We play ancient man with children. "Back to the past." Stone Age. So how long did ancient man live on average?

Yulia Maznina

Recently, bored with small and large trips, my sons and nephews decided to organize time travel at home. We have already looked, the next point of our travels into the past was the Stone Age. It is interesting to see how primitive people lived. But it so happened that we not only looked at the life of prehistoric people, but because of an error in the time machine, we turned into hominids - the ancestors of man, and we had to go through the entire path of evolution together with primitive people in order to again become Homo sapiens - a reasonable person. The game took us about two hours. The script is suitable for children aged 3 years and older.

Leading: If you were on our planet Earth 3 million years ago, everything around us would be a little different. And we would be the only people on it. Yes, yes, don't be surprised. At that time there was no man on Earth yet. Accountants believe that the first man appeared on our planet 2.4 million years ago. This happened in Northeast Africa.

On a map (physical or political) find northeast Africa, you can put some mark or stick a flag there.

Leading: Then primitive people went to Asia and Europe. Here the development of ancient man went faster. The first civilizations appeared in Asia.

Show Asia and Europe on the map. You can indicate the movement of primitive people with arrows (If your map is laminated, the arrows can be drawn or cut out of paper).

Leading: Do you want to see how primitive people lived and what they did? Then you and I need to get into Stone Age, or rather, at its very beginning - in the Paleolithic era, when prehistoric people learned to use stone tools.

The presenter looks around the participants thoughtfully.

Leading: In order for primitive people to accept us as their own, you and I need to change our appearance. How did prehistoric people dress? They did not know how to make fabric; instead of fabric they used scraped and sun-dried animal skins. Primitive people preferred to leave their feet bare, but you and I can make special shoes - pistons - by collecting a piece of leather around the ankle.

Participants dress like primitive people. Instead of leather, you can use, for example, fabric Brown. We secured the pistons around the ankles with rubber bands.

Leading: Are you ready to travel back in time? Turn on the time machine, let's go! Our goal is the Stone Age, the Paleolithic era.

Children launch the time machine, all participants move to the place marked with the “Paleolithic” sign (the presenter himself or participants who can read can read it). Any box, remote control, or children's steering wheel can act as a time machine. You can even just imagine that you have it and, for example, lies in the palm of your hand. We use a board with switches, latches and other pen development tools.

Leading: So-so. Looks like our time machine is acting up a bit today. You and I found ourselves not in the Paleolithic era, but a little earlier, when human ancestors, the hominids, lived on Earth. Nowadays hominids are called the ancestors of humans and large great apes.

Well, you and I, guys, will have to go through the same path that man went through in the process of his evolution - from Homo Habilis, still very similar to apes, to Homo sapiens, like us you. Forward!

1 stop. Human ancestors - hominids

Our first stop is the time of hominids, human ancestors similar to great apes such as chimpanzees and orangutans. What do you think human ancestors were able to do? What did you eat?

Leading: Absolutely right! Most likely, they still walked on four legs, could easily climb trees and ate what they could find around them: bananas and other fruits, roots dug out of the ground. Shall we try?

Participants walk on four legs, looking for something edible. They can climb onto a gym, sofa or bed on all fours. Hang a few bananas on a gym or door handle and let participants try to eat them without their hands. If you decide to eat root vegetables dug out of the ground (for example, carrots or turnips), they, of course, need to be cleaned.

2nd stop. A skilled man(Homo h abilis)

Leading: Shall we go further? Our next stop is the Paleolithic era, the time of the skilled man - Homo habilis (xOmo habilis). He was still very bent over, with long arms and a big head. The height of a skilled adult was like the height of a current 12-year-old boy.

Participants depict what a skilled person was like. They try to bend so that the fingertips of their straightened arms reach their knees, then their ankles, then the floor.

Leading: A skilled man was the first to learn how to process stone and make tools from it. That is why scientists call this time in the history of our planet the Stone Age. What do you think a skilled man could do with his stone tools?

