Rural teachers' winter holiday memories | Li Ningxia: Water every child with love and wait for the flowers to bloom

Editor's note: "The day is not everywhere, youth comes from just now; moss flowers are as small as rice, and peonies are also learned." "This is a true portrayal of the vast majority of small-scale rural schools. In the past 2021, the reporter went from Yinan to Yuncheng, and then from Zhuanhua to Yiyuan squatting, witnessing many educators with feelings taking root in the countryside, and they are working hard to make up for the gap with glimmer and help rural children grow better. The family sits idly and the lights are amiable, which is the ideal state for the Spring Festival reunion. In small-scale rural schools in many parts of Shandong, countless rural principals and teachers are rushing to the homes of students in remote rural areas that lead to the middle of the mountain, and they want to use their precious winter vacation time to go to their children's homes and enter their children's hearts. From now on, the Qilu Evening News Qilu One-Point "Youth Talk" column will successively launch the "Winter Holiday Memories of Rural Principals/Teachers", focusing on what rural teachers see, hear and feel during home visits, light up the dreams of rural children, and inject strength into rural revitalization. The following is the winter holiday record of Li Ningxia, a teacher at Mujia Primary School in Xifu Town, Chengyang District, Qingdao:

February 7, 2022 Sunny weather

With the constant rotation of the clock, the footsteps of spring slowly coming, in this season at the beginning of all things, our winter vacation will also quietly end, leisure time, review the bits and pieces of the holiday, want to record what they think is more meaningful.

As a second-grade homeroom teacher, I can't rest assured of my cute babies during the holidays, and it is gratifying to see them sending videos and photos of reading and practicing words in the group every day.

In order to better understand and guide the children to read and practice during the holidays, I also took the time to go to the homes of several babies, focusing on the Xiaodu students in our class. Xiao Du is a single-parent family, from childhood to follow the grandmother and father to live, dad usually work is busy, most of the time is the grandmother in taking care of him, so the study and life habits of Xiao Du students are a bit scattered, but Xiao Du students are very smart, some problems a little hint he can solve by himself, after half a semester of encouragement and praise, Xiao Du students' achievements have improved by leaps and bounds, grandma and dad can be happy.

During the holidays, I was afraid that he would relax his requirements for himself again, and decided to go quietly to see him. I said hello to Xiao Du's father in advance and chose a day when his time was more convenient. When I came to the door, I knocked lightly on the door, and it was Xiao Du who came to open the door. He saw that it was me standing at the door, felt a little stunned, reacted for half a day, smiled and asked Teacher Li a good New Year, and then quickly greeted me to enter, beckoned me to change my shoes, and led me to the sofa.

After sitting down, I asked him what meaningful things he had done during the holidays, and then I found that Xiao Du had a light in his eyes and answered me, "Help Grandma clean up in the New Year, wipe the table, sweep the floor, mop the floor." Bring water to wash my father's feet and insist on making a reading video. ”

Hearing his confident expression, my heart is very excited, not only can I take the initiative to help parents during the holidays, but also complete my learning tasks on time, our little Du students really grew up and understood, grew into a little man in the family, and became a proud baby of the teacher. In the in-depth exchange with my father, I also gave a few suggestions, continue to encourage and praise Xiao Du, take more time to accompany the child, do sports activities with the child, pay more attention to all aspects of the child, form the strength of home and school, and make him better.

At the end of the home visit, there is a sentence in my mind, every child will blossom, but the flowering period is different, all we have to do is to water with love and wait for the flowers to bloom.