For English UOI activities, First students explored the infancy stage of life that includes time spent in the mother’s womb. Students pretend to be a pregnant mom , trying to complete everyday activities.

Then students learned the meanings of independent and dependent , and then determined which actions made them independent compared to the infant. Babies need help walking , whereas a child can walk by themselves, babies need to be changed whereas a child can get dressed by themselves. 

For Unit 3 Who We Are, the first of the learning objectives was to understand and be able to express how people change from the past to the present in their physical and mental characteristics. This was achieved by describing the changes they saw in growth charts they had made in Chinese class, and presenting the information to the class. This was affective in getting children to understand changes, but even more effective at raising the children’s confidence when speaking in front of others. 

The second objective was to identify the facilities that kindergarten and primary school children use for different activities. This was achieved by a mixture of “scavenger hunting” and interviewing of primary school children. This was affective in opening the children’s curiosity about research and learning from other children to understand the differences in primary school and kindergarten life. 

Third of all, the children were to discover the meaning of responsibility by contrasting activities that they want to do with activities that they need to do. This was achieved by playing games in which we classified activities as wants it needs, and spoke out the sentences clearly. This was effective in solidifying the children’s understanding of responsibility, as well as expanding their ability to make a variety of sentences, even leading to them independently formulating new sentences. 

During this unit we inquired about how we grow up and the different stages a human experience in their life, we followed the lines of inquiry and related every stage to concepts as independence and responsibility.

English content: 

By the end of the unit students should be familiar with:

- Sharing their growth stories using simple past tenses

- Compare with others: Taller, shorter, heavier and lighter… than.

- Name the stages of life and identify them in their family: My family has… infant, child, adult, elder

- Share different ways we can help an infant as he is dependent.

- Share their hobbies and compare them with their grandparents

- Know the concepts of dependent and independent and share - I can do … by myself – I need an adult to … -

- My responsibilities are… sharing the daily duties they are responsible of.

- Learn differences and concepts related to primary school

- Unit vocabulary.

Responsibility and independence:

We dedicated the last part of the unit to dig deeper into these concepts completing worksheet about the things we can do by ourselves and tasks were we need help or supervision from adults. Also inquired about what are our duties and how can we become more responsible.

作者｜Gamma班教师

图片｜Gamma班教师、Rachel

编辑｜Rachel