Participants express their assumptions. Try using pebbles to split apricot or plum pits, crush crackers, or dig up the soil in a pot with a houseplant.

Leading: Where did the skilled man live? He did not yet know how to build houses, but for housing he used the stone structures that nature provided him. Can you guess which ones?

Participants express their assumptions.

Leading: Absolutely right. Homo sapiens used caves for living. Let's do ours too.

Use a table, chairs and blankets to create a cave.

Leading: A skilled person obtained food for himself by collecting foxes, plant fruits, and digging up plant roots. Bird nests were a great success for ancient man.

Make a bird's nest out of paper or newspaper in advance. Put some in it chocolate eggs or Kinder Surprise capsules with little edible surprises inside. Move the nest higher and let the participants find it.

3 stop. Homo erectus (Homo Erectus)

Leading: Our next stop is the Paleolithic era, the time of Homo Erectus (Homo Erectus). An adult Homo erectus was slightly shorter than modern man, but his arms were longer than yours and mine. He invented a chopper and hunted small animals. A chop is a piece of stone, sharpened at one end, which ancient people held in their fists and used as a knife, ax or pick. He also learned how to keep the fire going. Where do you think fire came from in prehistoric man?

Participants express their assumptions.

Leading: Yes, ancient people could encounter fire during a thunderstorm, when lightning struck a dry tree and it caught fire. Getting fire myself ancient man I didn’t know how to do it back then, so I had to save the fire. What could put out the fire? How could the fire be passed on to other people?

Participants express their assumptions. You can conduct experiments: extinguish a candle with water from a spray bottle, blowing it out, blocking the access of air, covering it with a jar or covering it with sand or salt. Light one candle from another - this is how ancient people could transfer fire to each other.

Leading: So, primitive man had to protect the fire from rain and wind, make sure that the smoldering fire was not covered or trampled, so that the fire always had access to air and had something to burn. In caves, ancient people made a fireplace, lined it with stones, and regularly threw brushwood (dry branches) into the fire so that it would not go out. Let's make a fireplace in our cave.

Participants choose a place for a fireplace in the cave and cover it with stones. We had real ones, but you can cut the stones out of cardboard. They collect brushwood (they can become simple pencils) and light a fire (you can roll up tubes from paper or napkins). We used brown cubes as firewood, and we made fire from red, yellow and orange cubes.

Leading: How do you think fire changed the life of ancient man?

Participants express their assumptions.

Leading: Absolutely right. Fire changed the diet of ancient man: if before he ate food only raw, now it could be cooked over a fire: fry meat, bake vegetables. Fire allowed ancient man to live in a cooler climate, because a fire was warmer. Fire made the life of primitive people safer: the light and smell of a fire scared away wild animals, which is probably why people still love to look at fire so much.

Prepare in advance small pieces of sausage, cheese, cucumber, fruit or marmalade (children especially like this option) and wooden sticks for kebabs. If you don't have long sticks, you can use toothpicks. Let the participants make their own kebabs and “roast” them over the fire. This game can be inserted into any quest and played at any holiday - it is always a success. It gives the participants the opportunity to relax a little, and those who have not previously participated in the game are immediately attracted to the game.

Stop 4: Heidelberg Man (Homo heidelbergensis)

Leading: Shall we go further? Our next stop is the Paleolithic era, the time of Heidelberg man - Homo heidelbergensis (homo heidelbergensis). He was still tall taller than a man erectus, was strong and robust. Do athletes now train with dumbbells? What could the Heidelberg man have used?

Do some exercises with stones. Instead of real stones, you can take bags of cereal (preferably fabric) or thick books that are convenient to hold.

Leading: Heidelberg Man invented the spear and was already hunting large animals. Which ones do you think?

