Alpine pasture

Chapter 582

After the children finished delivering them to Dinah, Dinah looked at the gift in front of her and asked Ju An, "Didn't you see what gift you prepared for mom?".

My mother immediately waved her hands and said, "I'm so old, what gift do I want!".

Ju An laughed and snapped his fingers at Wang Fan: "Let's go get the presents."After a while, Ju An and Wang Fan came out with a box each. Ju An prepared a massage cushion on the sofa, and Wang Fan prepared a foot massager.

My mother accepted the gift with a smile, and praised repeatedly: "Why buy this thing, and you don't need it, what a waste of money."The expression on his face showed no sense of blame at all.

When Cora walked in with Xiaohu, Ju An stopped by and asked, and it was the same as what Xiaochi gave, a cup of tea for Mother's Day, a photo sticker, and a greeting card drawn by himself.Mother's Day is very grand here in Laomei. As for Father's Day, it's much worse. Ju'an always receives a few cards every time, and then received two coupons from the girl last year. When using them, the girl cut corners, The 5-minute massage is always shortened to 2 minutes.Let Ju'an think that if the girl grows up and builds some kind of project, with this skill, she can live a very happy life.

The days that followed were easy, and I had nothing to do with Wang Fan and Miles, looking for a place to talk nonsense, or riding a horse or something, and practicing a few hours of calves every morning and afternoon.

In the afternoon, Ju An drove the car, took Dinah, Cora and Wang Fan, and the two went to the elementary school in the town together. Xiao Chi and Xiao Hu had moral education classes today. The two families were all dispatched.

Now Xiao Chi and Xiao Hu have no formal exams. All they learn in school all day is how to wear shoes, tie a bag, go to the toilet, how to cook and so on. Children at this stage , the school believes that learning how to study and how to behave is more important than exams and scores.So don’t be surprised when you hear the school boast that we have taught children how to obey the teacher’s rules, how to let children learn to get along with others, and teach children a lot of things like dressing, because children of this age , American schools only teach this and nothing else.

Now that the U.S. economy is in a downturn, school funding has also decreased a lot, but the town of Ju'an has almost no dependence on funding. Most of the education funds come from the funding of the town, as well as the nearby residents. donations.There is no other place to cut physical education classes and teachers. It is said that some cities in California have cut millions of dollars in education funding. In some schools, even the headmaster stood at the school gate with a donation box to collect donations, calling on the parents of the students to donate. Put your child in gym class.According to what the mayor of Ju'an said last year, 30.00% of our town's income is invested in education. Our school facilities are top-notch in Montana and top-notch in the United States.

When the two families arrived at the school, they saw many parents of students driving over. Everyone gathered around the playground. Today's playground is also beautifully decorated, with colorful balloons everywhere.When I walked to the playground, I found Xiaochi and Xiaohu's class after searching for a while. The two little people were sitting on the small bench listening to their teacher talking. Dinah and Cora immediately pressed the button. I opened the shutter to record the expressions of the two children.

Standing in a group of parents, Ju An listened to the teacher for a while, and understood that this activity is mainly to cultivate children's five characters, trust, responsibility, fairness, respect and civic awareness.

Dinah and Cora pointed the camera at the two children, while Wang Fan and Ju An turned their heads and looked around, chatting while watching, Wang Fan said to Ju An: "Okay! The old man of this family The little ones are all out."Wang Fan had never been to school before, and he didn't know about the activities of these schools. Americans basically came with their families, and he was looking curiously at the parents with their children, just sitting on the grass casually.

Ju An stretched out his hand and patted Wang Fan's shoulder and said with a smile, "Little Tiger is now in school. Don't worry, you will come here often in the future. Now that I am familiar with Di Nini's school, I can almost catch up with the ranch."

There are not only parents of children on the playground, but also many high school student volunteers with signs, helping to arrange the venue busy.

After talking with Xiaohu's teacher for a while, Xiaochi led the children to stand up from the small chair, and then each child started looking for their parents.

The teacher clapped his hands to a group of people, arousing everyone's ideas: "Our activities have begun, and the first thing we carry out is trust."After speaking, I took a stick of people, big and small, to a small piece of grass surrounded by colorful ropes, and there were several big cardboard boxes on it. There were only six or seven children in a class, and they went to the edge of the field to wait. After a while, I saw another teacher bringing students and parents over.

