Synopsis of the game lesson “Zoo. Outline of the lesson on application, modeling (preparatory group) on the topic: OOD on the topic: Animals in the zoo (based on the stories of E.I. Charushin) (with a regional component) in the preparatory group for school

The synopsis of direct educational activities in "Artistic Creativity" (sculpting) is intended for conducting classes for children of the preparatory group. The lesson pursues the following goals: to create conditions for the development of practical skills among pupils; learn to apply the acquired knowledge in practice.

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ABSTRACT DIRECTLY EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

On the theme "Journey to the Zoo".

Educational area "Artistic creativity" (modeling).

Type of activity: directly-educational activity.

Age group: preparatory group.

PURPOSE: to create conditions for the development of practical skills among pupils; learn to apply the acquired knowledge in practice.

TASKS:

1.Educational: consolidate the ability to sculpt animals using familiar modeling techniques. Activate children's knowledge about wild animals, animals of hot countries, work collectively to create a creative composition.

2.Developing: develop fine motor skills of the fingers, a sense of volume and shape, creativity, coherent speech, visual attention, thinking, the need for verbal communication, the ability to accurately express one's thoughts, answer questions with a full sentence.

3. Nurturing: to cultivate love for animals, respect for them, a keen interest in nature, work culture, accuracy in work
plasticine, perseverance.

Material:

1. Plasticine, modeling boards, stacks, napkins for each child, maple seeds, sticks.

2. Algorithms for performing work (modeling an animal according to a model).

3.Layout of the zoo

media objects :

Video "Zoo"

Equipment:

Laptop, projector, screen.

Methods: game, verbal-logical, visual, partially - search, problematic, independent.

preliminary work: reading fiction: S.Ya. Marshak "Children in a cage", "Where did the sparrow dine?" K.O. Dmitriev "Zoo on the table", A. Klykov "Fox", looking at illustrations depicting the zoo and its inhabitants, guessing riddles about animals, drawing and coloring animals from different countries in free activities.

Carrying out GCD:

Free play activities are organized in the group room. The teacher delivers the package.

PROGRESS OF ACTIVITIES:

Educator: - Guys, a parcel came to our group. Let's see what's in it?

(They open the parcel and take out the "magic bags").

The teacher invites the children to sit on the chairs.

Educator: - Guys, let's try to determine what is in them?

(Each of the children takes out one animal and tells how he recognized it)

Educator: - How did you determine?

1 child: - This is a bear (he has four paws, a small head)

2 child: - This is a crocodile (he has a big tail, a long body, an oblong head)

  1. child: - This is a rhinoceros (he has a horn on his face)
  2. child: -This is a zebra (she has a mane, four legs, a tail)
  3. child: - This is a hippopotamus (he has a plump tummy, fat legs, and a small tail)

Educator: - Guys, you remembered a lot of different animals. Well done! And where can I see them? (Children's answers)

Educator: There are pictures or photographs of animals in the books, but you can see live animals and birds in the zoo.

Have any of you been to the zoo? Listen to this word - "zoo" In a foreign language, the word "zoo" means "animal", and the word park is well known to everyone. We combine these two words and get " zoo"- a park in which wild animals are kept in captivity for the purpose of showing. This is a wildlife museum in which we can see representatives of the animal world of the entire planet.

Do you want to go to the zoo now?

And we will go to the zoo by "car". Imagine that you are in a car, take hold of

imaginary steering wheel. (Turns with hands that “hold the steering wheel”)

Dynamic pause

We drove by car, arrived at the zoo. Bi-bi-bi!

Educator: - Before our walk around the zoo begins, let's remember

zoo rules.

DO NOT feed, do not tease. Don't scare the animals

DO NOT throw anything at animals.

DO NOT go behind the fences, do not lean against it, and even more so do not push

arms.

Keep quiet and clean!

The teacher leads the children in a circle and leads to the screen.

Video display

Educator: - Here, guys, we visited the zoo. Children as well as these animals

can be called in one word? (Beasts!)

Educator: - And where do animals live in nature?

