discussion
1, the teacher showed the fruit in kind, so that children perceive the overlap before and after the relationship.
2. Teacher: see which teacher bought the largest fruit? Which is the smallest? Look and think about how the teacher put these fruits? Which one is in front and which one is behind? Do you think it looks good? Why? (Strawberries in front, apples in the back, watermelon at the end)
Third, simple demonstration
1, teacher: such a beautiful fruit we take a picture of it, okay?
2, the teacher out of the demonstration map
3, teacher: teacher photo nice? Do you want to take a picture of the fruit? Then first see how the teacher to help the fruit to take pictures, okay?
4, teacher: strawberries in the forefront of the first we help strawberries to shoot okay? (Teacher first draw strawberries)
5, Teacher: Which fruit do we take pictures of? (Apples) Look at the picture taken by the teacher, can you see all the apples
Can you see the apples? (covered by strawberries can not be seen) that can not see the place we do not shoot from this side to start shooting, to here how it should be? (jump over)
6, teacher: we finished shooting apples, and finally to whom to shoot ah? (watermelon) look at the teacher's photos you can see all the watermelon? (Covered by the apple strawberry) Yes, then we and the apple from here to shoot, how about here? (Jump over)
7, teacher: we take pictures to shoot finished? (No) what else to do ah? (......) children are wearing clothes, the weather is so cold, the baby fruit also need to wear clothes. You first take pictures of them and then like Mr. Yang to give them a beautiful dress, okay? (Good) What kind of clothes are the most beautiful? (Red, green ......) The apple babies said the colors should be bright. The watermelon babies also said that their clothes have holes and thorns. (Not good) En a moment I want to see which children take the best pictures, to the fruit baby clothes the most beautiful.
Fourth, the children performance
1, the children do painting, the teacher to observe and guide
Fifth, the works of display
1, introduce their own works.
2. Present each other's works
Teacher: Give the pictures you took to your favorite
Kindergarten Art Lesson Plan Part 10Activity Objectives:
1. Learn to use chalk to show fog and make the scenery blurred.
2. Be interested in the way of chalk drawing.
Focus:
Learning to use chalk to express fog and make the scenery blurred.
Difficulties:
Being able to add fog or mist correctly according to their own wishes.
Activity Preparation:
1. Pictures of foggy days. A model drawing.
2, colored drawing paper, white chalk, markers. 7 rags.
Activity Process
Design Intentions
I. Appreciate the scenery of the foggy day.
1. Show the picture. How does this picture look?
2. When do you see fog in the air? What happens when there is fog?
3. Teacher's summary: Sometimes in the morning we see fog, it is white, shrouded houses, streets, gardens, so that everything becomes fuzzy, can not see clearly.
Second, the foggy xx.
1, today we come to draw the white fog, you want to let the fog cover something?
2, how to make it look like a landscape painting in the fog?
3. Inspire children to use appropriate materials to produce the effect of landscape surrounded by fog.
4. Teachers demonstrate the use of chalk to show a foggy landscape. The method is: use white chalk to paint on the work, can be painted in a circle, you can also lay the chalk down horizontally, and then gently wipe away with your fingers to form a white fog that envelops the scenery.
5, children with markers on colored paper boldly express the scene.
6, the children try to "add fog", thick fog heavy paint, mist light paint.
7, works show, mutual appreciation of the foggy landscape.
8, children with "foggy xx" to their own work name.
Show the picture, let the children understand the characteristics of the fog, to further deepen the understanding of the fog, for the painting to pave the way.
Guide children to imagine a rich scene under the cover of fog.
Inspire children to imagine what is the most appropriate way to express fog.
Teacher demonstrates how to use chalk to express the fog to stimulate children's interest in drawing.
The teacher reminds the children to use their fingers to gently smear the chalk after drawing and then wipe it clean with a rag, paying attention to hygiene.
To create conditions for children to show their works, and guide children to communicate and appreciate each other.