WAB China Studies Department (2020/2021) ES Chinese New Year Celebration To continue the traditional of celebrating the Chinese New Year via a series of cultural activities, the EY will have jiaozi making, Chinese traditional games, paper cutting, calligraphy, lantern making and Chinese tangram puzzle board cards making this time. EY UOI: How We Express Ourselves Day trips to 798 Art Area, where students did treasure hunts to observe paintings, sculptures and art displays to explore the connection of arts and human expressions. EY UOI: How We Express Ourselves Chinese culture artworks exhibition at EY building Chinese Calligraphy workshops on March 12 Planning Day Trip to 798 Art Area ES Students Celebrating Chinese New Year without a temple fair Students will do many types of cultural learning to celebrate the Chinese New Year within their classes. SG1: How We Express Ourselves Mr. Crook shared the WAB history and WAB story for students to learn about WAB. Junior Grade 1: Friday, Sept. 18th Students are learning the Unit of Who We Are, they visited the Chinese Five Elements Exhibition and did the activities to learn how Chinese people see the world. ES Languages Moon Festival Celebration Friday, Sept. 25; Monday, Sept. 28, Tuesday, Sept. 29 Chinese auspicious symbols and moon cake model design workshop Grade 1 UOI: How the World Works Inquire about light: Shadow Puppet Show at ES on campus for students to learn and practice. Grade 1 UOI: Where We Are in Place and Time – By sharing our stories we can connect to other people. Mr. Michael Crook did a presentation to G 1 students and shared the WAB founding stories at the old factory. Grade 3 UOI: How the World Works Transdisciplinary theme: How the world works An inquiry into the natural world and its laws; the interaction between the natural world (physical and biological) and human societies; how humans use their understanding of scientific principles; the impact of scientific and technological advances on society and on the environment. Central idea: The surface of the earth has formed over time and is still changing. Grade 3 UOI: Sharing the Planet Human behavior and natural events affect the balance an ecosystem Field trips coming up for students to explore Heiqiao Park where via re-allocation of villages, a national park with eco-system balance was created for the people nearby. Trip dry runs are done, will do the trip next year. Organic farmers will be invited to WAB to share their experience of organic farming, while a trip to the Organic Farmer Market is in the planning stage. Grade 4 Day Trip for UOI Monday to Friday, Oct. 19 to 23 In combination of two UOIs, a new field trip is developed this year for G 4 students to learn in the real world about sustainable development and environmental protection. Visit Velux. Grade 4 UOI: How the World Works - The design and constructions of structures is dependent on many factors. Day Trip Planning to visit: Water Cube, Bird Nest, Parkview Green, Drum and Bell Tower. Grade 4 UOI: How the World Works - Designs and constructions of structures dependent on many factors. Students will visit Water Cube, Olympic Museum and the outskirt of Bird Nest. Grade 5 Visited Chinese Five Elements Exhibition Tuesday, Oct. 6th All five Grade 5 homerooms came to the ES lobby to learn about the Five Elements. They were divided into 3 small groups to rotate among three workshops to learn about the Chinese Five Elements from different aspects. Grade 5 China Studies Guandi Village Residential Trip Wednesday-Friday, Oct. 14th-Oct.16th All Grade 5 students will join the Guandi Village trip for three days to engage with Chinese local community with WAB Mission as the trip focus. Grade 5 PYP Exhibition New Day Trip planning to visit the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art New Day Trip planning to visit the Red Brick Art Museum Grade 5 PYP Exhibition. The Red Brick Art Museum Visit, April 15th, 16th Students will explore the design and planning of how to display an exhibition. Grade 5: Performing Arts Biegu drum performance preparation with Chinese expert New Project：Bring the Outside World In Grade 4 UOI Exhibition at WAB In combination of two UOIs, a new museum style exhibition is developed this year for G 4 students to learn about the Beijing city development. The location is ES Lobby. The contents include a big map of Beijing 1949, and lots of data from Beijing City Planning Museum. This is the new project this year to try to bring the outside resource into WAB when students cannot go on day trips to visit various museums in this special time. New Project：Bring the Outside World In Grade 4 UOI: Who We Are Central Idea: Our body relies on interdependent systems to function properly. China Studies will set up three workshops at ES campus for Grade 4 students to learn and explore: Chinese Tea Culture; Traditional Chinese Medicine; Chinese Taiji, all led by China Studies staff and experts. New Project: Bring the