Raising Bilingual kids is a journey and it is an exciting one. It needs planning and you can start with setting up a bilingual home. What is it like to raise bilingual kids? First, I have a few stories to share with you. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier, author Valería walked up to me at a party and shouted, “One more time!” Then we hopped and
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Chinese Nursery Rhymes! This is our Chinese teaching resource for the Summer Chinese Reading Program. Chinese Nursery Rhymes are catchy and fun. Do kids love singing nursery rhymes? YES! If you have ever seen kids in preschool or kindergarten you know how they sing with big smiles and loud voice. Can you teach kids Chinese nursery rhymes easily? Absolutely! I have 12 Chinese nursery rhymes that are entertaining for kids and for you to get the fun
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Chinese Language Activity Calendar! Chinese Reading Playground features The Chinese Language Activity Calendar! “The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.” -Maria Montessori Children like to have a routine. When they have a routine they know what to expect. Routine is important at home and in the classroom. When there is a routine kids know what to expect. The summer Chinese Language Activity Calendar
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Chinese Summer Reading Program is featuring reading activity bookmarks for kids! Keeping kids reading every day! Adding activities to reading routine! We are here to support you with playful resources! Register in the Chinese Summer Reading Program here! Drum roll, please! I want to make an announcement about an upcoming giveaway. We will be giving away Chinese Stories reading app subscriptions for 2018 reading program! More details to come. Stay tuned! Now, let’s look into the
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Chinese Reading Logs for Kids are here! Summer reading program features Chinese Reading Logs for Kids! This is a resource you can use to engage and motivate children to play and read in Chinese during summer. Reading is fun. Stories are engaging. Let’s add some pixie dust to the reading routine and get kids excited about target language summer reading. Chinese Reading Logs for Kids: There are three formats you can choose from according to the reading
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May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Teaching your heritage language to your children is a way to celebrate your family culture and your heritage culture. For my children, Chinese is their heritage language and I am the only source of Chinese language in our family. Over the years I have noticed that more and more schools and libraries share featured resources with children, parents and educators in the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. When I lived
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Six steps for teaching Chinese to young learners! Being bilingual or multilingual has so many benefits. Research shows how easily young children can learn a different language when they are exposed to it, especially when they are immersed in it. We are in an era of raising young global citizens. Learning a language is learning a culture and it expands a child’s world. Speak Mandarin Chinese to your child if you are a native Chinese speaker. Learn
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May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month – a celebration of the culture and history of Asian-Pacific Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Asian Pacific American Heritage Month originated as a congressional bill in 1978 and in 1992 it was expanded from a week to a month-long celebration. This is a good time to learn something new about the diversity of Asian-Pacific cultures or to reflect on your culture with your child if you are
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Teaching Chinese Fruit Words with real fruits! This is a set of high frequency words and expressions that are often used. Enjoy the video and the activity bank! You may also enjoy Introduce Chinese to Children Through Songs. Level: novice Ages: young learners and above Key items: fruit words Teaching Chinese fruit words is a lot of fun. Kids always get so excited when I bring real fruits to the classroom. What a yummy fruit words show-and-tell!
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Chinese Through Story features Earth Day! What Earth Day activities are there for your kids to try? What can you do to protect our Earth as a family, a community, class or school? There are a lot of fun ways to celebrate Earth Day and generate ideas of how to protect our environment through discussion and a walk around a neighborhood. For example, one fourth grade class at my local school made a “water hero” statue
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