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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The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival or “Zhōng Qiū Jié” (中秋節) occurs on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month each year (falling in September or October on our familiar solar calendar). Because this holiday is based on the lunar calendar, where it falls on the solar calendar varies from year to year. As the festival is celebrated at the midpoint of the lunar month (also the middle of autumn), it is
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Chinese for Kids: Solar Eclipse We are excited about Solar Eclipse! Learning Chinese with a total solar eclipse is a great project as the kids can experience it. I hope you find it exciting as you are learning Chinese or teaching Chinese to young learners. We have prepared some tools for your science observation for this amazing event if you are located in northern American. Some people will see total solar eclipse and some will see partial
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Chinese Story Time is featuring Good Night, Gorilla Chinese edition. Let’s read this storybook together! Good Night, Gorilla! Chinese edition. Chinese Story Time for Kids Book Title: Good Night, Gorilla! Author: Peggy Rathmann Language: Chinese edition (Simplified Chinese) Let’s read Good Night, Gorilla! in Mandarin Chinese. Let’s help the zookeeper and say “good night!” to all the animals in the zoo. Do you think the animals are tired and sleepy? This is a story about saying good
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Chinese for Kids is featuring 11 Chinese Songs and Nursery Rhymes for Kids. Singing Chinese songs is a fun way to enjoy Chinese playtime at home! Research shows that music and songs help language acquisition. Many Chinese songs for kids are usually short and with a lot of repetition of simple words. Chinese songs for kids listed here go well with movements for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. What you should know about Chinese Kids Songs! Look inside
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Elmer’s Day and Book Activity Miss Panda is reading Elmer’s Day in Chinese. This is a book about routines. Children will enjoy following the adorable elephant and see if they also have similar activities just like Elmer. Elmer’s Day is written by David McKee and here is an English-Chinese bilingual edition. Listen to the story and see what Elmer the elephant does today. Young children who are learning about daily routines can relate to this story
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Chinese Reading Playground is reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar! This classic story highlights days of the week and fruit. After reading this book, there are many playful literacy activities you can do to bring this story alive. You can find the collection of The Very Hungry Caterpillar Book activity printables at the end of this post. Miss Panda is reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar Chinese edition today! Book Title: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Author: Eric Carl Language:
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