Class Group: M4 Period: Aug-Oct
Homeroom |
ATL skills: Self-Management—Affective Skills Self-Management—Reflection Skills Communication skill—Email etiquette Help your child by: Schedule weekly or monthly talk with your kids, make sure they are emotionally healthy and academically on target. Help them plan time wisely at home and assume responsibilities when possible. |
English Language and Literature Teachers: Mrs Challenor |
Unit Title: Unknown knowns: Exploration of Fairy Tales and Folktales Concepts: The exchange or transfer of signals, facts, ideas and symbols. It requires a sender, a message and an intended receiver. Communication involves the activity of conveying information or meaning. Effective communication requires a common ‘language’ (which may be written, spoken or non- verbal). Related Concepts: Audience imperatives, Genres, Purpose ATL skills: Communication: • Exchanging thoughts, messages and information effectively through interaction • Reading, writing and using language to gather and communicate information Self-Management:
• Utilizing skills and knowledge in multiple contexts Help your child by: Talk to your child about the library book they are reading. Check in on them while they are doing their homework and encourage them to read for pleasure every day. |
Korean Language and Literature Teacher: Keon |
Unit Title: Developing Identity Concepts: ATL skills: Help your child by: Encouraging them to explore the text using concepts about literature and text |
English Language Acquisition: Teachers: |
Unit Title: Is my identity my brand? Concepts: ATL skills: Research and Thinking Help your child by:
English as much as possible 3. Reading every night |
Individuals & Societies |
Unit Title: Unequal Global Interactions Concepts: ATL skills: Thinking • Use brainstorming and visual diagrams to generate new ideas Communication
• Create plans to prepare for summative assessments Research • Locate, organize, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources • Create references and citations, use footnotes/endnotes to construct a bibliography according to recognized conventions Help your child by: • Encouraging your child to read non-fiction texts at home • Checking your child’s student diary for I&S homework • Checking your child’s notebook to see evidence of his or her writing from class |
Science |
Unit Title: Atom theory: model and pattern Concepts: ATL skills: Communication − Exchanging thoughts, messages and information effectively through interaction • Use appropriate forms of writing for different purposes and audience • Negotiate ideas and knowledge with peers and teachers. − Reading, writing and using language to gather and communicate information • Make inferences and draw conclusions • Use and interpret a range of discipline-specific terms and symbols. Research − Information literacy skills Finding interpreting, judging and creating information
• Process data and report results Help your child by: • Encouraging them to read some science books and watch some interesting science videos both at school and at home. • Checking their homework regularly and make sure they finish with high quality. • Giving guidance and feedback to their science project and reports. |
Mathematics Teachers: Sky Du |
Unit Title: Number Sense(Set Theory and Exponents ) Concepts: ATL skills: Communication o I. Communication skills ▪ Exchanging thoughts, messages and information effectively through interaction • Use intercultural understanding to interpret communication ▪ Reading, writing and using language to gather and communicate information • Use and interpret a range of discipline-specific terms and symbols • Organize and depict information logically Self-management ▪ Managing time and tasks effectively • Use appropriate strategies for organizing complex information Research Thinking ▪ Analyzing and evaluating issues and ideas • Draw reasonable conclusions and generalizations Help your child by: Encourage your kids to read math books as well, check their understanding by asking questions from their notebook. Make sure they complete the homework on time with quality. |
Chinese Language Acquisition: Teacher: |
Phase 3-4 Concepts: ATL Skills: Communication Skill: Make effective summary notes for studying Research Skill: Make connections between various sources of information Help Your Child By: • Check their understanding by asking them some questions related to the notes on their Chinese exercise book. • Encouraging them to talk about Home, Neighbour, Community by using all the Chinese new words we have learned in class. • Encourage your kids to communicate with Chinese people outside of school. A language partner would be really helpful. |
Chinese Language and Literature Teacher : Momo Li& Matthew Lu |
Unit Title: Exploration into Essay Concepts: Self-management skills: Reflection skills: – (Re-)considering the process of learning; choosing and using ATL skills -Identify strengths and weaknesses of personal learning strategies (self-assessment) -Demonstrate flexibility in the selection and use of learning strategies -Try new ATL skills and evaluate their effectiveness Help your child by the study of a series of essay, understanding the how the essay is produced and what is the feature of that genre; Analyzing language using and other elements, discussing the purpose of essay, and how to effectively achieve the purpose of the method, exploring how authors use essay to document ideas in life and express their values. |
Music Teachers: |
Unit Title: Does Music Have a Story to Tell? Concepts: ATL skills: • Information literacy skills: Collect, record and verify data. Analyze music to determine purpose and function of compositions • Media literacy skills: Compare, contrast and draw connections among (multi)media resources Help your child by: Encouraging reinforcement of musical notation recognition via musictheory.net. Also encourage practice on their instrument for upcoming performances. |
Design |
Unit Title: Design a Portfolio to Showcase your Best work Concepts: KC: Communication ATL skills: 1. Communication • I. Communication skills information effectively through interaction 2.
▪ Participate in, and contribute to, digital social media networks ▪ Share ideas with multiple audiences using a variety of digital environments and media Research VI. Information literacy skills
▪ Make connections between various sources of information
o Finding, interpreting, judging and creating information o Interacting with media to use and create ideas and information ▪ Locate, organize, analyse, evaluate, synthesise and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media (including digital social media and online networks) ▪ Demonstrate awareness of media interpretations of events and ideas (including digital social media) ▪ Make informed choices about personal viewing experiences ▪ Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats Help your child by: – Making sure they archive all of their school/ external projects. If it is in a physical form, taking professional photos of it will help them to display their work on their e-portfolio. – 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: Tracy Shi |
Unit 1 Title: Illustration Fundamentals: How to Create a Digital Portrait Concepts: ATL skills: Self-management ____________________ Unit 2 Title: Inside/ Outside: Landscape (Real & Unseen) Concepts: ATL skills: Communication, Research Help your child by: Support your student by talking with them about what they find visually meaningful around them. Talk about important things you both see on television, in the movies, magazines, at the store, and the world around you both. Help them go over and create a time-management plan to make sure they have enough time to meet all upcoming deadlines without become overly stressed. Talk to them about and ask them to show you the artworks they are creating for this class. |
Service as Action Teachers: Hakim Halim |
Unit Title: Self-Initiated Service as Action Activities Concepts: N/A ATL skills: Self-management: Plan long term and short term goals, set goals that are challenging and realistic, plan strategies and take action to achieve personal and academic goals. Thinking: Analysing and evaluating issues and ideas Social: Working collaboratively with others, practice empathy, take responsibility for one own’s actions Communication: Exchanging thoughts, messages and information effectively through interactions 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: Kevin McGarry |
Unit Title: Building Resilience – The Power of Your Mind Concepts: ATL skills: Self-management (affective skills): Practice being aware of body–mind connections Help your child by: Asking them to demonstrate one of the sport psychology strategies they’ve learned and how it can be used in school life. They could choose values, mantras, positive self- talk or visualization. |