Last Day of Chinese School ~~ M1 Class Speech Talent Show Videos

Congratuations to EVERYONE, who worked hard in M1 in the past scool year! Here are the video clips of your final speech show. They are truely impressive! Keep up your good work in learning Mandarin Chinese! Have a great summer vacation!! I'll see you around next year!!!

5/14 Class Review

Happy Mother's Day to all the supportive Moms of M1 class! We dedicated the majority of our first class time to make a Mother's Day special gift to momies. We played drama by small groups, about things we like to do with mom. Then we drew pictures and wrote Chinese words on a card. The students had a lot of fun with this timing activity. And hopefully, moms who accompaied their kids to this class also got a nice break from supervising task. ;)

We then spent about 15 minutes of the second class today in the Old Gym, for a mini field trip: we went to check out all the YearBook submission from the NewStar students from K to 9th grade! It was indeed an eye-opening experience to our students, since all of them are first time participants to this annual event. Through looking at others writings and drawings, we hope the students are getting some motivation and strategies of improving their own work in the next contest.

Coming back into the classroom, we focused on Chinese character stroke order rules. We practiced identifying the very first and the last stroke of each character on a handout, following those basic rules. It is hard for anyone to memorise all the stroke orders with 100% accuracy; but fortunately, that is not our goal. We wish the students will establish a basic understanding of those rules and get the basic ones right, such as always do a horizental line from left to right and a vertial one from top to bottom.

The final quiz review handout also was distributed today. For those of you who haven't received it, it won't be too late if you come to the class on 5/21 to get it.

PinYin Song 拼音歌

This is the Pinyin Song we have been learning in the classroom.

Class Review 4/30/2017

We started today's lesson by exercising some simple dialogs in Chinese, such as "wo ma ma shi zhong guo ren," "wo baba shi yi sheng," "wo mama 也 shi zhong guo ren"......The same as last week, we did this listening and speaking exercise by playing the game "一样，不一样 (the same or not the same)," per the toy figures' gender (last time was by colors).

Then we invited students to come up to the front to recite the newly taught nursery poem "爱旅游的小蚂蚁." There were two students did it successfully and that was really cool. For those of you who haven't achieved this goal, please don't give up. You can do it within a week, if you put like ten minutes into it everyday. Your hard work will pay off once you get there! However, ideally, it should be done in a FUN way and the students need to feel that learning Chinese is not boring or too hard. If there's any negative feelings attached to this exercise at home, please find another way of doing it or email the teacher for suggestions.

Today's main lesson time was spent on learning numbers in Chinese. We counted by dribbling balls and we also practiced how to write one to ten (Chinese characters) in their correct stroke order.

The homework for this week is to finish your Year Book Contest entry. Please give it a hard thought and plan it carefully. Once started, please take your time to do a good job. Don't forget it's submission deadline is next Sunday, May 7th. Thanks to all the parents who are supportive and sacrificing your personal time to help your children learning and practicing Chinese at home!

class 4/23/2017

Announcement: please check the wechat or email about more information about telling story contest and yearbook contest.
 At the beginning of the class, we reviewed 爱旅游的小蚂蚁。 (please let students practice more in the home). After that, we played a game: students randomly pick two toys and if the two toys are the same color then teacher will give one sentence and the student need to give a relative sentence (我爸爸是美国人； 我爸爸也是美国人) if the student pick two toys that are different colors then the student will need to give a different sentence than the teacher's sentence (我爸爸是美国人；我妈妈是美国人)

 
We also larn some new pinyin: iu 丟diu牛niu, er 耳er 二er, ing 鹰ying 英ying. Also, we make some pinyin card.

 



 
We did an exercise on page 68 and page 80 to help student identify the pinyin; we also paly a game called 接龙：every students get three pinyin cards and then they need to put them in order

 

At the end of the class, the teacher read a book called有趣的时差. This is a book about the different time in the different country. 

Don't forget do the homework!!!

儿歌：爱旅游的小蚂蚁

小蚂蚁，真调皮，

爬上了我的地球仪。

逛美国，游埃及，

过中国，到印尼，

澳大利亚，和巴西，

德国，日本，意大利，

五洲四洋都转遍，

还要探险上北极！

Please help your child to put Pinyin on each top of each character and help them to recite the poem as much as possible! Bonus points will be given to students who can recite the whole poem within three reminders next Sunday!