Leading: Not all species of animals hunted by prehistoric man exist today. Most of them died out. Died out:

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• big-horned deer (its horns reached 4 meters in span, with such horns you can’t get through the forest);
• mammoth ( close relative an elephant, but much larger, its legs were short, and its body was covered with thick hair, so it was not afraid of the cold; mammoth tusks reached a length of 4 m);
• woolly rhinoceros (was similar to the rhinoceros that lives on our planet now, but its body was covered with thick hair, like a mammoth);
• cave bear (was larger and stronger than the common brown bear; scientists believe that it did not hibernate).

Here are the bison - huge wild bulls— still live in America. Only the front part of their body is covered with thick hair, there is a hump on the back, and short and thick horns on the head.

Participants can depict the animals that the presenter talks about.

Leading: I think you and I also need to get a spear and go hunting. And before the invention of the spear, ancient people hunted by throwing stones at the animal.

A spear can be made from a stick by tying or taping a tip made of cardboard or other material to it. If you don't have a stick, you can cut a spear from a large piece of thick cardboard. In this case, it is better to take soft or rag balls as stones.

Go on a mammoth or elephant hunt. You can make a mammoth like this: place two chairs or put two large pillows on the floor and cover them with a large piece of fabric. When throwing spears, try to throw the covers off the chairs. And perhaps the older brother or dad will agree to become a mammoth. Let the woolly rhinoceros be a fitball - throw spears or stones and roll the fitball over the line.

Leading: Heidelberg Man also learned to build a dwelling from branches and skins. What do we call such dwellings now?

Participants express their options.

Leading: Right. We call a dwelling made of branches a hut, and if a rigid frame of branches is covered with animal skins, the result is a yaranga, tent, wigwam or tipi. Maybe they can build a house like this for you and me?

Build a model of a hut. You will need: a small piece of a travel mat, foam rubber or just plasticine, toothpicks, several crumpled foil candy wrappers or foil from a chocolate bar cut into pieces (the candy wrappers should be crumpled so that they can then be straightened out). First, hunt animals: place crumpled candy wrappers on the table, let the participants try to hit them with spears - toothpicks. Whoever hits the “beast” takes the candy wrapper for himself. Using a piece of camping rug, make a base for a teepee using toothpicks. Then use your fingers or a stick to tan the skins.(spread the candy wrappers) and cover the base of the wigwam with them. Secure the candy wrappers with glue or toothpicks. Ready!

5 stop. Neanderthal (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis)

Leading: It's time to go further along the path of human evolution. Our next stop is the Paleolithic era, the time of the Neanderthals - Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. He had massive bones and a muscular torso, and he was stooped. Neanderthal man learned to build dugouts and make fire. A dugout is a dwelling

Make a dugout from plasticine. Housing of the Heidelberg man from skins and a dugout, you can put all the dugouts in an empty box, add dry grass, leaves, buckwheat or other cereals, trees from the designer, you can make a fire from plasticine, an ancient man can also be molded from plasticine or taken from the designer. You can do it.

Leading: How did Neanderthals manage to make fire? Rub your palms together very, very hard, do you feel the warmth? Friction is the main ally in getting fire.

Participants warm their cheeks, foreheads, noses, heels, knees, etc.: they rub their palms against each other, and then apply them to different places.

Leading: The Neanderthal mastered both the arrow and the bow.

If you have a bow, place figurines (pictures of animals) on the floor and let the participants go hunting. We used a slingshot instead of a bow.

Leading: The Neanderthal also knew how to fish. I think you and I also need to learn how to fish like a Neanderthal - stunning the fish with a well-aimed hit from a sharpened stick.

You will need several inflated balloons. Before you inflate them, hide the “teeth” inside. The teeth can be selected from oblong buttons, construction set parts (they should have a through hole), or simply cut out of cardboard. Scatter the balloons around the room and give each participant a toothpick. The participants’ task is to catch the balloon with one or both feet without using their hands, and then pierce the balloon with a toothpick (it’s almost impossible to pierce a balloon by simply throwing a toothpick at it, we checked). Participants take the objects inside the ball for themselves.

