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Puxi Campus G1: "Fresh" Story, "Fresh" Growth.

June 14, 2024

The "Fresh Classroom" has started. The first-grade children walked into the "Dessert School" in the second half of the semester. There, the children made many new friends: the “fishbone congee” who speaks with barbs, the sesame seed cake boy who is always forgetful, the fresh milk girl who proves herself with strength, the emotional steamed bun... Each friend brought fresh stories and fresh experiences, full of childlike innocence and fun.

This semester, the book Fresh Classroom stood out with its multitude of humorous stories, and soon became everyone’s first choice during reading time. This book is especially suitable for first-grade children, as it is written with accessible and natural language. Every competition, every dispute, and every word of encouragement within its pages resonated closely to the children's lives. These stories were easy for children to relate to and allowed them to reflect on themselves and their friends. The book also shed light on moral education by way of simple and easy-to-understand truths and lessons, which provided children with guidance and education to help them establish correct values and behavior norms.

The excellent stories were combined with diverse forms of activities. The children were tasked with reading 1-2 stories in the book every week, and then rotate and practice in the classroom through station activities. Group 1 carried out colorful coloring activities. The children colored the plots in the book and matched them with corresponding dialogues, which greatly stimulated their imagination and creativity. Group 2 conducted new word challenges by filling in the blanks in sentences with the new words learned in the book, and trying to find the given words in the text at the same time, effectively consolidating vocabulary knowledge. Group 3 encouraged independent reading by writing down the favorite plot and drawing it, cultivating the children's independent thinking and expression abilities, Group 4 engaged in peer reading, reading with partners and exchanging their own views, promoting interaction and cooperation among classmates. Group 5 was even more ingenious, using Puppetpals2 learned in computer class to make a sitcom for the story plot in the book, allowing the children to deeply understand the story in the performance. Each group's activity lasted for 8 minutes and rotated to ensure that every child could fully participate.

The activity lasted for a full 4 weeks. During this period, the children were immersed in the joy of reading and continuously improved their reading fluency and comprehension. The night after the activity stations, the children also needed to complete a reading report. This reading report not only required the children to express their understanding of the story, but also carefully fostered parent-child communication. The story helped them build a bridge of kinship, allowing the children to listen to the parents' opinions on the story and their expectations for them, while also allowing the parents to better understand the children's reading situation and thinking development.

"The Sesame Seed Cake Boy Drops Sesame Seeds" taught us to give others second chances. "We should pick out the 'barbs' in the words to make others happy and ourselves happy", "True cleverness is to prove with one's own ability instead of by opportunistic means". One story after another, the children obtained nourishment, irrigated themselves, and let themselves become a stronger seedling. They also projected their own losses and disputes into the stories, learning solutions in them, and gaining comfort. This is the power of the story.

Written by Thea Chen

Picture by First grade teachers

Edited by Cong Luo, Bianca Noguera