A Year in Fudong

By Kaohsiung Municipal Fudong Elementary School

☆Kaohsiung Municipal Fudong elementary school

Facts About Our School• History: Founded in 1974• Location: Lingya District (East Kaohsiung)• School Size

– 32,431 Square meters – 69 staff members– 40 classes and 1000 students

• Class types

- 29 Regular classes

- 1 Bilingual Education class

- 7 Special Education classes

- 6 Pre-school classes• Principal: Ms. Chung Sumei

• Near culture center, city bus stop, MRT & highway • Night market at Fudong every Thu. night• many English speaking teachers/administrators• Great food of school lunch made by our kitchen for

4000 elementary & junior high school students daily • Chances to meet Australian, Japanese, Korean,

Malay students & teachers online/in person• Free games/parties/meals/city tours……• ……& more waiting for u to find out!

Facts About Our School

January

• Go to Kaohsiung Japanese School to play with our partners in January.

January 　

• After final exam, it’s the end of the semester. We’ll have a party in class. Then winter vacation begins!

February

After the winter vacation & the Lunar New Year, the new (spring) semester begins!

March

• “Fudong Little Mayor” election in March. We vote as adults.

March

• Every Mon., Tue., Thu., & Fri., we have visitors from other elementary schools all over Kaohsiung to learn English at our Fudong English Village

March

• Inter-school Hand ball games will be held in March. Ball team players go to other schools to play.

April

• We have inter-class jump rope & basketball games in April. Very tired but exciting!

April

– In April, we have Fudong Art & Literature Festival. Every student include kindergarten babies go on the stage, singing, dancing, etc. Everyone tries to do their best.

April

• Fudong Art & Literature Festival —students & teachers’ art & crafts exhibition. They are all very beautiful!

May

• Fudong Happy Neighborhood Love show – we show at the park in front of our school! Very interesting!

May

• We’ll invite our parents & grandparents to our school, to show our thanks for them on Fudong Mothers’ Day (2nd Thursday in May).

May

• Inter-class Dodge ball games will be held in May. That’s our favorite.

June

• Chinese Speech, Calligraphy, Composition, Reading aloud, Chinese character & phonetic symbol writing contests will be held in June. Winners are stars & will go to city contest.

June

We’ll have a farewell party for our American English teacher in June. One year passes & he/she will go back home. Everybody shake hands with him/her.

Graduation ceremony is in June. Then it’s the final exam for those who is still at school.

Good luck. bye everybody~~

June

See classrooms one more time

July

• Fudong will hold a Physical & Mental Challenged Students’ summer camp for those special students in Kaohsiung city every year.

We’ll have to take turns to go back to clean up our campus in summer vacation. It’s fun to see the whole

school with no students but us in!

So clean!

So beautiful!

August

August

Fulbright scholarship winning English teachers will go visit our school every August. One of them will become a teacher in Fudong for one year.

September

• New Semester begins. New students come from different kindergartens will become students in our school. We’ll draw their hands for them as a lifetime memory!

September

We learn English every Thursdays mornings.

September

• Fire drills will be held in September. We can sit on the fire engine & go up high just for experiencing it. Cool!

September

Teacher’s Day celebration on September 28th. Teacher’s Day is also Confucius’ Birthday. Thank you, teachers!

October

5th Graders have a Physical Health workshop in October.

We know the differences between boys & girls ever since.

October

We have Grandparents Week in October. It is about grandparents learning with their grandsons and daughters – that’s us, oh!

October

• Inter-class Happy Baseball games

November

• Inter-class Recorder contests

November

Scout camping in November. All the scouts from different elementary schools in Kaohsiung get together for 2 days camping. We all had a lot of fun!

November

We’ll have the English Readers’ Theater competition held in November. We are the home team so it’s very nervous!

November

• Our Japanese friends will visit us back in November too.

December

• We have different field trip courses all over the year for different grades. Cool!

December

We have our Fudong Sports Day in December. We play many sports & have a relay race with other classes too.

No classes at school but playing all day long, yeah!

December

We have a party for celebrating Christmas, though it’s not a holiday in Taiwan. We sing Xmas songs.

Beautiful & interesting atmosphere everywhere, we are very happy to be students in Fudong.

Welcome to meet us here! ^_^

THE END

Thank you teacher Spenser Chen for teaching us English!

This is “A year in Fudong”. Wish you like it!

Thank you! Bye bye!