再次走出課室！最近天氣忽冷忽熱，十分適合進行各種室内體能活動。本校早前到香港鄉村俱樂部，體驗瑜伽球、保齡球和網球等等，小朋友都大呼驚喜，透過現場示範及互動遊戲，讓小朋友在愉快的氛圍中學習體育知識，全情投入！一齊來欣賞當日的活動花絮。
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各位家長，東華三院上周五（2月23日）舉辦「中華樂舞慶新春綜藝匯演」，其中來自18所幼稚園，共58位小朋友傾力演出節目《童聲樂韻賀新春》，以合唱和舞蹈表達農曆新年的祝福，當中加插傳統藝術變臉和醒獅，將中華傳統文化以童真的方式呈現給觀眾！
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祝大家新年快樂，萬事勝意，小朋友「聰明伶俐」。下學期已經開始了，希望各位小朋友無論遇到任何難題，都可以「勇於嘗試」解決，朋友之間相處能夠「相親相愛」，與家人「和睦融洽」，最重要是開開心心！
家長錦囊
撰文︰樂善堂梁黃蕙芳紀念學校遊戲治療師馮祉禧
筆者早前參與了台灣教師專業進修交流活動，見識到台灣的教育著重以運動培養孩子成長，讓我得到新的啓發，希望與各位父母分享。其中一所作交流的學校稱得上是體育學院小學版「虎林小學」。一踏進學校，同學便以政府推廣的健身操歡迎我們。他們一起跟着拍子舉手投足，做出各式各樣的熱身動作。讓人感到他們就像老虎仔一樣的精神活潑，而我像真的進入了充滿老虎仔的森林一般。
運動能強化孩子學習能力
虎林小學的劉校長説學校是政府重點學校，專注同學的體育發展，並相信透過運動能強化他們的學習能力。他們以哈佛醫學院精神科臨床助理教授 John J. Ratey, MD 的硏究為基礎，提倡零時運動計劃。此計劃提倡學生於所有時間都在運動，即零時 (Anytime)。每當小休時，學生便會跑到操場的任何一處做運動，他們有的玩躲避球、有的在攀鋼架、更有的打羽毛球。所有學生都享受每個運動的時刻。
運動的好處 強化大腦機能
眾所周知，運動有強身健體的功效，而在 Ratey 的研究之中，他指出更多有關運動對大腦的好處。他形容大腦是訊息處理中心，透過不同的傳遞者（化學物質）於不同路徑傳達訊息。在運動時，大腦能有效地生產更多傳遞者和強化路徑，使訊息傳得更快更準。
將理論應用於學習上，學生以運動強化大腦機能，再提升他們的學習成效。研究證實運動能提高學生專注力和記憶力，而這都是成功學習的必備條件。此外，運動能使大腦製造 Dopamine （令人有快樂感的化學物質），令學生能愉快地學習，成績自然會更加優秀。
如何讓孩子愛上運動？
為了讓孩子享受運動的時間和好處，家長必需讓孩子愛上運動，以下有三項建議：
零時運動
多讓孩子有運動的機會，如提供合宜的時間，工具和場地，同時家長要留意環境的安全。
健康運動
多教導孩子因愛健康而做運動，多提及運動對健康的好處。
一起運動
多與孩子一起運動，享受運動的時刻，享受親子的美好時光。
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Parenting Tips
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Written by: Ms. Fung Chi Hei, Game Therapist, Lok Sin Tong Leung Kau Kui Primary School
I previously participated in a professional exchange activity for teachers in Taiwan and was impressed by the emphasis on using exercise to cultivate children’s growth in the Taiwanese education system. This experience provided new inspiration, which I hope to share with parents. One of the schools visited during the exchange can be described as the elementary school version of a sports academy. Upon entering the school, the students welcomed the visitors with a government-promoted fitness routine. They performed various warm-up exercises in unison, exuding a lively spirit akin to tiger cubs, making me feel like they had truly entered a forest full of tiger cubs.
Exercise Strengthens Children’s Learning Abilities
Principal Liu of the Tiger Forest Elementary School stated that the school is a key focus school designated by the government, with a special emphasis on students’ physical development. The school believes that exercise can strengthen students’ learning abilities. They have adopted the “Anytime Exercise” program based on the research of John J. Ratey, MD, a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. This program advocates for students to be engaged in exercise at all times, hence the name “Anytime.” During breaks, students would run to any part of the playground to exercise, some playing dodgeball, some climbing the monkey bars, and others playing badminton. All students enjoy every moment of exercise.
The Benefits of Exercise: Strengthening Brain Function
It is well known that exercise has the effect of strengthening the body, and in Ratey’s research, he pointed out more about the benefits of exercise on the brain. He described the brain as the center for processing information, transmitting messages through different pathways using various transmitters (chemicals). During exercise, the brain can effectively produce more transmitters and strengthen pathways, allowing messages to be transmitted faster and more accurately.
Applying this theory to learning, students can enhance their brain function through exercise, thereby improving their learning effectiveness. Research has confirmed that exercise can improve students’ concentration and memory, both of which are essential for successful learning. Furthermore, exercise can stimulate the brain to produce dopamine (a chemical that brings happiness), enabling students to learn joyfully, which naturally leads to better academic performance.
How to Make Children Love Exercise?
For children to enjoy the time and benefits of exercise, parents must help them develop a love for exercise. Here are three suggestions:
1. Anytime Exercise
Provide children with more opportunities for exercise, suitable time, tools, and space, while ensuring the safety of the environment.
2. Healthy Exercise
Teach children to exercise for the sake of their health and emphasize the benefits of exercise on health.
3. Exercising Together
Exercise with children more often, enjoy the moments of exercise and savor the wonderful time with family.
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Written by: Director of Pario Arts, Lee Sou Jing
Everyone has creativity and artistic potential. If properly nurtured, it can enhance one’s moral sentiments and make life more perfect. In the artistic atmosphere, diverse activities inspire individuals’ creativity, aesthetic sense, and diverse abilities, promoting holistic development. ‘Love’ is the driving force of creation. In a free, democratic, safe, and harmonious environment and atmosphere, it is the expression of ‘love,’ emphasizing mutual tolerance, acceptance of different opinions, and respect for and acceptance of others. So, how can parent-child creative art creation express ‘love’? Here, the author shares his views with all parents.
The significance of parent-child creative art creation:
• Art education starts with individuals. Parents try to engage in artistic creation to cultivate their children’s artistic accomplishments.
• The first lesson of art education begins with ‘listening’ and ‘acceptance.’ Parents learn to accept the diverse ways in which children express their creativity.
• Through the joint participation and experience of parent-child art creation, parents can get closer to and understand their children’s hearts.
• Parent-child art creation helps children to understand themselves and release emotions and stress.
• By integrating an atmosphere of mutual appreciation and respect, it reduces parental stress and anxiety, thereby enhancing parent-child relationships.
• Making parent-child fall in love with creation, integrating art into life, and enhancing the quality of life.
Artistic Cultivation Tips
• Cultivate a kind of knowledge in being human and enhance the ability to share, that is, ’empathy.’
• According to the research of psychologist Hoffman on the development of human empathy, ’empathy’ is the ability to understand the feelings of others and to put oneself in their shoes.
• The three steps of ’empathy’: (1) Imagine standing in the other person’s position (2) Identify the other person’s true feelings (3) Convey understanding and feelings to the other person.
• Empathy’ is an important ability in interpersonal relationships. Only those with ’empathy’ can establish good interpersonal relationships, self-discipline, and a sense of responsibility.
• Children at the age of 2 to 3 can already understand the feelings of others. In order for children to be compassionate, possess ’empathy,’ and understand love and care for others, it is very important for parents to lead by example.
家長錦囊
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每個人均擁有創意和藝術潛能，假如得到適當培育的話，可提升個人的美善情操，讓生命更臻完美。在藝術氛圍的營造下，藉多樣化活動啟發個人的創造力、美感和多元能力，以促進全人發展。而「愛」是創造的原動力，在自由、民主、安全及和諧的環境和氣氛下，即「愛的表現」，亦是強調互相包容，悅納不同的意見，尊重別人和接納別人。那麼親子創意藝術創作如何可以表現「愛」呢？筆者在此和各位家長分享自己的看法。
親子創意藝術創作的意義
- 藝術教育由個人做起，家長嘗試接觸藝術創作，從而培養孩子的藝術涵養
- 藝術教育的第一課從「聆聽」和「接納」開始，家長學習接納孩子多元創意的表現方式
- 透過親子共同參與和體驗藝術創作的過程，家長能更貼近和了解孩子的心
- 親子藝術創作有助孩子認識自己、釋放情緒與壓力
- 融入互相欣賞和互相尊重的氣氛，減輕親職壓力與焦慮，進而增進親子關係
讓親子愛上創作，把藝術融入生活中，提升生活的素質
藝術培育錦囊
- 培養一種做人的學問，提升一種分享的能力，即「同理心」。
- 根據心理學家赫夫曼 (Hoffman) 研究人類同理心 (empathy) 的發展指出，「同理心」就是體會他人的情意，設身處地為他人設想的能力。
- 「同理心」三步曲：(1)站在對方的立場設想 (2)辨識對方的真正感受 (3)將了解和感受傳達給對方。
- 「同理心」是與人相處的一項重要能力，具有「同理心」的人，才能建立良好的人際關係、自律及責任感。
- 兒童在 2 至 3 歲的階段，已能了解別人的感受。為使孩子有愛心、具備「同理心」的人、懂得愛與關懷別人，父母以身作則是非常重要的。