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Lantern Festival Paper Cutting Lanterns Culture Craft

By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / Chinese culture for kids, Chinese Teaching Resrouces

Lantern Festival | Paper Cutting | Miss Panda Chinese

Lantern Festival Paper Cutting Lantern Culture Craft! Culture craft helps children engage in hands-on creation. There are the “what” and the “why” questions popping out when they work on craft projects like paper cutting. Curiosity leads to exploration and learning! We are looking at Lantern Festival paper cutting lanterns culture craft, and this is a project that kids really enjoy. They can even come up with their design with the English alphabet and other languages. Taipei Confucius

Lunar New Year Story Videos for Kids Spring Festival Through Stories-World Culture for Kids

By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / Chinese Culture, Chinese culture for kids

Chinese Lunar New Year Story Videos | Miss Panda Chinese

Lunar New Year Story Videos that facilitate children big and small to see and experience Spring Festival and Chinese culture from a different perspective. These videos and the bonus videos (2021 update) are short stories in different formats. A story about the Lunar New Year for children. A story about the color RED. A story about Gratitude. A music video that many people love about firecrackers and more. A story about a Bucket, a Mother and a

Chinese New Year 12 Animal Signs Party -World Culture for Kids

By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / Chinese culture for kids, Chinese Festivals

Chinese New Year 12 Chinese Animal Signs | Miss Panda Chinese

Chinese New Year 12 Animal Signs Party! Chinese New Year is called Lunar New Year 農曆年|农历年liand Spring Festival春節|春节 in Mandarin Chinese. We are officially entering the Year of the PIG (Feb. 5, 2019). PIG is the last animal of the 12-year cycle on the Chinese calendar. So, what animal comes next? The one comes next will be the first and the beginning of a brand new 12-year Chinese animal sign cycle. Have you heard the story of

Chinese New Year Party for Young Children -World Culture for Kids

By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / Chinese Culture, Chinese Festivals

Chinese New Year party Miss Panda Chinese

Chinese New Year is Lunar New Year or Spring Festival in Chinese. Lunar New Year is the most amazing time of the year for many Asian countries. It is celebrated in China, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Macau, and Chinese communities around the world! Now, you can also see Lunar New Year festival activities in major international cities. You cansee event listing by location at the end of this post. These events are for the Chinese

Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2019

By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / Blog, Learning Resources, Miss Panda Chinese Event

Welcome to our 6th annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day! MCBD’s mission is to raise awareness for the kid’s books that celebrate diversity, and to ship more of these books to classrooms and libraries. Miss Panda Chinese is honored to co-host the 6th Annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day. Welcome to our 6th annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day! Here’s how to celebrate: Link up your diversity book reviews HERE. Join us tonight at our 6th annual Twitter Party! Follow @McChildsBookDay to

Explore the World with Diverse Books -Multicultural Children’s Book Day

By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / Chinese culture for kids, Chinese Teaching Resrouces

Explore the world with diverse books and inspire your children and students to learn more about world culture through books! These three multicultural children’s books I am about to share with you will take kids to experience Japan, to engage them in a story with a background set in Thailand, and to give them the opportunity to follow the dragon dancer and learn about the celebration of Chinese Lunar New Year. Disclosure: Miss Panda received complimentary copies

The Myth About the Chinese Language – One of the Most Difficult Languages in the World

By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / Chinese Teaching Resrouces, Teaching Chinese to Children

The myth about Chinese | Miss Panda Chinese

The Myth About the Chinese Language Chinese here refers to Mandarin Chinese, the official language of China and Taiwan, and one of the official languages of Singapore, and Macau. You may have heard that “Chinese Is One of the Most Difficult Languages in the World.” This may be what comes to your mind when you hear the “Chinese language.” But, I need to tell you that this is a myth. It’s a misunderstanding of the Chinese language,

Chinese Christmas Holiday Winter Break -Chinese Playbook Lessons

By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / Chinese Teaching Resrouces, Teaching Chinese to Children

Chinese Christmas | misspandachinese.com

Chinese Christmas Holiday Winter Break Chinese Playbook Lessons! Holiday season is filled with teaching and learning opportunities for you and your child. Turn on the holiday music! Set up the table with your favorite holiday color felt fabric. Have fun with holiday season teaching. Christmas Holiday Countdown Calendar Play with the Chinese Christmas holiday countdown calendar with dot markers! Traditional Chinese version. Simplified Chinese version. Christmas Holiday Countdown Chain Have fun with numbers and make the Chinese

Chinese Writing Systems: Traditional Chinese And Simplified Chinese

By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / Chinese Teaching Resrouces, Teaching Chinese to Children

traditional Chinese or simplifed Chinese | misspandachinese.com

Chinese Writing Systems: Traditional Chinese And Simplified Chinese Let’s look at the two Chinese writing systems: Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. I have color-coded the sentences for you to see the difference in the characters. The blue Chinese characters are the traditional form (繁體字). The red Chinese characters are the simplified form (简体字). Which should you learn? Traditional Chinese or simplified Chinese? Taiwan, Hong Kong, and many overseas Chinese communities use traditional Chinese writing.

Comprehensible Input in the World Language Classroom -Language Expert Interview

By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / Chinese Teaching Resrouces, Miss Panda Chinese Event

Comprehensible Input in the World Language Classroom | misspandachinese.com

Comprehensible Input in the World Language Classroom! This interview episode features language experts Rachelle Adams and Anna Gilcher, two master language teachers and educator trainers. Comprehensible Input in Your World Language Classroom Teachers and parents constantly look for ways to engage children, encourage students to stay in the target language, and keep the learning experience fun. Comprehensible Input can keep the language class staying in the target language at a high percentage of class time. As a