Chinese Culture for Kids Series: The 12 Chinese Animal Birth Signs Printable

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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Thanksgiving Matching Game: Let’s Learn More Words in Chinese!

  Click on the Matching Game image above to download the Holiday Fun Sheet! Thanksgiving is coming and we are going to have fun learning more Chinese words and phrases about this day.  Here is a Thanksgiving Matching Game.  Cut.  Match.  Paste. Complete the sentences with the words/phrases on the fun sheet Wǒ xǐ huan ___________________.  我喜歡。。。 [audio:https://www.misspandachinese.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Miss-Panda-Chinese-I-like….mp3] = I like ___________________   Wǒ fēi cháng xǐ huan ____________. 我非常喜歡。。。 [audio:https://www.misspandachinese.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Miss-Panda-Chinese-I-like-it-very-much.mp3] = I like ___________________ very much.

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Halloween Match Fun Sheet in Chinese

Halloween Fun Sheet Match Printable

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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Chinese for Kids Learning Resources: Playful Theme-based Chinese Learning Units

Miss Panda Chinee Theme-based learning units

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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Fun with Chinese: Sing and Dance with Hakuna Matata

Lion King Hakuna Matata lyrics in Chinese and pinyin

Summer vacation is here!  Let’s kick off our Summer Fun with Chinese right now.  This is a fantastic time to have fun and to learn with your child.  Playful learning is always the best!  Summer is a season full of energy and we can be as silly as we can (well, I think I am always like that).  And we can hangout outside all day long.  We can grab this opportunity and follow the joyful learning plan

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Sing to Learn Chinese: I Miss You Very Much

Sing to Learn Chinese I Miss You So Miuch lyrics |Miss Panda Chinese

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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Sid Shuffle – Let’s Dance and Rap in Chinese

Let’s learn a dance and rap in Mandarin Chinese!  What a fun way to  start your day with all the movements and direction words and phrases in Chinese!  Watch the video and let’s do the Sid Shuffle with the adorable Ice Age character.  Sid will teach us the moves to the coolest dance craze sweeping the globe.  Watch people from 15 countries do the dance!  Miss Panda is ready!  How about you? First, we will learn the

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Winter Olympics Matching Game Printables

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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Chinese for Kids A Snowy Day Activity and Printable

Chinese for Kids A Snowy Day Activity | Miss Panda Chinese

Having a snowy day activity list is a good idea when the winter weather is coming.  Parents can make the best of the cold days and add learning elements to it. It has been snowing here and we are excited.  I have a snowy day activity list and it is time to see what we can do.  It was cold yesterday but we had a lot of fun throwing snow balls, making snow angels, and trying to

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