A few days ago, my teacher sent me some happy news. A fifth-grade alumnus of the National Elementary School, who is currently involved in academic research on insects, published a paper that was published in an international research journal, alongside PhD students, which is such an honor, and we are already proud of it, let alone our parents and family members. Speaking of thesis, this is a report that only masters and doctors or professors can publish when they are promoted to the next level and doing research, but a fifth-grade elementary school student is capable of doing this!

Thanksgiving cards were posted in the activity room, attracting everyone's attention, stopping to appreciate the cards that came from parents and children working together. Each card represented the heart of the parents and their accompanying hearts, guiding children to use their pens to draw, use their mouths to express their gratitude for people, things, and objects, and to share what they felt thankful for in the past year, presenting the gratitude in their hearts as images. Thanksgiving cards are not about how beautiful the drawing is or how nice the artwork is, but about the content of the card.

Going outside the classroom to learn experiential knowledge rather than knowledge in a package has become a new international learning trend in recent years. Finland, the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and Japan have coincidentally begun to emphasize "outdoor education" in the hope of responding to the needs of future education, and Taiwan is also catching up with this international trend. Simply put, any learning that takes place outside the classroom is outdoor education. Letting children go out of the classroom, regaining their curiosity, and combining the five senses of experience with integrated learning, makes learning closer to life, including the life of a child.

A few days ago, I read on the Internet a story shared by Professor Yeh Ping-cheng, who has long been concerned about primary and secondary education in Taiwan and has also set up his own experimental school.
 A mom asked in a question and answer session, "My child is a senior in high school this year, and his grades are in the middle to high range. Although he is very serious, he has not been able to make a breakthrough in his academic performance. My dad thinks he's not working hard enough and often tells him, "You must be on your cell phone all the time, that's why you haven't made any progress. The relationship between parent and child deteriorated as a result of the father's comment.

The entry of young children into the kindergarten is the beginning of their formal socialization. In the interaction between school life and teachers and students, children learn how to respond to the norms of the external environment and at the same time seek to satisfy their internal needs. In order for children to confidently face the ever-changing environment and accept the challenges, independent learning is bound to become the focus of future education reform. Especially in this era of technology boom and information explosion, academic qualifications will no longer be the guarantee of life in the future, but only those who know how to "learn independently" and continuously improve themselves will be able to make the best use of their knowledge.

Last Saturday afternoon, I received a message from Mrs. Yip, informing me that although the dengue fever epidemic has slowed down, there are still a few cases of dengue fever in the district, and I hope to expel mosquitoes in one go, and enter the households for breeding and inspection without spraying. There are six neighboring households in the area of enforcement, and the nursery is one of them. The head of the kindergarten said that he would only check and not spray, but if he found any tsetse, he would place spray cans directly, and he would be fined. Monday, the door is open.