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Effective management of nap in kindergarten
Napping in kindergarten is an important part of children's daily activities. Kindergarten nap management and children's nap quality directly affect children's growth and development. A high-quality nap can make children full of energy and appetite, reduce diseases and promote all-round development. In kindergarten activities, an adequate nap can not only eliminate the fatigue caused by group activities and game activities in the morning, but also ensure the vitality and concentration of afternoon activities. But we always hear this from young children; I like kindergarten, but I don't like taking a nap in kindergarten. Some parents will also reflect whether my children can not take a nap, and the kindergarten sleeps too much and sleeps until eleven o'clock at night. What should our teacher do to solve the problem of small class children taking a nap? What should I do?
First, the analysis of the reasons that affect children's nap
individual difference
Because of the differences in age, living environment, innate quality and health status, different children have different ways of life, study and behavior, and show distinct personality and unique development process in the process of development, thus showing different individual differences of each child.
(B) the bad habit of taking a nap before entering the park
Some children are brought up by grandparents and overindulge. They can sleep whenever they like, which depends on their temperament. Some are because the family lifestyle is irregular, and the bad living habits of family members directly affect children's sleeping habits.
Teaching staff lack sufficient knowledge about children's siesta.
The purpose of a nap is to give children a full and reasonable rest, adjust their spirits, save energy for afternoon activities and lay a good foundation. However, some medical staff do not really realize the importance of taking a nap ideologically, and think that after a busy morning, they can take this opportunity to have a good sleep at noon. As for children's sleeping posture, screaming, making noise, wetting the bed, loose pants and other phenomena, they will make mistakes at work, affect their physical and mental health and bring trouble to their parents. Some teachers only concentrate on preparing lessons, writing or reading newspapers, while children whisper, play tricks, remove quilt corners and kick quilts. , making the nap disorder, children's sleep rate is low, reducing the quality of nap, indirectly affecting the enthusiasm and quality of children's afternoon activities.
Second, the kindergarten nap management strategy
Management before nap
1. Rinse your mouth before going to bed and clean your mouth.
Nowadays, children's dental caries are more and more common, and gargling before going to bed can effectively prevent children's dental caries. Our garden has always attached great importance to the cultivation of children's habit of gargling after meals, and children also like this activity very much. They feel that the process of gargling is like playing a game. Every day after lunch, they appreciate each other and often remind our teacher to gargle. In the small class, every day at noon, the nurse will prepare a teapot filled with cold boiled water. We will say to the children in the tone of games and the language of nursery rhymes: pour half a cup of cold boiled water, drink saliva, raise your head, turn around, lower your head, spit out the water, and then wipe your mouth with a towel. In the middle and large classes, children can rinse their mouths with tap water.
Walking before going to bed helps digestion.
Walking is helpful for food digestion, leading children to walk in the garden, breathing fresh air, walking by the flower bed and observing the changes of flowers and trees; Sit on the lawn and under the big tree for a while, play and catch bugs. Talk to each other about what they have seen and heard, especially in spring and autumn. Children will enjoy more fun and benefits in the embrace of nature.
3. Play and meditate quietly before going to bed.
The game before a nap should be based on the principle of quietness, and children can be organized to carry out some quiet game activities. For example, I often organize some games such as "skipping rope, clapping, making phone calls and pairing", which can not only improve children's oral expression ability, but also cultivate children's unity and cooperation quality and improve children's communication ability, which children prefer.
4. Go to the toilet before going to bed and get ready.
Go to the toilet directly after a walk, and the teacher can see if each child has gone to the toilet. Letting children urinate before going to bed is helpful for children to maintain a good sleep state and sleep quality during the whole nap.
In the process of waiting at the entrance of the nap room, the teacher can take this opportunity to do several important things:
First of all, you can ask your child if he has gone to the toilet again and remind some children who have forgotten to go to the toilet.
Secondly, children can be reminded to put some small toys in the teacher's special basket, and children are forbidden to bring toys and dangerous small items into the nap room; The girl's hair band is also removed and put in the teacher's special basket to avoid losing it and ensure the child's comfortable sleep.
Thirdly, children can be allowed to enter the nap room in the form of role-playing, such as being a kitten, feeling the quiet atmosphere in the nap and calming the children's emotions in time.
Take off your clothes and pants and put them in order.
When undressing, remind children to go from bottom to top, avoid catching cold, and stack them neatly and orderly. Put clothes on the edge of the pillow, not under it; Every child is required to take off his coat and trousers in autumn and winter, on the one hand, to prevent catching cold when getting up. On the other hand, children are naturally active and interested in climbing mountains. When playing, their clothes will inevitably get dusty. Wearing dusty coats and trousers is unsanitary and uncomfortable, and it is easy to produce gray matter allergy.
Children's shoes will be dried in autumn and winter, which is not only hygienic and warm, but also keeps the air in the nap room fresh and odorless. The specific way is: let the people on duty take their shoes to the balcony for a few hours, put on cotton slippers and put them away.
Management in national action programmes
1. Music creates a warm nap atmosphere.
(1) Relax light music: meditate and have a good sleep.
