Marina Vandysheva

Is a useful decoration for every group. It should not only be bright and interesting, but also meaningful and necessarily understandable for children.

B main functions calendar included:

Formation of children's ideas about ecology.

Development of thinking, the ability to establish cause-and-effect relationships between different natural phenomena.

Fostering respect and love for nature.

For the manufacture of calendar will be needed material: plastic panel; plastic corners; scotch; magnet; pictures downloaded from the Internet and printed on self-adhesive paper.

I used a plastic panel for the base of the stand and plastic corners for the frame.

On the corner below I pasted numbers cut from a tear-off calendar.

I pasted the numbers on top with tape.

I pulled two threads along which the red window moves freely. In the red frame, children mark the desired day of the month.

I printed out color pictures from the Internet on self-adhesive paper, covered them with wide tape and placed them on the base.

Three circles: change of seasons, parts of the day, various atmospheric phenomena and precipitation. I placed spinning arrows in the center of each circle.

A train with carriages indicates the days of the week, where by moving the Hedgehog in the carriages, you can indicate the day of the week.

Pictures of trees and children correspond to seasonal changes.

Each of the pictures is attached to the base using a magnet, which allows you to change them according to the seasons.

I attached 2 transparent pockets to the base and inserted images into them according to the season.

I also printed out a thermometer.

The moving indicator of the thermometer is made of ordinary cord, half painted with red varnish.

I think that having such nature calendar You can maximize the activity of children in the corner nature.

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We all know that every group should have a nature calendar. Nowadays many interesting calendars can be bought in stores, but...

A nature calendar can be a valuable tool for getting to know nature. In the middle group it should be uncomplicated based on the material presented.

Russia has very beautiful nature. Beautiful fields, forests, mountains, rivers, lakes, but there are also swamps. Many people believe that swamps are impassable.

A kindergarten is not just a place where a child spends time while parents are at work. Here he receives development, gets acquainted with the rules of communication and behavior, learns a lot of new things about himself and the world around him. The Federal State Educational Standards program states that, among other things, each group must have a nature calendar for kindergarten. For younger children this is one stand, for older children - another. However, such a calendar performs important tasks and serves as teaching material for teachers in introducing children to nature and weather.

Nature calendar for kindergarten - why is it needed?

A corner of nature, as the above-mentioned calendar is also called, is a useful decoration for every group. It should not only be bright and interesting, but also meaningful. Basic Calendar Functions:

• Formation of children's ideas about ecology.
• Development of thinking, the ability to establish cause-and-effect relationships between various natural phenomena.
• Instilling the basics of proper behavior in nature and the desire to preserve it.
• Forming an idea of ​​how huge and diverse the world around is.
• Fostering a reverent attitude and love for nature.

Each educator has his own idea of ​​what a natural area should be like. But we should not forget that children should learn as much as possible new things in a form that is understandable to them. An addition to the calendar will be where you can place (ficus, primrose, violets, chlorophytum and others) and show the children how to properly care for them. You can also get small and unpretentious animals there: fish, pigs, parrots, hamsters, mice, turtles. Children will be able to clearly observe how representatives of flora and fauna behave depending on the time of year and weather conditions.

The biggest difficulty for teachers is usually related to the design of a calendar in a corner of nature. Questions about what information to put there, how to present it correctly, how to tell students about what they see. Now in the store you can find a large number of ready-made nature calendars for kindergarten, which contain everything you need. As a result, all options are divided into 2 age groups: for the younger group and the middle/senior group.

Nature calendar for the younger group

For children 3-4 years old, there are several types of nature calendars: observation of the growth and development of animals, birds, seasonal changes in nature. The calendar about birds contains photographs of different birds that fly to the feeder - children are meeting many of them for the first time.

The calendar of changes in nature depending on the season allows children to systematically observe what is happening outside the window every day and compare it with the data. Very often it is designed in the form of a clock with an arrow. The teacher needs to conduct observations for them at the beginning and end of each season. Attached to the calendar are pictures depicting weather conditions at different times of the year, so after the walk the entire younger group can find the necessary ones (sun, rain, wind, snowstorm) and attach them to the stand. In this case, the calendar may contain several sectors:

• Seasons: summer, spring, autumn, winter. In any case, a nature calendar for a kindergarten should be designed with this sector, because in the younger group, children begin to have an idea of ​​what it is cold, hot, windy, whether this refers to spring or autumn, winter or summer, whether birds fly away or are returning.
• Natural phenomena and temperature: rain (strong and weak), snow, blizzard, wind, sun, fog, hail, frost, ice, etc.; temperature scale with an element moving along it.
• Days of the week: Monday to Sunday.

