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Ms. Wang is the first grade Chinese teacher. She likes to tell stories to students. Here is a blog post she wrote:
Young faces, rising voices, enthusiastic hand movements. All of these show their happy and enriched childhoods, increased interest in reading, and improved speaking and presentation skills.

A childhood without reading is a dry one.
A childhood [...]

After hearing Ron Song say that he wanted to do an experiment that involved throwing eggs from the second story, I immediately envisioned a ground littered with yellow cracked eggs.  More than a little suspicious about the idea, I asked, “You sure this will work?”  To my surprise, he replied back confidently, “It’ll work.”  And [...]

For the Guan Ai 4th graders’ lesson on masted ships, Teacher Sun decided that the best way to learn about how masted ships function, students should build their own boats and find a way to make them work. The 4th grade Chinese language text required students to know the vocabulary of a masted ship’s parts, [...]

If Guan Ai’s 4th Grade class is considered the smartest group of students at the school, then Teacher Sun, their language and science instructor, deserves immense credit for providing her students with a rich, engaging curriculum.
Earlier this week I visited a language classroom of another teacher at another school. The lesson consisted of students first [...]