(In the forest, in the jungle)

Educator: - And if animals live in a zoo, where are they kept?

(In cages!)

Educator: - That's right, and these cells are also called aviaries. Who takes care of

zoo animals?

(Man!)

Educator: - Right! And let's think with you, what do all these animals have in common? BUT

our scheme will help us in this. What do all these animals have in common?

  1. child: - The body is covered with wool.
  2. child: - They have 4 paws.
  3. child: - They have fangs.
  4. child: - They feed their cubs with milk.

Educator: - Now close your eyes and imagine your favorite animal.

Educator: -Guys, while you were imagining an animal, a kind sorceress gave us a model of a zoo. Let's take a look at it. Is someone missing here? (Answers of children - animals)

Educator: - Guys, the sorceress gives you the task to fashion them from plasticine, but first guess the riddles and find out which animal you should fashion.

1. Lives calmly, not in a hurry

He carries a shield just in case.

Under it, not knowing fear

Walking.... (turtle).

2. And does not sing,

And fly does not fly

For what then

Is he considered a bird? (ostrich)

Z. He walks with his head up,

Not because an important count,

Not because of a proud disposition,

But because he ... (giraffe).

4. What kind of horses

wear vests? (zebras).

Well done boys.

Children sit at tables.

Educator: - Look, is everything ready for work?

Let's remember the rules for working with plasticine.

  1. Work with plasticine on a stand.
  2. Handle with care

3. Before starting work, a piece of plasticine needs to be kneaded and warmed in

hands, then the plasticine will become soft and pliable;

4. At the end of the work, hands should be wiped with a dry cloth or napkin, and then washed with soap and water.

Educator: - To prepare our fingers for work, let's play with them a little

the words

actions

Our fingers can

They clench and unclench their fists.

And print and write

Tap your fingers on the tabletop.

Draw, sculpt and glue

They draw in the air, shake hands, draw with brushes away from themselves and towards themselves.

Something to build and break, they never know

Waving the index fingers of both hands (denial),

Boredom - boredom

Show the back and top of the palms.

They will grow up and become

Hands through the sides up.

Golden hands.

Show palms.

Teacher: Now let's get to work.

The guys receive technological schemes, where it is shown in what sequence the product should be made and they perform work on them.

Fizminutka

We walk through the zoo

And we meet a bear there

This teddy bear

Widely spread paws

One, then both together

Long time treading water.

Ahead from under the bush

Looks sly fox

We will outwit the fox

Let's run on toes

We imitate a hare

fidget, naughty

But the game is over

It's time for us to get busy.

Children sculpt animals. The teacher, as necessary, provides

individual help.

Educator: - Guys, let's put our work in the layout of the zoo.

Well done, children! You have worked hard today! They were very diligent, diligent and accurate. We have a real mini zoo.

Reflection.

Educator: Guys, tell me, where have we been?

Have you learned something new for yourself?

How do you feel when you leave class?


Lesson summary

Educational area:"Knowledge"

Chapter: Acquaintance with the environment, ecology.

Subject: In zoo.

Target: Consolidation of children's knowledge about wild animals.

Program tasks:

- Expanding children's ideas about the zoo and wild animals

distant countries.

- To form the ability to form words-the name of the cubs of animals. We develop memory, thinking.

- Raising a love for zoo animals.

Lesson progress:

Stage 1. Motivational and motivating.

Game moment.

The teacher invites the children to go to the zoo and see what animals live there.

Game exercise: "We saw at the zoo"

Children stand in one line and put their hands up.

Get on the track and straighten your legs. “I will clap my hands and ask: We saw a lot of animals in the zoo. You should clap my hand in response and answer who you saw at the zoo.

Stage 2. Organizational and search.

Center "Science"

Children sit in a semicircle at the easel.

    Now let's solve riddles about animals. To do this, you need to pick up a rhyme in couplets.

With fish prickly dishes AT place of the nose-trunk,

No better for (camel) Instead of legs, pillars.

