[Explanation] With a picture book in hand, supplemented by figures, Wang Mengxin is leading the children to practice reading and speaking.
Such scenes can be seen in the little koala library almost every day.
As a full-profit organization, Wang Mengxin and her husband Wei Yao have been committed to promoting children's English reading for many years, and launched the "Ten Square Meter Color Reading Program" in many communities and schools in Fuzhou to bring children a happy English enlightenment.
On September 3, the reporter interviewed Wang Mengxin in Fuzhou.
[Explanation] The office of the Little Koala Library is located in the Cross-Strait Community Exchange Center in Jin'an District, Fuzhou City.
When I saw Wang Mengxin, she and her husband were working hard to make teaching aids for class on the weekend.
[Concurrent] Wang Mengxin, founder of Fuzhou Little Koala Library
Take screenshots of all the pictures on the picture book, and then create such an interactive way to let the children think about what to fill in this blank.
Anyway, I will use the method of holding it in my own hand and then post it. This interactive form will remember the original process like this. I hope the children can integrate into the story faster, and then remember these actions in the story. , Remember words.
[Explanation] In 2016, Wang Mengxin and her husband Wei Yao returned to Fuzhou from Australia.
The following year, their son Miaomiao was born.
Because of living abroad for a long time, Wang Mengxin and her husband attach great importance to their children's early English reading. They are looking for early education institutions and English training institutions in Fuzhou, hoping to give their children a good English reading enlightenment.
However, they did not find an institution suitable for children's reading environment, so the husband and wife had the idea of establishing a public welfare children's English reading institution
[Explanation] Wang Mengxin sent this idea to the "mom group" and received enthusiastic responses from neighbors.
The first small English reading gathering was a complete success. With the development of one gathering after another, Wang Mengxin moved the activity into the community, so that more children could feel the power of reading in the form of such charity.
[Concurrent] Wang Mengxin, founder of Fuzhou Little Koala Library
It used to be once a few months, then once a week, and then we said let’s enter the community, and it’s been more than two years now. We will continue every Sunday without interruption, and then give The children read to them in English.
[Explanation] Every weekend, Wang Mengxin will carry out various English reading activities for children of different ages.
In addition to offline activities, Wang Mengxin and her husband also publish an audio picture book on the public account every week, and recommend a book list suitable for children's age to read, coupled with parent-child games, to help create a parent-child reading environment.
[Concurrent] Wang Mengxin, founder of Fuzhou Little Koala Library
Parent-child reading is always the most efficient way of communication between parents and children, so how to enable parents to create a better reading space for their children at home, we believe that parent-child reading is very important.
So what our community promotes is a parent-child reading method.
That is to say, you may not have time to spend time with your children, but here, you can spend at least one hour with your children for at least one week, read books with your children, and do activities with your children. This is what we promote.
[Explanation] During the interview, Wang Mengxin listed a few figures for the reporter. In the past year, the Little Koala Library has carried out a total of 173 online and offline English reading activities, serving 3,693 people, and adding 823 hours to 217 families. Parent-child company time.
[Explanation] Talking about the future, the husband and wife said that they plan to establish a charity bilingual reading center in Chinese and English for migrant children to reduce the safety hazards of migrant children staying around after school and create a good reading environment for them.
[Concurrent] Wang Mengxin's husband Wei Yao
In urban villages or places with a large number of migrants, a book reading center is opened to serve more people. It is like this that children become life-long beneficiaries of reading.
Reporter Wu Shengwei reports from Fuzhou, Fujian
Editor in charge: [Lu Yan]