First Grade Mandarin – Third Trimester (2018 – 2019)
Chinese Language Arts
We will focus on one topic unit within 5-8 school days. All the students will be given the vocabulary charts and leveled reading materials to review at home. By the end of each topic, students will be able to:
- Recognize and understand about 10 topic-related vocabularies
- Read and write 6-8 topic-related characters
- Read 1-2 topic-related texts
- Build sentences with the target sentence structures
- Create the graphic organizers to show their understanding of the topics
- Write a topic-related short paragraph about their own ideas
- Perform sentence substitutions with the target sentence structures
- Perform basic conversations about the topics
By the end of this trimester, students will be able to:
Listening/Speaking
- Understand high-frequency Chinese vocabularies in context, with the assistance of pictures, gestures or any other visual supports
- Describe people, places, items and events with phrases or sentences with details
- Ask and answer questions with the targeted sentence patterns and words
- Produce complete topic-related sentences with standard grammar
- Participate in the peer-to-peer conversations about the learned topics in class
Reading
- Identify the topic-related vocabularies
- Ask and answer the questions about the details in the text
- Realize the fluency in the text written in patterned sentences
- Retell the story
- Tell the main ideas, purposes, settings, characters, and organizations of the text
Writing
- Write the learned characters in the correct stroke orders
- Spelling the high frequency characters
- Label the provided pictures or objects with phrases
- Write topic-related short paragraphs expressing the students’ own ideas
- Complete basic narrative, opinion, descriptive and sequence writing with the learned vocabularies and sentence patterns
Math
- Module 3: Ordering and Comparing Length Measurements as Numbers
- Engage NY Module 5: Identifying, Composing, and Partitioning Shapes
- Engage NY Module 6: Addition and Subtraction to 100
- Money and time
Religion
- Easter
Social Studies
- National Symbols Worldwide
- Needs and wants
- Oceans and Continents
- Environmental Protection
- Spend and savings
- Being good citizens
Science
- Healthy Diet
- Habitats
- Earth Day
- The sky
- Living and non-living things