Chinese Color Words Happy Easter Spring is a fun time to learn or review the Chinese color words! Have you dyed some Easter eggs? How about an Easter egg hunt? Do you know all the colors of the jelly beans? How about making colorful cupcakes or cake pops? Have a fun and sweet time learning and playing with all the color words. When we dye Easter eggs, we can say the names of each color. What colors
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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 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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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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Picture Chinese Series: Chinese New Year Special The Chinese New Year celebration is a 15-day festivity. With all the Spring Festival cultural events going on around the world this is a great time to locate one and to experience the celebration in person in your area. If there is nothing similar locally you can join me to see what it is like. I got a chance to visit Chinatown in Washington DC. The year of
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Read Learning Unit Description here. Are you a Monkey? Are you a Chicken/Rooster? Are you a dog? Are you a pig? Chinese children ask their friends these questions for fun. They also use the Animal Birth Signs to figure out how old their friends are. With the arrival of the Year of the Rooster less than 10 days, we are going to take a look at the fun twelve Chinese Animal Birth Signs . There are
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Chinese for Kids series features Christmas printable set and Merry Christmas Unit to help you keep the holiday excitement with fun Chinese learning! With all the Christmas decorations and music here and there on the street and at the stores you will be adding seasonal fun to Chinese class in school or play time at home. The holiday season and winter break are a wonderful time to celebrate your achievement this year. Your joyful teaching continues even
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Thanksgiving is almost here! The holiday season is a great time to introduce fun and exciting new words, phrases, and sentences to children in your target language. My kids and I put together a fun word list every week. We talk about the meaning of each word. We make sentences and we make up a story using as many new words/phrases as possible. Then we cook and bake to make our tummies happy while we are learning.
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Here are fun Halloween words and phrases for you! Let’s match the words to the pictures. Read the words/phrases on the Fun Page first. If you need some help the hints are below in English, Pinyin and Chinese characters. Print, read aloud, and have fun! Hints: pumpkin – Nán guā 南瓜 bat – Biān fú 蝙蝠 candy – Táng guǒ 糖果 witch – Wū pó 巫婆 ghost – Guǐ 鬼 Halloween Related Post & Resource: Halloween Bingo
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Theme-based learning is interactive and is designed with the children’s and students’ needs and progress in mind. The multi-directional approach in each unit engages children to have fun learning new words/phrases with easy sentences and/or short stories. Repetition and re-enforcement of new items are lead by fun activity pages. You will also enjoy Reading Circus that is included in many of the learning units. Kids love stories and they make words and phrases vivid in their imagination.
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