And stand like mountains

O n higher than a huge closet, Gray (elephants)

And everyone calls him (giraffe)

Yo Zhik grew ten times,

To does it have a horn? Got it (porcupine)

Guessed? - (rhinoceros)

At frighteningly handsome To then he was lying there?

Grandiose, yellow-maned. Evil, green (crocodile)

To know, not in vain he is the king of beasts.

In hot Africa. (a lion) G floppy, mustachioed

Striped fur

BUT oranges and bananas even though he looks like a cat

They love it very much! (Monkeys) But you won’t approach him. (Tiger)

2. Game exercise. "Learn and show"

Guys, now I will show the animal in the picture, and you will depict it. - Who is it? - Behemoth.

Hippo open mouth-

Hippo asks for a bun

Now open your mouth like a hippopotamus.

Behemoths have eaten

Stomach patted.

Who is this.? - Elephant

look at this elephant

He grew his nose.

What is the name of an elephant's nose? Let's try to draw the same long trunk. To do this, stretch the lips with a tube. No, the proboscis does not work like an elephant.

Who is this? - Giraffe.

He walks with his head up because he's a giraffe.

Let's stretch out the neck like a giraffe does. Raise your head up, trying to stretch your neck. No, such a long neck as a giraffe does not work.

Who is this? - Zebra.

These horses wear vests.

Zebras are racing

Tsok-tsok-tsok-tsok-tsok they clatter.

Let's clatter like a zebra. Zebras played, ran, got hungry. They began to pinch the grass, they began to chew the grass. Now let's do an exercise like a zebra chews.

Who is this? - Monkey.

Correctly. This monkey has bananas for lunch.

Now we will depict how the monkey hides the banana. We will protrude our cheeks one by one, then the other cheek. And now I guess for which cheek the banana is.

Games Center

3. Game exercise "Playground of young animals"

From the constructor, children build playgrounds and populate the cubs of animals there.

The children have a kindergarten, and for the animals they make a special playground for young animals. Here she is. Do you know what kind of children settled in this cage?

This is a wolf cub, this is a bear cub, this is a fox cub.

And what are the names of the babies of a camel (camel), an elephant (elephant), a giraffe (giraffe), a zebra (zebra), a lion (lion cub), a tiger (tiger cub).

4. Physical minute. "Animal Charge"

Every day the animals do exercises. Let's go out to the meadow, make a circle. We will stand in a circle and read the poem, we will accompany the movement.

Get ready guys

Charging starts

Bunny jumps: lope, lope (jumping in place)

Through bush and stump

Squirrel jumps on knots

Here and there, here and there. (donuts sideways left and right)

Stretched sweetly (sit down, stand up and stretch)

The bear waddled,

I found sweet honey.

Along the trodden path

Someone's legs ran

Here comes the wolf. (run in place)

The fox hurries after him

red head

Cunning bastard! (small graceful running in place)

Center "Logico-mathematical".

5. Game exercise "Compare".

I give each child one card from the zoo animals picture series and ask questions about each card.

Elephant mouse. Which of these animals is big and which is small?

Giraffe and rhinoceros. Who is tall and who is short?

Leopard and zebra. Who is striped and who is spotted?

Polar bear and lion. Who lives in the cold camps, and who in the hot?

Porcupine and squirrel. Who is fluffy and who is prickly?

Crocodile and sparrow. Who is dangerous and who is harmless?

Tortoise hare. Who is soft and who is hard?

Donkey and foal. Who has long ears and who has short ones?

Iso Center.

6. Game exercise "Draw the stripes."

Guys, there was a loss at the zoo, the stripes of the tiger cub and the zebra disappeared. They didn't look like themselves and got very upset.

Let's take pencils and draw stripes.

Each child is given a card with the outline of an animal.

Stage 3. Reflective-corrective.

Guys, our trip to the zoo has ended. Who did you like? Why?

Anastasia Grachevskaya

Kind of activity: directly educational.

Age group: senior.

Target: develop children's imagination, creativity. To work out generalized ways of creating an image of animals in modeling. The development of fine motor skills of fingers and hands, to cultivate love for animals, accuracy when working with plasticine, perseverance.

