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Teaching children with low linguistic and literacy skills in two languages is a daunting task, what should we do to ensure their academic success?
Our Core-Values
To use target language, authentic materials and literatures to connect childrens learning to real-life experiences
To create interdisciplinary thematic units and project approach to help children synthesize, recognize, and transform knowledge, and develop creative and independent thinking over time
Local museums, the community, the real world, and the World Wide Web
Curriculum contents:
Life Science Physical Science Literacy Chinese Language Math Comprehensive Health Arts Social Studies
Unit Theme: Organisms Stage One: Identifying the Desired Results (Subject areas and critical content)
Life Science Characteristics of living things (Life Science 2, 3): - Differentiate between living and nonliving things - Group both living and nonliving things according to the characteristics they share - Recognize that plants and animals have life cycles, and that life cycles vary for different living things. (Connection - T/E 1.1, 1.2) Livings things and their environment (Life Science 6) - Recognize that people and other animals interact with the environment through their senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. (Connection - T/E 1.1, 1.2, 1.3) Physical Science Observable Properties of Objects (Physical Sciences 1) - Sort objects by observable properties such as size, shape, color, weight, and texture. (Connection - T/E 1.2, 2.2)
Language Arts: - Read aloud, poetry, ask and answer key details from a text, read book illustrations - Learn basic features of print - Develop comprehension and collaboration - Present knowledge and ideas
Social Studies: - Human relationships - Interdependence - Sustainability Science and Technology: - Characteristics of living things - Living things and their environment - Observable property of objects
Math: - Counting and cardinality - Geometry - Measurement and data - Number and operation
Fieldtrips: - School garden - Neighborhood walk - Franklin Park Zoo - Harvard Museum of Natural History - Public Library
Arts: - Symbolic representations in music, dance, and visual arts to tell about ourselves and our world.