A Study On Children's Play Performance In Morning Exercises In Large Classes

Playfulness,as a child's personality,is an active developmental state of children in cognition,society,and emotions,and it is of great significance to children.As the first link to start children's day life in the kindergarten,the full expression and play of children's playfulness play a key role in children's daily life.Therefore,this study takes children in large classes as research objects,and makes in-depth research on the playfulness of children in different activities in the morning exercise.The main contents of the inquiry include: 1.the levels and characteristics of children's playfulness in various activities of morning exercise;2.analyze the factors that affect children's playfulness during morning exercise.In order to more comprehensively understand the actual state of children's playfulness in kindergarten morning exercise,aroused teacher's attention to playfulness of children in morning exercises.This study mainly uses non-participatory observation methods to observe the play process of 23 young children in a large class in Z kindergarten of N city.A total of 24 recorded videos were collected for the four activities,and they were transcribed in white-line format.Also,collect and sort out cases of children's playfulness.Then,through the revised children's playfulness scale and the scoring rules applicable to children's playfulness in the morning exercise,evaluated the playfulness of 23children's in four activities one by one.For the obtained data,the researchers used SPSS 23.0 for statistical analysis to show the level of children's playfulness during morning exercise.At the same time,through qualitative analysis to reveal and explore the characteristics and influencing factors of children's playfulness.The main conclusions are as follows:1.The overall level of children's playfulness in run-up jumps is the highest,and at the upper middle level;the overall level of children's playfulness in croquet tends to a medium level;the overall level of children's playfulness in jump-balls is generally,middle-to-low;the overall level of children's playfulness in skipping rope is the worst,middle-to-low;2.The activities with the highest performance levels in the three dimensions of physical spontaneity,social spontaneity,and cognitive spontaneity are run-up jumps,followed by croquet,and poor performances are jump ball and skip rope;the obvious pleasure is best performed in run-up jumps,followed by jump balls and worst performed by skipping ropes;Children's sense of humor is the best incroquet,followed by jump ball,and the worst in skipping rope.3.In the four activities of the morning exercise,children's playfulness presents different characteristics;generally speaking,the two dimensions of physical spontaneity and obvious pleasure are fully expressed;social spontaneity is easy to play;cognitive spontaneity is greatly restrained;the expression of humor is easily ignored.According to the children's playfulness in various activities and observation case analysis,it is concluded that when children's play has the following characteristics,their playfulness is higher: it is conducive to the generation and conversion of roles,has a clear purpose,is carried out in a cooperative and competitive manner,is rich in materials and has different levels of difficulty.At the same time,this study further analyzes the factors that affect children's playfulness: difficult to control or inappropriate activity materials,teachers have strict control over children's gameplay and content selection,and utilitarian purpose of morning exercise.Based on this,in order to improve children's playfulness,this study attempts to set up appropriate morning forging environment to stimulate children's interest in games;properly play the role of teachers to enhance children's game experience.