The two classes got together and started playing the game. The game is actually very simple!The children in one class were blindfolded first, and the children in the other class held hands and led them through the obstacles made of these cardboard boxes to reach the opposite side.Then put on another group of people, and the children on both sides will be blindfolded and it will be over.

The parents stood outside the colored thread, watching the little one play, while Ju An looked at Xiaochi, who was being led by a brown-haired girl. At the beginning, he stretched out his hand to touch it, and walked slowly forward. , After getting familiar with it, the pace increased, and all the children passed the level smoothly. It is not normal to fail such a simple game.

The teachers praised all the children, and then distributed a small blue hand rope to each child, and asked the parents to tie the hand rope to the little wrists of the children. Xiaochi and Xiaohu were very excited, holding the hand rope and running Ju An ran over here, and the matter of taking pictures fell on Ju An and Wang Fan at this time, and took a photo of the two little champions who still wanted their mothers to wear bracelets.

The next step is respect. The children each pull a small car, and then follow the teacher's rules to go around the obstacles in the middle of the field. There are three big toys in the middle. The rule is that each person pulls a small car around the three toys. , each one has to go around, this game trains children to respect the rules of the game, seven little heads, dragging cars of seven colors will be happy, either this car hits that car, or two cars When they got mixed up, the parents and teachers next to them ran into the field with smiles from time to time to help the children separate the cars.

But for the next game, Ju An didn’t quite understand it. Fairness, an event, was actually a circle. It was like when Ju An was a child during festivals or fairs. But here is a big four-sided cone painted with colorful stripes on all sides, the circle is also very large, and the little one is very close, so it is easy to complete. Ju An thought for a long time, I didn't find any connection between this fairness.

The game was over, but Ju An hadn't figured it out yet, so he turned to Wang Fan and said, "How is this trap related to fairness?".

"What's wrong with this? Every child is holding a circle of the same size and standing behind the white line. It's not fair for each child to make three circles. It doesn't matter if they win or not. Ah" Wang Fan looked at and said.

Ju An thought for a while and said: "Your reason is quite valid, and this circle can also be related to fairness, forget it."

While mumbling, Ju An followed Dinah and Cora, who were holding their sons' little hands, and walked towards another venue.

The next thing is responsibility. In the middle of a field surrounded by cloth strips, some colored balls are randomly placed. The children have to put these small balls into the corresponding boxes on the side. Now Ju An's IQ is back. , This is to teach children not to misplace toys and learn to clean up their own toys.

A group of children finished it quickly, and after a while, there was another small colored bracelet on the little wrist.

The last item is civic awareness, that is, the two children face to face to catch the water polo back and forth. The small balloon is filled with some water, and if the catch is heavy, the ball will break.Now something happened, many children started to like to play broken water polo, everyone basically broke three or four of them, Ju An and Dinah had a lot of fun beating people and taking pictures.

After each child's game is over, there are five colored bracelets on their small wrists, fully expressing Mr. Bush's theme that no one is left behind, every child is a champion.

When it was over, Ju An knew that it was amazing. The principal of the school praised the student advisor of the school. This position is unique to American schools. Seeing this student who is a little older than Nini, come to the stage to thank you, you really can’t believe it The whole event was organized and planned by the short elementary school students, and the balloons were sponsored by many businesses. I have to say that such a big little thing is really impressive.

Ju An also followed everyone to give warm applause to this little consultant. You have to admire that the idea of ​​the game project at a young age, from the solicitation of sponsorship to the organization of the event, is all done by a group of older children .The adults are only responsible for helping out. These children can plan an event with their own hands, and they are only eleven or twelve-year-old children at most.

Even Wang Fan applauded and said to Ju An: "That's amazing."

"I know why Nini didn't go through me and directly contacted her visiting project." Ju An clapped her hands and said, it is this kind of education, let the children plan their own thinking, and then plan and organize people, and then do their own thing job, to achieve the goal.No wonder one of the best students in the United States is leadership.

(End of this chapter)