Twelve Chinese Animal Birth Signs might sound new to you but what if I tell you that these are the Chinese animals that rotate over a 12-year cycle? You may immediately know what they are. You might even know that after the year of the COW comes the year of the TIGER. In 2022, the year of the water TIGER will arrive on February 1. We are talking about the same 12 Chinese animals. Some people call
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Kayla: A Modern-Day Princess Book Series For Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2022, I am delighted to share Kayla: A Modern-Day Princess A Little Magic with you. This charming, inspiring, and heartwarming story is the final one in the Kayla: A Modern-Day Princess 5 book series. This diverse picture book series leads readers to see the importance of family, seeing the possibilities, and knowing our value. I’ve enjoyed reading this book and seeing how Kayla pursuing her
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A Year of Bilingual Fun with 8 Bilingual Parenting Tips to Engage Your Children in the Target Language Every Day Wishing you and your family a healthy, happy, and joyful New Year filled with bilingual fun! As we enter the New Year I want to share 8 tips to better structure your family’s target language learning in the New Year. 1. Daily Breakfast Booster: Listen to the songs, music, or podcast in your target language. You can
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Winter Solstice Chinese Dōng Zhì Festival – World Culture for Kids Winter Solstice Winter Solstice is Dōng Zhì Festival! Happy winter Solstice – Dōng Zhì 冬至! Winter Solstice is 冬至 Dōng Zhì in Chinese. 冬 [Dong] mean winter. 至 [Zhi] means extreme, or arrival. 冬至 [Dōng Zhì] literally means the “extreme of winter.” Dōng Zhì is also known as Winter Festival – 冬節[Dōng Jié] for Chinese. Dong Zhi marks the shortest day and the longest night
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Teach Kids Chinese Song Turkey in The Straw! Got turkey? I mean got a turkey plush toy? Where is the turkey? Kids asked. Good question! This month the pet turkey is the star and kids will learn how to sing Turkey in The Straw in Mandarin. Turkey is also the leading character in many of the stories. A popular kids’ song, Turkey in The Straw is a story. When kids learn this song they will get to
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Chinese Literacy for Fall Season Celebrate Autumn with Culture Around Us From September to December, there is a lot to celebrate in autumn – the season, the colors, and the cultural holidays and celebrations. As we are guiding children to build literacy in the target language (Mandarin) we also need to feed children the background knowledge in their native language. That way they can better connect with the content that we want to share with them. Here
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Chinese Halloween Literacy Activities and Resources | Halloween Activities | Chinese Activities for Kids The last quarter of the year is packed with teaching topics that are seasonal, festival, and cultural. The season change is visible. The festivals and celebrations are loved by children big and small. The cultural essence and stories are connecting, inclusive and global. Playing with purpose is the design of each of the resources included here. Literacy building is a part of learning
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Teach Children Languages Through Play with Habbi Habbi + You now have a chance to give a fabulous set of Habbi Habbi books (10 bilingual books and a reading wand) to a family or a school! Hanna and Anne-Louise are the two Mom founders of Habbi Habbi bilingual books and reading wand. The available language combinations for the books are Chinese-English and Spanish-English at this time. Their growing number of books for young readers covers
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Raise Multi-literate Children Please welcome my fellow teacher friend, Yoshito Darmon-Shimamori! He is the author of The Parents’ Guide to Raising Multi-literate Children, His website Library4Multilinguals has a growing number of tools and resource for parents and educators to guide children to read and write in the target languages and reach the goal to raise multi-literate kids. Yoshito is here to tell his story of growing up multilingual and share his home-tested and classroom-tested literacy-building tips,
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Asian Pacific American Authors and Illustrators Multicultural books open up the world for children. Diverse books open doors to invite readers to experience, discover, and dive in cultures through words and pictures. It is learning through stories, folktales, and history. It helps children to connect with diversity, cultures, and peers who are from various backgrounds. In part 2 of the Asian Pacific American Authors and Illustrators series, I expand the books to reach the Middle East,
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