Class 4/9/2017

Welcome students back from the spring break!!!
In the beginning of the class, the teacher asked students what they did during the spring break and students need to use Chinese to respond. This is the first week of the class after the spring break so, we reviewed what we learn before the spring break: Chinese vocabulary and Chinese character.
 
We played a little game to help students review all the vocabularies and the characters that on the board: two students stand in front of the whiteboard and the teacher would ask a word or character on the board, then which student find the word faster would win the game.                            
                                                  
In the second period, students learned few new pinyin: f 风 fēng 佛 fó分 fēn, eng 生 shēng, ong 红
hóng 工 gōng 中 zhōng, t 兔 tù
Don't forget to do the homework and see you guys next week!!!

儿歌汇总（一）

1.   你好

你好、你好

你好吗？你好吗？

同学好、老师好

大家好、大家好

2.   再见

噢 朋友再见

噢 朋友再见

大家都再见

我们还会再见！

3.   上学歌

太阳当空照、花儿对我笑

小鸟说，早、早、早

你为什么背着小书包

我去上学校、天天不迟到

爱学些、爱劳动

长大要为人民立功劳

4.   礼貌歌

老师，老师，谢谢你

不客气、不客气、不客气

老师，老师，对不起

没关系、没关系、没关系

老师，老师，谢谢你

请你不要太客气

5. 春天真美丽

春天春天真美丽

花儿红红草儿绿

小朋友们手拉手

大家一起做游戏

6. 丢手绢

丢手绢，丢手绢

轻轻地放在小朋友的后面

大家不要告诉他

快点、快点，抓住他

快点、快点，抓住它

7. 找朋友

找呀、找呀、找朋友

找到一个 好朋友

行个礼呀 握握手

你是我的 好朋友

8. 家族歌

爸爸的爸爸叫什么？ 爸爸的爸爸叫爷爷； 爸爸的妈妈叫什么？ 爸爸的妈妈叫奶奶； 爸爸的哥哥叫什么？ 爸爸的哥哥叫伯伯； 爸爸的弟弟叫什么？ 爸爸的弟弟叫叔叔； 爸爸的姐妹叫什么？ 爸爸的姐妹叫姑姑。

妈妈的爸爸叫什么？妈妈的爸爸叫外公； 妈妈的妈妈叫什么？妈妈的妈妈叫外婆； 妈妈的兄弟叫什么？妈妈的兄弟叫舅舅； 妈妈的姐妹叫什么？妈妈的姐妹叫阿姨。

爷爷，爸爸的爸爸叫爷爷； 奶奶，爸爸的妈妈叫奶奶； 伯伯，爸爸的哥哥叫伯伯； 叔叔，爸爸的弟弟叫叔叔； 姑姑，爸爸的姐妹叫姑姑 外公，妈妈的爸爸叫外公； 外婆，妈妈的妈妈叫外婆； 舅舅，妈妈的兄弟叫舅舅； 阿姨，妈妈的姐妹叫阿姨。

3/19/17 Homework

M1 Class Homework 家庭作业  3/19

No school on 3/26 and 4/2. Happy Spring Break! We’ll see you on 4/9. Please review all the songs (on Class Blog:  http://newstartm12016.blogspot.com ) and read the following words and sentences. (*You don’t have to finish them all at once. Break them down to a multiple-day task. Older students may translate them into English. Most of them can be found in our textbook. Few of them are NEW vocabulary. Please don’t hesitate to ask the teacher or your parents for help! )

你好、你好吗？、大卫、小云、我叫、同学们、老师、上课、中文、现在、白云、老师好、我们现在上课、再见、明天见、下课、谢谢、大小、上下、太阳、天气、太阳照、天气好、早起、上学、学校、朋友、小朋友们、起得早、一起、鸟、花、草、鸟儿、花儿、草儿、鸟儿叫、花儿笑、草儿绿、花鸟、花草、白花、红花、绿草、小鸟、小花、小草、大红花、花花草草、这是、那是、铅笔、书、尺子、本子、我的、你的、老师的、什么、这是什么、那是什么、这是我的铅笔、那是白老师的书、这是花、那是鸟、这是小学校、那是太阳、这是你的吗？、这是、是的、这是我的、不是、这不是、这不是我的、你是大卫吗？、我是、我不是、您、王老师、李老师、车老师、谢谢、谢谢你、不客气、对不起、没关系、春天、美丽、真、真美丽、真小、真大、真好、手、手拉手、一起游戏、游、戏、家、大家、大手拉小手、做游戏、做作业、做手工、几、人、口、人口、几口人、你家有几口人？、爸爸、妈妈、哥哥、姐姐、弟弟、妹妹、爷爷、奶奶、姥姥、姥爷、阿妈、阿公、外婆、外公、我、医生、职员、工作、职业、作业、你妈妈是老师吗？、你爸爸呢？、他是工程师、老师、工人、农民、银行职员、作家、画家、科学家、舞蹈家、飞行员、店员