Material: plasticine, modeling board, stacks, napkin for each child. Animal modeling, zoo toy animals.

Reading fiction K. O. Dmitriev "Zoo".

Carrying out GCD:

Educator: - Guys, I have a magic bag, let's see what is in it?

The teacher approaches each child with a bag and asks to get one animal, and then tell about it.

1 child: - this is a tiger (he has four paws, a tail, he has an orange coat color with black stripes.

2 child: - this is an elephant (he has a trunk, big ears), etc.

Educator: - Guys, you remembered and correctly described all the animals in my magic bag. Where can you see these animals?

Children: - At the zoo!

Educator: - and now let's make our own zoo with you.

Educator: - and now let's prepare our fingers for work, let's play with them a little:

Finger gymnastics:

Our fingers can (clench and unclench fists)

Both print and write (tap fingers on the surface of the table)

Draw, sculpt, and glue (draw in the air, shake hands, draw with brushes from yourself to yourself)

Something to build and break

They never know (forefinger waving denial)

Boredom-boredom (show the back and top of the palms)

They will grow up and become (hands through the sides up)

Golden hands (show palms).

Teacher: Now let's get to work.

Children receive a diagram showing the sequence in which the work must be done.

Children sculpt animals. The teacher provides individual assistance as needed.

Fizminutka.:

We walk through the zoo

And we meet a bear there,

This teddy bear

Widely spread paws

One, then both together

Long marks on the spot,

Ahead from under the bush

Looks sly fox

We will outwit the fox

Let's run on toes

We imitate a bunny

fidget, naughty

But the game is over

It's time for us to get busy.

Educator: - Guys, now we will finish your animals and put them in our zoo.

Guys, you did a great job today, we have a wonderful mini-zoo. Now tell me, did you like our lesson?

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Purpose of the lesson:

Activation and replenishment of vocabulary on the topic of the lesson;

Formation of ideas about wild and exotic animals,

Development of constructive abilities,

The development of fine motor skills of the hand,

The development of attention, thinking, memory, tentative-spatial relations,

The development of auditory and visual analyzers,

Development of creative activity.

The course of the lesson in the younger group of kindergarten

1. Greeting.

2. Dynamic pause "Drive by car"

Kids, today we will visit the zoo. A lot of different animals live in the zoo: both those that live in our forests - bears, wolves, foxes, and those that were brought from afar - lions, elephants, crocodiles, giraffes. And we'll go by car. Ready?

Dynamic pause

We drove by car, (turns with hands that “hold the steering wheel”.)

They arrived at the zoo. Bi-bi-bi!

We rode a horse, (children perform light squats, arms outstretched, “hold the reins”)

All the animals were gone. Hop-hop-hop!

They rode on a steam locomotive (arms bent at the elbows, alternate movements of the left and right hands forward and backward.)

And they came back.

3. Development of visual perception "Who hid?"

Material: Popelreiter figures

What animals live in the zoo?

4. Development of speech and sound imitation. Greetings.

Material: basket with animal toys.

- Friends, let's say hello to the inhabitants of the zoo in their language. (The teacher gathers the children around the basket and offers to choose any toy: a dog, a lion cub, a hedgehog, a kitten ... and greet everyone with the voice of his toy, helping each child find the right words, intonation and expressiveness to characterize the selected character.)

5. Massage break "Hedgehog"

Material: massage balls.

(Roll a special rubber "hedgehog" for massage or gently tap with nails)

Here's a spiny hedgehog

How many needles does he have

He runs with his feet

And rustling with needles.

Runs back and forth

I'm always ticklish!

6. Development of thinking.

Material: animal cards, green and yellow houses

The zoo has animals from all over. Bunnies, foxes, bears are from our forests, lions and giraffes are from Africa, and monkeys are from the jungles of Brazil. Let's play.

Zookeeper game.

(Children receive cards with the image of animals - the inhabitants of the zoo. Everyone goes to the mat. The teacher puts the image of two houses (green and yellow).

