Ji'nan: schools push parents' children's Reading Festival, parents and children read in winter vacation.
http://www.sd.xinhuanet.com/sd/jn/2013-01/27/c_114512342.htm
Qilu Evening Newspaper author Liu Qing
26 days, in the reading room of Yingdong primary school, students and parents study together.
the annual winter vacation begins. How to make children's holidays full and meaningful is something that many parents are worried about. On the 26 day, the first day of the compulsory education school winter vacation in Ji'nan, Shandong Province, Ji'nan Yingdong primary school launched the "parent son reading Festival", and the school reading room was open to the students and parents in the school.
26 is the first day of winter vacation, but in Yingdong primary school in Ji'nan, many parents still bring their children to school. At 3 p.m., in the reading room on the first floor of the school, the reporter saw that some students were accompanying their parents to pick books that they liked, while others read with relish.
Zhao Qing, a counselor at Yingdong primary school, told reporters that this winter vacation, the school launched the thematic education activities of Parent-Child Reading Festival. From 3 p.m. to 5:20 every day, parents and students will be admitted to the school with their parents' children's book vouchers. The pink coupons read: there are huge books, warm surroundings and close partners.
"Reading Festival is open to all six grades of the school." Zhao Qing said that the school volunteer teachers and the parents' volunteers of the family Committee as the duty officers went to school to clean the reading room and maintain order.
according to the introduction, the school reading room has an area of more than 240 square meters, which is equivalent to 4 standard classrooms, with more than 20 thousand volumes of books. According to the characteristics of children, the reading room is divided into 4 functional areas in spring, summer, autumn and winter. The green area is the reading area of newspapers and magazines. There is a streamlined platform. The children can sit and discuss in two or three places. The red area is an excerpt record area. The students can record and arrange good articles, have a round table, a leather stool, convenient to write. The color area is a mass book reading area. All kinds of books are arranged in different categories. Students can choose books to read according to their own preferences; the blue area is an electronic book reading area, with a computer and an electronic book.
Zhao Yuan, vice president of Yingdong primary school, said that the book festival aims to bring books closer to the children, to the parents, to the family and to create a strong family atmosphere. After school, the school will also select scholarly family and scholarly baby.