Know-It-All: Neanderthals learned to make jewelry from the bones and teeth of animals and from the shells of sea and river mollusks. You and I also have trophies. Let's collect the decorations.

Participants receive a long thick thread and collect decorations.

6 stop. Cro-Magnon, aka Homo sapiens sapiens

Leading: Let's move on. Our last stop is the Mesolithic and Neolithic era, the time of the Cro-Magnons, or Homo sapiens sapiens (Homo sapiens sapiens). The Cro-Magnon man could already do almost everything: speak, process stone, wood and bone, hunt and fish, swim on a raft, draw, sing, dance and even fight.

The Cro-Magnons lived in births - not in large groups consisting of relatives. Clans united into communities that lived and hunted in the same territory. When several clans and communities needed to unite to repel the attack of enemies, tribes appeared with a leader - the strongest and wisest hunter at their head.

Primitive people believed that each tribe had its own patron - an animal, a totem, from which the tribe originated. Let's come up with a totem for our tribe. And since the Cro-Magnon man already knew how to speak, we need to come up with names for ourselves.

Participants choose a spirit animal for the tribe and names for themselves. And they try to identify the totem animals of other tribes (from pictures of animal shadows).

Leading: When turning to a totem animal with a request for something, ancient people performed various rituals: they sang and danced. These rituals were also carried out by the shaman, that is, the sorcerer, of the tribe. Many rituals were performed to the accompaniment of primitive music. Of course, it was not like ours; the main thing in it was not the melody, but the rhythm. The first musical instruments were...what? How do you think?

Participants express their assumptions.

Leading: While processing stone, knocking stones against each other, the Cro-Magnons noticed sounds. Therefore, the first musical instruments were drums; they were beaten with hands, sticks, and large animal bones. Then rattles filled with seeds or dried berries appeared, then other instruments. Let's find musical instruments and let's dance?

Participants find suitable instruments (drums, wooden sticks, spoons, noisemakers, flutes) and dance to primitive music (sounds can be used African drums) or to the funny “Song about Things” performed by M. Boyarsky. Instead of drums, you can use upside down pans, cardboard boxes, plastic containers or simply knock on a stool or table.

Leading: Cro-Magnons learned not only to hunt, but also to fight. For protection, they surrounded their camps with a palisade made of logs, branches and even mammoth bones.

Leading: Cro-Magnons learned to make traps for wild animals. But you and I need to get around them.

Place sheets of paper, pieces of a floor mat, and building blocks on the floor. Have participants carefully walk around them without touching anything.

Leading: Cro-Magnons could also prepare food.

Give participants several pieces of thick thread. Let them lay out the snails on sheets of white paper, imagining that it is snow. You can lay the snails on the floor and cover them with “snow” (cotton wool or cotton pads).

Leading: Cro-Magnons talked about important events in their lives - successful hunts or attacks by enemies - by drawing on the walls of the cave. Some of these drawings (petroglyphs) can be seen in caves around the world even now. Petroglyphs are like letters from the past to the future. Then writing arose from these petroglyphs. At this point prehistoric time ends, further history scientists study from written sources. What would you tell from here, from the end of prehistoric time, to those people who live now?

Participants make rock paintings. It is better to take cardboard for the base, and draw with beet juice, charred sticks or crayons. We drew with charred sushi sticks.

Leading: While the men hunted, the women took care of the gathering and their homes. They met a lot interesting plants. You and I are lucky too. What kind of plant do you think this is?

The presenter leads the participants to a suspended brown piñata - the fruit of the cocoa tree. Participants break the piñata and find chocolate candies and conclude that this is a cocoa tree. We have to festive table children carried candy on a skin, holding it by both ends.

