An Awesome Afternoon of Primary School Poetry! 小学诗歌会的美妙下午！

Year 2 students at YCIS Beijing held an afternoon of poetry performances for their parents last week, sharing their own poetry as well as performing teacher-selected poems. As part of a larger unit on composing and performing poetry, the afternoon was a great opportunity for parents to experience their children’s learning firsthand.

北京耀中国际学校在上周举办了Year 2学生诗歌表演会，孩子们为父母表演了自己以及老师选择的诗歌。作为诗歌创作和表演的一部分，这个下午是父母体验孩子们一手学习的好机会。

Year 2 Team Leader and principal organizer of the poetry afternoon Megan Banerjee shared more details about the event, the purpose of the unit as a whole, and how parents can get their own children more interested in poetry and literature at home.

Year 2的年级长Megan Banerjee以及诗歌会主要组织者分享了更多的活动细节，总的来说，活动的目的是教会父母怎样在家里引导孩子对诗歌和文学的产生兴趣。

Below is a segment of Megan’s interview:

以下是Megan采访的一段：

Why is poetry important to study? How does it benefit children’s development?

为什么诗歌对学习很重要？诗歌学习对孩子的成长有什么好处？

Poetry is important in so many ways. It helps with vocabulary and fluency especially. With fluency, we look at expression, phrasing, and other aspects of fluent oral delivery. Poems have this natural rhythm when you read, so they’re a nice starting point for students pick up these concepts. 

诗歌在很多方面都很重要。尤其对词汇和语言流畅度都很重要。对于语言流畅度，主要看口语表达以及措辞。诗歌读起来有种自然韵律，所以对于学生们来说，诗歌是学习语言的新起点。

It’s also so much more fun for learners, especially with kids with short attention spans. For example, our class poem was “school-itis,” a made-up illness about not wanting to go to school. The students learned about all kinds of diseases and got to act it out! It was a great learning process being able to act out the poem instead of just reading it in a book.

诗歌对学习者来说也很有趣，尤其对注意力不能长时间集中的孩子来说。比如，我们班的诗歌是“school-itis,” 这是一种虚构的不想上学的病。学生学习各种疾病，并且在课上表演出来！相比只是读书，把学到的诗歌表演出来是一个非常好的学习过程。

What can parents do at home to get their children more interested in poetry or literature?

家长在家里怎样做能让孩子对诗歌和文学感兴趣？

Pick up a Dr. Seuss book! I think the biggest way parents can excite their children to learn would be to read with them. Finding literature and bringing it home also works. Reading with your child is so important. It also helps to have a lot of books at home; interact with your kids while you're reading the books and ask them questions about what they’re reading.

比如Dr. Seuss的书！我认为家长能激起孩子学习的最好方式就是跟孩子们一起阅读。买一些文学书籍带回家一样很有效果。与孩子一起阅读是如此重要。在家里准备很多的书，与孩子在阅读中互动并不时地对他们所读的内容进行提问。

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