At 9 a.m. , he drives to primary schools and middle schools in Xi’an, ShaanxiProvince, to teach students about Shaanxi kuaiban. It is a traditional Chineseform of storytelling to the rhythm(節(jié)奏) of bamboo clappers(響板), whichthe art form is named after. Sometimes, he helps students prepare forcompetitions. Usually, his classes run until about 6. p.m. , and then hereturns home to prepare classes for the next day.
Flying kites Kites have quite a long history. The earliest kites were made ofwood, instead of paper. Nowadays, the three most famous kites are the Beijingkite, Tianjin kite, and Weifang kite. And they are quite different from eachother. For example, the swallow-shaped kite is a well-known Beijing style.
Once upona time, two brothers lived in a village. They were both famers and grew corn.The elder brother had many children to feed. The younger brother also had a bigfamily to look after. Although the brothers were poor, they lived happily.
ThreeRiver-Source National Park on the Qinghai-TibetPlateau(青藏高原),is the largest national park in China. Because it is home to the sources of theYangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers, people call it “China’s water tower”.
Antarctica is a continent (大陸) of ice. There is hardlyany rain in Antarctica, so the Antarctic Desert becomes the driest desert inthe world. It is also the world’s largest desert by area.
Lu Junling, a security guard from Hebei University, became popularon the Internet. As an ordinary (平凡) person, though Lu Junling is more than 50 years old, hememorizes English vocabulary for CET 6 under the street lights every day justto improve himself. When he is free, he also writes novels and sings operas.That’s not all! Painting, music, kongfu, ancient poems, etc. are all hishobbies. So a number of people call him “treasure security guard (寶藏保安)”. Lu Junling said, “If I want to become an artist, I will alwayswork hard for my dream!” Mr. Lu’s words live in many people’s memory.
When youand your friends turn to each other to talk about problems or troubles, yougive each other advice and help. One important thing of our growth is to makedecisions to help our friends and learn to support each other. This requires usto learn what it means to help friends and how to help them in right ways.
Everyone knows how similar chimpanzees (黑猩猩)are to humans. So it’s no surprise that their greetings are also close to ours.The most common ways of greeting between chimpanzees are hand touching andhugging. Sometimes they also kiss each other. Some chimpanzees can even learnsimple sign language.
Raden Roro Hendarti, nearly 50 years old, is alibrarian in Muntang village. She started a “trash library”, hoping to makechildren read more as well as make them realize the importance of environmentprotection. Each weekday, Raden puts all kinds of books on the back of herthree-wheeler (三輪車)and rides to Muntang village. There, children line up to exchange plastic cups,bags and other trash for books from Raden’s mobile library. After finishing theexchange, Raden carries back all the trash.
Each ofthem has their own experience- two people with synesthesia may both “feel”music, but they almost never feel the music in the same way. For example, onemay feel the music of the violin lightly brushing his face; the other may feelit on her ankle (腳踝). And one’s experience of synesthesia is alwaysthe same. If they see the number 5 in the color blue, then 5 is blue every timethey see it.
Slowlybut surely, Amy and her grandparents were making progress. Boxes of all sizeswere placed on top of each other throughout the house. Amy’s grandparents hadlived in the house for years and they had collected many things.
As thegovernment encourages the renaissance (復(fù)興) of traditional culture,Hanfu is getting more and more popular with the teenagers. Every year, we canenjoy different Hanfu shows around the cities. And now quite a few Hanfu clubshave been set up in universities. Members usually wear Hanfu at theirgraduation ceremonies or during holidays. Some even wear Hanfu on regular days,too. And these fans created a special day—China Haniu Day to celebratetraditional Chinese clothing. It falls on the third day of the third month inChinese lunar calendar (陰歷).
We allknow that rice, wheat and corn are staples, but do you know there is anotherkind of staple food—potatoes? Potatoes have many advantages. Theyare a good source of vitamin C and potassium(鉀). A potato’s vitamin C isas rich as 10 apples. What’s more,potatoes are low in calories(卡路里)-onlythree fourths of the same amount of wheat and corn, according to People’s Daily. Potatoes are easy togrow. It can be grown in both the north and the south during winter, spring andautumn. The plant is also able to bear drought(干旱). Some areas of China arefacing water shortages, so the potato is safe to grow.
Chopsticksoriginated from(起源于) China.Though simple and little, they are agreat invention in the history of humans. There are many legends aboutChopsticks, Da Yu and Chopsticks is one of them.It issaid that during Yao and Shun times, Shun ordered Yu to control the flood. Oneday, Yu took a boat to an island, he was so hungry that he used an earth pot tocook meat. After the meat was well-done in boiled water, he didn’t want towaste time to wait for it to cool, so he took two branches to pick up the meatfrom the soup. After, to save time, he always took small branches to take outfood from the hot pot. For a long time, he was skilled at picking up food withsmall sticks. In this way, the first types of chopsticks were born.
