Mianzhu Hanwang: Chronicle of Renai School on June 25 (Ajiaji)

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School events:

1. Wednes­day, anoth­er sun­ny day. Today, there are sev­en teach­ers, all teach­ing only the class­es at Ren’ai School in Qunx­in Vil­lage, so the sched­ule is rel­a­tive­ly relaxed. At noon, Xiaoyi came over and asked every­one to teach the Niu­bizi Vil­lage class tomor­row, as well as the new vol­un­teer teacher from there. It was no prob­lem, and every­one was hap­py to do so.

2. The cours­es at the Ren’ai School in Qunx­in Vil­lage are pro­ceed­ing nor­mal­ly, with morn­ing read­ing, mil­i­tary train­ing, Chi­nese, music, cul­tur­al read­ing and oth­er class­es being held in the morn­ing.
   
Dur­ing morn­ing read­ing class, Ajia taught the old­er stu­dents a review of Li Yu’s “Mei Mei Ren.” The singing cap­ti­vat­ed the younger and mid­dle school stu­dents, who gath­ered spon­ta­neous­ly to learn the piece, accom­pa­nied by teacher Chen Chao. After “Mei Mei Ren,” he then taught the chil­dren Bai Juy­i’s “Chang Xiang Si.” We’ve found that mix­ing old­er and younger stu­dents in morn­ing read­ing class is a unique­ly engag­ing expe­ri­ence.
   
The new vol­un­teer, Mr. Ju Xing, tried to teach the chil­dren a Chi­nese class in the third peri­od. He chose “Hap­py Chi­nese Read­er” as a tem­po­rary teach­ing mate­r­i­al, and the effect was quite good.

3. The after­noon inter­est and read­ing class­es were gen­er­al­ly nor­mal, but there were few­er chil­dren attend­ing. We learned that sev­er­al chil­dren have been assigned to schools out­side the province. Some vil­lagers now have elec­tric­i­ty at home, and some chil­dren are stay­ing home watch­ing TV or play­ing games. The weath­er is get­ting hot­ter, and it’s easy to get lazy. We plan to vis­it more chil­dren every day after school to encour­age them to con­tin­ue attend­ing class­es. Today, after school, led by Teacher Xiong Ying, sev­er­al oth­er teach­ers went to vis­it a child who was bit­ten by a dog the day before yes­ter­day. Although a bit mis­chie­vous, this child is a hard work­er. He serves as our labor com­mit­tee mem­ber and often helps the oth­er chil­dren pick up and throw away trash. His par­ents were home when we vis­it­ed today, and we had a good chat. There have been quite a few dog bites here recent­ly. A few days ago, a first-grade girl was bit­ten by a dog at a rel­a­tive’s house. It seems we real­ly need to pay close atten­tion.

Dur­ing the after­noon read­ing class, sev­er­al chil­dren from the low­er grades spon­ta­neous­ly formed a small dra­ma club and con­tin­ued rehears­ing. They dili­gent­ly rehearsed the sto­ry of “The Gruffa­lo,” rehears­ing it three times until they were able to per­form it almost impromp­tu. I agreed with them to offi­cial­ly per­form it dur­ing the third peri­od of cul­tur­al read­ing tomor­row morn­ing. This spon­ta­neous activ­i­ty has been very inspir­ing, and we’ve dis­cussed orga­niz­ing activ­i­ties such as sto­ry­telling, fairy tales, and read­ing response works over the next few days to fur­ther stim­u­late their pas­sion for read­ing. Lat­er in the after­noon, Teacher Chen Chao pro­vid­ed accom­pa­ni­ment, and the joy­ful sound of singing once again filled the class­room.
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Teacher Lin Yiwei tutors senior stu­dents
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Teacher Chen Chao tutors Pan Yuli indi­vid­u­al­ly
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Recess

5. I acci­den­tal­ly learned today that the vil­lage is orga­niz­ing a uni­fied plan to build a new coun­try­side and rebuild homes for the vil­lagers. This is a top pri­or­i­ty for the vil­lage. I won­der how this will affect the school? We will be close­ly mon­i­tor­ing it.
   
The con­tin­u­ous sun­ny days in sum­mer brought high tem­per­a­tures, but the school deep in the bam­boo for­est seemed par­tic­u­lar­ly cool. It was very pleas­ant to study in this for­est… I hope the weath­er will con­tin­ue to be good tomor­row.
June 25th night Argen­tine League record
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After the earth­quake, many pup­pies also lost their homes
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Two vol­un­teer teach­ers want­ed to go into the moun­tains to find out what was going on.
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Land­slides are com­mon
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Tena­cious moun­tain peo­ple