团建活动｜六年级9公里徒步挑战之旅：并肩登顶，绽放青春活力！

9月11日上午8点，国际部全体六年级学生前往八大处停车场开始他们的徒步挑战。他们从西山公园出发，一路攀爬，拾级而上，徒步9公里，最终到达香山公园。

西山，太行山的一条支阜，古称“太行山之首”，又称小清凉山。从西山高处往下俯视，北京城清晰可见，诗人陈志岁就曾在《夏栖西山》中提及：

“暂绝去来心，西山一片林。

枯根滴泉响，嫩蝶抱花沉。

日午蝉声懒，庭阴榻迹深。

白云如有意，穿竹伴清吟”。

上午8点半，学生们在八大处停车场与领队们集合。在认真听领队们做完自我介绍并进行简单热身后，学生们从西山国家森林公园正门出发，在西山公园徒步约2个小时后登上西山经典鬼笑石。从西山爬至鬼笑石多为登山台阶，学生们一路背着行囊，有说有笑，不曾停下登高的脚步。在鬼笑石做短暂休整后，学生们俯瞰北京并欢乐合照。

当天阳光普照大地，一切都显得生机勃勃，从鬼笑石上向远方望去，蓝天的浩莽，浮云的游动，城市的风光，山水的灵动都尽在眼底。大自然这一部神奇鲜活的自然与人文教科书，熏陶着孩子们的感觉和知觉，让学生们们在徒步过程中，学会欣赏自然，尊重生命，让他们的想象力蓬勃发展。

在鬼笑石处合照后，学生们在补给点补充了自己徒步所需的物资，整装收拾后，通过山间防火道继续向目的地前进。在山野环境中长时间长距离徒步，孩子们总会遇到困难的时候，比如背包太重、脚步艰难、吃饭仓促的情况，但六年级学生们遇到磕绊从没有放弃。背包太重就几个人轮流帮忙一起背，脚步艰难就放慢脚步在一旁鼓励打气给予支持，吃饭仓促就彼此照顾随机应变……

一天的徒步，不仅激发了孩子们好奇的天性和主动的探索能力，让孩子们收获了毅力、耐力与勇气，也让孩子们在克服困难的过程中，彼此交流、沟通，促进了与师长、与同学之间的联系，增进了感情，提升了身体素质，在各自不同的方面都成为了更好的自己。

在下午1点40分左右，学生们经过挂甲塔后最终抵达目的地香山公园。长时间的徒步并未让他们脸上的笑容退去丝毫。学生们活力满满地跟着领队们做徒步后的拉伸动作，并秩序井然地踏上了返校的路途。

此次徒步让学生们收获满满，六年级紫班学生胡天勤(William Hu)就在自己的笔记中写到：

On September 11th at 8:00am, all THIS 6th graders headed to the Badachu Mountain parking lot to begin their hiking challenge. They started from Xishan Park, climbed all the way up the stairs, hiked 9 kilometers, and finally arrived at Xiangshan Park.

Xishan Mountain, a branch of Taihang Mountain, is known as the “Head of Taihang Mountain” and is also known as Little Qingliang Mountain. When you look down from the heights of Xishan Mountain, you can see the city of Beijing clearly. The poet Chen Zhitu once mentioned in “Xishan Mountain in Summer”: “I have stopped going and coming for the time being, but Xishan Mountain is a piece of forest. The withered roots drip from the springs, and the tender butterflies hold the flowers and sink. The cicadas are lazy in the afternoon, and the shaded couch is deep in the garden. The white clouds are like an intention, and the bamboo is accompanied by a clear voice”.

At 8:30 a.m., the students gathered with the leaders at the parking lot of Badachu. After listening attentively to the leaders’ self-introductions and warming up briefly, the students set off from the main gate of Xishan National Forest Park and hiked for about 2 hours to the classic Ghost Laughing Stone in Xishan Park. Climbing from Xishan Mountain to Ghost Smiling Stone is mostly hiking steps, students carried their backpacks all the way, talking and laughing, never stopping their steps. After a short break at the Ghost Smile Stone, the students took a group photo overlooking Beijing.

On that day, the sun shone brightly on the earth and everything seemed to be full of vitality. Looking into the distance from the Ghost Smile Stone, the vastness of the blue sky, the movement of the floating clouds, the scenery of the city, and the spirit of the mountains and the water were all visible to the eyes. Nature, a magical and vivid textbook of nature and humanities, inculcates the children’s senses and perceptions, so that the students learn to appreciate nature, respect life, and let their imaginations flourish in the hiking process.

After taking a group photo at the Ghost Smile Stone, the students restocked their hiking supplies at the resupply point, packed up, and continued on to their destination via the mountain fire trail. When hiking long distances in a mountainous environment, children always encounter difficulties, such as backpacks that are too heavy, difficult footsteps, and hasty meals, but the sixth graders never gave up when they encountered stumbling blocks. Backpacks are too heavy, a few people take turns to help carry them together, the footsteps are difficult to slow down on the sidelines to encourage and cheer to give support, eat in a hurry to take care of each other and improvise. ……

A day of hiking not only inspired the children’s curiosity of nature and the ability to take the initiative in exploring, so that the children harvested perseverance, endurance and courage, but also to let the children in the process of overcoming difficulties, communication and communication with each other, but also in the process of overcoming difficulties, the students were able to overcome the difficulties. In the process of overcoming difficulties, the children exchanged and communicated with each other, promoted the connection with teachers and classmates, enhanced their relationship, improved their physical fitness, and became a better version of themselves in their different aspects.

At around 1:40 pm, the students finally arrived at the destination of Xiangshan Park after passing through Guajia Pagoda. The long hike did not take away any of the smiles on their faces. The students followed the leaders’ stretching exercises with great vigor and set off back to school in an orderly manner.

The walk was a rewarding experience for the students, as William Hu, a 6th Grade Purple student, wrote in his notes: