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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Bilingual parenting is an exciting journey and it can go upside down at times. Parents need to be recharged and be inspired on this raising bilingual children journey. Here is a collection of empowering quotes about bilingual parenting, learning, bilingualism, early childhood education, being bilingual and raising bilingual kids. I have shared many of these quotes in different posts and now I am adding them to this bilingual parenting resources. Do you have any quote that empowers
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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 Ghost Festival Meets Halloween and Day of the Dead – Is there a Chinese Halloween? The Chinese Ghost Festival is an event in the Chinese Ghost Month! In Chinese culture, the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the “ghost month” and it has many taboos. These taboos include that people should not swim in rivers, weddings should not be held, and moving or buying a house is prohibited, just to name a few. Even though
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Chinese for Kids is featuring 11 Chinese Songs and Nursery Rhymes for Kids. Singing Chinese songs is a fun way to enjoy Chinese playtime at home! Research shows that music and songs help language acquisition. Many Chinese songs for kids are usually short and with a lot of repetition of simple words. Chinese songs for kids listed here go well with movements for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. What you should know about Chinese Kids Songs! Look inside
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Elmer’s Day and Book Activity Miss Panda is reading Elmer’s Day in Chinese. This is a book about routines. Children will enjoy following the adorable elephant and see if they also have similar activities just like Elmer. Elmer’s Day is written by David McKee and here is an English-Chinese bilingual edition. Listen to the story and see what Elmer the elephant does today. Young children who are learning about daily routines can relate to this story
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Chinese Reading Playground is reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar! This classic story highlights days of the week and fruit. After reading this book, there are many playful literacy activities you can do to bring this story alive. You can find the collection of The Very Hungry Caterpillar Book activity printables at the end of this post. Miss Panda is reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar Chinese edition today! Book Title: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Author: Eric Carl Language:
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Chinese cartoons for kids is featuring 15 Chinese Cartoons for children! Stories are wonderful for target language teaching and learning. A good and simple story contains repeated words, expressions, and a fun storyline to keep the attention of children. By using cartoons in small parts to deliver a lesson can be a very effective way to reinforce Chinese language learning and see some cultural elements at times. In addition to Chinese Cartoons for kids, I will be
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Teach Your Kids Chinese: The Ultimate Resource Guide! Online and offline Chinese resources for parents who are non-native speakers. You are learning Mandarin as a family and you can make it happen! 2020 update. This post has affiliate links. Thank you for your support! Teach Your Kids Chinese as you are learning Mandarin at the same time. Teach Your Kids Chinese: The Ultimate Resource Guide! When I first started teaching Mandarin Chinese almost all of my students
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A celebration is always a joyful time. Festivals and holidays add excitement to language and culture learning. Add playful learning to Valentine’s Day with music, songs, and Valentine’s day free printables! Song to Sing for Valentine’s Day “Treasure My Precious” is an adorable Chinese song written by a Dad to his baby son. It is a song and a story of the early years of parenting. You will hear the phrase, “to treasure, precious-bǎo béi-寶貝|宝贝” in the
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