Understand the traditional Chinese culture, do housework to experience the hardships and harvests of labor... The life of more than 1,000 middle and high school students in Shanghai Tin Ka Ping Middle School this year's "winter vacation moment" focuses on hands-on practical experience, which is rich and fulfilling.
It is reported that in order to guide students to have a rich, healthy and beneficial holiday, Tin Ka Ping Middle School has launched a set of comprehensive practice guides for the integration of disciplines - "Winter Vacation Moment Manual". The manual includes rich contents such as the inheritance of the Spring Festival traditional culture experience, the "happiness walk" punch card of housework, and the practical experience of career education, etc., for students to consciously and purposefully carry out practical exploration activities.
In the process of carrying out the Spring Festival traditional culture experience and inheritance activities, the students sought the taste of the New Year, understood the tradition, and through the design and editing of the "Chinese New Year Pictorial", described the origin of the Lantern Festival, the customs of the New Year, and the reasons for the Spring Festival, eating Chinese New Year's Eve rice, etc.
Students also worked with their elders in the family to write festive "Fu" characters, make big red lanterns with different shapes, and wrapped sesame dumplings, etc., from which they experienced the charm of traditional Chinese folklore.
In the holiday housework punch card activities, many high school students carry out housework such as washing dishes and chopsticks, learning to cook, cleaning the garbage in the room and corridors, folding clothes, etc., from which they experience the difficulty of labor and the hardships of their parents and other elders.
When Xiao Wang was cooking in the kitchen, he suffered from the experience of "oil and gas coming from the face, oil droplets that would splash out from time to time, and standing for a long time", from which he "deeply felt the difficulty of his parents cooking, understood that every dish and every meal was not easy to come by", and said that in the future, he would also learn the skills of cooking and stir-frying to help his parents.
During the winter vacation, students from different school sections also participated in career education experience activities. Junior high school students participated in professional experience activities in the positions of contract review of trading companies, neighborhood committee community volunteer services, and street cleaners, etc., to have a preliminary understanding of working life and make experience activities into professional tabloids.
High school students carry out career experience activities with the theme of "approaching colleges and universities, walking on the road and finding paths" in a combination of online and offline. Students visit interested universities, interview seniors who are studying at universities, understand the professional settings of the school and the campus life of college students, and accumulate rich information on the choice of colleges, majors and development directions for their future participation in the college entrance examination.
Reporter: Gu Wu
Photo: Courtesy of the respondent
Edit: Shi Xiaoyu