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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What is the one Chinese dish that is close to roasted Turkey that we have for Thanksgiving in the U.S.? Have you tried Peking Roasted Duck? Have you heard about three ways of eating Peking roasted duck? The first one is crispy duck wrap, the second one is duck stir fry and the third one is duck soup. All three dishes are from one Peking roasted duck. Does it sound similar to how we eat Thanksgiving turkey?
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For the month of November we are singing “Turkey in the Straw” in Chinese. It is a cute song and the tune is familiar so it is fun to follow along and sing together in the class or at home. Watch the video, listen to the music, and have movements for the song when you sing together. Miss Panda has prepared the lyrics in traditional characters, simplified characters, and pinyin with English translation for you to follow
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萬聖節快樂 (traditional characters 繁體字)| 万圣节快乐 (simplified characters 简体字) =Wàn shèng jié kuài lè (pinyin 拼音) Watch the video and see who is not afraid of all the goblins in all sizes and shapes. Happy Halloween! Happy #Halloween to all of the unshakeable teachers out there! pic.twitter.com/siR9wnOUeK — edutopia (@edutopia) October 31, 2016 You can’t scare me. ＝ 你不會嚇到我! | 你不会吓到我！- Nǐ bù huì xià dào wǒ. I am a teacher. = 我是一個老師。| 我是一个老师。 – Wǒ shì yī
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A Bilingual Family Journey interview with Angela Mingjung Chen, World Language Chinese Instructor and linguist along with her daughter, Joweina Hsiao. You will hear their story from both the mother’s and the daughter’s perspectives. How does Angela keep her heritage language (Chinese) and culture alive at home? Angela shares her insight on bringing up her bilingual/multilingual children as a native Chinese speaker. Joweina, a sophomore in college gives her take on her multilingual journey growing up. You
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Disclosure: I received a copy of this cookbook to review. All opinions are my own. “Katie Chin’s Everyday Chinese Cookbook: 101 Delicious Recipes from My Mother’s Kitchen” has a delicious collection of recipes that you can prepare at home for the whole family. Many of the dishes can be made with the help of children. Before exploring all the recipes, you will learn about Chinese ingredients, basic cooking tips, essential tools and utensils then the must-know sauces
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Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! = 中秋節快樂 (traditional characters) = 中秋节快乐 (simplified characters), this greeting is read as Zhōng qiū jié kuài lè. The festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month on the lunar calendar and it falls on September 16 this year (2016). The dates for the Mid-Autumn festival in the next a few years are as below. October 4, 2017 September 24, 2018 September 13, 2019 October 1, 2020 September 21, 2021 September
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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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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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