25 May 2018

Mandarin Monthly Update #9

Y1 – We have continued with our Mandarin standalone unit “Sharing the Planet” in Mandarin lessons. The central idea is “Plants and animals depend on each other for survival in the environments”. We will be learning how to keep ourselves healthy by making sensible choices for food and drinks both in school and at home.

Y2 – Students in Year Two have started to look at the festivals that we celebrate in Hong Kong. They will inquire about the customs and traditions of these festivals and share their own experiences of how these festivals are celebrated at home.

Y3 – Students in Year Three have continued with the unit 我的学校。They will focus on learning stationery vocabulary such as pencil, eraser, paper, ruler and etc. At the end of the unit, they should be able to use correct measure words for various stationery items.

Y4 – Students in Year Four have been learning 我长大了，门牙掉了。 At the end of this unit, they should be able to use …常常… ，…把… confidently in their own writing.

Y5 – Students will start the unit “Famous people in the world”. In this unit, they will learn 曹冲称象，小于连的故事，普林斯顿的老人，牛顿请客，李时珍和卓别林。They will have opportunities to write a story about one of their favourite book/movie characters and present it to the class.

Y6 – Students in Year Six have done a fantastic job in the exhibition unit. During Mandarin lessons, they have completed a wide range of tasks including slogans, banners, displays, posters, drama scripts, comics and many more. Well done!

Y2- We have finished about Body Parts unit. Children should be able to describe the person with 高，矮，胖，瘦。

Y3- We are working on “All About Me”. Children should be able to express orally a greeting, their last name, first name, age and family.

Y4- We are learning about our extended family in this topic.

Y5- We started our 3A 小学华文。 We are working on chapter two 懂事的丽文和咖喱真香。

Y6- Students in Year Six have started the standalone unit “Beijing Opera”

Y2- We have been learning about expressions related to feelings:开心，伤心，生气 etc。Students have been learning to sing a song about their feelings. We have also learned a song for Mother’s Day 母亲节。

Y3- We have been doing revision on 中文2 through different activities。Now we have started 中文3，the text：“雪”。We have been focusing on the structures and format of texts, besides vocabulary and story line.

Y4- We have been doing revision on 中文3 through different activities。Now we have just started with the text: 唐诗：绝句， in 中文4。

Y5- We have been reviewing the contents of “daily routine” and “hobbies” . They have also been involved in activities on Chinese readers of different levels.

Y6- After finishing their exhibition, the Y6 children continue working on their project which involves different revision activities as well as a lot of listening, speaking, reading and writing practice.

Getting organised for Mandarin lessons

If your child has been given a Mandarin folder (including textbooks, activity books and exercise books), she/he needs to bring it to every Mandarin lesson.

Home Learning

All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.
Home learning is now given out in the year group weekly update under the heading Home Learning. It is the responsibility of the students to check the weekly update and make sure that they finish their home learning before the due date.
The amount of home learning varies from class to class. It usually includes reading aloud, copying Chinese characters, writing sentences, reading storybooks, writing book reports etc. Some classes will have weekly written tasks while other classes may be given oral practice only.
Please let your teacher know if you have trouble completing your home learning on time.

Taking Care of Books

The replacement costs for books lost are as follows: