Show-and-Tell Reminder / Please Bring a Toy

Dear Class,

We have finished some show-and-tell activities along the way. But if you haven't done it yet, please bring a toy or special item (good to show to the whole class and talk about it) to the class today. It's okay if we have multiple students to share in one class. Today would be the class chance for us to do this given there's only one more class left for the school year and we'll save that class for finals/reviews.

Thank you for your attention and sorry for the last-minute notice.

Che Lao-shi

Please bring the textbook to class today

Dear Parents,

Sorry for the last-minute notice/reminder. We'll start our review sessions in the next few weeks and we need our textbook for every remaining class. Thank you for your help making sure that your child(ren) bring the book with him/her to school each Sunday!

谢谢！

Che Laoshi

5/3 Class Review

After learning how to write today's characters, we played a new game: "Beat the teacher." In this game, the students work as a team to "beat" me by following the right stocks when I'm writing a character on the board, but not following (pause and stay quiet) me when I "purposefully" make a mistake.  The students loved this game and had a lot of fun in the class! Since the stroke order has been such a challenge to almost all the students, this game really helped us paying attention to the right order of strokes of each character, in a super fun way. We shall play it again in our review sessions in the following few weeks. 

After all the games and writing practice, we also had another little booklet done, titled "小猫种鱼." It was also the story of lesson 24, the last lesson in our textbook. More than one students asked me: "Do we have more classes next week if this is the last lesson?" The answer is absolutely Yes! We'll have four more "regular" classes, all in May, followed by our last gathering, the school end-of-year party.  

We'll be reviewing the characters we've learned so far and the Pinyin system in this month. On the last one or two Sundays, we'll probably have a little quiz to assess the students' levels. Keep up your hard work and don't just relax yet. ;-) 

Lastly, a friendly reminder here to Guang'ren and Guang'mei: Please each bring a toy from home tomorrow (5/10) to show-and-tell in our class. 

See ya all soon and Happy Mother's Day!!!

4/26 Class Review

Today's show-and-tell brought us Peter and his new toy. The toy was so new that it even has no name yet. ; ) So besides asking him all the "regular" questions, the whole class worked together trying to name his toy, both in English and in Chinese. Although I can't recall all those interesting names, I was really impressed by how creative they were! 

Beyond learning our routine Chinese characters and discussing the topic from our textbook, one more thing worth mentioning today was our submission of the Yearbook Competition. Take a look at the picture below. Everyone did their best and worked hard on this project. I'm so proud of you, all the students in c1a class! Your love stories are original and amazing! Our deepest appreciation also goes to all the parents, grandparents, our lovely families who have nurtured the warmest love in our hearts!   

4/19 Class Review

In today's class, we had two students show-and-tell, all in Chinese, and other students asked questions regarding the toys they brought in. it was fun to listen to them and see how sophisticated sometimes their questions could go. 

Today's lesson was about toys. We made a small booklet titled "各种各样的玩具". It would be great if you could spend some time at home during the next few weeks, reading this booklet repeatedly until they can memorize/recognize all the characters in it.