Help Develop the Chinese FLES Curriculum

Welcome to the location on our website where we will share the Chinese FLES curriculum for kindergarten and first grade as we develop it, theme by theme and unit by unit. We seek your input on the curriculum, which is now in draft format, because we believe that the best curriculum will come from a collaborative effort of the profession. When we have received your comments and when teachers have taught this theme in their classrooms and have provided additional suggestions, we will revise the theme and post it under "Curriculum" on this location of our website so that it is available for anyone to download at no cost.

For now, we have posted here in pdf format:

1) The draft of the Kindergarten Curriculum Scope and Sequence (updated on 4/23/08)

2) The draft of Unit K.A. - Theme K.A.1: Who Are We In Our Chinese Classroom? (updated on 4/21/08)

3) The draft of Unit K.A. - Theme K.A.2: Who Are Our Friends? (updated on 4/21/08)

4) The draft of the culmination of Unit K.B. - Theme K.B.3: What do we know about our families? (updated on 4/23/08)

5) The draft of the Grade 1 Curriculum Scope and Sequence (updated on 4/23/08)

6) The draft of Unit K.C. - Theme K.C.1: What people and places are in our community? (updated on 6/18/08)

We encourage and welcome your comments and suggestions on any part of the scope and sequence and the lessons in the theme. We especially seek suggestions for variations on the activities and ideas for songs, poems, and games in the lessons that would fit the theme. We also welcome any corrections to what we have proposed.

To provide your comments, we prefer that you go to our GoogleGroups website so that others can read and respond to your suggestions, and thus, we can share ideas together and collaboratively enhance the curriculum. To participate in the GoogleGroup discussion of the curriculum, go to this website: http://groups.google.com/group/chinese-FLES and sign up to become a member. When you have received an email approving your membership (to keep junk emailers out), learn how to post your comments, by reading the "Help with Posting Your Comments" on the Chinese-FLES GoogleGroups website. We look forward to your comments!

Email Peifeng Zhang at pzhang@iastate.edu if you have questions or concerns about posting your comments or problems becoming a member of the group. If you are unable to navigate Google Groups, but want to still share comments, please send them to us at our email addresses below.

Thank you!

Eileen Lorenz, Chinese K-5 FLES Project Director, Center for Applied Linguistics, lorenzej@verizon.net

Marcia Rosenbusch, Director, National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center, mrosenbu@iastate.edu