Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News Reporter Jiang Yun Intern Wang Xinyun Correspondent Shen Xiaodan
A pencil, a transparent box containing change, and a coil notebook with a crooked cover that read, "Small Ledger of the Middle Class," were carefully packed in a pink round box—the bank of the first class of Hezhuang Kindergarten in Hangzhou, where the children earned more than three hundred yuan from selling eggs.
New friends came to the class
Yuan Xianhui, the class teacher of the first class of Hezhuang Kindergarten, told the Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News reporter that last year, parents sent a few chickens to the class. "When they first arrived, the chickens were fluffy and so cute that the whole kindergartener had to go to see them when they passed by here. As a result, some were taken away by weasels or rats, leaving only two chicks to survive. ”
The two chickens were sent to the grandmother of one of the children in the class for foster care, and under the care of the grandmother, the chickens had grown into hens capable of laying eggs, and were sent back to be taken care of by the children. "Since knowing that it is not easy to incubate eggs, the children are particularly full of love for these two chickens. Every day we have children on duty, and after eating, we will take the remaining rice to feed the two hens, and the thunder will not move. ”
Sometimes, the hens would sneak out and nibble away the vegetables grown in other classes, so the class received a number of "complaints". The children found out that the hen's home was not very strong, and the gap between some bamboo poles was too large to cause them to run out, so the children took matters into their own hands and picked up branches and paper shells to strengthen the chicken coop.
For the children, the happiest thing is to taste the eggs laid by the hens they take care of and raise for the first time. "When we scrambled eggs, we didn't add any condiments, but only plucked the carrots that the children planted themselves in the farmland, cut them into fine cubes and eggs to make egg cakes, and they all thought it was delicious." Yuan Xianhui said, "When the scrambled eggs on the spot were fragrant, the children ate a lot. ”
The middle class has a ledger
Eat it fried, boil it, eat it steamed... After eating a round, Yuan Xianhui felt that it was not a good idea to always eat it, and some children in the class proposed: it is better to sell the eggs!
At first, the children carried baskets and sold them to grandparents, uncles and aunts who came to pick up their children in the place where they lined up after school, and the price was two yuan per egg. Later, the teachers in the school knew about it, so they ordered eggs from the children, "The teachers in the kindergarten saw this egg and felt very good, after all, they were raised in the kindergarten to eat green vegetables and turnips, they will order in advance, this month to this teacher, next month to that teacher." As soon as the number of eggs is full, the children carry baskets to the teacher's office and deliver the eggs to the door. ”
Of course, there is financial management with a deal, and the children in the class, Huang Raoyan, volunteered to propose that he could manage the finances. "When he went back, he consulted with his mother and brought a small treasure box for money, and there was a book called 'Ledger.'"
Huang Raoyan carefully recorded each account in the "Middle Class Ledger", with crooked figures recording the date and the money from the sale of eggs. "I was pleasantly surprised when he brought it up himself, and I think it can also cultivate the children's financial skills." Some words such as 'yuan' like 'yuan' he can't write, he asked me for help and asked me to help him write. Yuan Xianhui said.
Eggs or chickens first
As the children grew, they became more and more curious about how the two hens in the yard came about. Some children say "it hatches from eggs", and others say "there is no egg from where the chicken comes from". In the face of everyone's doubts, Yuan Xianhui launched an activity with the theme of "Animal Paradise" to take this opportunity to educate children on life.
She told the Qianjiang Evening News hourly news reporter, "Parents were very cooperative when they heard that they were going to carry out this activity, and brought all kinds of eggs, including eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs, quail eggs... There are even unusual turtle eggs and ostrich eggs that children have never seen and are scrambling to touch. ”
By guiding the children to look at it, touch it, try to open the egg to smell and taste it, and compare and observe the shape of different eggs, the children learned about the structure of the egg. Attentive children also observed small black dots inside through the light-transmitting eggs, which the teachers explained as the origin of life , the fertilized egg. Since the children still can't understand, they add: "With this, it is possible to hatch the baby."
Can eggs really hatch chicks? The children were so curious that they decided to try hatching the chicks themselves. After understanding the conditions for hatching chicks, the children conceived two hatching schemes. "The first is to find a mother hen and have it come to our kindergarten to help incubate the eggs; the second is to use an incubator to incubate the eggs. After discussing the vote, it was decided to use the second option. ”
Yuan Xianhui bought fertilized eggs from the Internet and labeled them. Because it takes 21 days to incubate an egg, the children write numbers on a piece of paper to record. Without the teacher's reminder, the next day there will be children who will take the initiative to write that they have been incubated for several days. When the egg hatches for seven days to form an embryo, the egg will be covered with blood like a spider's web, while the ordinary egg is still fully transparent.
"Our egg incubator is provided by the parents, the children find the power supply, find the appropriate position, turn over the eggs every day, add water, in this 21 days that is not long, the children wait patiently, and some even think about how we are going to make a home for the future chicks." Yuan Xianhui said.
The first chicken broke out of its shell on the weekend, and Yuan Xianhui, who happened to be at school, immediately took a video and posted it in the class group to tell the children the good news. "The children all left messages in WeChat, saying that the chickens were cute, asking how the chickens were doing, and some wanted to come to the school immediately."
Three of the 10 eggs hatched successfully, and the furry little ones became the darlings of the class. Excited children looked around the chicks, "It turns out that the chicks were just born so small!" "It can't walk unsteadily", "The chicks cry like birds", "The hairs of the newborn chicks are brown or wet"...
The children made a warm home for the chickens with cardboard boxes, baskets, cotton, tires and wooden planks, and also hung light bulbs to warm the chickens.
"Of course, there were some accidents during the incubation process, a few eggs did not hatch the chicks, and some hatched chicks died within a few hours. The children were a little sad, but eventually they also knew that there would be death during the original development, and even if they could get out of the shell, it was not necessarily a healthy chick. Life is truly a thrilling journey. Yuan Xianhui said.
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