Class 10/13/16

The teacher started off the class with reviewing the words we learned. Each students went up to the board and read the words they knew. Please review them at home because it is important to know those words. 

We learned to read chapter 4 in the textbook today. To break things down, we drew pictures to represent what the passage is saying. This way, the students can understand the passage easier. The students do not need to know how to write the words yet, but please teach them how to say and pronounce the words correctly. Please read the textbook according to the homework.

 
Today at the end end of class we went over the PinYin we have learned so far (ones from chapters 1- 4). Please review them because next week we will go over them in class. See you all next week!

Class 10/23

In the begging of the today's class, we reviewed（复习）the four vocabulary we learned last week from chapter 3: 再见、老师、中文、上課.

 

We also reviews the pinyin(拼音）we learned from last few weeks: d,n,h,x,b,l,m,k,sh,a,o,i,ao,e,ai,en
Today we learned few new consonants 声母: z(字zì: word),  j(小鸡xiǎo jī: baby chicken),  y(衣服yī fú:clothes). The new vowels we learned today: an(安 ān: peaceful), ei(诶: just a sound).

We played a game called look a friend找朋友. During the game, each of student need to pick two pinyin cards. And then find a friend to trade the card and make a word by the two cards. This game help students to practice put vowel and consonant together to make a word. After we we finished the game , we also read page 17 and page 19 from textbook to let students practice more.

In the end of the class, we played another game. We acted the chapter from textbook we learned from the last few weeks.

Don't forget read ch3 from textbook twice per day and review the pinyin we learned. Also, do the workbook 1a练习册page 4-6. And the YouTube cartoon video link is below:
https://youtu.be/l7ViCJS6bQU

10/9 Class Review

In the beginning of today's class, we reviewed the four characters we learned last week.( 中、文、白、上).

Also, we reviewed the four initial/consonants 声母（d, n,x,h) and four finals/vowels 韵母（a,o,i,ao). After, we started to learn new initials and finals. New initials are：b（radio 广播）l （looks like a stick 棍子）m （两个门洞）k （tadpole小蝌蚪）sh（ Lion 狮子）. New final  are：e（goose 鹅）ai （love爱）en（press 摁）. We made the  pinyin cards 拼音卡片 for practice how to make a word by using these vowels and finals.

Che Laoshi also gave examples for each initial and finals to help the students to conect the sond with Chinese characters/meaning. And we read page 10 on textbook to practice more.

The links for the watching YouTube video homework:

https://youtu.be/mOSYN73Qr6k

https://youtu.be/CeE5V220ASo

Hope to see you all next week!!!!

10/2 Class Review

Hi all! This week we learned the characters 上,  中, 文, 白. We also reviewed some characters we learned in the past weeks. Make sure you review them every week and write the characters in the right stroke order! 

The teacher also passed out a writing book which has the correct format for writing Chinese characters. You can use that book to practice writing your characters and bring it to class because you will need it in class!

The teacher also passed out an assignment sheet with assignment that the students should do. If you complete all of them and the parent signs the paper, you will get a stamp! Remember to read our textbook! 

At the end of the class, we had game time where we played the game "Little Detective". We used the new characters that we learned and also the character we have already learned, so review your characters. 

See you all next week!

9/25 Class Review

In today's class , we first reviewed what we learned last week.  This included the 8 Chinese characters: 大, 小, 云, 卫, 你, 好, 我, 叫. One of the homework for this week is to read lesson 1 from the textbook everyday and try to cover the Pinyin part while reading the characters.
  

Today we started to learned Pinyin (拼音). We learned 4 initials (first part of the pinyin): d (image the sound of the horse), n (there will has a vibrate on your nose when you trying to say this), h (喝水 "drinking water"), and x (cut the watermelon). Also, we learned four final consonants (second part of the pinyin): a (open your mouth wide when u triying to say this), o ( the sound of the roster makes early in the morning), i ( 衣服"clothes"), and ao (袄 " heavy coat"). And then the teacher putted some vowel and final consonant together to make some words: daˋ(big 大), niˇ( you 你), haˇo (good 好),and xiaˇo (small 小). 

After we finished learning the pinyin, we started to learn Sheng Diao(声调).  Sheng diao is the sound the Chinese characters make,  crucial to learning Chinese. There has four Sheng Diao: --, ˊ, ˇ,ˋ.  We practiced Pinyin and Sheng Diao on the textbook page 5 and page 6 in class.

At the last part of the class, we were singing the colors song we learned last week. Also, we read again the book we read on the first day of the class. The little panda meet other animals and introducing themselves. 

*Homework: read lesson 1 from the textbook everyday and try to read both the character and Pinyin parts. Also, complete the practice book A page 1 -3. Next week we will start lesson 2 so it will be halpful if you can preview the text.

Class 9/18/2016

There will be a parent meeting next week, on 9/25/2016. All parents please attend!

In class today we learned the characters 大 (big), 小 (small), 云 (cloud). The teacher gave them a practice sheet with the words on there and it would be awesome if they can practice writing the words at home. 

We played a game called "little detective" in class today.  In this game the teacher puts Chinese characters on the board that the students have already learned, and asks one students to be the detective and one to be the robber.  The student that is the robber goes to the board and takes one of the characters off the board while the student that is the detective has their back to the board and their eyes closed.  The student that is the detective then has to detect which character the robber took.  

We read the first lesson of the textbook in class today. It is a simple story that introduces the characters that will appear throughout all the levels of the textbooks at Chinese school.

The teacher, during circle time taught the students the color song, using the names of the colors in Chinese and read them a book.  

See you all next week! 

First Day of Class 9/11/2016

Hello! Welcome to the first day of class! We started today's class by learning how to introduce ourselves. the Teacher went around asking each student their names so they can practice introducing themselves.

We then learned a song called "Hello Song". It is a song that teaches you what to say when you meet someone.

 Circle time followed that and during circle time we learned how to ask people how old they are and what their name is.  "你叫什么" (What is your name?) "你几岁" (How old are you?) 

The teacher then split them into groups of two and as partners, they introduced themselves to each other. They later had to present their partners to the class. 

 After recess, the teacher read a book to the class. The book is about a little panda meeting other animals and introducing himself to them.

 We also learned sheng diao today.  Sheng diao is the sound the Chinese characters make,  crucial to learning Chinese. The four sheng diao's are "-- , /, V, \ " . Characters that share the same pinyin but different sheng diao mean totally different things.

       We have accomplished many things on the first day. See you all next week!