Here's my hand!
Also, kids can share humorous friendship rhymes in the game:
Friend, do not look down.
The victory we’ll divide into halves.
Half today I give to you,
Well, tomorrow you give to me.
We learn to lose a game,
But not to lose the friendship!
For diversity, the teacher can also offer the children who won, to give the defeated
a dance of friendship or to make reconciliation gifts (hearts, flowers, birds) with their
own hands. Such methods will provide a positive aftertaste of all preschoolers after the
game and a high level of motivation of all participants to participate in the game again.
If children are ready to be defeated they apprehend it easier. For the teacher it is
important to explain to children the changeable character of victories in the game.
Losing in one game or relay it does not mean that such a result is permanent. It can
change constantly. The main thing is to make everything fun and interesting. Under
such conditions, children will always participate in the game each time with a great
pleasure. The ability to understand the temporality of winning or losing allows children
to express their empathy better: to be glad for the one who won or sympathize and
support the one who lost.
Funny friendship rhymes, humorous rhymes, in our opinion, are required to be
used before the team active games with a competitive effect. Children do not put up
with a defeat it is emotionally hard for them to accept it. During active games, senior
preschoolers often emotionally "explode", both positively and negatively. The wise
pedagogical admonishing of the teacher helps the child to cope with his or her emotions
without hurting another child (the winner does not sneer at the loser, the loser does not
offend the words or actions of the winner). Of course, for this purpose it is advisable
to have conversations with pupils. But at the same time simple and funny rhymes are
aimed to make friends are more effective.
Teachers during the supervision over the active games do not always lead children
to an understanding of a defeat temporality and confidence of being successful next
time. Teachers often not to injure preschoolers, even in the senior group after the relay
announce that friendship is the winner. On the one hand it is positive, nobody lost: no
winners or losers, on the other hand such completion of the game discourages children
to make an effort next time or to follow the rules of the game. Moreover, if the senior
preschooler is not taught to lose so at preschool, so he or she won’t be able to accept
defeat with dignity at school too. Otherwise, the constant getting of victories, makes a
false sense of " the winner" in a child in everything she or he does. As a result, it causes
strong personal frustration at life's failures. Rhymes of friendship before the game and
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