It is reported that now all the children are residents of the zoo. While the music is playing, the children should dance on the rug, and when the music subsides, they should run to “their” house. The game can be repeated by exchanging pictures.)

7. Development of attention "Whose tail"

Material: worksheet.

Kids, an artist came to the zoo to draw animals. He portrayed the animals very well, and the trouble is, he painted the tails separately. Help me figure out where whose tail is.

8. Development of speech "Say kindly"

Our animals are very fond of being affectionately called; a bear is a bear cub, an elephant is an elephant, etc.

9. Acquaintance with the environment. A lion.

Our walk around the zoo continues, let's stay with this animal. Here is his shadow. Did you know who it is? This is a lion. Did you recognize him by his thick mane? But such a mane happens only in lions - dads, in lionesses - mothers do not have a mane.

The lion is called the "king of beasts".

Leos love to take long naps and laze around. They attack only when they are hungry or someone tries to offend them.

Lions are predators. What does it mean? What do they eat……meat?

Lions do not hunt alone. They live in large families.

Adult lions love to play with baby lion cubs. They also teach them everything important for the life of lions.

10. Mathematics. How many cubs.

Material: worksheet.

The cubs played out so much that the lioness mother could not even count them correctly. Let's help her. (Combine the correct picture and number)

11. Motor game "The snake is crawling"

There is also a large, long snake living in the zoo. It moves smoothly, slowly, constantly changing direction.

(Children take the rope with their hands and move after the adult "snake" to the music).

12. Development of fine motor skills. Sun.

Material: a circle cut out of colored cardboard, clothespins.

In order for the animals to be warm and joyful in the zoo, we will make a clear sun for them.

(Children attach clothespins - rays in a circle).

13. Geometric shapes. Gyenes blocks.

Material: worksheet.

And our animals are very fond of cookies, and even everything is different. What shape and color of cookies does a lion, an elephant and a hippo like. Let's find their favorite treat.

14. Finger gymnastics "Crocodile"

Once Upon a River Nile

A huge crocodile swam.

Another popped up nearby

Shouted to him: "Stop!"

(Children on each hand connect in pairs the index and middle, little and ring fingers. Two imaginary crocodiles are obtained that swim, opening and closing their mouths)

15. Musical outdoor game "At the giraffe".

16. Drawing. Stripes for the tiger.

Materials: worksheet, paints, brush.

Kids, look, what kind of animal is this? This is a tiger, but he loves to walk in the rain, so all the stripes have washed off. The tiger is very upset by this. Feeling sad and angry all the time. Let's help him and draw stripes. Take the brushes in your hands and draw lines from top to bottom on the tiger so that it has stripes.

17. Farewell.

Farewell the teacher organizes on the carpet. The teacher with the children stand in a circle and in chorus, pronouncing the verse, clap their hands to the beat.

Even though we're sorry to say goodbye

It's time to return home.

We will come here again

And learn and play.

Outline of a cognitive lesson in the preparatory group
Lesson topic:
"Journey to the Zoo"

Form of the lesson: Frontal.

Purpose of the lesson:Formation of an aesthetic attitude to the surrounding world.

Program tasks: To systematize ideas about animals in our and other countries.

Developing:

- to systematize children's ideas about animals in our and other countries;

- develop concentration of attention, memory;

- develop the ability to analyze, draw conclusions.

Formative:

- to form the ability to consider pictures about animals, highlighting their signs, qualities and actions;

- to form the ability to compose a descriptive story about animals together with the teacher;

Fixing:

- establish rules for the treatment of animals.

Educational:

- to cultivate the ability to listen to each other, to help each other in case of difficulties;

- educate the culture of behavior in the zoo.

Vocabulary:camel, koala, rhinoceros, jackal.

