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During the summer holidays parents should think about how to organize leisure for their child. It is necessary to make his summer pastime cheerful and at the same time useful for a growing child's body.
In this case, the best option will be children's summer health camps. Having been in the summer camp, the child will be able to plunge into a completely different world, find new friends, visit new places, learn many new and interesting things, become independent. Thanks to such an active rest, children get a lot of impressions and pleasures.
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Summer health camps in Ukraine
Today in Ukraine there are many places for children's recreation - there are a large number of different sanatoriums and health camps for children. The program includes a variety of recreation quizzes, circles of interest, exciting excursions, developing and active games, as well as sports. In addition, being away from the pope and mom, as well as other adult relatives, the child will acquire the skills necessary for him - will become more independent, will be able to realize himself, improve communication skills. Therefore, such a rest will be very useful for him from all points of view.
Summer health camps in Russia
Modern children's health camps have everything necessary for comfortable and safe living of children during the camp shift. In residential buildings there are comfortable sleeping rooms, as well as modern plumbing - in some cases the bathroom will be shared to the entire floor, but there are camps where each bedroom has a separate bathroom. Girls and boys live separately.
Feeding children go to the dining room. There is a standard 3-storing meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), as well as other options, such as a buffet.
In children's summer health camps in Russia, a good sports and sports facilities - there are football fields, basketball courts, tennis courts, gyms, swimming pools. For such institutions, improving children is one of the most important trends.
Children's summer health camps
Recreation in the children's sanatorium has many distinctive features - such institutions work with children, starting from their medical specialization, so the rest here is mainly for the curative program. Although many children's summer camps that work as sanatoriums, in accordance with current requirements, included in their program and entertainment complex.
Usually in the children's camps of the sanatorium-health profile, general strengthening procedures are carried out, such as therapeutic gymnastics, phytococktails and terrenkurs, but a full-fledged curative program often needs to be paid additionally.
Summer Camp Program
The purpose of the summer camp program is to create all the necessary conditions for organizing entertainment and leisure, as well as strengthening the health of children. In the process, the child's mental and creative potential, his personal talents and characteristics, based on his already existing inclinations, interests and skills, develops.
The objectives of the program include the following items:
- To work with children to work in which health improvement will be combined with their upbringing and development;
- To educate in children a culture of behavior;
- Develop talents and creativity;
- To create tolerance to others and communication skills with peers;
- Encourage children to develop a healthy lifestyle.
Summer health camp work
Various summer recreation camps take on the function of raising children during the summer holidays. Their programs include all those tasks that contribute to the mental and physical development of the child. Among them:
- Creating the necessary conditions for the child to be in a state of relaxation and rest, could relieve tension after long school days. This rest should allow him to restore psychological and physical strength, strengthen his body, and gain new strength for the future school year.
- A lot of entertainment, as well as hobbies - in the camp, children will have the opportunity to have fun, play and do their favorite things.
- Teaching to self-education and self-organization, because during the holidays it is easiest for children to develop their individual abilities.
- Educational work, developing games that supplement the school curriculum, provide new knowledge, as well as develop special skills and skills in the field of activity that the child has chosen.
- Socialization of children - being in a temporary collective, which differs from the school, children acquire the experience of communication and interaction with other people.
Organization of summer health camps
A change in the children's camp is called a certain segment of his work, during which a process of improving educational work takes place, which includes a whole complex of various pedagogical tasks.
During the period of the camp shift, the children in the health facility are provided with comfortable living conditions, as well as various activities that contribute to their health, recreation, and upbringing.
The camp shift has its own specifics:
- The socio-cultural space of this institution is absolutely unique - it respects its own laws, traditions, and regime;
- In the camp, there is an association of children into groups - the so-called detachments;
- Constant communication and many different events.
During the organizational period of the shift, it is necessary to form a socially-psychological climate comfortable for children in the team, taking into account the peculiarities of the new environment and environment. Also in this period, you need to find a group and occupation for each child that will correspond to his interests. In addition, general requirements and norms of behavior are developed and adopted at the same time, the foundations of joint activity of all participants of the collective are laid. This period is the most important in establishing contacts between educators and their pupils, as well as in the process of connecting newcomers to the life of the camp.
