10/19 Class Review and Reminder for Next Week

Reviewing

After reviewing the four characters we learned last week, today we learned the following new characters: 这、不、你、子. Take a look at the phrases/words our students were able to come up with for each of the characters:

New Characters

We noticed that there are many words in Chinese that made up by a noun plus the character "子". This is actually an interesting grammar phenomenon, where a single-character noun changes into a double-character word with 子 at the end but remain its original meaning. We won't go deeper to explain this linguistic rule to kids at the young age. But it would be fun if you could challenge your child(ren) to find out as many Zi-words as possible. For example, you can play the game "词语接龙", where family members take turns saying a word that ends by 子. (Another similar character is 儿.)

Besides the new characters, we also learned how to ask questions by adding the character "吗" at the end of a statement, such as 这是XX吗？Last week, we practiced another kind of questions: 这／那是什么？Now, we've learned to write the whole sentence: “这是什么？”

In the second half of today's class, we were introduced to some daily manners by a rhyme. The lyrics goes like this:

《礼貌歌》 

谢谢你，别客气。

对不起，没关系。

老师，老师，谢谢你！

别客气，别客气，别客气。

 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。

Learning Li-Mao-Ge in Groups

All kids had fun playing the game "城门城门几丈高" after learning the above rhyme. I can't say enough how much I loved this game personally. It involves body moments, rhyme, and most importantly, it is a great tool we can use to introduce new words and phrases in our Chinese learning in the future. We'll definitely play it again! 

老师："对不起。"
夏天：“没关系！”

This is Fun!

We spent the last ten minutes or so trying to finish our "Caterpillar" story. It is obvious that the kids loved this 好饿的毛毛虫! Along the way, we expanded our Chinese vocabulary on food and practiced our translation skills. Hopefully we'll get a chance to finish the last two pages next week.  

“谁来翻译刚才这句？”

Reminders:

1) Homework: workbook 1 B (练习册B) lesson 6, page 7-9. 

2) Important Note: Please check your class folder and the Chinese character cards. Please bring all the character cards you have collected so far to the class next Sunday. (I gave each student a zipper bag to hold all their cards but maybe some of the cards were already missing from that bag. Please let me know if you believe you need extra copies of those cards. I can email you the pdf file so that you can print out yours and get them ready before the next class meeting.) Thank you very much for your attention and cooperation! (We need those cards for class activities in the future if everyone have their cards with them.)