Thank You and Springtime Updates

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to all the parents involved in our PTCs. It has been a pleasure connecting with you, and your support is vital to our children's Chinese learning.

In March, we continued our exploration of the Unit of Inquiry "Sharing the Planet" by focusing on environmental protection. Through the storybook "幼儿环保翻翻书“ (Environmental Protection Flip Book), the children learned about practical measures we can take in our daily lives to help preserve our environment. 




During small group sessions, they engaged in an online game that taught them how to sort recyclable materials. 




The following week, we deepened their understanding of recycling by reading "资源回收真好玩“ (Recycling Fun) and discussing the recycling systems in Hong Kong, including the colors of various recycling bins. 





Later on, in small groups, the children practiced sorting recyclable materials into the correct bins based on color.




As we welcomed the season of Spring, the children inquired about its characteristics through the story "春天" (Springtime). They discussed changes in nature and how animals, plants, and humans adapt to this beautiful season. 




Additionally, the children created cupcake holder flowers to enhance their vocabulary about plants. 




To further our inquiry into animal growth during Spring, we explored the growth of frogs through "999个青蛙兄弟的春天“ (999 Frog Brothers' Springtime). 




The children were excited to make their own tadpoles using markers and ceramic spoons, watching them "swim" in water.




All the theme-related stories and songs have been attached to the K2 Learning Slide, serving as a valuable resource for you to reinforce the language with your children at home.

We update our Chinese albums weekly, which provide a fantastic tool for encouraging your child to share what they have been learning on Chinese days. Please take some time to review the album with your child.

With Easter approaching, I wish you all a joyful Easter and a relaxing term break holiday!

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to me at joey.zhao@hillside.edu.hk.


Class Blog: 


Turtle



Chinese Albums:


Turtle AM                 Turtle PM



Chinese Learning Slide： 


K2 Chinese learning slide

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Taking Action in the Early Years

Image
  Dear Turtle Class Families, We have continued to inquire into Causation and Responsibility in regard to taking care of our planet Earth. The children were asked the following question, "Where does all of our rubbish go?" We were very impressed with some of the children's prior knowledge who responded with, "A dumpsite!" We explored how lots of our rubbish cannot be recycled and therefore it is sent to a landfill, which can be a problem for our planet Earth. We watched a small clip from the Disney movie Wall-E, which also highlighted the importance of recycling and caring for our planet.  These are some funny clips from the movie too: The class then explored a variety of other ways in which we can help take care of our planet. Reading  The Earth Book  story written by Todd Parr, gave us lots to discuss and think about. Through a number of recycling activities in class, the children were able to revisit and transfer the knowledge gained in our previous unit of i...
Read more

How We Express Ourselves

Image
Welcome back to our final Term in the Turtle Class! It only feels like yesterday when the Turtle Class transitioned into their new K2 learning space from the K1 Dolphin Class!  We are looking forward to a fun-filled Term 3 together. This week, we began tuning into our new unit of inquiry - 'How We Express Ourselves (HWEO). This unit's central idea will focus on the following: "People can express their imagination and ideas in different ways."  On Thursday, we received a very special gift from a famous story character named Jack from the Jack and the Beanstalk story. Jack gifted us some magic beans, which we plan to plant and eagerly await our very own giant beanstalks to grow! Please note that we will now begin uploading photographs and videos into our new unit of inquiry Google Photo Albums, which can be found below: AM Class HWEO PM Class HWEO
Read more

Sharing The Planet (STP)

Image
 Dear Turtle Class Families, We are in full swing of our current unit of inquiry (UOI) - Sharing The Planet (STP), which the class have been thoroughly enjoying! To find out more about this unit please see a recent blog post from Brenda, our PYP Coordinator, HERE . One of our Learner Profile attributes that we will be exploring further in this unit is how to be effective inquirers, from using technology to exploring outside, asking questions and using books to help us search for answers to our wondering. The class became aware that there are different types of books in our school library - Fictional texts and Non-Fictional texts. The Turtle Class have been using more non-fiction texts to help us gain new knowledge about nature and the world around us.      We also enjoyed a walk along Bowen Road last week, where the class had the opportunity to experience our co-existence with nature. We had some great discussions about what we saw, heard, smelt and felt during our e...
Read more