Welcome to the Middle! Courses w/o Choices Courses with Choices - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Welcome to the “Middle!” Courses w/o Choices Courses with Choices • English A/B • Arts • Visual Arts • Mandarin B (in most cases) • Music • Math • Drama • Languages • Science • Korean A • Humanties • Mandarin A • Design • German A • French B • PE • Spanish B

Languages Language Phases • Languages A (Students’ home, best, or near native language)* • English A Language A: Native or Near Native Communicator *If we offer your “mother tongue" as • If we offer your language A, you must take it • Mandarin A a Language A, you must take it. • Korean A Languages B (Placements done by Departments) • German A • Phases 1-2: Emergent Communicator • Languages B (Additional languages) **English B students must reach Phase 6 before taking French, • Phases 3-4: Competent Communicator • English B ( Phases 3-4** , 5-6) Spanish, or Korean A • English for Cognitive and Social Success (ECSS)** • Phases 5-6: Proficent Communicator • Mandarin B (Phases 1-6) • French B (Phases 1-2)*** ***Native speakers of one must take the other • Spanish B (Phases 1-2)*** Grade 5/6 Transition Please complete and submit today or Complete and submit by Friday morning to your child’s Grade 5 HR teacher

Transition Timeline Anxiety Puberty Sleep issues Strong need for October 13th: acceptance Pressure from August 10th: 3-Way Body Image parents Conferences Grade 6 1st Day Concerns Exponential Brain Developmental Development Informal August 23rd: Differences Preparation PLC’s Physical Serious changes Consequences Increased academic September 20th: rigor DC Parent Meeting Peer Pressure June 6/7th Extreme self Grade 5/6 Transition awareness Nov/Dec Acne Emotional August 11th: Conflict with Parent Coffee(s) Hunger peers and All-School First Day Moral parents Dilemmas Top Three Differences • Ten times the teachers! • MYP Criteria • Your Children!