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A |     – 广州市天河区珠江新城猎德幼儿园 –          2025年寒假          放假通知                              新年快乐 蛇年大吉          尊敬的家长朋友：          大家好！          新年的乐章已经奏响，我们将迎来2025年寒假，在此对一直以来理解、配合、支持幼儿园工作的各位家长表达衷心的感谢！根据《2024-2025学年广州市义务教育学校校历》安排，现将2025年寒假放假时间通知如下：          寒假放假时间 ：          2025年1月18日–2025年2月12日          新学期开学时间 ：          2025年2月13日                                        假期温馨提示                              为使您的孩子度过一个平安而有意义的寒假，过一个祥和而愉快的春节，我们诚挚地希望您在假期里切实承担起孩子监护人的责任，并将寒假注意事项告知您，希望您能积极配合。         一、安全度假          （一）外出活动安全。

B | 自觉遵守交通规则，引导孩子牢记家长手机号码及家庭电话，知道家庭地址。         （二）提高孩子自我保护与防范能力。引导孩子不触摸电器、煤气、刀子等危险物品；注意防电、防火等方面的教育，禁止孩子燃放鞭炮，让孩子掌握基本的自护自救知识。         （三）教育孩子不玩危险的游戏，不在危险的地方玩耍，不随便与陌生人接触，不接受陌生人的东西；没有成人监护的情况下，不私自外出，防止上当受骗！                    二、文明度假          （一）加强孩子传统美德教育。    WASHINGTON -- With the growing popularity of disposable e-cigarettes, communities across the U.S. are confronting a new vaping problem: how to safely get rid of millions of small, battery-powered devices that are considered hazardous waste.For years, the debate surrounding vaping largely centered on its risks for high school and middle school students enticed by flavors like gummy bear, lemonade and watermelon.But the recent shift toward e-cigarettes that can’t be refilled has created a new environmental dilemma. The devices, which contain nicotine, lithium and other metals, cannot be reused or recycled. Under federal environmental law, they also aren’t supposed to go in the trash.U.S. teens and adults are buying roughly 12 million disposable vapes per month. With little federal guidance, local officials are finding their own ways to dispose of e-cigarettes collected from schools, colleges, vape shops and other sites.“We are in a really weird regulatory place where there is no legal place to put these and yet we know, every year, tens of millions of disposables are thrown in the trash,” said Yogi Hale Hendlin, a health and environmental researcher at the University of California, San Francisco.In late August, sanitation workers in Monroe County, New York, packed more than 5,500 brightly colored e-cigarettes into 55-gallon steel drums for transport. Their destination? A giant, industrial waste incinerator in northern Arkansas, where they would be melted down.Sending 350 pounds of vapes across the country to be burned into ash may not sound environmentally friendly. But local officials say it’s the only way to keep the nicotine-filled devices out of sewers, waterways and landfills, where their lithium batteries can catch fire.“These are very insidious devices,” said Michael Garland, who directs the county’s environmental services. “They’re a fire risk and they’re certainly an environmental contaminant if not managed properly.”Elsewhere, the disposal process has become both costly and complicated. In New York City, for example, officials are seizing hundreds of thousands of banned vapes from local stores and spending about 85 cents each for disposal.HAZARDOUS WASTEVaping critics say the industry has skirted responsibility for the environmental impact of its products, while federal regulators have failed to force changes that could make vaping components easier to recycle or less wasteful.Among the possible changes: standards requiring that e-cigarettes be reusable or forcing manufacturers to fund collection and recycling programs. New York, California and several other states have so-called extended product responsibility laws for computers and other electronics. But those laws don't cover vaping products and there are no comparable federal requirements for any industry.Environmental Protection Agency rules for hazardous waste don’t apply to households, meaning it's legal for someone to throw e-cigarettes in the garbage at home. But most businesses, schools and government facilities are subject to EPA standards in how they handle harmful chemicals like nicotine, which the EPA considers an “acute hazardous waste," because it can be poisonous at high levels.In the U.S., the push to manage disposable e-cigarettes has chiefly come from schools, which can face stricter regulation if they generate more than a few pounds of hazardous waste per month. Monroe County schools pay $60 to dispose of each one-gallon container of vapes. More than two thirds of the e-cigarettes collected by the county come from schools.“Our schools were very relieved because they had confiscated so much of this material,” Garland said. “If you think of all the high schools across the country, they are in a very difficult place right now.”Lithium in e-cigarette batteries is the same highly sought metal used to power electric vehicles and cellphones. But the quantities used in vaping devices are too small to warrant salvage. And nearly all disposable e-cigarette batteries are soldered into the device, making it impractical to separate them for recycling.Disposable e-cigarettes currently account for about 53% of the multi-billion U.S. vaping market, according to U.S. government figures, more than doubling since 2020.Their rise is a study in unintended consequences.In early 2020, the Food and Drug Administration banned nearly all flavors from reusable e-cigarettes like Juul, the cartridge-based device blamed for sparking a nationwide surge in underage vaping. But the policy didn't apply to disposables, opening the door to thousands of new varieties of fruit and candy-flavored vapes, almost all manufactured in China.In recent months the FDA has begun trying to block imports of several leading disposable brands, including Elf Bar and Esco Bar. Regulators consider them all illegal, but they have been unable to stop their entry to the U.S. and the devices are now ubiquitous in convenience stores, gas stations and other shops. FDA’s tobacco chief, Brian King, said in a statement that his agency “will continue to carefully consider the potential environmental impacts” of vaping products.THE COST OF CONFISCATING DISPOSABLE E-CIGARETTESIn 2020, New York City outlawed the vast majority of e-cigarette types, banning flavors that can appeal to youngsters.City employees conduct thousands of inspections annually, and last year issued more than 2,400 citations to corner stores and bodegas selling illegal flavored products. Adding to the challenge are THC vapes sold at hundreds of unlicensed marijuana shops, a separate but related problem that has mushroomed since New York's legalization of recreational pot.Since last November, officials have seized more than 449,000 vape units, according to city figures. New York City is spending about $1,400 to destroy each container of 1,200 confiscated vapes, but many more remain in city storage lockers. “I don’t think anyone ever considered the volume of these in our community,” said New York Sheriff Anthony Miranda, who leads a task force on the issue. “There’s a tremendous amount of resources going into this effort.” A recent lawsuit against four large vaping distributors aims to recoup some of the city's costs. For now, New Yorkers who vape can bring their used e-cigarettes to city-sponsored waste-collection events.Ultimately those vapes meet a familiar fate: They are shipped to Gum Springs, Arkansas, to be incinerated by Veolia, an international waste management firm. The company has incinerated more than 1.6 million pounds of vaping waste in recent years, mostly unsold inventory or discontinued products.Veolia executives say burning e-cigarettes' lithium batteries can damage their incinerators.“Ideally we don’t want to incinerate them because it has to be done very, very slowly. But if have to, we will,” said Bob Cappadona, who leads the company’s environmental services division.Veolia also handles e-cigarettes from Boulder County, Colorado, one of the only U.S. jurisdictions that actively tries to recycle e-cigarette batteries and components.Historically, Boulder has had one of the highest teen vaping rates in the country, peaking at nearly 33% in 2017. “It was like someone flicked the switch. Suddenly e-cigarettes were everywhere,” said Daniel Ryan, principal of Centaurus High School. Beginning in 2019, county officials began distributing bins to schools for confiscated or discarded e-cigarettes. Last year, they collected 3,500. County staffers sort the devices by type, separating those with removable batteries for recycling. Disposables are packed and shipped to Veolia's incinerator. Shelly Fuller, who directs the program, says managing vape waste has gotten more costly and labor intensive with the shift to disposables.“I kind of miss the days when we had Juuls and I could take each battery out and recycle them very easily,” Fuller said. “No one has time to dismantle a thousand Esco Bars.”___AP video journalist Joseph Frederick contributed to this story from New York___Follow Matthew Perrone on Twitter: @AP_FDAwriter___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content.。增强尊敬长辈、孝敬父母的意识，为身边需要关怀的人送去一份温暖、献上一片爱心。

