Action Research On Twenty-four Solar Terms Of Involvement In The Kindergarten Curriculum

Twenty-four solar terms is a great invention in ancient Chinese, and also is the carrier of Chinese traditional culture. They are the scientific discipline, which summarized by people who contacted with nature for a long time. The discipline is used to guiding people's agricultural activity.Twenty-four solar terms have become part of people's life after thousands of year's development. People with their unique behavior inherit and continued twenty-four solar terms culture and formed unique folkways and cultural phenomenon. They reflect Chinese traditional conception of nature。There are rich cultural extended from twenty-four solar terms. For instance, literature, science, health and art. These cultural have important influence on children's aesthetics, aesthetic experience, culture character, scientific attitude and so on.The research mainly adopts action research and assisted by interview and literature review. Based on the theory of twenty-four solar terms and the analysis about teachers interview, we try to put twenty-four solar terms into kindergarten curriculum.The main contents are as follows:Preface, this part includes raising questions, demonstrating the value, reviewing literature, explaining the core concept, presenting research consideration, introducing the use of research methods, and forecasting the difficulty.In the first part, the generating process and its values of twenty-four solar terms is analyzed in the view of agriculture, health and culture. In the second part, this article discusses the connection between twenty-four solar terms and children spirit as well as its values for the children's Cognitive Development.The third part:Action Research. Through the interview to the teachers of kindergarten, related suggestions about the research of twenty-four solar terms are advanced, while the implementation of programs are formulated on the basis of investigation to the kindergarten education.In the fourth part, according to the effect of the action research, four suggestions about how to integrate twenty-four solar terms into curriculums of kindergarten education are proposed.