It's time for a nap, and the children enter the nap room. Because they are still in active and exciting collective activities, it is impossible to calm down at once. At this time, playing soothing light sounds to children, such as Mozart's serenade and Beethoven's To Alice, can help children calm down and improve their music appreciation.
(2) lullaby: Careful care, sweet dreams.
When children lie down, we can play lullabies, which is very useful for those children who have difficulty falling asleep. Teachers can sit next to them, gently hum and pat, which can alleviate their anxiety and let them deeply feel the warmth of their teachers. If they feel that the teacher loves them and likes them like their mother, they will feel safe and warm. The child's caress needs are met, and he will soon calm down and fall asleep.
(3) Music stories introduce sleep.
When most children have gradually fallen asleep sweetly, the music can stop at the right time and let the children take a nap in a quiet environment. For those children who can't sleep or even feel anxious, we can also try to play some music stories, and the sound can be adjusted to be heard clearly. With such a beautiful soundtrack story, children will close their eyes and fall asleep, and then turn off the music. Often children fall asleep before they finish the story, which is more meaningful than direct persuasion or criticism.
2. praise, encourage and promote sleep
(1) Combining storytelling with praise
Children like listening to stories very much. Boys especially like to hear Altman's stories. Girls like to listen to Little Red Riding Hood and other interesting stories. I will grasp the characteristics of children: I will negotiate with them to tell two stories every noon. Every time the teacher says he wants to tell a story, the chirping sparrow suddenly quietens down, listens carefully and doesn't move. By the middle of the second story, many children were already sleepy. When they take a nap, the teacher will praise the children who are falling asleep in time, and then praise them when their parents pick them up. Children who fall asleep slowly will also be subtly affected.
(2) little red dot or small stickers.
In the past, our teacher gave the little red flowers to people who performed well, and the children who won the prize were naturally happy, but most of the children who didn't get the little red flowers lost their self-confidence. In order to let the children have a good nap, I have another coup: when the children sleep, I will secretly put a little red dot or a small sticker on his or her forehead to see who sleeps fast and quietly. But there are many requirements to get the red dot: children must not talk to others and take care of themselves. Now you can sleep in the right way. This move is quite clever. After a while, I found that most of the children were lying flat, with two small hands at their sides, and only a few were lying badly. So, I walked up to them gently and whispered to them that they should sleep in the right sleeping position, and they changed immediately. /kloc-After 0/5 minutes, I gently dot the fast-sleeping child with a red dot, and I dot the slow-sleeping child with a red dot on the back of his small hand. A child, Niu Niu, is still awake. I put a red dot on him to encourage him, but I want to tell the children: "Niu Niu didn't fall asleep, but it didn't affect the rest of the other children, so the teacher put a little red dot on him." Every time the children get up, they will run to the mirror to see if they have got any small gifts. When they saw that they had got a gift, the joy was forgotten. They looked at each other, compared, laughed and danced happily. Some of them also said, "I'll get it tomorrow and see how many little red dot I can get after graduating from a large class ..."
(3) Make friends with children.
A good method can't be used every day, and it will "fail" after a long time, so it should be constantly updated. So, I changed my method and made friends with children. I played "hook" with them during my nap. Every time I walk up to them, I whisper a few words of encouragement to them and hook them up. They also said to me, "Teacher, you must keep your word. Take us out to play games if you sleep well. If you change your mind, we will be angry. " . I said, ok, it's a deal. Don't underestimate them, they can really do it, and soon they are all asleep. Every time I see those lovely little faces with sweet smiles, I feel indescribable happiness.
(4) "small monitor" incentive method
Under normal circumstances, we always invite good performers to be our monitor. Children who are monitor are naturally happy, but most children who can't be monitor will lose self-confidence. In order to let the children have a good afternoon nap, I changed a trick this semester: to see who sleeps "quickly and quietly" when the children are sleeping, and ask them to be snacks or homework in the small class when they get up in the afternoon. Of course, this little monitor has many requirements: first, he should be able to take a nap in a correct sleeping position; Secondly, don't talk to others during the nap, you can manage yourself. Now every day when I start taking a nap, I will take a notebook and write down the names of the children who sleep well first. When I found a child getting up halfway to talk to others, I crossed out his name. I didn't expect this trick to really work! Now, when I take a nap every day, as long as I start writing a list with my notebook, the children will quickly take off their coats, tidy up their clothes and shoes according to our requirements, then quickly get into bed and close their eyes and start to "fake sleep". Don't underestimate them, they can really do it, and they all fall asleep soon. Every time I see those lovely little faces with sweet smiles, I feel indescribable happiness.
3. Pay special attention to help sleep
(1) Individuals "sleep with me"
There are always several energetic children in each class, and taking a nap is a painful thing for them. Our class is no exception, so according to the difficulty of accompanying sleep, we adopt the method of accompanying sleep one by one (we find it difficult for these children to fall asleep without a teacher at noon): accompany the children who are relatively easy to fall asleep first; Moderately accompany children; Finally, accompany children who have difficulty falling asleep. Of course, for children who are particularly difficult to sleep, we also relax our requirements, as long as they don't affect others and don't talk.