Instead of a conclusion

Leading: Today you go to kindergarten, study, your moms and dads work. What did primitive man do? Homo habilis lived by gathering - he ate what he could find (plants, animals, their eggs), Homo erectus began to hunt. Gradually, ancient man domesticated animals: the dog became his first companion. The ancient man had few things, he could easily move from place to place, so in the Neolithic era nomads appeared - people who raised livestock and constantly moved from place to place. Then the ancient man learned to grow plants himself, and not just collect them. This is how agriculture arose - the occupation of settled tribes. Thanks to him, a person was able to provide himself with everything he needed. Gradually, the first settlements arose, then cities, and civilization began to emerge. But more on that in the next trip.

Participants say goodbye to the presenter.

In preparing this game, I was greatly helped by the encyclopedia for children “We live in the Stone Age” from the “Walking into History” series (book in the Labyrinth) and the board card game“Once upon a time in the Stone Age” from the same series (game in the Labyrinth).

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How did the first man appear? This question worries scientists all over the world and excites the imagination of our children. We will take as a basis Charles Darwin's theory that people descended from monkeys and go to a distant and mysterious primitive world to feel like a representative of the Stone Age. We will build a cave, create the image of a primitive man, learn how to make fire and create weapons. We will meet shamans and become the first artists. We will catch our first mammoth and learn all about the spirits that live among us.

We'll find out:

• From whom did the first people descend (according to Darwin's theory)
• Where did primitive man live?
• How did you get your food?
• What did primitive men and women do (I wonder if something has changed over millions of years? 😉)
• What did primitive people believe?
• What animals inhabited the primitive world
• What did ancient man learn?

You'll get:

• theoretical material (based on which you can tell your child how people lived in the Stone Age)
• themed games that allow you to enter the world of primitive people and immerse yourself in the theme
• cards with logic games and tasks that you will need during themed games
• Educational cards with drawings and information about animals, primitive weapons and tools

Age 4+

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Role-playing game« Prehistoric man's site »

Participants: children 6-7 years old

Target: To consolidate the acquired knowledge with children, to give children joy and pleasure from role-playing game.

Tasks:

Cultivate interest in the history of development person;

Develop curiosity;

Expand the search and cognitive activity of children;

Develop cognitive activity, enrich vocabulary. Create a desire to actively participate in general conversation and play.

Cultivate friendly relationships and mutual assistance.

Develop memory, logical thinking, speech, interest in independent solving cognitive problems.

Activating the dictionary: dwelling, cave, tribe, sacred fire, ritual dance, rock paintings.

Material and equipment: cave, animal skins, "bonfire", stones and sticks for "breeding" fire, "spears", silhouettes of animals, sheets of paper, "river", skewers, crayons.

Musical arrangement: "Sounds of Africa", "Sound of Drums".

Preliminary work:

Reading books and encyclopedias on the topic « Ancient world» , "Journey to the Ancient World", watching video material. Making attributes for the game

Progress of the game:

Guys, do you want to go back to the Stone Age? I really want to see how people lived in the Ancient World! Who's with me? …… children's answers

What if the journey turns out to be dangerous: we may meet wild animal, hostile tribes - aren't you afraid? …… children's answers

Those who are ready to travel through the Ancient World, come closer to get into the field of action of the time machine. Get ready! Get in a tight circle, we'll start the time machine …..game connoisseur

Put your hands on your shoulders friend friend: “We want to go to the Stone Age! We want to go back to the Stone Age! We want to go back to the Stone Age!”

In ancient times, people did not live alone, but in large groups - tribes. Imagine that we are a tribe.

Once primitive people

Let's go to primeval forest.

AND primeval sun

Looked at them from heaven.

Then these people decided

Live in a remote cave

They got fire

They began to cook food on it.

And they ate with their hands

And they drank water from the stream,

Dressed differently from you and me

They had skin on them.

You found yourself in the Stone Age and reincarnated as primitive people. Guys, what do you think they were wearing? primitive people? ( take animal skins)

Where will you live?

Let's build a cave too! (from blocks and blankets)

The boys need to agree on who will build which cave, and the girls need to agree on what they will do.

But we will have one rule...

You know, primitive people hardly spoke. They mostly communicated with gestures. Let’s try to convey some information to each other using gestures without words.

