LOTE
Happy Year of the Rabbit! Welcome to Term One! We trust you have enjoyed the break with your family and have had opportunities to build incredible memories together. Speaking of which, we would like to welcome Mrs Allie Ding to join the 2023 Language teaching team. Mrs Ding will be taking the role of Foundation to Year Two Language teacher. We are all very excited to have her in our school.
Below is the message from Mrs Ding;
‘Hello everyone, my name is Qianchunsan or you can call me Allie. This is my first-year teaching at Glen Waverley Primary School. I love implementing music into the Mandarin program so you will often see me singing and dancing in the classroom. I hope that we could have an enjoyable time together.’
Prep
In this term, Preps will be introduced to some cultural background knowledge and greeting sentences in Chinese, including ‘How are you?’, ‘I'm fine’, and the numbers zero to ten. Students will participate in a variety of classroom activities, such as Chinese character colouring, singing, dancing, and group games. Students will develop an interest in learning Mandarin and gain communication skills through classroom practice.
Year 1
In Term One, students continue to explore Mandarin topics about family members. We will use a certain amount of everyday language in a variety of classroom activities, such as ‘Thank you’, ‘You're welcome’, ‘Sorry’ and ‘Never mind’. Students will be able to use more complete sentences to introduce their family members in conversations. At the end, in connection with the previous numbers learning, they will be able to create their own family posters as a way of reviewing what they have learnt.
Year 2
Year Two students will focus on learning how to introduce themselves in Chinese. This will include topics such as family, colours and fruit. Students will express the preferences of different family members and other topics by using likes and dislikes. Also, they will learn how to greet each other at different times of the day. At the end of the study, students will create a poster to introduce themselves.
Year 3
The Year Three, students will focus on learning the Chinese Zodiac this term. They will not only learn to describe the Zodiac calendar in Chinese but also explore the legends and traditions of the Chinese Zodiac. In addition, students will be expected to converse about the Zodiac sign in Chinese as oral speaking practice. They will design a bilingual poster about the Chinese Zodiac calendar to summarise their learning.
Year 4
This term, students in Year Four will focus on describing the weather in Mandarin. They will compare and contrast structural differences and similarities in sentences between Mandarin and English. Students will learn to tell seasons orally and create casual conversations about the weather with the new vocabulary. By the end of the term, they will be given the opportunity to conduct a virtually simulated world weather forecast with their peers.
Year 5
Students in Year Five will develop the ability to use complex sentence structures in Chinese to introduce their daily outfit. To deepen their cultural knowledge and understanding, students will explore traditional Chinese costumes and national ethnic costumes along with information about history and culture. They will be given the opportunity to present their inquiry study in front of the whole class.
Year 6
This term, the study will cover the vocabulary and sentences required for students to describe and give information about Chinese food, its history and culture. Students will be given a learning opportunity to inquire about the eight major cuisines in China and investigate which cuisines are popular in Australia and other countries, and why. At the end of the term, they will create a virtual presentation to showcase their learning.
How can you support your child’s Language Education learning at home?
- Sing or exposure to Chinese Songs for gaining interest in language
- Practice writing Chinese characters via App “Writer”
- Borrow bilingual Chinese story books from school library or local library