18 Lunar New Year Crafts Animal and Culture Projects We have 18 Chinese New Year/ Spring Festival Crafts Animal and Culture Projects for Lunar New Year celebration to share with you! These are an amazing collection of Chinese New Year Crafts from top educational resources! Our special thanks go to each of the wonderful creators included in this post. Visit these amazing resource sites every year for their Lunar New Year updates and new resources! Here are
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Valentine’s Day: Love, Heart, Kindness, Compassion, and Empathy Valentine’s Day is a day fills with love and heart. It is time for some sweets, chocolate, and balloons. More importantly, it is also an opportunity to teach about love, heart, kindness, compassion, and empathy. Love and heart connect in the Chinese character “love ài 愛” in the traditional form. All the Chinese phrases mentioned above include a “heart xīn 心” character. This can make a good discussion topic.
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Chinese Matching Game Printables for the Winter Olympics will add some more excitement to watching the winter games! The basics you need to know about Pyeong Chang 2018: The Winter Olympics has a four-year cycle. The host country of 2018 in South Korea. The host city is PyeongChang. The dates are from February 9 to February 25. Use the Chinese Matching Game Printables for the Winter Olympics to get familiar with Chinese vocabulary for the Winter Olympics. Meet Soohorang
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Disclosure: As a book reviewer of Multicultural Children’s Book Day, I received a copy of Brandon Makes Jiǎo zi (餃子) to review. All opinions are my own. Brandon is a young boy who loves Chinese dumplings, jiăo zi 餃子|饺子. One day after school, Mom had a surprise for him in the car. He had a special visitor from China and you will see who that is in Brandon Makes Jiao Zi (餃子) . Brandon Makes Jiǎo Zi
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Pictures speak. Images have stories. Chinese One Image Talk and Chat features Woody from Toy Story! Reading wordless books to children is a wonderful way to engage them in the target language (Chinese). There are no words in the book but there are pictures. When you tell the story of a wordless book, children listen, they hear the words, they understand the story you are telling them. It is a great way to build literacy skills.
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Multicultural Children’s Book Day is coming on January 25 in 2019. Miss Panda’s YouTube channel is featuring Mia Wenjen, founder of PragmaticMom and co-founder of Multicultural Children’s Book Day. Mia shares the behind-the-scene story of Multicultural Children’s Book Day and her multicultural parenting story. Since we published this interview Mia has also added another title to her many achievements. Her first books, How to Coach the Girls was published. Her rhyming picture book, SUMO JOE, is scheduled
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Chinese Through Story Martin Luther King A Poem! Before we start, think about this name. Who is Martin Luther King Jr.? What are the words associated with him? Have you read any stories about Dr. King? You task after reading this short Chinese poem is to share one Chinese word to describe Dr. King. You may want to read more stories in Chinese Through Story series. This poem is in Miss Panda Chinese Teaching Printable Library. I
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It was a fun year here at Miss Panda Chinese. Together, we have expanded Chinese language and culture teaching resources according to your needs at home or in the classroom. You now have an extended list of Chinese learning apps for kids. There are 15 Chinese cartoons that children can enjoy for learning and for leisure. Reading Chinese stories and books is always an important routine so there are books for you to start with. Last but
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Chinese Through Story: Meet This Young Foodie! Using authentic materials to introduce new items and new concepts to language learners is a great way to engage them. It is a way to learn the Chinese language and the culture. In this story you will meet Xiǎo mán, a beloved 3-year-old Chinese girl whose meal time videos have made her an internet star. First, look at the picture. Do you see a little boy? Do you see a
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Chinese Through Story Baby Hears Mommy the First Time! Chinese Story for Kids features a video and tells a short story about it. First, look at the picture? What do you see? Who are they? What are they doing? After this story you might want to check out this list of 10 great children’s books in Chinese. High frequency words and keywords in Chinese Through Story Baby Hears Mommy are: [English-Pinyin- Chinese traditional | simplified] to have
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