Taichung City Private Washington Elementary School - Berry Goodness Reappears

• Emphasis should be placed on critical thinking and skills development.
• Student-centered and independent learning.
•  Cross-domain and diverse exploration stimulates one's own potential.
• Learning from real-life experiences helps achieve self-awareness and social awareness.
•  Focus on solutions or courses of action.
•  Emphasize the cultivation of sharing and love, and establish future social responsibility.

"Berry Reborn" begins with the second-grade "Fertile Soil" curriculum, combining art, language, nature, information technology, and physical education. Through interdisciplinary learning and teaching activities, it connects the main themes of learning in each area, allowing children to gain different learning experiences in a diverse learning environment. It hopes to break free from the confines of the classroom and subjects by connecting aesthetic courses, enabling students to have a more innovative and in-depth learning process.

This year's curriculum continues last year's "Strawberry" theme, taking students from farm to table. In the natural domain, it includes farm site visits, strawberry cultivation, and discussions on healthy food and agriculture issues. In reading, it features thematic reading and writing exercises. In the arts, it incorporates STEAM practices, emphasizing "learning is creation" and encouraging students to transform their ideas into reality through hands-on activities and exploration. In addition to picture books and art creation, the curriculum utilizes scientific crafts and digital intelligence to design many engaging interdisciplinary courses.

Finally, the course incorporates life education, taking students from farm to table and experiencing the culinary cultures of different countries through food preparation. Students also learn about caring for life through fruit sales and donations. From environmental sustainability issues to poverty, hunger, environmental medicine, and climate problems, students understand the goals of global sustainable development and experience the mutual trust and assistance within a community of life.