Abstract
<p class="apa">As Chinese traditional folk culture, folk games have unique educational value which can boost the development of young children’s fine motor. Based on previous investigation of fine motor skill of children in Nanchong, Sichuan Province, the researcher chose a middle class in public city kindergarten A with lower survey score as the study object. The class with lower level on fine motor skill was set as an intervention group and the other class as a control group to conduct a 3-month educational activity about folk games. During the process, the researchers, being the teachers themselves, used qualitative research method to study the process of educational activities about folk games targeting at the boost of development on young children’s fine motor skills, by tracking and observing children, and physical analysis of their painting and handwork. The research results indicate that there is an overall improvement of fine motor skills of young children from the intervention group in kindergarten A and their performances on pinching, touching, drawing and cutting all surpass children from the control group.</p>
Highlights
After the survey of fine motor skills of 330 children aged from 3 to 6 in junior, middle and senior classes from 11 kindergartens in three districts in Nanchong, Sichuan Province, it is found that compared with the content about health in Guideline of learning and development of children aged from 3 to 6, children’s fine motor skill is less favorable especially being weak on drawing, cutting and folding; children’s fine motor skill level from private kindergarten is higher than those from public kindergarten; children’s fine motor skills from rural kindergarten is better than those from urban kindergarten (Xia, 2016)
It has been the primary issue for the researcher to focus on how to efficiently improve children’s fine motor skill level in urban public kindergarten
Past researches mainly unearthed the educational value of folk games on large muscle development, while paying less attention on the influence on fine motor of children’s small muscle
Summary
After the survey of fine motor skills of 330 children aged from 3 to 6 in junior, middle and senior classes from 11 kindergartens in three districts in Nanchong, Sichuan Province, it is found that compared with the content about health in Guideline of learning and development of children aged from 3 to 6, children’s fine motor skill is less favorable especially being weak on drawing, cutting and folding; children’s fine motor skill level from private kindergarten is higher than those from public kindergarten; children’s fine motor skills from rural kindergarten is better than those from urban kindergarten (Xia, 2016). Past researches mainly unearthed the educational value of folk games on large muscle development, while paying less attention on the influence on fine motor of children’s small muscle Many folk games such as “Cat’s Cradle”, “Cut Window” and “Paper Folding of East, South, West and North”, “Embroidery” can develop children’s fine motor skills of picking, cutting, folding and stringing. The research team had selected a public urban kindergarten to launch a practical teaching activity of folk games based on children’s fine motor development for a semester, to develop courses about folk games which are suitable for children’s fine motor development during the teaching activity, and advance children’s fine motor skills through team effort and promote researchers’ and educators’ professional development during the action
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