培养课外阅读兴趣,鼓励学生参加课外活动,是美国小学的鲜明特色。笔者在美国探亲期间,住在美国南部的休斯敦,房东夫妇是多年前来美国的中国留学生。他们的大女儿Angie当时6岁,正上小学一年级,所以,笔者有机会通过Angie和她的父母,了解美国一年级学生的学习生活。有一天清晨,Angie的母亲有时 Fostering extracurricular reading interests and encouraging students to attend extracurricular activities is a distinctive feature of primary schools in the United States. During my stay in the United States, the author lives in Houston in southern United States. The landlord and couple are Chinese students who came to the United States for many years. Their eldest daughter, Angie, was 6 years old and was in first grade, so I had the opportunity to learn about the first-year American student life through Angie and her parents. One day early in the morning, Angie’s mother sometimes