G1 invited two groups of guests, Ms Julia and G1 student Akiho's parents, to talk about the history and culture of Easter and Japanese festivals respectively in this module "Exploring Festivals".

The theme of this guest lecture was "Festival Exploration - Easter", and we invited a special guest Ms Julia to explain the history and cultural connotations of Easter to the students. In the lively lecture by the guest, we learned that Easter is an important Christian festival, as well as a family reunion and celebration of life and spring. We learned about the history and traditional ways of celebrating Easter, as well as the cultural connotations and symbolic meanings of Easter. The students showed their thinking and imagination by presenting various questions and viewpoints during the lecture. They actively participated in the interactive session, demonstrating their knowledge and understanding of Easter culture. Through this guest lecture, the students not only gained a deeper understanding of the history and cultural connotations of Easter, but also deepened their understanding and respect for traditional culture. 

The parent class activity was organized to allow parents to come to school and introduce Japanese festivals and culture to the first-grade children. During the activity, parents showed the children how people in Japan celebrate holidays such as New Year's Day and Children's Day, and shared some interesting cultural traditions and customs. After introducing Japanese culture, parents also participated in some fun Q&A activities with the children and exchanged gifts. This activity not only allowed children to learn about Japanese holiday celebrations, but also provided them with a pleasant learning experience.

Conducting a guest classroom program provides a great opportunity for guests, parents and students alike to participate in the school's multicultural education with teachers and students. We look forward to the next guest lecture, let's continue to learn and explore together!

The students of G2 are exploring the theme of Signs and Symbols. Around the third inquiry clue "the design and expression of symbols and symbols", we invited professional designers，Mr.Lam and Ms.Aggie, two senior designers. Through the parent resources of the learner community, they taught the students professional design knowledge.

The class of parents is full of professionalism, inquiry and interest. The two designers shared many cases of signs and symbol design, and discussed with the children the related elements of signs and symbol s design. In combination with the coming sports meeting of PYP Department in our school, the children have designed the logo for the PYP sports meeting, which has won the professional guidance and the recognition from the designers.

In the G3 UOI class , we invited Ms.Monica who is Christine’s mom to have a parents’ class for children. Fashion design is a process of artistic creation. With the theme of 'The Birth of a piece of clothing', children knew how to make clothes and they were amazed that designing clothes was such a complicated and wonderful thing to do! Then the children also started the dress design activity under the guidance of Ms.Monica, they turned into a little dress designer to experience the real design process.

With their unique artistic perspectives and feelings, the children presented their inner world, real life experiences and endless imaginations in their designs. This not only enhanced the children's aesthetic skills, but also exercised their creative thinking. Thank you to Ms.Monica for supporting the children's agency and actively participating in building a community of learners.We hope the children take on the wings of art and go on to a wider world.

The theme for the fourth grade this year is advertising. We invited a guest who has rich experience in advertising design to bring us a class on creative advertising design. Our guest, Ms. Huang, told the children why creative advertising design is needed and showed them some interesting ads. Through careful observation and analysis of the elements and information in the ads, the children learned about the characteristics of creative advertising. 

Ms. Huang also taught the children six techniques that are commonly used in designing creative ads, and gave a small quiz. The children actively participated in the classroom interaction, raised their hands enthusiastically, and through thinking, guessed which creative techniques were used in our ads.Through this class, the children learned about the essence of advertising design and how to create creative ads. We are grateful to Ms. Huang, the advertising designer, and let us look forward to the next guest lecture together!

The fifth-grade students focused on the theme of "communication" in this unit, and conducted related classroom explorations around modern communication methods. The central idea is that different modern communication methods provide us with new ways to express our thoughts, creativity, and feelings. The exploration clues are different modern communication methods, how we use modern communication methods to express ourselves, and our responsibilities and rights when using modern technology.

With the progress of society and the rapid development of technology, new modern technologies and communication methods are emerging one after another. Today's guest classroom is hosted by teacher Zhai Dongfei, focusing on artificial intelligence "ChatGPT". Through group activities, students not only learn about this new modern technology, but also get hands-on experience communicating with "ChatGPT" and using it to solve practical problems in their daily lives, including interpersonal communication, daily life, travel consultation, and knowledge enhancement. This not only deepens students' understanding of artificial intelligence "ChatGPT", but also keeps them up to date with the latest developments, and enhances their collaboration and practical skills.

Mr. Lu Shouguo, the founder/design director of Dongyue Design, walked into the classroom and led the sixth grade students into the world of architecture and art. Mr. Lu led the children to appreciate Chinese and foreign architecture, and started from the basic structure of the building to understand the different styles, characteristics and design concepts of Chinese and Western architectural design. The students also learned about the Spanish architect Antonio Gaudí—this master drew inspiration from nature, and his bold fantasy formed a unique design style. 

Through appreciating and analyzing the architectural paintings of Chinese and foreign artists such as Van Gogh, Monet, Wu Guanzhong, etc., deepen the understanding of architectural art. Mr. Lu also taught the students some architectural design drawing skills, how to draw simple architectural design drawings through two-point perspective, and the students practiced on the spot. I believe this class is a visual enjoyment for the children, as well as a collision of art. Maybe one class can't change anything, but I hope it can plant a different seed in the hearts of the children, and maybe it will become a towering tree in the future. 

Mr. Wang Dawei, a professor of the English Department of Guangzhou University of Finance and Economics, has not lost his enthusiasm for education even though he is seventy years old. He brings a humorous English story class to children. This old teacher who has been teaching for more than 40 years has a simple and interesting classroom style, which makes the children immersed in the charm of language.

It turns out that English is so interesting, and it turns out that English can be learned in this way. The whole class is mainly interactive. Through humorous English stories, students' interest is fully aroused, so that every student can actively participate in it.

During the interactive process, students actively develop their thinking skills and expression skills. Encouraged by Teacher Wang, the students tried to tell humorous stories they knew in English. Some students even created humorous English stories on the spot, and some students shared the origin of their names... .Language is an art, speech are the clothes of thought. Small class, big energy. I hope every child can perceive the charm of language and become an expressive learner.