At the end of October, when autumn is in full swing and the leaves are yellowing, the Xinhua Academy Integration Department welcomed a new Parents' Opening Day. Parents' Opening Day, an event where students and parents can experience the school life together.

Opening Class

Chinese Inquiry

May broke the traditional pattern of students in class and parents observation in the classroom, allowing parents to participate in the class from the students' point of view, discussing the writing techniques of folk tales with the children, sorting out the structure of the text together, and questioning the teachers' teaching methods, so that they could really experience the children's joy of learning in the language classroom.

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English Inquiry

Teacher Scott and the children explored the topic of "climate and planets" together, and through the way of performances and questionnaires, children learned about the expressions of climate and planets in English.

At the same time, Scott invited parents and children to explore the past tense of verbs in the context and really understand the children's daily teaching patterns and activities.

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Visual Art Inquiry

Using IB PYP's transdisciplinary theme program, teacher Li broke the boundaries of traditional art classes and embarked on a transatlantic journey of discovery from Chinese oracle bones to North American Native American writing. Parents received lesson plans from the teacher before the class beginning, and teacher actively communicated with parents after the class, making the entire presentation active, lively and energetic.

Math Inquiry

Math teacher Polly led students and parents to experience the inquiry-based classroom together. The class started with a pre-assessment to understand students' basic knowledge of averages, then started with finding the average of a set of data entering today's math inquiry journey, teaching with concept tendency, understanding the concept of average, mastering common methods to find the average, and then deepening the connection between the average and this set of data and its role with reverse thinking. Finally, a post-assessment will be given to allow everyone to properly assess where they are in their learning and where they want to go in the future.

Students Presentation and Parent-Teacher Communication Moment

Parents Meeting

After exhibition, parents back to each class to have a parents workshop. Homeroom teacher introduced PYP IB firstly, and then parents and teachers discussed in details. They made essential agreement together, shared students' performance at home and school, and also set expectations for students in the future.

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Conclusion

This opening day was well received by parents. It really allowed parents to go deep into the classroom, see their children's performance in the classroom, feel the relationship between teachers and students, listen to their children's voices, understand their learning and life at school, and realize direct two-way communication between home and school. The parents not only enjoyed the teachers' teaching style, but also really felt the teachers' love for the students. The integration department has always believed in love, love in return, love to nurture love. As long as teachers have students in their hearts and children's future in their hearts, they can achieve children's future.

　We believe that with the joint care and close cooperation of teachers and parents, students in the integration department will grow up healthily and strongly, and become better versions of themselves with a solid academic foundation and diversified comprehensive literacy.