Raising bilingual children in Chinese There are many parents who are raising bilingual children in Chinese and English. As they are on this bilingual journey they share their own family experiences and resources with fellow parents. It takes a village to raise a child and it takes “two” villages to raise a bilingual child as some may say. It is wonderful to see the community of raising bilingual children keeps growing. I want to share four
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Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Welcome to the HOW TO COACH GIRLS book launch blog tour & book review! I am so thrilled to share this fantastic new book with you, HOW TO COACH GIRLS by Mia Wenjen and Alison Foley. As I am teaching languages to children I have the role as a language coach who wants to keep the kids going and learning! But, how to do that in sports with the girls? HOW
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Chinese Animation Movies for Families Chinese Animation Movies for Kids Top Chinese Animation for Families Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Movie for Kids List Chinese animation films for kids is featuring 10+ Chinese animations that children and families will enjoy. This list of movies serves the purpose of exploring the Chinese language and culture. It is also a movie resource for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. It is entertainment with a meaningful and educational goal. Who likes
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18 Lunar New Year Crafts Animal and Culture Projects We have 18 Chinese New Year/ Spring Festival Crafts Animal and Culture Projects for Lunar New Year celebration to share with you! These are an amazing collection of Chinese New Year Crafts from top educational resources! Our special thanks go to each of the wonderful creators included in this post. Visit these amazing resource sites every year for their Lunar New Year updates and new resources! Here are
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Valentine’s Day: Love, Heart, Kindness, Compassion, and Empathy Valentine’s Day is a day fills with love and heart. It is time for some sweets, chocolate, and balloons. More importantly, it is also an opportunity to teach about love, heart, kindness, compassion, and empathy. Love and heart connect in the Chinese character “love ài 愛” in the traditional form. All the Chinese phrases mentioned above include a “heart xīn 心” character. This can make a good discussion topic.
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Chinese Matching Game Printables for the Winter Olympics will add some more excitement to watching the winter games! The basics you need to know about Pyeong Chang 2018: The Winter Olympics has a four-year cycle. The host country of 2018 in South Korea. The host city is PyeongChang. The dates are from February 9 to February 25. Use the Chinese Matching Game Printables for the Winter Olympics to get familiar with Chinese vocabulary for the Winter Olympics. Meet Soohorang
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Disclosure: As a book reviewer of Multicultural Children’s Book Day, I received a copy of Brandon Makes Jiǎo zi (餃子) to review. All opinions are my own. Brandon is a young boy who loves Chinese dumplings, jiăo zi 餃子|饺子. One day after school, Mom had a surprise for him in the car. He had a special visitor from China and you will see who that is in Brandon Makes Jiao Zi (餃子) . Brandon Makes Jiǎo Zi
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Pictures speak. Images have stories. Chinese One Image Talk and Chat features Woody from Toy Story! Reading wordless books to children is a wonderful way to engage them in the target language (Chinese). There are no words in the book but there are pictures. When you tell the story of a wordless book, children listen, they hear the words, they understand the story you are telling them. It is a great way to build literacy skills.
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Multicultural Children’s Book Day is coming on January 25 in 2019. Miss Panda’s YouTube channel is featuring Mia Wenjen, founder of PragmaticMom and co-founder of Multicultural Children’s Book Day. Mia shares the behind-the-scene story of Multicultural Children’s Book Day and her multicultural parenting story. Since we published this interview Mia has also added another title to her many achievements. Her first books, How to Coach the Girls was published. Her rhyming picture book, SUMO JOE, is scheduled
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Lunar New Year Papercutting Craft Chinese Lunar New Year paper cutting craft is a lot of fun for children. This paper design art is originated from cutting patterns for Chinese embroidery and later developed into folk art. The history of paper cutting began during the Hàn dynasty in China. It was in the 4th century. You may want to share some of the following cultural facts with your children when you introduce this Chinese New Year paper
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