These days, because S Mom has a cold, so the task of picking up and dropping off S classmates is S Dad and mine.
When chatting with children about their current reading, think of some things that will involve them in the child's reading process in the future. Record it and share it with you.
I remember the spring vacation of the previous two years, the child came mysteriously and excitedly said that he had a fun "new topic", but I was not interested.
Because in order to mobilize children's enthusiasm for learning, primary school teachers in international schools often arrange large and small projects, sometimes designing a book by themselves, sometimes designing a website, and doing more, it is not strange.
Is there any new trick this time?
Unable to resist the "harassment" of the child, I had to look at the subject requirements handed over by the child, which was to study the books that have won the Caddick Prize in the United States in a personalized way (the Caldecott Prize is known as the "Oscar" of picture books, and is selected by the American Library Association every year from the tens of thousands of children's books published in the United States in the previous year), as follows:
1. From text to drawing, write reading notes on a certain work, including the title, author, painter, story introduction, illustrations;
2. Explain the part of the book that impresses you the most;
3. Tell your understanding of the article to the whole class, and you can't read or memorize the reading notes (that will be deducted points);
4. The angle of narration should also be novel and unique, full of imagination.
Taking notes and then giving a speech is the usual way of reading lessons, but as I went on, I gradually discovered the highlights:
5, visualize the words on the book, you can make a scene in the book, you can also make a game according to the content of the book, you can also write a song for yourself, or dress yourself as one of the characters you like in the book...
How fun and how to come, as long as you can make your classmates impressed by what you tell.
"Parents are invited to assist." This is clearly emphasized in the subject requirements.
From kindergarten onwards, there is often a strong point in the homework assigned by teachers in international schools, that is, parents should participate and tap the potential and creativity of children together in parent-child time.
Sometimes I think about it, the teacher is really "lazy" and always kicks the ball to the parents. The child did not realize the trouble and decided to make a 3D scene according to the depiction in the book!
Big project, we had to go out as a whole!
In order to restore the forest after the snow, I ran through the art shops in the city
"Daddy, you went to find me this book, Owl in the Moonlight." Mom, you help me think about how the scene should be arranged! ”
The idea was given, and the child began to "assign the task" with a big grin.
"Owl in the Moonlight" is the winner of the 1988 Caddick Gold Award, describing the story of a father who took his children to the woods to see the owl on a bright winter night in the moon, and the author described the strong father-son relationship and the psychological details of the child's first time out of the house to see the owl on the snowy night, which was very wonderful and very pleasing to my children (recommended for everyone to buy for children to read).
(The picture above is the classic situation of the book "Watching Owls in the Moonlight")
Well, let's do the scene of dad and daughter calling an owl in the woods late at night, which is the classic situation of this book.
What should the forest do? You can't do it one by one, right?
I suddenly remembered that children's schools often display some similar works, such as farms, parks and zoos, which means that there must be a place to sell semi-finished products.
So our family set out on the weekend, ran all over the city's art stores, and really found a three-dimensional model in the corner of a store dedicated to students' projects, woods, meadows, tools and equipment for snow scenes!
The family returned home, and after a day's work, a forest after a heavy snow was finally erected.
(Children are sprinkling "snowflakes" on the "forest")
The doll is printed directly from the computer at home
The scene is there, and it is time for the father and daughter in the book to play. Where can I find the right doll?
The child looked at me with blank eyes, lost his mind, I had to use my brain, think about it, why not print one directly?
Books and the Internet are ready-made, sweep the picture into the computer, and then adjust to the right size to print out the photo, is not it?
So two days before the child had to turn in his homework, a scene of a snowy mountain forest calling an owl was completed.
In the process of doing it, the child was inspired to tell the story again, announcing: "Mom, I know how to do this speech, everyone will like to listen!" You see, our scene was very successful, and it definitely resonated. ”
(After tossing and turning for a few days, it finally came to fruition, and the two dolls on the "snow" look very three-dimensional, right?) ）
Fantastic ideas at the presentation
Hard work allowed the children to successfully attract everyone's attention at the project presentation meeting, and the children came home from school and excitedly shared with us the fantastic ideas of their classmates.
One of the students was very interesting, telling a Chinese fairy tale, which was the English version of "Grandma Wolf".
He built a big house out of blocks, in which three Chinese children lived, and he dressed up as a wolf grandmother; there was a Korean child, talking about "Polar Express", doing a board game, a little friend was invited to roll the dice, it was 5, he took 5 steps forward, after walking, he loudly reminded, "Oh, I'm sorry, you fell under the cracked ice"; and a little girl, dressed as Snow White, told the story of Snow White and 7 dwarfs...
The little guy was obviously fascinated by the ingenious performances of his classmates and kept talking. Also, how many children don't like this way of reading?
Looking at the way he danced with his hands, I suddenly thought of an ancient Chinese saying - "head overhanging beam, cone thorn strand".
The difference between the two is not generally large. It's just that since children can read happily, why force children to read hard in order to pursue the most effective learning?
In fact, the answer lies in the fact that the reading ability of international school students is better than that of Chinese students.