1617 Curriculum Night G5 MSL

1. Welcome to
Chinese Curriculum Night
Grade 5 Language B MSL
Miyan Zhang Miller ZhouSandy Tse
To inspire excellence, cultivate character, and empower engagement locally and globally.

2. Agenda
• Written Curriculum
• Taught Curriculum
• Assessed Curriculum
• Reading Program
• Chinese eBooks
• Home Learning & Support Tips
• Library
To inspire excellence, cultivate character, and empower engagement locally and globally.

3. Written Curriculum
HWEO 我们如何表达自己
WWA 我们是谁
HWOO 我们如何组织自己
STP 共享地球
To inspire excellence, cultivate character, and empower engagement locally and globally.

4. Taught Curriculum
• Curriculum Structure: Inquiry-Based Learning
• Language Acquisition Methodology: TPRS
(Teaching Proficiency through Reading & Storytelling)
• Teacher Tailor-Made Learning Materials
• Student-Centered Teaching & Learning
To inspire excellence, cultivate character, and empower engagement locally and globally.

5. Assessed Curriculum
• Assessments: Performance & Skills-Based
• Formative & Summative Assessments
• Student Portfolio (SP) iFolio
• 3-Way Learning Review (3WLR)
• Student Led Learning Review (SLLRs)
To inspire excellence, cultivate character, and empower engagement locally and globally.

6. Listening & Speaking
• In class observation
• Listening comprehension check
• Oral presentation, acting-out & retelling story
Reading
• Reading Comprehension Check
• Read weekly reading books
Writing: Pinyin & Characters & Story & Paragraph
Weekly Assessment & Pop Quiz
Formative Assessment
To inspire excellence, cultivate character, and empower engagement locally and globally.

7. To inspire excellence, cultivate character, and empower engagement locally and globally.
Reading Program
A Chinese Reading Folder will be sent home in October.
Students are encouraged to read and complete a book report weekly and orally report
once of their favourite/chosen book to the teacher monthly. Parent are requested to sign
on their child’s reading log every week.
Students need to return the book every week to switch for a new book.
Objectives:
• to build up students’ reading habits and interests;
• to expose students to a wider variety of written texts;
• to enhance students’ fluency through reading familiar texts.

8. • Online accounts of the following website and APPs which support
the in-school reading program materials could be purchased based
on individual needs and preferences at your own decision.
To inspire excellence, cultivate character, and empower engagement locally and globally.
WaWaYaYa
Chinese
eBooks
Reading Program
Mandarin Matrix

9. Home Learning
Average G5 MSL class home learning time is about 20 minutes
If you find your child spending much longer on home learning,
please have them do their best and stop
Try your best and bring your problems back to school
Home learning assignments can be sent home Mon to Thu
Please verify your email subscription to the teacher’s blog
Use Quizlet links for weekly practice
Check Updates on the blog daily for more information
To inspire excellence, cultivate character, and empower engagement locally and globally.

10. Tips For Supporting
Check the teacher’s blog regularly
Check your child’s red bag for home learning, assessments,
reading folder, library books and other information
Read Chinese books with them or encourage them to read
Chinese resources: friends, books, apps, blogs, Internet, etc
Expose them to Chinese outside school to extend learning
Supervise Writing Chinese Characters (with provided resources)
If you find your child struggling with Chinese, please contact your
child’s teacher as soon as possible for extra support
To inspire excellence, cultivate character, and empower engagement locally and globally.

13. Immersion Trip &
Exchange Programme
Chinese Immersion Trip
Tentative Date: 10-24 June, 2017 (15 Days)
Hainan Exchange Programme
Tentative Date: Easter Break (1 week)
To inspire excellence, cultivate character, and empower engagement locally and globally.

14. ThankYou!
To inspire excellence, cultivate character, and empower engagement locally and globally.