More than just a plate of "scrambled eggs with tomatoes"
Labor class is coming back.
According to the "Compulsory Education Curriculum Plan" issued by the Ministry of Education, after the school starts this autumn, labor class will become an independent course in primary and secondary schools. Students will not only learn to cook, but also learn how to use and maintain household appliances, grow vegetables, etc. Skill.
Some parents started early and used the time at home during the epidemic to make up labor lessons for their children.
While at home, Qu Zhizi, a second-grade student in Haidian District, learns to make dumplings.
Kids cook for 10 minutes
Two hours for parents to "clean up" the aftermath
Teaching her children how to make scrambled eggs with tomatoes, Ms. Cui broke out in a sweat.
Affected by the epidemic, after May 1st, Ms. Cui began to work from home and her children studied at home.
Within a few days, Ms. Cui discovered that the class's parent communication group had become a new window for everyone to show off their cooking skills during the epidemic.
Today, your child learns to make dumplings; tomorrow, his child frys scrambled eggs with chopped green onion; the day after tomorrow, another child learns to make cakes with their parents.
When the school starts in September, primary and secondary school students will have labor classes, and cooking is one of the contents of the course. Ms. Cui thought that it would be better to use the time at home during the epidemic to start earlier and let her 10-year-old son practice his skills.
Seeing her son pick up the kitchen knife, Ms. Cui's heart also touched her throat, and she kept reminding: "Slow down! Be careful not to cut your hands!"
When it came to scrambled eggs, my son was about "eight feet" away from the frying pan, and the hand holding the egg liquid hesitated to move forward.
Seeing that the oil pan was starting to smoke, Ms. Cui kept urging: "Hurry up, you are pouring it into the pan!" The moment the egg liquid slipped into the oil pan, the child was startled by the splashing oil stars. , the unfinished egg liquid spilled on the stove.
When it was time for cooking, the child's hand was hot on the edge of the pot, and he was so frightened that he immediately threw the shovel out of his hand.
The stove covered with egg wash, the floor soiled with vegetable soup, the walls soiled with oil... After the meal, Ms. Cui cleaned up the mess left by her son's cooking: "The child cooks for 10 minutes, and it took me two days to clean up the kitchen. In an hour, cooking dinner is like fighting a battle."
wash dirty socks
Daughter used 8 pots of water
When she got her daughter's home study guide, Ms. Wang agreed in her heart.
In addition to subject courses, the teacher specially arranged the learning content of housework for the children, such as learning to wash small items such as socks, learning to sweep the floor, wipe the table and so on.
When her daughter was in kindergarten, Ms. Wang taught her children to do laundry.
Soaking, applying soap, rubbing, washing repeatedly... While demonstrating, Ms. Wang watched her daughter carefully imitate the adult's actions.
The next day, Ms. Wang asked her daughter to wash a pair of dirty socks by herself.
10 minutes have passed, 20 minutes have passed, and half an hour has passed... Only the sound of rushing water was heard in the bathroom. Ms. Wang patiently counted it. Why did she change 8 basins of water to wash her socks?
She rushed into the bathroom and saw that the front of the child's clothes was already soaked, and the pool and floor were covered with soap bubbles.
When the mother appeared, the child happily held up the water-drenched socks, waving them and showing off "it's done".
"It's great to wash, let's wring it out and hang it up." Ms. Wang knows that the beginning of the learning process is an important stage for cultivating interest. At this time, the enthusiasm of the child must not be discouraged.
"She has to master the skill of washing clothes through continuous practice. Parents can't accompany their children for a lifetime. Once the skills are mastered, they will belong to them for the rest of their lives."
The teacher said: "Applying what you have learned" is the key
When Xiaoxuan was in kindergarten, she saw her mother embroidering, so she entangled her mother to give her needles and threads, and also learned to thread needles and threads.
When she was in a big class in kindergarten, she became a sewing teacher in the class, teaching the whole class how to sew buttons.
What should such a small child do when he holds a needle and pricks his hand?
Xiaoxuan's mother believes that children's potential is actually huge, and sometimes as long as parents dare to let their children try while ensuring safety, it will bring "unexpected joy" instead.
"When I was in elementary school, I might have forgotten which application questions I taught in mathematics and what composition I wrote in Chinese, but I still remember a lot of things I learned in labor classes." Mr. Xu, a "post-70s", is quite proud. Said that he can knit a plain stitch by picking up a sweater needle now.
However, there are also parents who worry about whether the newly established labor class will further increase the burden on parents.
"The teacher leaves a homework for cooking. If the child can't do it, he still has to rely on the parents to do it." "Will there be children's cooking classes and home appliance repair classes on the market?"
Teacher Guo Na, who has been teaching in Chaoyang District for 13 years, believes that labor education should not be simply understood as a kind of exam-oriented education. It is learned for exams.
The labor skills learned in school should be applied in daily life.
When the school is setting the curriculum, it is necessary to encourage children to do it by themselves and avoid parents to do it for them.
Parents should also teach by words and deeds in life, so that children learn to grow up in labor.
Our reporter Zhang Nan