The boys build caves using blocks, branches and skins. Tell me, what was the most important occupation for ancient people? (hunting, fishing, getting food)

How will you and I hunt animals and fish? What will be our weapon? Ancient people made weapons for hunting from sticks and stones, vines. We will also make spears and fishing rods.

Spears and fishing rods are being prepared. They go hunting and fishing. They take the prey, find the eggs, and carry everything to the cave.

Girls: collect fruits, herbs,

What did they eat from?

make dishes, decorate them,

How primitive people made fire?

they build a fireplace, take care of it, crack nuts, do laundry and babysit the children.

Summing up: Children name who they hit.

It was a nice hunt, rich booty.

What will we do with our prey? Shall we eat it raw or roast it on fire?

(We sit around the fire and "fry" shaped marmalade on skewers).

In the meantime, our prey is being prepared, we will perform a ritual dance so that next time the hunt will be successful.

Do you want to perform it?

A ritual dance is performed to the sound of drums.

Guys, do you like our trip to the Ancient World? Tell us what you like here? Who were you, what did you do?

I think the food is ready. Who wants to try?

After a while it buzzes "Time Machine".

Guys, do you hear? I think it's time for us to go back. Or maybe someone wants to stay here a little longer? Maybe someone wants to decorate the walls of the caves?

Educator: Komarova A.A.

Program content:

Introduce children to appearance and the life of primitive man;

Expand your vocabulary by introducing new words: leader, tribe, skin, mammoth, etc.;

Promote the development of pantomimic and facial abilities in children, the development of fine motor skills;

Develop imagination, fantasy, logical thinking.

Materials and equipment: illustrations on the topic; model of a cave, model of a fire; skins-clothes; sticks, ropes and “spears” according to the number of children; winder toys; sanguine.

Progress of the lesson

Guys, today we have amazing adventures ahead of us, and I will tell you an interesting story.

It was a long time ago. On our green and blooming planet, where various animals and birds already lived, man appeared. Where did he come from? Whether it came from a monkey or whether it came from outer space, we don’t know. But he still appeared. This is what he was like (show illustration). Tell me, what was he wearing? (Children's answers). Yes, in those days there were no clothes, since there were no factories. Man had to do everything with his own hands. Why do you think he needs the skin? What do you need clothes for? Want to try on some caveman clothes? (Children wear skins-clothes). So we turned into cave people.

Ancient people, in those ancient times, lived in human packs. And in each pack there was a leader, an elder. While the adult members of the pack were hunting, the children learned from the wisest and most experienced mentors. Today I will be your leader.

Where do you think ancient people lived? (Children's answers). They lived in caves. And here is our cave. It's dark and cold here, brrrr. I started to freeze. What could you come up with that would make it warmer and brighter? (Children's answers). Yes, it would be nice to make a fire, so the wood is ready. But the problem is, how do you get fire? (Children's answers). I'll tell you one secret. Primitive people waited for a tree to catch fire in the forest from lightning, and they saved this fire in their cave. But there is another way to make fire. You need to take some forest moss, place a stick on it and quickly rotate it with your palms. This must be done until the fire appears. (Children “make” fire). Yes, this process is difficult and long. To speed it up, I suggest blowing on the fire. (Children blow on the fire, a “light” appears). Well, it immediately became light and warm.

(Voices of the forest sound). Do you hear someone big and angry walking near our cave. These are probably predators! I'm afraid! What to do? (Children's answers). We need to arm ourselves. Ancient people made weapons from different materials: made of stone - knives and darts, spear tips; made of wood - spears and ax handles. They tied the stone point to a tree with the help of flexible plants - vines. Let's try to make a spear of a primitive man. True, we will replace the stone tips with cardboard ones, and the vines with ropes. But it will do for the protection of our cave. Do you agree? (Children make spears). We have real weapons, and now we are not afraid of any predators or saber tooth tigers, not even mammoths.