Mostschools offer different kinds of subjects and activities for students, but someschools offer additional training in certain areas, such as the performing andarts. In this way, schools can help students develop their artistic talentsfrom an early age and have greater success in their future profession. THE ROYAL BALLET(芭蕾舞)SCHOOL
Locatedin the mountains about 100 miles from Los Angeles, the Idyllwild Arts Academyis a boarding school for young artists. It offers training in arts, likedrawing, painting, photography and cinema, along with programmes for theperforming arts. The school’s quiet, rural location also makes it a verypeaceful and beautiful place to learn. THE NATIONAL CIRCUS(雜技)SCHOOL
活動目標(biāo): 1、通過實(shí)踐活動,充分調(diào)動幼兒參與的積極性和探究交流的主動性。 2、使幼兒在嘗試交流、選擇購物中懂得做出決定需要考慮諸多方面問題,并在購物過程中體驗(yàn)交流、選擇、合作、分享的快樂?;顒訙?zhǔn)備: 1、活動前一天組織討論,選擇購物區(qū)域。 2、具體準(zhǔn)備由幼兒與老師一起討論決定?;顒舆M(jìn)程:(一)活動前的討論 1.選擇購物區(qū)域: 師:明天,我們要去大統(tǒng)華超市購物,因?yàn)榈胤酱螅覀兊臅r間有限,只能選擇超市中的一個區(qū)域,下面請大家講一講,超市里有哪些區(qū)域? 幼:洗滌用品區(qū),日常用品區(qū),餐具區(qū),兒童食品區(qū),糕點(diǎn)區(qū),蔬菜區(qū)…… 師:選擇那個區(qū)域呢?請小朋友決定。 ?。ń處熧N區(qū)域名稱,準(zhǔn)備好粘貼畫“蘋果娃”,以便幼兒決定后在其名稱下貼一標(biāo)志。) 師:請小朋友說一下作出準(zhǔn)備的理由。
1、 結(jié)合生活經(jīng)驗(yàn)嘗試用泥表現(xiàn)人物的簡單動態(tài)。2、 體驗(yàn)大膽創(chuàng)作的愉悅。活動準(zhǔn)備:1、 知識準(zhǔn)備:在日常生活中借助錄象、圖片或到公園 實(shí)地觀察等形式,豐富有關(guān)雕像的知識。2、 物質(zhì)準(zhǔn)備:泥及各種制泥工具、雕像成品一件。活動過程:一、 引出活動1、 以故事引出游戲情景教師:“今天老師告訴小朋友一件很奇怪的事,你們想不想聽呀?”(想)“從前,在一個美麗的城市里,有一群雕像,一到晚上,它們就快樂地在一起跳舞。早晨太陽升起的時候,它們立即變成雕像,向城里的人們展示自己的美麗?!保ǚ治觯哼@里一開始引用提問的方式集中幼兒的注意以故事引起幼兒的興趣。)
活動目標(biāo):1、學(xué)習(xí)5的加減法,進(jìn)一步理解加法交換、加減互逆的關(guān)系。2、能用較完整地語言口編應(yīng)用題,會正確書寫加減法的算式,保持正確的書寫姿勢。3、能與同伴合作游戲,體驗(yàn)合作完成任務(wù)的樂趣?;顒訙?zhǔn)備:1、提前告訴幼兒設(shè)立貝貝玩具超市,請幼兒和老師一起準(zhǔn)備各種玩具。2、和幼兒一起創(chuàng)設(shè)貝貝玩具超市(共分為4塊,并貼有不同的與每組幼兒身上顏色相同的即時貼),帶有不同數(shù)字(圓點(diǎn))的玩具40個,裝玩具的小盒每組5個(上面貼有數(shù)字5)。3、供幼兒記錄的記錄卡40張(田字格)。4、每人一個信封,裝有硬紙幣5個。5、教師用的大展示板2張(田字格)。
2、 初步感知5以內(nèi)數(shù)的組成,初步理解加減法運(yùn)算。3、 培養(yǎng)幼兒積極參與活動的興趣?;顒訙?zhǔn)備:1、 已參觀過水果店、超市。2、 幾種水果玩具(數(shù)量為幼兒4倍)、貨架、代幣券(數(shù)字1---5)?;顒舆^程:1、 教師和幼兒共同布置“水果店”。讓幼兒確定水果的品種,貨架的擺放位置。2、 幼兒分組商議水果價格,并給每個水果制作價目標(biāo)簽。