游戏是幼儿园孩子最基本的活动，也是他们获取知识、积累经验、获得发展的基本途径。孩子的年龄越小，这一点体现的越为明显。在托班孩子的心目中，上幼儿园就是换了一个有很多同伴的游戏空间。
最近托班的孩子们正在探究“动物的外形特征”，老师们用游戏让学习活动变得有趣而又生动，一起来看看他们是怎么让孩子在玩中学的吧！
Play is the most basic activity for kindergarten children, and also the fundamental way for them to acquire knowledge, accumulate experience, and develop. The younger the children are, the more evident this is. In the minds of the kindergarteners, going to school is like changing a play space that has many friends.
Recently, the children in Pre-K have been exploring the physical characteristics of animals. To make learning fun, the teachers designed play-based learning activities for the children. Let's take a look!
皮毛触感游戏
Touch and Guess
在蒙眼游戏中，通过触摸、感知不同皮毛质感，孩子们感受和认识不同动物皮毛的特点，并学会用不同的词汇来描述触感，如：柔软、粗糙、光滑等。
In the blindfold game, children learned about animals by touching and perceiving animal fur. They also used different vocabulary to describe the texture, such as soft, rough, smooth, etc
小侦探
Little Detective
大大的探照灯帮我们找到了很多不同的花纹，这都是什么动物身上的花纹呢？小侦探们观察花纹形状、颜色，对花纹拥有者动物进行猜测和验证，小侦探们真的很厉害哦！
Large torches helped the children find many different patterns on animals. The little detectives observed the shapes and colors of the patterns closely so that they could guess the animals. Then they checked their own guesses to see they were right or wrong.
绘本福尔摩斯
Picture book Sherlock Holmes
阅读故事绘本时，故事情节紧张刺激，孩子们变身福尔摩斯，通过对动物脚印的观察、描述、分析，一起来发现到底是哪些小动物来过这里呢。
When reading storybooks, the children transformed into Sherlock Holmes. Through observation, description, and analysis of animal footprints, they discovered together which animals have been there.
快乐跳跳棋
Jumping Checkers
跳一跳、找一找，你踩到的是谁的脚印？孩子们在运动中继续来发现动物脚印形状的秘密。瞧，有的像梅花，有的像剪刀，有的像竹叶……
Jump and look, whose footprints are you on? Children carried on with their animal exploration by finding out the secrets of animal footprints. Some footprints looked like plum blossoms, some like scissors, some like bamboo leaves
动物模仿游戏
Animals Charades
你来模仿我来猜，通过聆听、猜测、分辨、验证、戴上头饰模仿，孩子们认识了很多动物的叫声呢！
With animal headwear, the children made the sounds of animals. The guessers listened very closely. It was a challenge for both the actors and the guessers.
拼拼乐
Fun Puzzles
不同的尾巴放到动物的身上都是什么样子的？孩子们在拼拼、玩玩中发现动物尾巴也有很多的不同，那为什么这些动物的尾巴会不同呢？带着问题，再去观察验证图片，发现动物尾巴的秘密。
What do different tails look like when placed on animals? An inquiry into animal tails was conducted. The children found that animal tails are very different because they can have different functions.
钉尾巴
Pin the Tail
孩子们选择自己喜欢的小动物，蒙住眼睛去把尾巴贴在小动物身上，虽然贴的位置错误百出但仍乐在其中，加深了对不同的动物尾巴的印象.
After choosing their favorite animals, the children had their eyes covered and tried to pin the tails to the animal bodies. As a result, the tails were everywhere on the animals. However, the children really enjoyed the activity and gained deeper understanding of different animal tails.
小动物走路模仿秀
Animal Walk
小动物都是怎么走路的？选择动物头饰，变身各种小动物，孩子们唱唱儿歌、学学动作，一起来看看我们这些小动物的模仿秀吧！
How do animals walk? Choose animal headwear and be various animals. The children sang nursery rhymes and learned movements. Check this out!
在动物的主题探究中，孩子通过各种游戏认识了不同的小动物。他们学会了区分各种动物的皮毛颜色和纹理，能够辨认出动物的脚印，听得出它们独特的声音，观察到它们尾巴的形状和动作，以及了解它们不同的前进方式。越来越知识渊博了呢！谁说游戏不是学习呢？让我们一起继续支持孩子的快乐玩中学吧！
In the animals unit, the children learned about different animals through all kinds of play! They learned to distinguish the animal fur colors and textures; recognized their footprints and sounds; observed the shapes and movement of animal tails; knew the different ways of animals moving forward. Playing is learning! We will continue to support children's learning through play!
