Waving goodbye to the Year of the Ox, we welcome 2022, the Year of the Tiger. To ensure that students can spend a fulfilling, happy, and meaningful vacation, teachers of all grades have carefully designed a series of specific assignments that integrate knowledge and experience and promote abilities and growth. These assignments include written forms and practical activities, with teachers’ expectations that students can learn from writing and reading, gain knowledge from practical activities, and experience happiness from handmaking. On the occasion of the new semester, the teachers received a variety of excellent answer sheets handed in by our students.

The first grade displayed the project posters with Beautiful Holiday Memories for the Chinese Winter holiday assignment. The students made creative posters about what sports they did, what games they played, what life skills they learned, and what chores they did for their families. In Math subject, first graders showcased their own February calendars. They chose a variety of themes to decorate the calendar. Some painted cute little tigers echoing the Year of the Tiger, some painted the composition of the planet and universe, and some painted their calendars with distinctive images: Lion’s head. The splendid works by the students were both informative and entertaining.

The second-grade math project utilize waste milk cartons to make 3D buildings. Students can use colorful wrapping paper for packaging and draw regular patterns for decoration to complete the production of a beautiful village. The Chinese winter holiday homework project is Old Songs and New Songs. Students rewrote the lyrics, let their imagination dance with the music, and made the familiar children’s songs more vivid and interesting.

The third graders designed the “Math Monopoly” game during the holidays, and the game were all made up of math problems. Students applied what they learned in the first semester when designing games. Not only that, but the students also experienced the Monopoly they designed with their families.

The fourth-grade students are full of artistic imagination. They copied ancient poems with beautiful fonts and added illustrations that fit the artistic conception of the poems. To celebrate the Chinese new year, the students also introduced delicious food to everyone. They became “master chefs” who are good at cooking Chinese food and presented the detailed process through pictures and texts. During the winter holiday, the students experienced a virtual math tour. They used the math skills they acquired in class to plan a trip by calculating a budget. Although they did not go to the actual destination in person, the students “traveled around the world” within the kingdom of mathematics.

Last but not least, the fifth-grade Chinese homework allows students to be little teachers. The students can choose a text they have not learned in the Chinese textbook and make a “My Wordbook” by themselves, which cultivates their ability to learn independently. The math homework allowed the students to design their playground. Through this design, the students reviewed the content of the previous semester and stimulated their interests in mathematics.

The excellent student works are now displayed on campus. In the new semester, students of the Pudong campus will continue using a severe and down-to-earth attitude, hard work, and rich creativity to achieve their goals and challenge themselves to the peak.

(Written by Lei Zhang, Qingjia Yang, Yan Deng, Haoruo Li, Lu Jia Pictures by Pudong Campus Teachers Edited by Huang Shiyuan, Brie Polette)