春风拂面，暖阳吻身。转眼间，新学期已开学一月有余。在这万物复苏的季节，迎来了西方又一个重要的节日——复活节。我们不崇洋媚外，但我们要知己知彼。小学一年级高端英语的课堂上，外教们以“寻蛋”的活动，帮助孩子们体验西方复活节的传统。

活动预备期，外教们做了精心地准备。他们分工明确，谁来扮复活节的送蛋小兔子，谁来买巧克力蛋，在什么地方“藏蛋”，什么时候“藏蛋”，都安排得井然有序。

外教Mel和Jake扮演送蛋小兔子。他们认真装扮，宁可“自毁形象”，Mel在脸上画胡须，画红鼻头，Jake一蹦一跳地带着孩子们寻蛋，完全没有“偶像包袱”。他们的这份热忱与认真，带给孩子们的是充实快乐的时光。   

在“小兔子的”引领下，孩子们手里提着自己制作的小篮子，欢快又兴奋地来到了“藏蛋花园”，遍寻四处，不放过任何一个角落，毕竟巧克力蛋的诱惑实在无法抵挡。在寻蛋过程中，我们也惊喜的发现了孩子们平时鲜为我们所知的美好品德。比如，有的孩子擅长搜寻发现，找到很多巧克力蛋。而有几个篮筐满载的孩子，面对香甜可口、极具诱惑的巧克力蛋，主动把自己的分给了其他篮子里寥若晨星的同学。还有的孩子，尽管自己的篮子里的巧克力蛋屈指可数，在听到其他同学抱怨自己的蛋少，或为此大哭的时候，主动将自己为数不多的几颗分了出去。细心的Shai也注意到了这些暖心的微小瞬间，对此赞赏有加，并用巧克力蛋作为这些慷慨的孩子们的奖品，以此鼓励赞许他们这样美好的品德。育人先育德，这也是我们融入课堂里的品德教育，因为教育无时不在。这种乐于分享，谦让他人的品德，值得我们至真的赞美。

外教的课堂欢乐充实，以润物无声的方式让孩子们在知识的海洋里任意遨游，在美德的花园里沁润心脾，相信在不久的将来，他们都会成长为德才兼备的国之栋梁。

                                   小学高端英语项目组   田昭  曾雪瑶 供稿

While we enjoy the spring breeze caressing our faces and warm sunlight kissing our skin, we almost forget the time passing. But it’s been over one month since the new semester started. This life-reviving season was welcoming another important tradition--Easter. We are not foreign-culture followers, but we need to know something about everything in this world besides our own traditions and customs. The foreign teachers from the High-end English Program of primary school helped our kids to get to know Easter traditions with an “Easter Egg Hunt”.

They did a thorough preparation with a detailed labor division. “Who is going to buy chocolate eggs for kids?” “Who get to play the Easter Bunny giving out those eggs?”  “Where and when do we hide them?” All those were put in order.

Mel and Jake disguised in a rabbit costume. Mel painted whiskers on face and colored nose red. Jake led the kids to the garden where the chocolate eggs were hidden with jumping and hopping. They did it without any mind burden that their dress-up would ruin their images. Their passion and conscientiousness enliven children’s school time.

With the ushering of the Easter Bunny and the self-made baskets in hands, our kids went on a joyful hunt everywhere across the garden. After all, none of them could resist the temptation of chocolate eggs. Amid that egg hunt, we surprisingly found some students’ great virtues that we hardly noticed. For instance, some of them are really good at searching. Their baskets were full to the brim with the eggs they found. But several of them shared some eggs to those whose baskets were almost empty even they themselves also craved the sweet chocolates. One spontaneously gave few chocolate eggs to those kids at their complaining or crying over their scarceness even though he only got a few. All those warm moments ran into one of the foreign teachers, Miss Shai’s eyes. She was really proud and appreciated that. She gave those kids chocolate eggs as a reward to encourage the virtue. Morals come first. That’s a principal and a part of our education because nurture is embedded in everyday life. That spirit of sharing and the courtesy are worthy of our highest praise.

The joyful and enlightened High-end English Program enables our kids to enjoy their journey in the sea of knowledge and immerses them in a garden full of the fragrance of virtues. There is no doubt that they will grow into the pillar of our society in the foreseeable future.