9/20/2008

1st day in open class in September

It was an exciting day for me. There are some new kids in Kindergarten. I asked them " what can you see in our school?" They answered loudy " Pen, pencil, book, notebook..." what they said is all about study. By the way, the kids are from 5 to 7 years old. I told them to go outside and saw what are in the school and their classroom or other grades classroom. I could hear they said " Oh, there is a tree. We have desk, we have TV, we have basketballs stands..." So they told me more after they went to observe. To my surprise, one girl told me " there is human beijing in school." at last. WOW! This is what I hope they can tell me. I tried to ask her what kind of human beijing in our school? She could not answer it. So I told them " we have girls, boys, and teachers in our school." They said " Yes!" then they started to see the open classroom.
The same question for Grade one and two. " what did you do in summer holiday?" alomost the same things they did. e.g. took care of their younger sister or brother, did some farmwork for their parents, visited some friends, or played with some classmates. A few students that they went to Beijing during the summer holiday. I forgot to tell them that I went to Ojai this summer holiday.
I am so glad that there are 2 boys study maths by themselves together. But there was another boy came to them and he wanted to do the maths with them, but the 2 boys didn't allow him to be there. So the third boy walked away.
So next step for me, choose some materials for them. Like some cartoon story books can tell them some. And some practice books with stickers. They love stickers so much.
Gang fang school has a new playground this semester and basketball stands. Also there is new road will be built in the village.
We have another two friends Mei lan and Rolf. Mei lan is from America and she worked in an international school in Beijing before, and she spent 8 months to do research in Ri Shi Valley School since last year. She will do the parents training for the town and some village school.
Rolf who is from Swizerland had a school before ten years ago in Brazil and it lasted 9 years. He will do the teacher training for some teachers in the town and village schoool. Because of work visa, they will delay their arrival to Beijing. But I hope see them again in Beijing.

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