Directions of summer health camp
Among the directions of the summer health camp are the following programs:
- Artistic and creative;
- Labor;
- Wellness and sports;
- Leisure;
- Various circles;
- Excursions;
- Educational and educational process.
In the process of the health and sports program, the following tasks are performed:
- Children are encouraged to participate in health procedures, as well as sports;
- Develop and reinforce the habit of personal hygiene;
- Expand knowledge about a healthy lifestyle.
The program includes such activities as morning exercises, outdoor sports games, competitions, tempering and healing procedures, as well as individual tasks for independent execution.
The artistic and creative program ensures the development of children's creativity, as well as talents and abilities in this field.
In the process of labor education, children are involved in socially useful work in order to instill in them a minimum level of work skills, as well as develop diligence and other qualities necessary to achieve the goal.
Education - even on summer holidays children should not stop receiving new knowledge and information, even in forms other than school lessons. In addition, the child will also strive to apply in practice those skills and knowledge that he received at school. Therefore, the educational program of summer children's camps includes such tasks:
- To expand the knowledge of pupils about the world around them;
- Give children the opportunity to realize their skills and knowledge.
Leisure, in the process of which children communicate with each other, establishing contacts within the team. Also at this time the child develops physically and mentally, his character is formed.
Mugs are a very important direction of educational work, as they unite children into groups of interests and abilities. In camps, there are usually a number of different groups, in which teachers who are skilled in the field offer help in training and develop their skills.
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Summer health camp for a day stay at the school
Summer recreation camps for day-time stay are usually arranged on the basis of schools. To some extent they are similar to kindergartens, but they contain school-age children. Work such school camps only during the day (sometimes only from morning till noon), and children are engaged in them in sections or circles, go on various excursions, walk near the school.
Admission of children to the camp at a school with a full-time stay is carried out by the school administration on the basis of the application provided by the parents.
Out-of-town summer recreation camp
The basis for the work of a summer summer health camp is the improvement and upbringing of children. To do this, the institution creates the necessary living conditions and develops a program of activities that will help to strengthen the health of children. They rest in an environmentally friendly environment, they eat healthy food, go through disease prevention, receive sanitary and hygienic services, and also engage in sports and physical education.
In addition, various educational activities are held in the camp, which are subordinated to a special program. They provide adaptation, as well as actualization of the child's abilities, helping him to realize and self-determination. Also, children are motivated to learn new things and develop a creative principle in them.
Usually in such camps, children of the age of 6-14 years rest. They are helped to adapt to social life and socialize, organize meaningful and rich leisure for them, form a common culture of behavior.
Sporting events in the summer health camp
Summer health camps have a certain system of organizing sports events, as well as a physical education program.
In the camp day mode, various physical activities are included - the daily routine includes procedures that are mandatory for each child. This, for example, morning exercises, walks in the fresh air, as well as bathing.
Athletic activities of children in the detachments are detachment and link physical exercises, walks, team gatherings with sports subjects, excursions, various active games, hikes.
Mass sports events - sports games, contests, various sports competitions between teams (table tennis, all-around, small towns, badminton, and more checkers and chess), as well as sports events and friendly events.
For teams in various sports, there are classes in sections that have a training and training bias. Children who go to school sports clubs or the Youth Sports School during the summer holidays are usually forced to temporarily stop their studies. In camps, under the supervision of an instructor or teacher, circles or teams are created in which athletes can continue their training.
Socially useful labor activity. Many camps usually go to the same place every year, so over time, these places create whole sports complexes with inventory, various facilities and sports grounds. Often all this is done by the children themselves, which is also very useful for them.
Activities aimed at agitation for a healthy lifestyle, as well as strengthening health through physical training. In the camp, children are told about the benefits of regular training, morning exercises and exercises. Also included are stories about the Olympic Games, famous athletes, sporting achievements, sports news, established records, as well as the diversity and differences between sports.