A special Thank You to Miss Panda’s artist friend, Matt Cox for creating the Dragon Boat Festival coloring pages for all the readers on Miss Panda Chinese! Matt speaks English, Japanese and he has been learning Mandarin Chinese together with his daughter. Note: The following copyrighted coloring pages are for non-profit educational use only. Dragon Boat – Lóng Zhōu 龍舟 Dragon – Lóng 龍 Related post: Learning About Dragon Boat Festival Save Save
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Singing is always a great way to get the children move around and have fun. I know I always do. When I do the kids follow. What a relaxing method to engage the kids! Music is a fantastic tool to learn a language. Do you like karaoke? Have you been to a karaoke party? Many families have their own karaoke equipment at home. There are karaoke apps available as well so you can sing when you are
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Miss Panda would like to share two story videos with you. The two books are published by cwbook in Taiwan. The reading of the books is in Mandarin Chinese with clear pronunciation. Even though, there is no subtitle in the video young children can hear the narration, conversation and dialogue in a radio drama style. This is good listening comprehension material for children (Pre K – Gr. 6) with some Chinese Mandarin background. Duǎn ěr tù –
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Winter Olympics just started and we are excited to learn about the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia! This is a great time to introduce theme vocabulary about Olympics and winter sports. I designed two sets of matching games, one for the younger children and one for the older ones. You can print them on card stock and cut them into cards. You can play with them when you are watching the game or when you are
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Let’s sing “London Bridge” together in Mandarin Chinese! I created the movements for this song for my daughter when she was only a few months old. The first time we did this she was only a tiny bug and I was holding her on my knees. She was giggling and giggling and we really had fun. Now she is much taller and bigger and it is impossible to hold her facing me on my knees but
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“Goodnight Moon” by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd Taiwanese Chinese edition (Mandarin Chinese with Traditional Characters) Reading a familiar book in a second language is a routine you can have with your child at home, perhaps as a bed time story. Young children enjoy the repetition of the stories they already know and it is a wonderful way to introduce early reading in a second language. My son loved “Goodnight Moon” so much as a baby that
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“Good Night, Gorilla” by Peggy Rathmann “Good Night, Gorilla” – “Wǎn ān dà xīng xīng” is a cute story with a lot of vocabulary potential. At the basic level children can learn the animal words, and how to say “good night.” If you know the color words you can review color words with this book too. Look at the keys on the key ring. What colors do you see? How about the moon? What is the color of the
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“Dear Zoo” by Rod Campbell This is a great book for language-learning with its simple story and repetition of words and sentences. Children can easily review and learn the describing words for each animal. Fun words to remember: 1. Pet – Chǒng wù 寵(宠)物 2. Animal – Dòng wù 動(动)物 Thought question: If the zoo sent you a baby panda for a pet what would you do? 1. I will send it back. – Wǒ bǎ
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“Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” by Bill Martin Jr. with illustrations by Eric Carle Background music: Les crocodiles mangent aussi les bonshommes Wizzards (Circus Marcus) / CC BY-NC 3.0 “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” by Bill Martin and Eric Carle is a joyful read in any language! This is a great book for language-learning with its simple story and repetition of words and sentence patterns. Children can easily review and
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Miss Panda reads children’s favorite “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!” in Mandarin Chinese! With this installment of “Miss Panda’s Reading Playground” kids can practice telling the Pigeon “Bù xińg / 不行!” (“No!”) Watch, listen and have fun! If you have a favorite children’s book that you would like me to read in Mandarin Chinese send me a message to let me know. Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus! (Chinese Edition) [Hardcover]
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