MYP1 November – January 2022 Overview

Homeroom
MYP1A
Teachers:
Michael Koran & Maggie Miao

MYP1B
Teachers:
Zachary Dwyer & Matthew Lu

ATL skills:

Self-Management—Affective Skills Self-Management—Reflection Skills Communication skill—Email etiquette
Help your child by: Communicate with them about their self-management skills and ask to see their emails to teachers for proper etiquette.

English Language and Literature

Teacher:

Ms. Lea

Unit Title: Challenging Authority

Concepts:
Key Concept: Change
Related Concepts: Point of view, Setting, Theme
ATL skills:
Communication, Self-management
Help your child by: Encourage your child to read every day for 20 minutes of texts of their choice and to complete 4 ReadTheory practices every week.

English Language Acquisition:

Teachers:

Michael Koran (Phase 1&2 ) Ran Zhao (Phase 4)
Kyle Jooste (Phase 5&6)

Unit Title: Stories

Concepts:
Key Concept: Creativity
Related Concepts: Message; word choice
ATL skills:
Communication
Help your child by: Check ManageBac/subject notebook for work completed and have a discussion about what they are learning. Encourage your child to read more stories in English at home and retell them. Talk to your child about his or her created summative story.

Individuals & Societies Teacher:
Mr. Dwyer

Unit Title: Maps
Concepts:
Key Concepts: Time, place, and space
Related Concept: Perspective
ATL skills:
Communication, Research, Thinking
Help your child by:

Having atlases, globes, and other mapping tools available at home.

Science
Teacher:
Maggie Miao

Unit Title: Cells
Concepts:
Key Concept: System
Related Concepts: Balance & Function & Models
ATL skills:
Communication Skills & Thinking skills
Help your child by:
Checking his/her student diary everyday
Reminding your children to finish his/her homework on time
Encourage him/her to read more science journal watch some science videos.

Mathematics

Teacher:

Jane Feng

Unit Title: Fractions: Human connections

Concepts: Logic

Key Concept: Quantity and Simplification
Related Concepts: Form

ATL skills:

Critical thinking skills
Communication skills
Help your child by:
Reminding them to keep an organized notebook and homework book;
Encouraging them to develop skills to take effective notes;
Reminding them to complete homework;
Encouraging them to do review after class;
Encouraging them to work on IXL;

Chinese Language Acquisition:

Teacher:

Carrie Quan

Phase 1

Unit Title: Me and My School

Concepts:
Key Concept: Communication
Related Concepts: Audience, Patterns

ATL skills:

Communication Skills, Self-management Skills, Social Skills
Help your child by:
Review key words, phrases and sentences relating to the chosen topic and apply these in real-life situations; Further enhance writing and reading skills in Chinese ; Practice Chinese character writing more.

Chinese Language Acquisition:

Teacher: Jasmin Sun

Phase 2

Unit Title: School Community
Concepts:
KC: Communication
RC: Audience, Pattern

Help your child by:
· Practice with your child to talk about countries, weather, season, color and dressing.
· Check understanding by asking some questions related to the notes on their Chinese exercise book.
· Encourage your kids to communicate with their peers in Chinese. A language partner would be really helpful.
· Ensure your children are able to finish their assessments and tasks on time. Please help to develop their self-management skills and balance their academic and leisure time.

Chinese Language Acquisition:

Teacher: Emma Yang

Phase 3-4

Unit Title: School Community
Concepts:
Key Concept: Communication
Related concepts: Function, Word choice
ATL skills: Communication

Help your child by:
1.Be an audience for their school tour on Open Day
2.Ask their vocabulary building each day
Be the interviewee about the XLIS admission requirements

Chinese Language and Literature Teachers: Momo Li &Matthew Lu

Unit Title: Knowing Nature Makes Us Know Ourselves Better
Concepts
Key Concept: Communication
Related Concepts: Purpose
ATL skills: Communication

Help your child by: Encourage the students to use appropriate and varied vocabulary, sentence structures and forms of expression.

Music Teacher:

Unit Title: Elements of Music
Concepts:
Key Concept: Development

Mr. Jonathan Lee Ching

Related Concepts: Composition, Structure, Interpretation, Style
ATL skills: Communication skills

Help your child by:
Encourage your children to listen to various styles of music such as: Renaissance, Baroques, Classical, Romantic, Modern, Jazz, Pop (which will be covered in class) and various other sub-genres. Discuss why you think different eras brought forth different styles of music in human history. You might also like to share your favourite music with your children and try to find out more about their favourite music too.

Design

Teacher:

Hae young Chung

Unit Title: Applied Art, Design and Media
Concepts:
Key Concept: Culture
Related Concepts: Perspective, visual culture
ATL skills: Research, Communication

Help your child by: Appreciating the heritage and variety of other cultures; get to know the development background of our own national items and festive decorations. Sharing experiences of and between different cultures or nationalities, and raise multicultural awareness.

Visual Art

Teacher:

Ms. Sanaz

Unit Title:
Elements of Art Through Self Portrait
Concepts
Key Concept:
Identity
Related Concepts:
Composition, Expression
ATL skills:
Communication

Help your child by:
Engage in conversations about what you SEE everyday. It could be architecture, graphics on television, newspaper layout with text and image, car designs, colors that are used that affect our behaviors in advertisements, forms we encounter, and of course art that we experience online or in a book. Also take your student to museums and galleries. Please have them practice their drawing skills in a sketchbook as much as possible. Have them take photographs with their phones. Get them to keep a diary or personal journal for ideas and feelings.

Service as Action

Teacher:

Hakim Halim

Unit Title: Self-Initiated Service as Action Activities
Concepts: N/A
ATL skills:
Self-management, Thinking, Social, Communication
Help your child by:
Support your child with their self-initiated activities in school or outside of school by supervising them and make sure that they have enough resources to support their activities.

Physical and Health Education

Teacher:

Hakim Halim

Unit Title: Invasion Games: Basketball: Dare to Dunk!
Concepts:
Key Concepts: Communication
Related Concepts: Adaptation, Interaction
ATL skills:
Communication Skills: Exchanging thoughts, messages and information effectively through interaction (Give and receive meaningful feedback, Reading, writing and using language to gather and communicate information, Make inferences and draw conclusions, Preview and skim texts to build understanding, Take effective notes in class, Organize and depict information logically, Structure information in summaries, essays and reports.
Research: Information literacy skills (Finding, interpreting, judging and creating information,
Access information to be informed and inform others, Make connections between various sources of information, Collect and analyse data to identify solutions and make informed decisions, Use critical literacy skills to analyse and interpret media communications).
Help your child by:
Encourage your child to take part in any sporting event that could help them to apply the knowledge that they have learnt during the lessons.