Outside World In Grade 5 Performing Arts UOI: How We Express Ourselves Learning Chinese National Tangible Cultural Heritage “Beige Drumming” Grade 9 students group initiated this project and recommended it to Grade 5. Grade 5 students are learning it and will perform this at the WS assembly. New ES Exhibition for Multi-Grade Levels: SG1, G 3, G 4 and G 5. Theme: Sustainable Development The exhibition includes grand date of China Development, and a special focus on the sustainable development of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Online Learning New China Engagement Initiative China Engagement Online Teaching for three weeks for ES Week 1 and 2: EY: 12 Zodiacs JG1: 12 Zodiacs and Chinese gongfu SG1: Chinese Spring Festival - customs and celebrations Level 1 Grade 2: Chinese Spring Festival - customs and celebrations Level 2 Grade 3 Chinese auspicious symbols Grade 4 Chinese Tea Culture Grade 5 China World Heritage “Biegu” learning. Week 3: EY: Chinese Lantern Festival Legend JG1: Chinese Lantern Festival Legend, and Lantern Festival Celebrations SG1: Chinese Zodiacs and Lantern Festival Grade 2: Chinese Spring Festival - customs and celebrations Level 2 Grade 3 Chinese Lantern Festival customs and lantern riddles Level 1 Grade 4 Chinese Lantern Festival customs and lantern riddles Level 2 MS MS Students Celebrating Chinese New Year without a temple fair Students will do many types of cultural learning to celebrate the Chinese New Year within their classes. MS Chinese Language Thursday, Sept. 24th Beijing Youth Daily and WAB Branch Project MS Students journalists did two training with Beijing Youth Daily Editors. MS Chinese Language Beijing Youth Daily and WAB Branch Project Going Well. This month, two programs will be published. MS students Making Moon Cakes Monday, Sept. 28 117 students MS students participated in the moon cake making during Chinese Language time. MS: MS Students Science trip to Zoology Museum Students of all three grade levels joined the science trip to China Science Academy Zoology Museum led by Chinese scientists with hands on experience, such as dissecting insects and making specimens of samples. New China Engagement Unit: MS Grade 6 PHE Classes and Lion Dance: Starting from Nov. 18th, all Grade 6 PHE students will start a new unit on Lion Dance for three weeks. Grade 6 PE finished their Lion Dance Unit and students learned quite a lot about the tradition and each group performed their own lion dance performance for the assessment. New China Engagement Initiative Grade 6 Drama Planning on a two-day shadow puppet workshop on campus for G 6 drama. Planning on a shadow puppet exhibition at HUB for G 6 drama Grade 6 Performing Art: Shadow Puppet Exhibition and Workshop A special shadow puppet group will set up a two-day workshop at WAB, working with G 6 students together to learn about this cultural heritage. Students will develop their own plays based on the learning. New Project Bring the Outside World In Grade 7 PE New Unit: Planning to learning Chinese Powerful Drumming and Dragon Boat competition For the first time, Grade 7 PE students will learn Chinese Powerful Drumming Dance and Chinese Dragon Boat Competition on campus for China Engagement. New China Engagement Initiative Grade 7 PHE Grade 7 PE students will learn Chinese Powerful Drumming Dance and Chinese Dragon Boat Competition on campus for China Engagement. Planning in progress, starting from May 2021. Grade 7 PE: Chinese Drumming Students will start a new unit on Chinese Powerful Drumming, which is China National Intangible Cultural Heritage. MS Grade 8 PHE Classes and Taiji: Monday, Sept. 14th to Oct. 9th Students followed the Taiji Master and studies 24 styles of Taiji Martial Art duiring their PHE classes for three weeks, some students did a Taiji performance at the WS National Day and Moon Festival Assembly. Grade 8 Humanities: “China Studies and Me” Unit Students did trip research, planning, background knowledge inquiring and interviews to learn about China Studies Residential Trips. New China Engagement Initiative Grade 8 English “China Studies and Me” unit, Students’ trip planning, background knowledge inquiring and interviews. New Day 9 Initiatives for MS PE: Dragon Boat Racing at WAB Learning with Chinese professionals at Duck Lake Science: Working with China Science Academy Led by China Science Academy researchers, students visited China Zoology Museum with hands on experience of insect dissection and sample making, exploring nature at Olympic Forest Park. Drama and Acrobatic: Led by Chinese Acrobatic Experts Students enjoyed a full learning and practicing session of juggling hats, balls, plates, sticks and hulas. WAB MS Branch of Beijing Student Press Association, Beijing Youth Daily Our WAB student journalists have done quite a lot of learning of journalism with Beijing Youth Daily experts and did a lot of interviews and writing to publish their work, including Duck Lake Interview with Mr.