UPDATE:  

• The draft of the Kindergarten_Curriculum Scope_and_Sequence (PDF) Also available in HTML format under 'Pages' below. (updated on 4/23/08)
• The draft of the first Theme K.A.1: Who Are We In Our Chinese Classroom? (PDF) - Also available in HTML format under 'Pages' below. (updated on 4/21/08)
  
• The draft of the first Theme K.A.2: Who Are Our Friends? (PDF) - Also available in HTML format under 'Pages' below. (updated on 4/21/08)
• The draft of the culmination of Unit K.B. - Theme K.B.3: What do we know about our families? (PDF) - Also available in HTML format under 'Pages' below. (updated on 4/23/08)
• Grade 1 Curriculum Scope and Sequence (PDF) Also available in HTML format under 'Pages' below. (updated on 4/23/08)
• Unit K.C. - Theme K.C.1 - What people and places are in our community? (PDF) - Also available in HTML format under 'Pages' below. (updated on 6/18/08)
  

Welcome to the Chinese FLES curriculum for kindergarten and first grade that is being developed collaboratively by the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington DC, the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center at Iowa State University, project Chinese FLES teachers, and you -- experienced teachers of FLES and Chinese.

We seek your input because we believe that the best curriculum will come from a collaborative effort. When we have received your comments and when teachers have taught this theme in their classrooms and provide additional suggestions, we will revise the theme and post it on our website (www.nflrc.iastate.edu) so that it is available for anyone to download at no cost.

We have posted here 1) the Curriculum Scope and Sequence and 2) the draft of Theme K.A.1: Who Are We In Our Chinese Classroom? and the draft of Theme K.A.2: Who Are Our Friends? We encourage and welcome your comments and suggestions on any part of the lessons in the theme. We especially seek suggestions for variations on the activities and ideas for songs, poems, and games that would fit the theme and we welcome any corrections to what we have proposed.
 

We are posting the kindergarten thematic units out of order because we are changing the format of the thematic units and lessons to better address the principles of Backward Design (Wiggins. G., & McTighe, J. (2005). Understanding by Design [2nd ed.]. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervisions and Curriculum Development) and find it more expedient to first make these changes on the units we are currently writing. Our goal is to revise to our new format and post in order all units for kindergarten before fall 2008.

To learn how to post your comments, read the "Help with Posting Your Comments." Note that on Macintosh machines the Safari and Internet Explorer browsers have trouble displaying the group correctly. We suggest you use Firefox. On PCs there seem to be no problems with the most common web browsers. We look forward to your comments. Email pzhang@iastate.edu if you have questions or concerns about posting your comments.  Thank you!

Eileen Lorenz, Chinese K-5 FLES Project Coordinator, Center for Applied Linguistics

Marcia Rosenbusch, Director, National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center

Copyright Notice:
The curriculum materials provided in this group are draft materials which are copyrighted by ISU-NFLRC/CAL and cannot be used for commercial purposes. If you decide to pilot any of these materials in your classroom, you are permitted to do so. However, this permission is given with the understanding that you will provide us with feedback and suggestions for applications and changes.