Can you cook or grow (种植) vegetables? Are you good at doing 1 at home? You may say no. Luckily, we can learn life skills (技能) at school. Now students in junior high schools have a labor(劳动) class 2 a week."We have a labor lesson every Wednesday. We teach students some useful skills,"said Wang Li, a teacher from Fuzhou.
Labor classes are important 3 they can help students to be creative(有创造力的) and happy in life. Many schools have 4 labor classes. For example, a school in Chongqing had a class about 5 loaches in the river."The loaches ran away from our hands easily. We had to 6 many times. We were all wet and tired but we had a good time!"Lin Tao said.
A school in Jiangxi took students to the 7 to learn the history and the skills of growing rice."How hard-working and 8 our ancestors (祖先) were!They could think of different ways to make 9 easy,"the students said.
Some students also learn to keep small animals. They get a lot of fun. 10 them, the labor class not only teaches them skills but also serves a way to enjoy themselves.