At the same time as using the nature calendar, the teacher gives the children a didactic game to play, which requires a doll. They must understand how warm clothes need to be selected, where and in what order they should be worn.

Nature calendar for middle and high school kindergarten

If with 3-year-old children the teacher observes each natural phenomenon separately, then from 4 years old children are able to perceive 2-3 phenomena at the same time. For example, not only rainy weather, but also windy weather, or not just the blooming of leaves on trees, but also their falling when there is a gust of wind. The nature calendar can be complicated or supplemented.

For example, months with holidays can be filled with corresponding flags or pictures: “March 8”, “New Year”, “Easter” and others. Now you can not only mark the day of the week on which the children came to kindergarten today, but also indicate the current date, month and year.

Calendar manufacturers have begun to produce quite modern models that contain magnets and can act as a board for washable markers. Preschool children who have already mastered letters and numbers can add their notes to it or depict what they see with drawings - or the teacher does this. It turns out to be a kind of observation diary, which can be discussed daily with the students. Calendar styles can be very different: cartoon, sports, plain, funny, with images of children, animals, plants or beautiful nature in the background.

Making a nature calendar for kindergarten with your own hands

If you don’t have the funds to buy a ready-made calendar or your imagination is so strong that you want to realize your ideas in creating it, then with a time investment of about 5-6 hours, you can make a corner of nature with your own hands. Here are some interesting options.

Perhaps the most practical calendar will be the one with a wear-resistant base and excellent tenacity. A great option is a rectangular rug. You can attach pictures and decorations to it using pins. The disadvantage of such a calendar is that it is not very secure. Therefore, it is best to use it in the older group of kindergarten. Let each season of the year be decorated separately.

Spring has come - you can hang appropriate photographs (even of the children themselves), pictures cut out from magazines or postcards. On the Internet you will also find images of weather phenomena for this time of year. You can make a “clock” of days of the week and time of day from colored paper. Or it could just be pictures that are selected using checkboxes.

Another good option is a plywood or PVC base. Then it will be safer to work. Self-adhesive paper will allow you to both decorate your stand and arrange it correctly. Ask creative parents to bring themed cards or handmade interactives from home. A moving thermometer indicator can be made from red and blue locks. Let them close in the middle, and above and below it write down the thermometer readings with the original scale.

A simplified version of the natural calendar will also be interesting. Arrange the seasons clockwise, labeling them with their characteristic weather conditions. Place the arrow in the center. You can attach 4 files to the base and insert images with the seasons into them, and on top, using self-adhesive paper or double-sided tape, attach images of animals, weather phenomena, temperature, and other things.

By designing a nature calendar for a kindergarten, you will allow your students to experience the world around them in its manifestations in the form of precipitation, decrease and increase in temperature, animals and flowers waking up and falling asleep. Make or buy a stand that will be understandable to children. Let them be involved in the process as much as possible: they themselves talk about what they see and feel, answer questions about what picture should be placed and where. Develop the guys - this is the future!

For the education of preschool children, the Interdesign company has developed colorful play wall stands - nature calendars for kindergarten that help children understand the world around them. The presence of pockets makes nature calendars even more convenient to use - after all, themed children's drawings, information about the current month, day of the week, weather, etc. can easily be placed in them.

Calendar "Seasons" for preschool educational institutions

The children's calendar "Seasons" consists of 4 parts, one part for each season. The arrow on the calendar indicates the current season. The bright thematic coloring of the calendar allows children to easily compare the current season and its display on the "Seasons" calendar for kindergarten.

Buy a nature calendar for kindergarten

In our catalog you will find a large assortment of different stands for kindergarten on the theme "Nature Calendar". All stands are made of exceptionally high-quality materials, so they will delight children in groups for a long time. Bright and colorful, they are perfect for decorating a kindergarten. From us you can buy a “Nature Calendar” stand from the options presented in the catalog or order production based on your own wishes.