We know that many children have problems in learning body language. If your child does, here are some ways to help them.

Teach your child that different body language can show special feelings. When someone is standing and playing with the fingers, it means that he or she is losing patience. Or he or she doesn't catch what you're saying.

If you're watching TV together, you can turn off the sound. Then you can ask him, "Why do you think the person felt that way?" And you can say things like "his face was red". It helps your child know the way of showing feelings.

It is good for all families to play a game about body language. You can write different feelings on cards, such as happiness, sadness, anger and so on. Then some of you draw pictures and show them, and the remaining families try to guess what they are. You all may have much fun.

Only the actions can't show all feelings. You need to teach children to think about sound and words to get all the information.

Raisins（葡萄干）in ice cream, in chocolate, and in cookies... Your favourite snacks cannot be without raisins!

But do you know how people get raisins from full and juicy grapes? Dry(晒干) them in the sun? Well, that may be one way. But people from Xinjiang have another way.

People there build many “blockhouses(碉堡)” near a grape garden.

People build many “blockhouses” on the hillside. The blockhouses are usually three metres tall and are as big as the size of a classroom.

They are quite different from the houses we live in. They have lots of holes in the wall. Inside there are many wooden shelves.

After picking the grapes, people put them on the shelves. Because of the hot weather, hot dry wind gets through the holes in the wall and dries the grapes up. 30 to 45 days later, the fruit will turn into soft, sweet raisins!

In around the year 535, people in Xinjiang started to send raisins as presents to the emperor(皇帝). This means that 1,500 years ago people began to know how to make raisins!