校长说:疫情之下日常健康习惯养成计划|Principal writes:Routines Help Children Learn

疫情下，现阶段的生活对全世界的人们来说都是一种挑战，人们在家办公，或者暂停了往常日常的工作，以往的生活习惯被打乱，还有很多人们隔离在家里充满了压力，焦虑。

在我最近与许多朋友聊天中了解到：许多成年人的烦恼来自于原本的生活被打乱，他们要重新安排自己的生活日常，尝试很多新的生活方式，改变了原有的生活习惯，显然，很多人还不适应这种改变。

相同的，我们的学生，你们的孩子也在经历与你一样的问题，生活的变化，他们的习惯也随之改变，学生们增加了在家的时间，而且他们每天要花很长的时间坐在电脑前面，通过网络学习，聊天，在网络中与这个世界相处。

我们学校的网络教学已经持续了几个星期，相信很多家长已经注意到了我们老师通过日常的网课在建立学生们的日常行为习惯，就像家长们在家安排学生的日常行为一样，这些日常行为准则的建立对学生（尤其是低年级的学生）是尤为重要的。一个良好的日常习惯可以为学生们提供安全感，在教育方面可以为学生们提供基础的学习结构已经内心的平静，虽然看起来我们在日复一日的重复这些工作，但是就是这样的不断重复是孩子们日常学习的重要一环。教学方面的行为培养可以建立和持续学生们扎实的学习基础，每天学生们可能用同样的方式开始每一节课，在复习原有的知识后，再增加新的学习内容，这样日复一日来培养孩子们正确的行为习惯。

同样在家里，为你的孩子们建立日常生活习惯也很重要。通过制定严格的就寝时间、起床时间、早起时间、日常学习时间和晚起时间，让您的孩子拥有支持其学习所需的结构。当他们的基本需求通过日常生活得到满足时，他们会感到与社会有联系，情感上安全，然后，他们能够集中精力，专注于学术上的事情。

Many adults are now struggling with quarantines, working from home, working only part time in the office or not working at all. Their lives, incomes and daily routines have been disrupted.  It is indeed a stressful time for everyone all over the world. In talking to many adults recently, it has become clear that many of the adults are struggling simply because their daily routines have been upset.  Today, many adults are working to establish new routines, find new ways of doing things, finding new times to do many daily chores and tasks that they never thought about before. People’s lives have had to change and sometimes this change can be uncomfortable.

Our students, your children, are no different. Their lives have been changed in the middle of the school year. Their routines have had to change. They are now home with family for many, many days. They now have to sit at a computer and learn, virtually. They talk to their friends via web cam. They go to school via web cam. Their lives are now taken up by a web cam.

Our virtual school experience has now been happening for several weeks and many of you have noticed the routines that have been established by our teachers, just like the routines in your homes. We cannot express how important routines are for all students, especially the younger students. It brings structure and gives a sense of calm to a day, where there may be plenty of changes. For our younger students educationally, it provides structure for their learning. While it may seem to be repetitive in many ways, repetition is important for a child’s learning. This repetition continually provides a structure in which to work from. Young students are learning so much during the day outside of school, how to behave in certain circumstances, new words, new experiences that in school they need a strong foundation to help them explore further. These academic routines help build and maintain that foundation. Every day they may begin each lesson exactly the same way but every week we add something new. During the week we explore that idea, sound, concept or thought and we add that learning to the foundation. Next week we have the same beginning and continue to add new material. Each week adding more and more to their academic foundation.

In the home it is important as well to have established routines for your child (ren). By establishing strict bedtime routines and times, strict wake up times, morning routines, daily learning routines and evening routines, it allows your child to have the structure needed to support their academic learning. When their basic needs are met through routines they feel socially connected and emotionally safe, THEN, they are able to concentrate and focus on other things, like school.