Chinese Play and Learn features teaching thankfulness with Chinese Thank You cards and Thank You poster! Being thankful is an every practice. Teaching children to say “Thank You” is important. How to help kids to have the sense of gratitude in them is the core and the goal for this activity. In Chinese culture, gratitude starts at being respectful to parents in a family. “A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, being outside of home,
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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 for kids Chinese Play and Learn series features Hop Into Reading! Chinese Hop Into Reading is a newly added resource. They are for Chinese emergent readers and early readers. We have heard about how a text-rich home can help children’s literacy skills. This text-rich home is the same as a print-rich environment and a literacy-rich household. The setup of a target language (Chinese) text-rich home is crucial. The visual display of Chinese language with pinyin
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In this Chinese song for kids post, I want to introduce Chinese Turkey in the Straw from my Sing and Learn Chinese song collection. Children sing and learn from a very young age. Studies have shown that singing to babies and toddlers help early language development, literacy skills and beyond. November’s Chinese songs for kids is featuring Turkey in the Straw, a familiar tune that many children enjoy. You can download Chinese song for kids: sing and
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Chinese for kids Halloween Printable Chinese Play and Learn. Chinese Teaching Resources for seasonal topic, Halloween! When children are learning Chinese and Chinese culture every festival and culture holiday celebrated in the community that you live in are a good opportunity to connect the Chinese language and Chinese culture with the world. Children can explore the similarities and the differences of world festivals. “Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people
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Are you ready for the Mid-Autumn Festival? Every Chinese festival is an opportunity for children to learn more about Chinese language and Chinese culture. For the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are quite a lot to share with children. There are stories to read aloud, there is food to share or make, and there are fun tradition to explore! I am always thrilled to read all the questions from you, your children and students about Chinese culture and Chinese
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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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The most amazing time when I teach Chinese to children is when we have activity time, game time, storytime, hands-on experiment time, and craft time! I want to involve the children and provide them constant comprehensible Chinese language input. I talk a lot in class and I use Chinese to communicate with the little kids. I speak Chinese constantly and I use the theme words repeatedly so the young language learners can hear the same words and
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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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Chinese Story Time is featuring Good Night, Gorilla Chinese edition. Let’s read this storybook together! Good Night, Gorilla! Chinese edition. Chinese Story Time for Kids Book Title: Good Night, Gorilla! Author: Peggy Rathmann Language: Chinese edition (Simplified Chinese) Let’s read Good Night, Gorilla! in Mandarin Chinese. Let’s help the zookeeper and say “good night!” to all the animals in the zoo. Do you think the animals are tired and sleepy? This is a story about saying good
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