MYP2 August – October 2022 Overview

Homeroom MYP2A & MYP2B

Teachers:
M2A: Ms. Momo and Mr. Welch M2B: Mrs Challenor and Ms. Sunny

ATL skills:

Self-Management—Affective Skills Self-Management—Reflection Skills Communication skill—Email etiquette
Help your child by: Encouraging your child to use their XLIS diary daily at school every week.

English Language and Literature

Teacher:

Ms. Lea

Unit Title: Our Minds, Our World: Short Stories Concepts:
Key Concepts: Perspective
Related Concepts: Character, Point of View, Theme

ATL skills:

Communication, Thinking

Help your child by:

Encouraging your child to turn off the screen and to read a book of their choice for at least 20 minutes every night.

English Language Acquisition:

Teachers:

Michael Koran (Phase 1&2)) Ran Zhao (Phase 3&4)
Kyle Jooste (Phase 5&6)

Unit Title: Our Lives and Our Stories

Concepts:
Key Concepts: Connections
Related Concepts: Message, Word choice, Audience, Point of view
ATL skills:
Thinking skills & Self Management.
Help your child by: Encouraging your child to read books daily and checking ManageBac regularly.

Individuals & Societies Teachers: Eva Liu

Unit Title: Globalisation and Sustainable Energy Concepts:
Key Concept: Change
Related Concepts: Globalisation, choice

ATL skills: Research and Communication
Help your child by:
Share with your child what your life was like when the world was not as connected as today. Discuss what some of the major changes are due to globalisation and the impacts they have (both positive and negative) on your lives and on the society. Identify activities at home that uses the most resources (I.e. water, electricity, natural gas, gasoline) and see if there are ways to adopt a more energy efficient life-style.

Science

Teacher:

Maggie Miao

Unit Title: Community
Concepts: Key Concept: Relationship
Related Concepts: Interaction & Balance ATL skills:

Communication skills
Self-management skills
Help your child by:
Encourage them to complete their Homework on time

Discuss about the Population change around the world
Encourage them to read more science books and watch some science videos

Encourage them to review what they have learned in class

Mathematics

Teacher:

Jane Feng

Unit Title: Ratios and proportions: competition and cooperation
Concepts: Key Concepts: Logic

Related Concepts: Equivalence, Quantity and Simplification
ATL skills:
Organization skills

Affective 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

Chinese Language Acquisition:

Teacher:
Jasmin Sun(Phase1/2)

Unit Title: People Around Me Concepts:

Key concept: Connections Related concepts: Form, Function ATL skills:
Communication Skills

Help your child by:

Check their understanding by asking them some questions related to the notes on their Chinese exercise book.
Encourage your kids to introduce themselves in Chinese Language. Encourage them to include these information: name, age, birthday, their zodiac, family members, hobbies, telephone numbers

Chinese Language Acquisition: Level:
(Phase 3/5/6)

Teacher:

Carrie Qian

Unit Title: People Around Me
Concepts:
Key Concept: Connections
Related Concepts: Purpose, Context
ATL skills: Thinking and Communication Skills Self-management and Collaboration Skills Help your child by

Checking their understanding by asking them some questions related to the notes on their Chinese exercise book.

Encourage your child to introduce themselves in Chinese Language.

Chinese Language Literature: Teacher: Momo Li & Matthew Lu

Unit Title: The Old Memories of Beijing Concepts:
KC: Perspective
RC: Character, Genres

ATL skills: Communication, Thinking and Self- management skills
Help your child by:
Read the assigned literature work and take reading notes, forming good reading habit Purchase all the books (intensive and extensive reading books) and read based on the schedule given

Enhance self-management skills, time management skills, meeting deadlines Cultivating critical thinking and creative thinking skills through reading, analyzing and writing

Music
Teacher:
Mr. Jonathan Lee Ching

Unit Title: Soundtrack to My Life
Concepts:
Key Concept: Identity
Related Concepts: Expression, Representation 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: Make Changes to Become More Sustainable
Concepts:
Key Concepts: Change, Development Related Concepts: Sustainability

ATL skills:

Research, Information literacy skills, Media literacy skills, Interacting with media to use and create ideas and information, Thinking
Help your child by:
Research existing products that are solving global problems with your child and link them to the UN Global goals. Have discussions about the UN SDGs.
Help them enhance their writing skills by checking the MYP command terms for design in their Design process journal.
Ask your children about the Design Cycle and what does it mean.

Visual Art

Teachers:

Ms. Sanaz

Unit Title: Learning of elements of Art (Visual Arts Foundation) through various Art mediums & practices
Concepts:

Key Concepts: Aesthetics, Change,
Related Concepts: Communication, Identity
ATL skills:
Thinking skills
Social skills
Communication skills
Help your child by – let your child visit as many art fairs, galleries and museums. Expose them to various art forms and literature: novels, music, concerts, dance, theatre, cinema, photography and more, with local and international artists that enlarges their experience.

Service as Action Teacher:
Hakim Halim

Unit Title: Self-Initiated Service as Action Activities

Physical and Health Education

Teacher:

Hakim Halim

Unit Title: General Games: Whenever, Wherever Concepts: Change, Space, Adaptation
ATL skills:
Research, Thinking

Help your child by – Take part in performing a modify training plan to improve sports-specific skills that your child will be working on for their assessments