Listening to this exciting aerospace story, the dream of flying to the sky in China was planted in the heart of the students from BMH. In Chinese Immersion Week, the students centered on "Aerospace" as the learning theme and through various forms of rich activities, they enlightened their wisdom and built a dream.
With the history of China’s aerospace, our school’s first secretary, Ms. Xiong, young party member representatives, Mr. Feng, and Mr. Zhao used collective lectures to tell students of different stages of the development of the country’s aerospace industry. Through the lectures, the students carried forward the spirit of spaceflight and made continuous efforts to realize their ideals in the future.
The picture book, "Our Stars and the Sea", led our P1 students on a space-time travel machine: dreaming back to Tang dynasty and getting to know of the world’s earliest fire-jet weapon-rocket; the world’s first animal to enter space by spacecraft - Aerospace dog "Lycra". Under the leadership of the P1 teachers, students focused on Chinese learning such as literacy and children's poem reading.
Under the guidance of P2 teachers , the children in P2 learned about the Chinese people’s unchanging exploration spirit of the universe with the help of colorful fairy tales. They became space heroes by watching videos and reading the deeds of astronauts.
The P3 space journey unfolded in the aroma of delicious food and romantic starry imagination: experiencing "space planting", making "space food", and drawing a space galaxy map. Accompanied by their teachers, they watched the romantic fantasy of the ancients about the constellations in the sky.
In combination with writing teaching, the senior Chinese teachers further enhanced the students' knowledge with learning based on space topics, and led the students to write on topics with distinctive characteristics of the times, such as home country feelings, hometown changes, personal growth, etc.
Ms. Cai and Mr. Feng led P4 students to write greetings to those who have made contributions to the Chinese space industry with sincere brushstrokes.
Ms. Ji and Ms. Zhang led P5 and P6 to study together, discussing the topic of “Based in Shenzhen, Exploring the Future City” and thinking about how young students can contribute to the development of the city and the progress of the country.
The library team designed the "Space Treasure Hunt" theme reading activity under the leadership of Ms.Liang. Based on the reading clues provided by the teacher, the children searched for signals from space in the rich collection of books.
If the study of the humanities has inspired the students' yearning and philosophical thinking about space exploration, then the collaborative teaching of science and engineering and art and sports has opened the door for students to practise, explore and seek truth.
Under the guidance of our school’s teachers of science and engineering such as mathematics, physics and chemistry and the strong support of VGCC, students of all ages have used hands and brains, and have become "aerospace scientists" and "engineers" through experiments and reflections.
In the art and design class, Ms.Fang and Ms. Zhou led the children to turn their imagination of the vast universe into reality through various flat and three-dimensional works through rich sensory materials.
Perhaps, for many BMH students who are still in their childhood and adolescence, China's aerospace experience may be a topic far from their own lives. However, through continuous learning, children can know the "Zhu Rong" to Mars; they can design their own spacecraft and send them to the planet they want to explore through imagination; they can cut into the big society with small topics. This year's Chinese Immersion Week was short, but we believe that such a Chinese dream of striving for a down-to-earth starry sky has been planted in the hearts of children. We look forward to it thriving, under the nourishment of knowledge and years, in the children's future life paths.
The power of the new generation, just like the morning sun, is rising. For what happens in the the next new era, we will have to wait and see!