C |          （二）教育孩子养成勤俭节约的好习惯，注意文明礼貌。         （三）请家长引导孩子合理使用压岁钱，根据孩子年龄适当学会自己理财。         （四）教育孩子保护环境，分类投放垃圾。                   三、快乐度假          （一）请为孩子购买3—4册有益的、适合他们年龄段的图书；每天陪孩子阅读10—15分钟，培养孩子的阅读兴趣和看图说话能力，发展他们的语言表达能力。

D |          （二）和孩子一起制作一些小手工，发展孩子动手能力。

E |          （三）鼓励孩子收拾自己的玩具、图书，大班孩子还可适当进行家庭环境卫生任务等分配，既培养孩子分类整理能力，又提高孩子的责任意识和独立能力。                   四、健康度假          （一）请您和孩子一起制订合理的生活作息时间表，尽可能根据时间表安排作息。         （二）坚持每天带孩子进行1小时体育活动，加强十项体能锻炼，提高孩子环境适应能力、增强孩子体质。         （三）在开学前一周，根据幼儿园作息时间，调整好孩子的生活节奏，如早晨起床、午睡时间调整等，引导孩子为下学期幼儿园生活做好准备。         （四）春节期间注意孩子的饮食，避免暴饮暴食、过于油腻，确保孩子健康。

F |          孩子健康、有意义的假期生活离不开您的指导、教育和督促。请多关注您的孩子，与他们多交流。相信在您的正确教育和引导关怀下，孩子们一定会在浓浓的亲情滋润下度过一个充实、快乐而有意义的寒假，健康而愉快地迎接新学期。         最后祝大家：春节愉快！幸福美满！                    广州市天河区珠江新城猎德幼儿园           2025年1月10日。

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