我的学校
Wǒ de xuéxiào — My School
Grade 2 opens by walking out of the classroom and naming the whole building. Students learn the places they go every day, and start using 有 — “there is” — to describe what a place contains.
Unit objectives
- Name seven places in a school
- Say 我的学校有… — “My school has…”
- Read and write 学, 校 and six more characters
- Give a short spoken tour of their own school
Key vocabulary
学校 教室 图书馆 操场 食堂 办公室 有 大
One verb for “have” and “there is”
English splits these; Chinese uses 有 for both:
我有一本书。 I have a book.
学校有图书馆。 The school has a library / There’s a library at school.
Its negative is irregular and worth flagging now: not 不有 but 没有 méiyǒu. It’s the only common verb that refuses 不.
Naming the building
Seven places
Flashcards with audio, then a walk around the real school naming each place out loud as you reach it.
有 and 没有
Describing what a school does and doesn’t have — then comparing with a real school in Beijing.
Draw and label your school
A hand-drawn map with every room labelled in characters — the unit’s written outcome.
Morning exercises
Most schools in mainland China start the day with 早操 — the whole school out on the 操场 doing the same set of stretches to music, hundreds of children moving in time. There’s also usually a midday rest period, and many students stay at school for lunch in the 食堂. Comparing timetables is a genuinely interesting exercise for Grade 2: the subjects are familiar, the shape of the day is not.
Unit 1 progress check
A light, no-pressure way to see what’s sticking:
- Can your child name four school places?
- Can they build a sentence with 有?
- Do they say 没有 rather than 不有?
The 没有 exception is worth correcting gently every time — it’s one of the few places where Chinese isn’t regular.