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.