Methodical methods:

1. Leading questions;

2. Game moment "Journey to the zoo";

3. Didactic games: "You can - you can not", "Continue the sentence", "Magic chain";

4. Examination of the plate;

5. Fixing the rules of conduct in the zoo;

6. Guessing riddles;

7. Looking at pictures and toys;

8. Praise, help;

9. Physical culture minute;

10. Analysis.

Previous work:

1. Consideration of thematic albums "Animals";

2. Visiting a living corner in EBC "Karash";

3. Visiting the department "Animals of our region" in the national museum.

4. Reading stories about animals;

5. Drawing, modeling animals.

Materials for the lesson:

1. Sign "It is forbidden to feed animals";

2. Rudder;

3. Sign "Zoo";

4. Illustrations depicting animals from different countries;

5. Animal toys;

6. Black curtain;

7. Animal masks (fox, chicken, rooster, bear, monkey, pig, sparrow, cat);

8. Building material for "cells";

9. Symbols-images of animals.

Lesson progress:

Part 1.

Children sit in their places, the group is stylized as a zoo.

Educator:

- Guys, what do you think, where you can see different animals from different countries in one place and all at once?

Children:

- In zoo.

Educator:

- That's right, the guys at the zoo!

- Do you want to travel around the zoo, where you can see the animals, watch and admire them.

Children's answers.

Where we will go today with you, and we will go on our journey by bus with unusual tickets.

Please get on the bus and buy tickets, and take the seats according to the ticket you bought.

You and I will go to the zoo, and after that you tell me what animals you saw, what cages they were in, and what number the cage was.

At the zoo, listen carefully to the guide who will tell you about the animals.

Children get up from their seats, go to the bus, buy tickets and "go" to the zoo.

- In the meantime, we are going to the zoo, let's check if you know how to correct behavior at the zoo? (Answers of children).

And to make it more fun for us to go, let's play the game "You can - you can not." I tell you the rule, and you tell me if I can do it or not.

1. "You can't watch animals";

2. "You can get close to the cages";

3. "You can not take care of animals";

4. “You can make noise in the zoo”;

5. "You can not admire the animals";

6. "You can feed animals to strangers."

Educator:

- Surely, each of you has been to the zoo at least once.

and I saw just such a sign that hangs on cages with animals (the teacher shows the sign). Your parents read it to you: "It is forbidden to feed animals." Why do you think? (Answers of children).

- Right. Imagine being given candies, cookies, fresh bread, bananas and much, much more all day long. Of course, the stomach hurts.

- Animals in the wild also do not eat all day. In addition, many people do not know what this or that animal can eat, and they throw anything into cages and aviaries. Animals get sick from it.

What else is not worth doing at the zoo?

Children:

- Get close to the cages.

Educator:

- Correctly and even more so to stick your hands in there. After all, a cage is a house for an animal, and it will protect this house.

Also, you can't make noise in the zoo. Why do you think?

Children:

“Because animals are used to silence. A loud noise can annoy them.

Educator:

- That's right, guys, you are great, you know all the rules of conduct and therefore we can safely go on a trip to the zoo.

Part 2.

Educator:

- In order to get into our “zoo”, you need to solve riddles about animals.

The teacher makes riddles, the children guess them.

Riddles

1. There is a mane, but he is not a horse,

There is no crown, and he is a king.

(A lion)

6. Jumping smartly

Loves carrots.

(Hare)

2. He sleeps in a den in winter

Under the big pine

And when spring comes

Wakes up from sleep.

(Bear)

7. Lives in hot Africa

Grow a big belly.

To hide from the heat

Gets into the water.

(Hippopotamus)

3. african horses,

They dress in vests.

(Zebras)

8. Striped like a zebra

And mustachioed like a cat

Through the forest green wilds

He goes hunting.

(Tiger)

4. Here are the needles and pins

Creep out from under the bench

They look at me slyly

They want milk.

(Hedgehog)

9. love to tease

And grimace

And on the vines

Tumble.

(Monkey)

5. Legs are long

But the neck

Him

Even longer.

(Giraffe)

10. Look - a green log,

It lies quietly.

But if he opens his mouth,

Out of fear

Can you fall.

(Crocodile)

Educator:

- Well done guys guessed all the riddles correctly. And now we can go to the zoo.

Children walk in a group along the "cages" with animals.

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