The pastoral life under Li Ziqi's lens is full of poetry and romance. Her "Lifetime Series" only takes ten minutes to record the life of various crops such as radish, corn, tomato, cucumber and so on.
How long is this "lifetime"? For students at Tangya Central School in Jindong District, Jinhua City, from sowing seedlings to fruit ripening, it is exactly the length of one semester. In the labor practice base, watermelons, melons, cucumbers, eggplants, peppers and other vegetables and fruits are ripe, which means that the summer vacation is not far away.
Starting from 2021, the school has specially set up labor classes to let students participate in the cultivation of vegetables, melons and fruits. Now that the summer solstice has passed, the fruits and vegetables have been conceived. On June 22, the school also ushered in the first summer harvest festival.
Outside of academics, this is one of the most rewarding gains for students over the course of a semester.
Open up labor practice bases,
Involve students in planting melons and vegetables
Tangya Central School in Jindong District is a rural school that takes about 45 minutes to drive to downtown Jinhua. Although the location is remote, the campus life here is expected to be the envy of many urban children: the school has specially opened a labor practice base for growing various vegetables, melons and fruits.
This base is located in the east corner of the campus. Originally a deserted slope, the soil was replanned, the soil was ploughed, and the middle passage was paved with stone roads. The small slope was transformed into an exquisite vegetable and fruit garden.
What is grown in the vegetable and fruit garden? Who's going to take care of it? In addition to the logistics staff, the school strives to involve every student. To this end, starting from 2021, the school will hold a labor class in the base every week, pulling grass, watering... Let the students use time and energy to feel the life of the crop.
Ploughing the land to plant melons and vegetables, paying hard work and time, will surely bring surprises. From lifeless and overgrown with weeds to emerald green eyes and fragrant melons and fruits, it is only a semester.
On June 22, the school held its first summer harvest festival, watermelon, melon, cucumber, pepper, tomato, eggplant... More than 20 kinds of vegetables and fruits have ushered in a bumper harvest. Cowpeas are hung full of brackets; peppers grow densely; eggplants are long and purple; mature watermelons weigh more than ten or twenty pounds; this year's newly tried "hanging melons" will climb the watermelon vines on the shelves, and the small watermelons hanging on them have become a unique punching scenery point.
Many visitors have lamented that the level of cultivation and care of this vegetable and fruit garden can be comparable to that of professional farmers.
Break down classroom boundaries,
Combine labor with education
Of course, such a novel labor class is not just to teach students to grow melons and vegetables.
"Labor is not the ultimate goal, education is." Principal Liu Jianfeng introduced that the school broke the classroom boundaries and opened a "happy farm" type labor practice base, not just to let students dig up soil and plant vegetables, "but through participation experience, let students develop good labor habits and qualities while having certain labor ability, and deepen their understanding of labor." ”
In Liu Jianfeng's view, participating in labor and observing crop growth is more like a comprehensive lesson. "At the entrance of each vegetable field, there will be a sign that not only indicates the names of the vegetables and fruits planted, but also the species of the genus of the family Phylloscopidae. For students, this is science lesson. "When paying attention to crop growth, using observation, recording, analysis, painting, shooting and other methods to explore the mysteries of growth is like an exploration lesson. At the entrance of the labor practice base, there are many photos hanging, recording the scenery of different growth stages of melons, fruits and vegetables.
In addition to the harvest, there are many unexpected surprises.
Fan Xinyao, a third-grade girl, said that before the teacher asked them to bring vegetable seedlings and fruit seedlings to the school and try to plant themselves.
"Some classmates brought loquat seedlings, and one day the sun was too big, and they died in one afternoon." The process of planting labor made them realize that food is not easy to come by.
"That's the base for our class, and we're still involved in planting the tomato seedlings." Each student is proud of the base of their class. Fan Longze, a fifth-grade boy, said that watching the seedlings grow vines, blossom and bear fruit, is particularly rewarding when picking. When the vegetables are harvested, the school canteen will also add a "small dish" to the teachers and students, "I grow it myself, I think it is particularly delicious." "The joy of labor can only be understood if it is truly experienced."
Looking at the rolling watermelons and melons, no one will pick them privately, because they all know that this is the result of everyone's joint efforts.
In the future, we will also try soilless cultivation,
Feel the charm of the new type of agriculture
For the labor practice base, the school also has a new plan. In the innermost part of the vegetable garden, an area has been specially opened for trying soilless aerosol cultivation.
This is a new agricultural planting technique that Principal Liu Jianfeng accidentally saw on TV. "Once I saw that in a place with difficult conditions, there were officers and men of the army trying to grow vegetables in this way. Nutrient liquid cultivation, not limited by the environment and climate, the growth and picking cycle is relatively short, I think you can try it in school. Liu Jianfeng hopes that in addition to traditional agriculture, students can also have the opportunity to feel the charm of new agriculture.
Therefore, he found experts in Jinhua Education College on soilless aerosol cultivation technology and invited the other party to come to the school for guidance.
"Later, students can grow fruits and vegetables in the glass house, which is also a way to motivate them." Let them realize that through learning, they can innovate infinitely and create more possibilities in various fields in the future. ”
Source: Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News Reporter Zhu Lizhen Video/Wang Yi