Friday, September 26, 2014

Chinese Class Week 4, 5, 6, 7

Learning objectives:
1. Be able to say and to write the days of the week in Chinese.
2. Be able to count the 12 months in order in Mandarin.
3. Be able to say and to write the four seasons in Chinese.
4. Be able to say and write the the date of the month and the year.
5. Be able to tell the time of the day in Mandarin.
6. Understand the formal Chinese characters for the numbers and their practice in the Chinese culture.
7. Be able to read and to remember the relevant nursery rhymes.

relevant website:
Days of the week, Month, Seasons, Clock, Years:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfDqTgwArRo

3-5th grade learn the song of 杜鵑花 (du juan hua/Azalea)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nicvjhBeRdo

Monday, September 15, 2014

Living Beyond Limits---a life story of Amy Purdy

Amy Purdy's speech:  http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_purdy_living_beyond_limits#t-22247
Amy Purdy on 2014 winter Olympic snowboard:    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzvZet_MnJs

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Chinese Classes Week 1, 2, & 3

Week 1, The International Dot Day (點日dian ri) and the Chinese Moon Festival (中秋節zhong qiu jie) 點dian/dot=黑hei/black+占zhan/occupy
Learning Objective:
1. To understand the significance of dot in our daily life; to learn Chinese vocabularies related to Dot; to use dots to form different pictures and shapes.
2. To understand the history of Chinese Moon Festival; to memorize the vocabularies related to the moon festival; to know how Chinese people celebrate this festival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXTDFgm42OU


Week 2, The Chinese Numbers (數字shu zi)
Learning Objective:
1. Be able to navigate Chinese blog easily.

2. To count the numbers 1-100 in Chinese; be able to write down the numbers through Chinese number call; to understand the way of writing Chinese check.
http://www.languageguide.org/mandarin/numbers/
3. To use Chinese numbers to count the day of the week, the months, the year, the date, and the time.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfDqTgwArRo

Week 3, Review of Numbers Through Nursery Rhymes (數字歌shu zi ge)
Learning Objective:
1. Be able to memorize the numbers in Mandarin securely
2. Be able to recite the number songs in Mandarin.
k-2 Number Song in Mandarin               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDs26e_mjuU
3-5 Counting Numbers (數字歌shu zi ge)    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtNjLViOJxU