It's your eleventh birthday on the Morning Hill campus. Looking back this way, as a great aunt, there are indeed so many things I want to say.
The solar calendar May 31, 2007, you came to this precious earth, with the original love of parents. You can really choose the day, after the birthday ushered in Children's Day, since childhood, the two festivals together for you to celebrate, it is a rare joy! In the early summer a verdant bright, you are that a dazzling beam of white light, illuminating the hearts of the whole family.
In the first few years of your life, when our family was struggling to get started, your mom and dad were hard-working and fearless, and they were constantly on the move, which made you taste all the ups and downs and separations. But like your parents, you are a resilient child.
Because of the parents' busyness, you left your mother at three months for a period of time, followed by grandma for a period of time, and then followed by sister-in-law and brother in law for half a year in kindergarten, and then later, there is a younger sister, you would rather hold your mother's corner of the coat and run around in the station and a foreign country, but also refused to live in such a separated life, which is the reunion of your persistent crying and understanding in exchange for the child, you! You have indeed suffered. At your young age, you have already tasted the sweet and sour of the road, but also brought you more opportunities to observe the world. Little you, intelligent humor, cheerful, articulate, positive, really a special people can not help but want to praise the child.
When my sister Seven was still in my great-aunt's womb, my great-aunt lived with you in Nanjing for almost a year. At that time, you were in second grade, and my great-aunt read, studied, and played with you. Your hard work, your sunshine, your resilience and the power to grow positively already made my great-aunt feel gratified. You are a little man, especially kind and considerate. Understanding your mother's hardship, you often take the initiative to help your mother cook on weekends, and the fried rice with tomatoes and eggs you make is especially fragrant. You also learn to cook pancakes from your grandpa and take the initiative to wash the dishes and sweep the floor. In your father's busy days outside, because of your commitment, the family has been floating joy and warmth. A year of living with us has allowed me to see many details of your growth. I also know that this way behind your growth is soaked in many of your parents' pains and efforts, so every step you take also involves all the hopes of this family.
Your mom and dad worked very hard and were especially eager to create a better environment for you and your sister to grow up, they were busy running around, day in and day out, but your parents never relaxed on your attention. Especially your mom, she has always been on the road of self-renewal and learning. From your pre-birth parenting encyclopedia to start the road of reading, until now the crossing of the classics. On this journey, as a witness to your growth and transformation, I have seen the same resilience and vitality in both your mom and you. I am y touched and admired!
Auntie's deepest impression of you, is that year in Nanjing, the second grade of your thin little body, but has infinite energy, you like all the new things, love sports, especially roller skating and cycling. Whenever you are tired of studying, we come together to the road in front of the yard, from the initial flat skating, to the final up and down the steep slope, you step by step to challenge the success of the process, you understand that every progress is inevitably drenched in struggle and not afraid to fall over and over again to practice. On your eighth birthday, your great-aunt bought you a mountain bike, and you started practicing like crazy. You went to school during the day, came back to write homework in the evening, and practiced before and after dinner. You are small, and your body control is not strong enough, so you easily lose balance and often fall down when you get on the bike, but you especially like the feeling of riding and flying, and you always stand up again and again with gritted teeth after a fall and weave around the lights and shadows of the neighborhood at night, and you shouted with excitement when you could get on the bike for the first time smoothly. You shouted with excitement, two proud flowers on your little face, and your eyes sparkled with thrill and excitement. This is the kind of moment that my sister-in-law has seen many times in her later studies.
Regarding reading, due to the busyness of your parents, you were not given more leadership and guidance. But your mom knew the beauty of reading. When you and your sister started to read together and the family settled down, your mom started to hoard books like crazy. At that time, your great-aunt was following a team in the distant Ordos to learn children's courses, which was just enough to provide you with the resources of information related to reading. Your mom then began to take you on a journey through all kinds of illustrated children's books. Initially, you could not read quietly, the second grade, aunt accompanied you, starting from the small slap fairy tale through the Weston animal stories, forest newspaper, a variety of interesting children's books, classic picture books, little by little added to you. Every night, after finishing homework early, we will read together, 200,000 words a week of reading is basically guaranteed, you also gradually found the beauty of books. You were very absorptive and quick to learn, and your whole state of life was very bright that year. Second grade you, writing is particularly serious, one stroke by one stroke to practice the basic skills, now, your word writing is also really neat and beautiful, any effort in the middle of the years will compensate you!
The nature of boys love to play and move so that you can not be very good quiet down, third grade, your family moved to Hefei, this year, my great-aunt came to work in Chenshan, your parents, as always, busy running around, you and your sister also grow up separately. Learning piano, learning to draw, learning all kinds of courses, as a mother, she wanted to bring the best possible things to you, but the institutional school learning makes you feel depressed and boring, when you came to your great-aunt's school to experience the course, you will always aspire to come to Chenshan school, because of your parents' reluctance to let go of you, for this reason, you even shed a tear. Your mom and dad didn't want you to come alone because they usually didn't spend many days with you, so they especially longed for more communication time with you every time you were at home, and you couldn't let go of that. Until last summer vacation. Your mom finally broke through the barriers and made up her mind to accompany you to experience a brand new school life. So once again, your family came to Chenshan. You were so excited that you couldn't sleep. You said, because the learning life here is particularly rich, this is the learning life you want.
From Hefei to Chenshan, from public school to Chenshan Bilingual, you needed to adapt to the changes in curriculum and learning styles. The summer started, my sister-in-law took you to make up for the reading, those classic children's books, you have to nibble on one by one. Dahl complete set, Little Newton series, magical tree house series, colorful crow series, Harry Potter complete set, all kinds of international award-winning novels, classic children's books we read and discuss together, The Hundred Dresses, The Cricket in Times Square, The Wizard of Oz, Charlotte's Web, The Green Bird, The Never Ending Story, etc., all these classic must-reads in the classroom under the banner of South Brightness, and you also ate them all in one breath. But any learning takes time to chew and digest, and many books are just reading compendiums that can't really become part of who we are; they also need to be **** with life, and they need to be built up over the years. At the time, considering the paucity of your reading in public school, your great-aunt suggested that you stay in fourth grade, and you joined a summer class group to start experiencing life interacting with your teachers.
But then, after reading your reading notes, and with your own growing desire to continue to learn in depth, and with your older brother in fifth grade, you were no longer content to read in fourth grade, and strongly expressed a desire to take on the challenge. I know how difficult it is to take on this challenge, but when I saw your strong desire and the seriousness of your efforts at that time, I felt that as long as you were willing to work hard, everything else could be solved slowly, even though you were really lagging behind in your English studies. After combining the opinions of the school and your classroom teacher, Mr. Ho, you were officially enrolled in Grade 5 at the beginning of the school year, and everything worked out for the best. I had hoped that you would be in the SunSail classroom, starting with the fit between your personal name and the classroom name. You came to the SunSail classroom, and it was the right time to set sail. But in the stars, you can also find the code of learning fit, because your name is Yu Fan! The stars are in the universe, you shuttle between them, the same can ride the waves.
It's just that the hardships along the way really exceeded what we expected at the beginning.
Not enough time, tight schedule, you always say. Reading comprehension wise, there was difficulty to begin with, and with that came the inevitable dryness in writing output due to little reading buildup. The other thing is English, which you encountered with unprecedented difficulty when you started studying in third grade, and for a while we all felt the pressure. Every weekend, I believe you were devastated, the piano class was suspended, taekwondo did not have time to practice, that was a period of gray years we **** together. Because you had not been guided to develop good self-management habits, fewer adults were around, and the difficulties of studying were enormous, you were really very depressed and negative, and began to want to escape. Especially during the winter vacation, you almost always want to relax by playing crazy games when you get the chance.
At the beginning of this semester, the situation has slightly improved, firstly, you have gradually adapted to the pace of learning here, and secondly, you have fallen in love with this kind of learning life and found happiness in it, and experienced joy. Behind this is the combined efforts of all the teachers. The math teacher's various incentives and quiet pre-session tutoring have made you feel the beauty of math, and now that you've made consecutive breakthroughs, math is really surging forward with amazing momentum. Language reading under the leadership of the class teacher you can also keep up the pace, slowly immersed, morning recitation of poems and fugitives, lunch reading canonical chapters, with days and years, such as the seedling of the strong, this is to be handed over to the years of things, can not be in a hurry, can not be fast, then believe in the seed.
English, is especially to mention, this is also your self breakthrough milestone! You have been avoiding but never say give up, I know you have been eager to get more help, but also eager to prove themselves, just you do not know where to start. This semester, Ms. Yao Li took over the class English teaching, you started from the winter vacation *** read The Little Prince, at that time we all think it is a difficult to climb the snow mountain. Coupled with the fact that you were in a particularly low state during the winter break, at the beginning of the school year, when you saw the script, your great-aunt also began to doubt life! I also remember the new concept of English 2 study, every weekend we word by word at home, word by word spelling, over and over again, I do not know how many times, often an afternoon we feel that in addition to the English really do not have time to do other things, but look at the hard work to learn to hand that a little bit of pathetic words and phrases, for a moment we have a kind of want to cry without tears of despair. Coupled with the lack of composure of my sister-in-law during this process, I really don't know how helpless you felt at that time!
This semester, Ms. Yao Li has been positively motivating you, which has given you the courage to challenge! See you break through a sentence, we breathe a sigh of relief, and then a text, from being able to read through to proficiency, you need to use your brother's ten times more time. My brother can do it in ten minutes, you need three hours, or even half a day, we are so little by little grinding, grinding. From the excitement of reading through to fluent recitation, there is still a long way to go. I know I can't force it, but I can't give up on my expectations, and you've been running hard toward your goal. Two weeks after reading through the text, you were excited to say that you could recite it! I was no less excited than you were. I knew that another journey was about to begin!
The Little Prince script, if you can read through it, we really don't ask for anything else, even if there's no running for a role. But your Ms. Yao Li is determined not to give up. Usually at school, although I do not personally experience the classroom learning site, but I can imagine that kind of take you to gnaw read the difficult, because at home I have y experienced. In this way, the teacher is still the same as always insisted on, midnight text message to encourage you, requesting us to take you to study, as if you have never been the teacher's child, your learning has always been the teacher's obligation, and we are the temporary "road to see the injustice of pulling out a knife to help" the passer-by. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new teacher, who will be able to help you with your studies.
You said, in the original school, you get up a week to answer questions will not be more than two times, because the teacher will not call you, although your little hand every class is raised, because you are not a member of the first three rows of the class, you belong to the teachers have long been quietly given up that category. The reason for giving up is also very simple, because you can't be at the top of the class in your academic performance, although you are eager to improve and always try your best, but the words they dumped on your parents is to find an extracurricular tutorial class to give you tutorials. That's all, and you kept on pining for your former homeroom teacher, who, you said, was very polite to you. Dear child, at that moment, as a teacher, as a parent, great aunt's heart is bleeding.
At Chenshan, your tenacity once again helped you to overcome the difficulties. You do make it tricky for teachers, but we didn't give up, Nanming's educational lexicon, there has never been the word give up! Infinite care for the soul, zero tolerance for mistakes!
Child, here, the heart is fearless and the head is held high; here, knowledge is free; ...... here, unremitting efforts to reach out to the "perfect"; the fountain of reason is not submerged in the desert of accumulated habits; the mind is guided by you. The mind is guided by your guidance towards the ever-expanding thoughts and behaviors ......
From the very first day of your schooling, this poem has been the light on the road to learning, and by following this light, we have converged. Under the patient teaching and selfless care of your teachers, you gradually regained your self-confidence! Your full and exuberant vitality is back, and your white sails are once again bulging and full, ready to go! After two months of hard work, you have not only successfully read the script of The Little Prince, but also bravely challenged yourself to perform two acts of the Little Prince's fairy tale. In order to perform these two acts, you have put your heart into memorizing the lines, and this part of the story is destined to be engraved in your heart!
On the day of the show, you were the confident prince, and on the stage you did your lines smoothly out. From your starting point, you satisfactorily exceeded the task! You broke through the difficult barrier of learning English - the real difficulty comes from our fear of difficulty! We don't believe that life is so powerful that it can help us to cross the hills. In fact, this world, all that is good, is based on what we believe! When we believe in ourselves, believe in the existence of the dream, we will strive towards the dream!
After this breakthrough, we at the same time y realize - growth, is always a race of the self! We are not interested in external comments, humble and optimistic to absorb reasonable suggestions, sincere appreciation for the help of others, always with goodwill and expectations to run to our next event! Life is such a relay walk!
This half-semester, Yufan did it with effort!
Dear child, this day belongs to you, and to every teacher and parent who loves you! Thank you to all your teachers, who led you towards the bright; thank you to your dear parents, who gave you selfless love, to create a better starting point for you to learn; thank you for your own struggles along the way, so that you are really like the initial parents to give you the same name, a sail forward, never fear!
"Sail wings at the beginning of the place, the cloud roc angry wings with. Don't worry about a thousand miles, there is a wind of arrival." Dear child, great aunt is a person who is not very good at expressing their feelings, this year our lives overlap again, I believe that everything is the arrangement of fate. Dear Yufan, the sea of life is infinite, life's wind and waves all the time, as long as we have a bright heart, as long as we believe in themselves, life's great rivers and oceans are our journey, those such as the obscure wind and rain is just doomed to disappear the waves. And eleven years old sailing you, longing for the storm as fierce and magnificent challenges! Only through the storm will you meet a more spectacular scenery! We all believe that, riding the long wind and breaking ten thousand miles of waves, this is your way of growth, but we do not ask you to hang straight to the sea, only silent blessing and look forward to you all the way to the far side of the shining!
"The tide is flat and the wind is blowing." Dear child, dear Yufan, bravely accept the storm that belongs to you, through the wind and waves, you will have a more magnificent new life!