2024 Summer Collaborative Work

It was such a luxery to be able to take some time to dive deeply into our writing curriculum. We were able to develop and entirely new paragraphing unit and build a grammar and mechanics curriculum for the year.

We built slides, went through our other units and fine tuned them. Then we assessed the units against California Common Core writing standards.

I'm so proud of the team and what we created. It's been amazing to see it come to fruition over the last two months as we started the school year. Attatched is our work that we put together.

This summer grant was finalized along with my colleagues in Spanish and Mandarin. We made the decision to meet in person for one day, and to discuss the project remotely for the second day. This provided more scheduling flexibility for us, given that we all had separate calendars for the summer vacation. 

As of Fall 2022, the Art and World Language departments had already established a Famous Women’s Project to be completed in the Spring of the 6th grade year. This project was conducted in both classes, and entailed researching, writing, and recording themselves in the foreign language, followed by embroidering the face of their famous woman. 

I implemented this project in Spring 2023, and found it difficult for my 6th grade French students to complete. This difficulty was due to a lack of in-language resources on famous women, as well as the fact that 6th grade language students had…

Xuemei and I met and discussed how to support each other’s curriculum around Lunar New Year, taking into consideration the different US and LS assemblies. We researched for materials and also shared resources previously collected. We linked Google Slide decks that have been made to support each item/activity. We discussed costuming and decided upon a shared project to design the scarves to celebrate Year of the Snake.

Here is a doc with a list of the activities we came up with for the 24-25 school year, links to materials, and next steps to be done as we continue the school year.

Lunar New Year Collaboration with Lisa Mandelstein

Lunar New Year 2025- Year of the SNAKE!

Collaboration Between 3rd Music, 5th Mandarin, and API

Summer Grant - ½ day each for Lisa Mandelstein and Xuemei Li

August 12, 2024

Xuemei and Lisa - we met and discussed how to support each other’s curriculum around Lunar New Year, taking into consideration the different US and LS assemblies. We researched for materials and also shared resources previously collected. We linked Google Slide decks that have been made to support each item/activity.