{"id":6090,"date":"2018-10-15T18:21:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T10:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dener.org\/?p=6090"},"modified":"2023-08-15T09:56:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T01:56:43","slug":"the-2nd-more-reading-and-more-happinessstudent-aid-project-4-volunteer-sharing-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dener.org\/en\/the-2nd-more-reading-and-more-happinessstudent-aid-project-4-volunteer-sharing-3-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2nd “More Reading and More Happiness”Student Aid Project (4) Volunteer Sharing 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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How can I thank you<\/p>

When I walk to you<\/p>

I want to harvest a spring breeze<\/p>

You gave my all spring<\/p>

~Guozhen Wang<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In July this year, DENER Children Foundation hosted an activity which included stationery distribution and teaching in the Sichuan Province.\u00a0 I am honored to be a part of the volunteer team to participate in this meaningful event.\u00a0 After coming back to Taiwan, the memory of Ganzi still lingered in my mind, and couldn\u2019t disperse for a long time.<\/p>

Two months ago, we invited a super senior teacher, Wu Puyi who came from Nantou, Taiwan, to come train us.\u00a0 With the help of teacher Wu, we learned many precious teaching \u201csecrets\u201d.\u00a0 And after some discussion, we decided to set this teaching activity as multi-learning event, by using different teaching strategies to inspire children to read.<\/p>

On the evening of July 19th, our volunteers arrived in Chengdu from Shanghai and Taiwan.\u00a0 Next morning about 6:30, we drove to Ganzi immediately. The volunteers were divided into two teams; maybe because the journey is too far, the driver of our car kept on driving and didn\u2019t stop for lunch until Lu Huo. And it\u2019s was 4 o\u2019clock in the afternoon!\u00a0 Finishing lunch, we kept driving on and finally arrived at Ganzi in the evening.\u00a0 Taiwan is 394 kilometers from south to north, but from Chengdu to Ganzi is more than 700 kilometers.\u00a0 It was a very special experience for me living in little Taiwan!<\/p>

On the first day of the activity, volunteers explained the reason for hosting this reading event to the parents whom accompanied the kids.\u00a0\u00a0 And on the other side, we found that some children were restless, so our volunteers started to teach them paper folding.\u00a0 Some boys immediately folded planes and played together.\u00a0 After a while, almost all the students came around us to learn how to fold \u201cbirds\u201d and \u201ccranes”.\u00a0 Surprisingly, a little boy named \u201cJie Yang\u201d turned his head and said to me, \u201cSister, Would you teach me how to fold paper? \u201d I was amazed and asked incredibly, \u201cYou called me sister!?\u201d The teacher next to me laughed and said \u201dYeah!\u201d and Jie Yang nodded.\u00a0 I was shocked again, \u201cIs Ganzi\u2019s children all so naive? I\u2019m probably older than his mother!\u201d But I felt very warm inside with his comments!<\/p>

I noticed that children all love folding paper.\u00a0 Some people may think that folding paper is an activity for young children, but actually it\u2019s not.\u00a0 Folding paper can train hand-eye use, space concepts, and keeps the kids focused.\u00a0 In addition, it also allowed students to learn how to interact with others, discuss and solve problems.\u00a0 Benefits are really many.<\/p>

For this reading event, we selected \u201cSeven Little Rats Going to the Beach\u201d, \u201cSeven Little Rats Going to School\u201d, \u201cSeven Little Rats Digging Sweet Potato\u201d as teaching material.\u00a0 They are by Kazuo Iwamura, a Japanese book author.\u00a0 Kazuo Iwamura is good at portraying delicate family emotions with delicate pictures.\u00a0 His picture books were very suitable for teaching.\u00a0 Beside the language learning functions, the emotions and deep meaning shown on the pictures are easy to attract students\u2019 attention.\u00a0 The strategy of the reading book is to allow students to read pictures directly then let them experience and guess the picture by observation, intuition, or imagination.\u00a0 This also increases their creative thinking.\u00a0 In order to make the picture book integrated into daily life, we also taught them simple swimming ring production method.<\/p>

We designed three kinds of hand-made books to enhance our teaching activities.\u00a0 These allow students to use their hands, mind, as well as learning to share with each other.\u00a0 We also arrange board games, also known as non-plug-in games, it focued on a variety of ways of thinking, language expression, and emotional training.\u00a0 The well-received response of students from playing board game was the most direct.\u00a0 Even some kids asked if they could play it again. After all, entertaining was still the best teaching strategy.<\/p>

During the days of teaching activities, whether it was Andersen\u2019s fairy tales, picture books, hand-made books, or board games, the students all showed a high degree of interest and concentration.\u00a0 At the final closing of our event, teacher Yi-Ting shared her wish card, hope that she could return to Ganzi with volunteer teachers next year.\u00a0 In fact, one week before our departure, teacher Yi-Ting had an accident and stitched a few stitches on her feet, but she still insisted on coming to Ganzi with injuries.\u00a0 Hence, when she was sharing her feelings, tears ran down her face!\u00a0 At the end of activities, all children were reluctant to go and took the initiative to hug the teachers.\u00a0 I truly think the children have given us full of love, just like the spring.<\/p>

~Volunteer Li-Zhen<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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