This is a Year 3 assignment with the theme of traditional festivals. This is a familiar subject for students, and many children are eager to try it and can't wait to express their holiday situation in words.
After reminding the students of the precautions and a few points when writing, I let the children write, not wanting to dampen their enthusiasm.
As the class was getting a pen to write, one of the children asked me, "Teacher, can I write my own?" ”
Yes, absolutely. After answering the child's question, I thought to myself: this child obviously didn't listen carefully.
At the end of the assignment class, the students handed in all their assignments. Back in the office, I started grading the students' assignments. In the top stack, I saw the child's work. I can retell the general content, but I can't recite it in its original form, please forgive me!
Mid-autumn festival. Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, I got up early, washed my face and brushed my teeth, and then I came to the restaurant. Mom said, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, let's eat mooncakes for breakfast! So, my brother and I ate a mooncake for one person. The mooncakes are round, sweet, and delicious, and I want to eat the second one after eating one. Mom gave me another one, and I ate one, two, and three bites, and ate it quickly, and finally I was full.
My brother and I went to play after eating mooncakes. At noon, we went home, because today was the Mid-Autumn Festival, so we took mooncakes for lunch. We were really hungry, so we ate mooncakes again, and my brother and I ate two more people. After we had our fill, we drank some water, ate some fruit, and went out again.
In the evening, Mom and Dad returned. For dinner, we were still mooncakes, because my mother said that she was so tired and didn't want to cook. We ate mooncakes again. After eating the mooncakes, we looked at the moon together, and after watching the moon, we went to sleep.
After reading this assignment, I can't wait to call the students to the office and educate them properly. However, the children were in class, and I couldn't disturb them. I didn't make corrections, so I put them aside and changed the others.
At noon, when I went to the classroom, there was no class yet, and some of the children were playing, some were resting, and some were on duty. I called the kid to my side and asked him why he wrote that?
The child looked at me and was silent.
How did you spend the Mid-Autumn Festival in your family? "I was angry with the child's attitude, opened his homework and asked him. The boy still didn't speak.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, eat mooncakes for breakfast? ”
Yes. "It's normal to eat moon cakes for breakfast. But what about lunch? Eat mooncakes too? I looked at the kid with a skeptical voice.
The child didn't answer at first, was silent for a while, saw my eyes, and said softly: "We don't have a special Mid-Autumn Festival, as usual, just buy cakes for a few months." ”
Mom doesn't cook? ”
That day, my mother went out on something and said that she wouldn't come back until the evening. Dad went out to play mahjong and came back in the evening. ”
That dad doesn't cook? ”
Dad played mahjong with a friend, and he ate at a friend's house. We cook our own food and eat something else when we don't feel like it. The child's voice became lower and lower.
Dinner, and nothing else? I asked softly.
Mom didn't want to do it at first, but then she got hungry, so she took out the leftovers and heated them and ate them with pickled radishes and greens. We ate mooncakes when we were hungry and couldn't eat. ”
Did Mom go out before? ”
Will go out when not at work. ”
Do you know what mom is doing when she goes out? ”
I don't know, sometimes I go to my aunt, sometimes my aunt comes to our house, and lunch is eaten at our house. ”
If mom is at home, do you also cook lunch? ”
The child nodded: "Not when there are guests." Mom said that she was very tired from work and wanted to rest more, otherwise she would not be able to earn money. ”
I knew what had happened, and it was no wonder that the kid was writing like that. His mother went out because of something, and this time during the Mid-Autumn Festival, she specially bought a few more months of cakes so that the children could eat them as snacks. As a result, the two children were playful and didn't want to cook after dinner, so they ate moon cakes directly.
This Mid-Autumn Festival is truly special. I wanted the child to simply write about the actual situation, but the child was not willing. I respect his choice, it's the best. I guided him to look at the example essays, as well as those written by other students who had already been corrected, and to rewrite one. The child nodded happily and took the composition book and wrote.
Maybe some people don't believe it and think that there are still such children in these years? No way. How can parents be so casual? Not to mention, there really is. More than one. We are a boarding school, and many of the children are out of town, because the parents are working here, and the children are brought here. Because of the family background, but there are festivals, which is normal.
It is understandable that one side of the water and soil supports one side of the people. I think when we were young, it was only the Mid-Autumn Festival, and my mother even wanted to save mooncakes in order to save. My brother and I refused, crying and clamoring to eat, so my mother bought a bucket of mooncakes, wrapped in paper, and opened them, there were 6 in total.
I remember in those years, every Mid-Autumn Festival, I could only eat a moon cake, not much. We're decent at that. Some families in the village don't even buy mooncakes. As a result, now, I want to eat mooncakes from time to time, and I can't say why, I really put mooncakes in my mouth, but I don't eat much.
Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and it is impossible to describe it in one word.
The child looked very sensible, but in his heart he longed for the company of his parents. He has his dignity and is very upheld. He also knows that it is not easy for Mom and Dad. The reason why Dad went to play mahjong was because Daddy's friend would lend them money to help them tide over when they were in trouble.
I couldn't understand why his mom was going out that day. It happened to be the day of the festival. I can't ask. Perhaps, it is best for everyone to live their own way!
I just hope that, regardless of family conditions, when celebrating the holidays, try to give children a sense of ritual. Otherwise, like this, after going to school and writing, the child doesn't know how to write.
Although, the teacher can teach him how to write specifically. However, there are some things that children need to have a good personal experience.