Newcomer & multilingual students
A six-month after-school program: feelings in a new school and a new language
An after-school course that helps students put words to homesickness, loneliness, and stress that build up in an unfamiliar school and language. Start with one semester and extend to a full year.
- Grades 4–9
- recommended
- 60 min weekly
- about 20 sessions
- 1 book / month
- 5–6 workbooks in six months
- EN · KO
- matching page structure
Workbook order across six months
One 60-minute session
- 10 minA short lesson on today's feeling
- 20 minWrite one workbook page (writing first in a home language is welcome)
- 20 minShare feeling words with a partner
- 10 minOne small action to try before next week
Extending to a year: add five or six workbooks in the second semester, with family sessions and staff training.
- Journals belong to the students. Sessions share feeling words and reflections, not entries.
- Students may write in a home language or draw. The aim is noticing feelings; writing is never graded.
- Family letters in other languages and the staffing model are arranged with each school.