(Show illustrations).

What animal does a mammoth look like? How is it different from an elephant? And even then there were saber-toothed tigers, with large and sharp fangs like sabers, and huge cave bears.

I want to eat something. Are you hungry? Let's go fishing. (The game “Who can catch the fish faster”). What a big catch! How can we prepare it? I know that the ancient people loved very much dried fish, since this was the easiest way to prepare it, because people did not have utensils. Let's spread it out in the sun.

After eating, cavemen loved to eat something tasty. But there were no sweets or cookies in those days. But in the forests there were apparently invisibly tasty and sweet berries. Let's go to the forest to pick berries. (Game “Collect the berries”).

Well, a fire is burning near the cave, fish is drying in the sun, weapons protect us from uninvited guests. What to do now? When ancient people were well-fed and safe, they loved... to draw. Yes, yes, draw. But not on paper, but on the stones and walls of the cave. And coals served as a pencil. Of course, their drawings were similar to the drawings of small children, and they have survived to this day. (Show illustrations).

Let us, like ancient primitive people, try to draw on the walls of the cave. (Children draw).

This is where our primeval adventure ends. Let's take off our skins and go back to being boys and girls living in our world. Did you like it? What were the names of the people we turned into? What were they wearing? What did you eat? Who were they hunting? Where did you live? How was fire made? I prepared for you in the group interesting book about the life of primitive people and I suggest you go and watch it. (Children go to the group).

“...not to give examples, to put the child in a situation where his usual methods of action are obviously unsuitable and to motivate the search for the essential features of a new situation in which he must act - these are the foundations of non-traditional pedagogy based on the psychological theory of educational activity...”

G. A. Tsukerman, Doctor of Psychology

This is exactly the approach that underlies my “My Planet” program - a minimum of teaching words and a maximum of actions and reflections on a given problem.

But first you need to get involved in the work, prove yourself, declare yourself. Handing over a lit candle, the children recited all the most interesting things that had happened to them during the past last week(or per day, because a week is an eternity in the minds of preschoolers - after nap time in the garden a new day begins, and children cannot always remember what happened before it).

Looking at illustrations on the topic and discussing what you see. Each child talks about what he sees. Being able to see patterns in a picture and talk about what you saw is a very important skill and modern children especially need it. The coherent speech of modern children needs to be developed.

We discussed how ancient people were dressed. Discussion fragment...

- Guys, what did ancient people wear? Look carefully.

-They walked around naked! - says one guy.

-What are you talking about! They're wearing shorts! - says Polina.

-What do you think their clothes are made of?

-From paper!

-Made of wood!

-You need to take the paper, recycle it and it will work out new material, our philosopher Makar reflects.

-Yes, from skins! - Polina exclaims.

I didn’t say anything myself - I led the children themselves to think.

-Guys, how do you think ancient people got their skins?

-They killed animals, goats! - says Yarik.

- Exactly, they hunted animals for themselves and made clothes and something else...

-Why do you think ancient man needed fire?

“When there is no light at home, we also light a fire—candles,” Makar reflects.

-And they also cooked food! - says Polina.

-Of course, for warmth, light and cooking, and also to scare wild animals.

- Guys, look (I show a picture of a battle with a cave bear) - what do ancient people do?

-They are fighting!

-What should they be like then?

-Brave, friendly, strong!

Then we build the world of ancient people. We say that they needed water and built their homes next to the water.

We are learning to agree on where the plants, the cave will be....

The world is ready, but the ancient people themselves are not. Children make ancient people from branches and plasticine. Everyone chooses the color and size of branches for arms and legs. In this task, I pursued one more goal: I paid attention to the structure of the human body: arms, legs, neck, head... In my practice, I often note children’s difficulties in orientation in the body, in structure, which is especially visible in the drawings of a person.

We remembered that ancient people had clothing made from skins. We touch the skin, talk about our feelings - very useful exercise(development of sensations, speech - dictionary of signs).