(2) Remind in a low voice
It is inevitable that there will be several children with bad nap habits in the class, and I will pay special attention to them. Go near them, tuck them in, remind them to fall asleep quickly, and whisper in their ears: Go to sleep quickly, please be a duty student in the afternoon, or reward you with a sticker in the afternoon. Children are generally easily tempted. If you promise, you must act, and the child will believe you. Of course, it varies from person to person, and education is still very important.
4. Sleep correctly and grow up healthily
Whether a child's sleeping posture is correct or not is related to his sleeping quality and health. Lying prone will oppress the heart and affect blood circulation. Lying on the left side also has an effect; Sleeping with your head covered will make children unable to breathe fresh air comfortably, and it is easy for children to have nightmares, which will affect the normal growth of children's bones. Therefore, it is necessary to cultivate the correct posture of children lying on their backs or on their right side. Teachers should let children master the correct sleeping posture through various storytelling and routine activities, and closely observe the nap practice to correct the sleeping posture of children at any time. Specifically, you can do this:
First of all, the teacher demonstrates the correct sleeping position and explains to the children that the incorrect sleeping position not only looks unsightly, but also affects the health.
Secondly, the teacher guides the children to observe and compare, and see who has the best and most comfortable sleeping position. For example, let children observe and compare several children with different sleep postures, and then carry out correct sleep posture education so that children can accept correct sleep postures.
Finally, you can use the legend suggestion method. For example, you can post some pictures of the correct sleeping position in the corner of the living area opened by the class, so that children can regulate themselves according to the correct sleeping position pictures.
5. Patrol that can't be ignored during nap.
Napping is also a time when children have frequent accidents. Therefore, in the observation and guidance of siesta, the patrol in siesta can not be ignored. Teachers should overcome the paralyzed thought that children will be fine when they sleep, cover each kicked child with a quilt in time, and correct each child's wrong sleeping position. Because if the child is unwell, it will often be reflected in sleep, such as fever and stuffy nose; Sometimes, individual children will secretly put small items in their pockets or play with them, even in their mouths, ears and noses, so as to strengthen inspection, carry out targeted education, find and deal with problems in time, put an end to accidents and promote children to develop good sleep habits.
Third, management after a nap.
1. Remind children to get up with wonderful music.
First of all, our kindergarten wakes up children with music when they get up, so that children can wake up with pleasant music. At this time, we are not in a hurry to urge the children to get up and let them wake up first. Some children sleep soundly and don't wake up easily. At this time, we will go to the bed and gently pat the quilt to wake them up, let them lie down for a while, and then let the children get dressed quickly.
2. Cultivate children's self-care ability with "safflower horn".
After getting up every day, we will have a quilt folding competition to see who folds the quilt quickly and neatly. The winner will get a small red flower and stick it on the "Red Flower Corner" so that the children can decorate it more seriously and intently. After getting up, I often talk and chat while folding the quilt. This method can also avoid this situation.
3. Ensure the safety of children through games.
It is also important to work safely after getting up. Children have been bound for a period of time, and they are particularly energetic when they get up, and they are most likely to be in danger when they go to the toilet. In order to prevent accidents, we used the game mode of "I am a little PLA" to attract children, let them queue up in an orderly way and avoid accidents as much as possible.
4. Pay attention to children's health and replenish water in time.
After washing, we will remind children to drink water, because during sleep, the child's body loses some water through metabolism and needs to be replenished in time.
5. Keep the air fresh and often open the window for ventilation.
After the children leave the nap room, open the doors and windows to ventilate, keep the indoor air fresh, avoid the spread of viruses and reduce the occurrence of infectious diseases.
6. Establish a "monitoring" management system to cultivate children's self-management ability.
After entering the classroom, check the child's dress while combing his hair. We have a small monitor in the middle class and the big class. At this time, we will hand over the power to the small monitor to help them check whether the clothes are neatly dressed, whether the collar is turned out and whether the pants are tucked up. Our little monitor manages well. Children in small classes are examined by teachers.
Fourth, family communication to consolidate the habit of taking a nap.
Children's good sleep habits are not formed in an hour or a few days, but need a long process. Therefore, it is not enough to rely on kindergartens alone, but also the cooperation of families. To this end, we can help parents to raise their awareness and change their parenting attitude through "class blog", "parents bulletin board" and "morning talk", so that their families can keep pace, cooperate with each other and cultivate together. For example, Tang often poops on his pants, sometimes several times a day, and we always patiently change, wash and dry him. I also exchanged views with his parents and suggested taking him to see a doctor to see if he was unwell. After the parents took him to see it, the doctor said that the child's stomach was not very good. After taking medicine for a few days, I feel much better. I don't pull my pants anymore and sleep soundly. My parents were also very moved and said that we were really careful.
Our ancestors have long said that "it is better to take tonics than to have a good sleep". As long as we work hard everywhere, we can ensure the quality of children's siesta and create good conditions for their healthy growth.