读拼音：

b p m f d t n l g k h j q x zh ch sh r z c s y w

a o e i u ü ai ei ui ao ou iu ie üe er an en in un ün ang eng ing ong

Class 3/19/17

We learned the new characters for lesson 10 today.  They are: 工、作、生、在。During the class time, we practiced their strock orders by playing the "Beat the Teacher" game. We also talked about their meanings and some common words that they make, such as: 工作、作业、学生、医生、在这里……

The students also practiced writing those four characters on a sheet. Due to the different ages of students in this class, writing remains a challenge for some younger students but should be encouraged for the older students. So please help your child practice this at home accordingly. Do not disencourage them when they can't do it or can't do it well. It is totally fine if they are not ready to master the writing skills yet. Listening, speaking and reading are the focus for now.

In the second class, we practiced listening and speaking skills and learned how to ask and talk about Daddy's and Mommy's "jobs."  The teacher pointed out that Chinese vocabulary for jobs usually has one of the following endings: 师、家、员、生。The common ones we mentioned about were: 老师、律师、厨师、工程师、学生、医生、科学家、舞蹈家、作家、飞行员、职员、店员、管理人员、销售人员……

Due to the upcoming Spring Break, we'll not have Chinese class for the following two weeks. There are homework for you to do during thise three-week long interval. Please help your child to sing all the songs we've learned so far (most of them are up on this blog), to read the textbook lessons 1 to 10, and to understand and read the words listed on their homework sheet. See you on 4/9!

游戏儿歌：找朋友 Looking For A Friend

游戏儿歌：丢手绢 Throw Handkerchief

Class 03/12/2017

In today's class, we spend most of time to review. We play a game about students separate in two groups: red team and blue team; the teacher will say a Chinese character and the student represent of each team will go grab the word. This game helps the students to recognize Chinese characters.

                                      

 
After we reviewed the Chinese characters, we reviewed pinyin through the same game.

Today we play a game outside called "Throw Handkerchief 丢手绢". One person need to throw the handkerchief behind another person and the person got handkerchief need to catch the person who throw the handkerchief  to him or her.

Classs 2/26/2017

In the beginning of the classs, we reviewed the chapter 8 from the textbook春天真美丽. Also, we started to learn chapter 9你家有几口人 today. After students read the texts, all the students started to learn to write the Chinese character from the chapter 9. Everyone did a great job on the writing.

 

Chapter 9 is about the family so, the teacher also taugh studentst how to called each member in the family tree(mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, aunt, uncle, brothers and sisters, etc.) in Chinese. Students also sat in a circle, taking turns to speak in Chinese about how many members in their family.

         

At the end of class, we read the book "司马光砸缸" one more time in Chinese (we introduced the story last week in English).

家族歌 Family Members

Pinyin Videos

Class 2/12/2017

We reviewed the few songs we learned before at the begging of the class: 你好歌、礼貌歌、上学歌. After we reviewed the song, we started to learn a new chapter from the textbook. So, we spent our first period to read chapter 8 春天真美丽. The teacher uses some word to help students understand the title of the chapter.

*The weekly homework is a very important part of this class; it helps the students to retain their learning at the class. So please do spend time during the weekdays working on your assigned homework......The more you keep yourself exposed to the Chinese sonds and characters throughout the week, the more you'll learn from our class time!

In the second period, students watched a short pinyin YouTube video to learn more about pinyin. We also practiced writing some new Chinese characters that from ch8: 一、儿、手、大. If student's Chinese character practice sheet not finishes, student please finish it in the home.

Finally we learned the text, sang it with a tune and played "Beat the teacher" game to make sure the students can read all the characters in the text. Please practice reading the text, as usually, as part of your homework assignment. Parents may help and record the students' reading. voice files can be sent to Che Laoshi via email or wechat. Detailed instruction can be found in previous week's homework sheet.