2017年11月6日 星期一

A Chinese Word A DAY

芒果（máng guǒ）: mango

芒果汁（máng guǒ zhī）: mango juice
我喜欢吃芒果冰淇淋。（wǒ xǐ huān chī máng guǒ bīng qí lín）: I like to eat mango ice cream.

2017年10月27日 星期五

A Chinese Word A DAY

万圣节（wàn shèng jié）: Halloween

2017年10月25日 星期三

A Chinese Word A DAY

下雨（xià yǔ）: rain (verb)

今天下雨。（jīn tiān xià yǔ）: Today it rains.
雨季（yǔ jì）: rainy season

* 今天(jīn tiān)：today;  季节/ 季：(jì jié / jì)：season

2017年10月23日 星期一

A Chinese Word A DAY

西兰花（xī lán huā）: broccoli

我不喜欢吃西兰花。（wǒ bù xǐ huān chī xī lán huā）: I don't like to eat broccoli.

A Chinese Word A DAY

苹果（píng guǒ）: apple

红色的苹果（hóng sè de píng guǒ）：red apple

我喜欢吃苹果。（wǒ xǐ huān chī píng guǒ）: I like to eat apple.

A Chinese song performed by a band called "TF Boy"

 qīng chūn xiū liàn shǒu cè
青 春 修 炼 手 册(Manual of Youth)

You also can get the link of the song on youtube.

Happy Mother's Day!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

mǔ qīn jié kuài lè

  母  亲  节  快  乐！

On May 14, it was Mother's Day for many countries in 2017. Mandarin class children decided to make a hand craft card for their beloved moms on Friday(May 12). Children took this significant occasion to express their love in Mandarin to their mothers.

Today, during class time, some children from G3 shared their "feedback" from their moms with others.  Below are  a few of them:

2017年3月8日 星期三


guó  jì  fù  nǚ  jié
国   际  妇  女 节
(International Women's Day)

Today is International Women's Day. G4 children made some cards to their moms in Mandarin class,  in order to thank moms for taking good care of them all the time. 

Stroytelling time in Mandarin- "猪八戒吃西瓜"

2017年2月24日 星期五

Last Friday, G3 children have listened to a Chinese story which is from a classic master piece"xī yóu jì西游记" in China. The name of this story is "zhū bā jiè chī xī guā猪八戒吃西瓜" ( 猪八戒 ate watermelon), the story is written in Mandarin.

I was surprised that many children have known about some famous characters in this story, such as "sūn wù kõng孙悟空" and "zhū bā jiè猪八戒".

All children have enjoyed the story, and also have asked various questions about it.

2017年2月14日 星期二

A " Sentence Building" activity to develop writing skill in Mandarin FL language

At the start of this unit, Mandarin students have started to learn to build sentences with all the vocabulary learned so far. This activity covers the grade level from Grade 2 to Grade 5,it will go through the steps below:

Step 1: Kids practice to build simple sentence with "one subject +verb+object" in their earliest practice.

Step 2: Kids practice to build sentence with compound subject .

Step 3: Kids practice to build the sentence with two verbs.

Step 4: Kids practice to build simple sentence with adjective and adverb. (The complexity of the use of adjectives and adverbs are based on children's language ability.)