Chinese Through Story Dancing Grandpa! I am sharing a video below and tell a short story about it. First, look at the picture? What do you see? Who are these two people? What are they doing? After this mini story you might want to check out this list of 10 great children’s books in Chinese. High frequency words and key words in Chinese through story dancing grandpa are: to do, to be (at a place), this is, question
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Chinese for kids Chinese Play and Learn series features Hop Into Reading! Chinese Hop Into Reading is a newly added resource. They are for Chinese emergent readers and early readers. We have heard about how a text-rich home can help children’s literacy skills. This text-rich home is the same as a print-rich environment and a literacy-rich household. The setup of a target language (Chinese) text-rich home is crucial. The visual display of Chinese language with pinyin
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In this Chinese song for kids post, I want to introduce Chinese Turkey in the Straw from my Sing and Learn Chinese song collection. Children sing and learn from a very young age. Studies have shown that singing to babies and toddlers help early language development, literacy skills and beyond. November’s Chinese songs for kids is featuring Turkey in the Straw, a familiar tune that many children enjoy. You can download Chinese song for kids: sing and
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Chinese for kids Halloween Printable Chinese Play and Learn. Chinese Teaching Resources for seasonal topic, Halloween! When children are learning Chinese and Chinese culture every festival and culture holiday celebrated in the community that you live in are a good opportunity to connect the Chinese language and Chinese culture with the world. Children can explore the similarities and the differences of world festivals. “Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people
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Bilingual parenting is an exciting journey and it can go upside down at times. Parents need to be recharged and be inspired on this raising bilingual children journey. Here is a collection of empowering quotes about bilingual parenting, learning, bilingualism, early childhood education, being bilingual and raising bilingual kids. I have shared many of these quotes in different posts and now I am adding them to this bilingual parenting resources. Do you have any quote that empowers
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Are you ready for the Mid-Autumn Festival? Every Chinese festival is an opportunity for children to learn more about Chinese language and Chinese culture. For the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are quite a lot to share with children. There are stories to read aloud, there is food to share or make, and there are fun tradition to explore! I am always thrilled to read all the questions from you, your children and students about Chinese culture and Chinese
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Chinese Movie Chat | Mandarin for Kids The best way to learn is to have fun and hands-on. What would happen to a tomato when it is left behind in the kitchen? Here is a short animation film created by talented Shih-Chieh Chiu, an animated filmmaker. His story will take you and your young learners on an adventure. Here is the word list I have put together for this short animation movie. Click the Quizlet Word List
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The most amazing time when I teach Chinese to children is when we have activity time, game time, storytime, hands-on experiment time, and craft time! I want to involve the children and provide them constant comprehensible Chinese language input. I talk a lot in class and I use Chinese to communicate with the little kids. I speak Chinese constantly and I use the theme words repeatedly so the young language learners can hear the same words and
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Chinese Culture for Kids Series features teaching resources with videos, hands-on activities, printables, eBooks, and craft units! Exploring Chinese Culture with Kids! China, the oldest civilization on earth has so much for us to explore. The resources that I have included here will take children on an adventure with the Chinese language, festivities, food, music, art, architecture, philosophy, traditions, medicine, martial arts, and more. Here are the Chinese culture teaching tools for you at home or at
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Chinese Ghost Festival Meets Halloween and Day of the Dead – Is there a Chinese Halloween? The Chinese Ghost Festival is an event in the Chinese Ghost Month! In Chinese culture, the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the “ghost month” and it has many taboos. These taboos include that people should not swim in rivers, weddings should not be held, and moving or buying a house is prohibited, just to name a few. Even though
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