This week, Shanghai primary and secondary schools ushered in the first winter vacation after the "double reduction". When the scene of "carrying a school bag to catch a training class" is no longer there, when the total amount of written winter vacation homework is strictly controlled, how to let children spend a healthy, happy and meaningful vacation?
On January 6, the Ministry of Education issued a notice on doing a good job in the "double reduction" work during the winter vacation, requiring all localities to guide schools to strictly control the total amount of written homework during the winter vacation, encourage the assignment of exploratory and practical homework, and guide students to adhere to regular work and rest, exercise healthy physique, cultivate extensive interests, participate in social practice, and share housework during the winter vacation.
The reporter learned from the schools in Shanghai that in the first winter vacation after the "double reduction", although the amount of written homework assigned by the school was less, in order to make the children's vacation more fulfilling, the teachers used their brains, showed their strengths, and used a vivid and interesting practical homework to help students get a special and unforgettable holiday experience.
To help the Winter Olympics, in addition to watching, we must also move
In more than ten days, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will kick off. How to let students feel the grandeur of the Winter Olympics without leaving "Shanghai"? Haihua Primary School in Huangpu District has carefully designed a multidisciplinary and integrated winter vacation activity list - "My Chang", "Winter Olympics Tour" and "2+6+N" independent experience activities.
The activity list is divided into three sections: mandatory projects, self-selected projects and optional projects. The 2 must-haves are daily physical exercise and watching the Winter Olympics. "6" represents six self-selected activities carefully designed by teachers that integrate multidisciplinary knowledge and open their minds: "Number" Solution winter Olympics - using the knowledge of mathematical bar charts to intuitively draw and present the number of medals, project content and competitions held in the Olympic Games; "Hui" Winter Olympics - through searching for information, independent investigation and other forms of selecting a Topic of The Winter Olympics that interests you to explore; "real" broadcasting of the Winter Olympics - be a small announcer, in the form of recording videos, publicize the Winter Olympics; "fun" to paint the Winter Olympics - Use the form of mind maps to draw the content of the Winter Olympics that interests you the most; "Yue" moves the Winter Olympics - approaching and experiencing ice and snow sports; "music" praises the Winter Olympics - singing, playing, dancing and other ways to perform the theme song of the Winter Olympics. The "N" is a few interesting creative activities: students can diy all kinds of works related to the theme of the Winter Olympics by doing diy, and decorate the classroom with their own "handmade" after the school starts.
Julu Road No. 1 Primary School assigned special sports homework to students, hoping that students would cheer for Chinese athletes by watching the Winter Olympics, make posters of Winter Olympic champions, encourage students interested in ice and snow sports to find the winter sports experience hall around them for sports experience, and guide families to carry out the "Winter Olympics Moving" sunshine sports activities to promote students' physical fitness and enhance their will.
As a pilot school for ice and snow sports, Yuntai Primary School in Pudong New Area takes "Celebrating the Winter Olympics reunion year" as the theme of students' winter vacation life, and will try to "draw a picture of the Mascot of the Winter Olympics" "Talk about the Winter Olympics" and "Practice a Sports Project" during the winter vacation through the three tasks of "understanding the knowledge of the Winter Olympics", "understanding the spirit of the Winter Olympics" and "practicing the Winter Olympics", and personally learning the spirit of self-improvement and tenacious struggle of the Olympic athletes.
On the homework list of the primary school affiliated to the Qingpu District Teachers' Training College, the four major sections are also related to the Winter Olympics, namely the Happy Clock to Welcome the Winter Olympics, The Efforts to Help the Winter Olympics, the Cloud Meet to See the Winter Olympics, and the Winter Olympics of Inheriting Spiritual Studies. Teacher Qian Yingying, a small teacher attached to the Youth Education Institute, said that the design of such an assignment not only allows children to understand the Winter Olympics with the problems of inquiry, but also hopes that they will organically integrate the spirit of the Winter Olympics with their daily learning and life by writing small stories about the rules of the trade and carrying out online holiday squad activities.
Transform into a "small boss" and explore the true meaning of "home" in parent-child interaction
In addition to focusing on the Winter Olympics, under the background of "double subtraction", many schools in Shanghai during this winter vacation have also tried their best to do a good job in the "addition" of students' healthy growth and all-round development while reducing the academic burden of students, and strive to let students have a winter vacation with more sufficient space for self-management and independent development.
The students of Jianping Experimental Primary School will become "small bosses" during the winter vacation. Children not only have to be "family nutritionists" to design a one-day recipe at home, but also become a "little chef in charge", fully responsible for the day's home "buying and cooking", and send a New Year's dish to the family.
After getting this homework sheet, many children were busy discussing with their parents. How to design a family's recipe from the perspective of nutrition collocation, family preferences, New Year's customs, etc.? How to match to make three meals a day delicious and nutritious? Compared with the design of the menu, buying vegetables is a "technical work", testing the students' financial skills and the life skills of discerning "dishes". What children and parents are most looking forward to is the food making and tasting review session. In the production process, children can truly experience the difficulty of "holding the spoon" and understand the difficulty of parents and elders. And parents can also talk with their children through this unique parent-child interaction, explore society together, and eat a happy New Year's taste from the "big meal" of parent-child cooperation.
Coincidentally. Teachers at the China Welfare Club Nursery also designed "Holiday Baby" activities with different themes for children of different ages. From the "taste of home" of the nursery class, to the "baby into the kitchen" of the small class, from the "I am a small helper" of the middle class to the "today I invite guests" of the large class, I hope that the parents who are busy with work on weekdays can take time to accompany their children during the holiday, take the children to make home delicacies with ordinary ingredients, let the children do some housework as much as they can with the help of adults, and record the process of interaction and communication with the children, and encourage the children to generously go on stage after the start of the school to share the happy stories of the Spring Festival with their peers and teachers.
Students from Fukuyama Garden Chinese Elementary School will start a learning activity of the "'No Waste' Magic of My Home" project through traditional New Year experience and family creative labor. In this journey of studying household garbage, children should team up with their families to complete a series of sub-projects such as "welcome to the dust", "garbage classification", "collation statistics", "data search", "brainstorming", "creative production", etc., and through parent-child joint creativity, transform valuable superfluous things in the home into "new partners" on campus.
On the winter vacation activity menu of Guangzhong Road Primary School in Hongkou District, it is recommended that students insist on physical exercise for 1 hour a day, undertake a housework every day, and summarize their family's family style and family training with parents during the New Year, write it down neatly with hard pens and other forms and beautify it, leaving an unforgettable family memory for the upcoming Year of the Tiger.
From the perspective of reducing students' excessive homework burden, guiding students to explore independently, and cultivating interdisciplinary comprehensive literacy, the Primary School Department of Jinshan International Chinese School tailored the theme homework of "exploring 'home'" for students. This interdisciplinary winter vacation assignment, which integrates mathematics, art, language, labor and music, aims to allow students to explore the meaning of "home" through interdisciplinary thinking, understand the true meaning of "home", and feel the feelings of "home". In the eyes of the school's teachers, "explorer" is both a noun and a verb, and I hope that students can make good use of the winter vacation and gradually grow into explorers in the process of exploring "home".
Author: Wang Xing
Edit: Wang Xing