Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Week 9, When Is Your Birthday

你的生日是幾月幾日?nide sheng ri shi ji yue ji ri/When Is Your Birthday?

Objectives
k-2nd     Students be able to say their own birthdays in Chinese.
3-5th grade    Students be able to say the year, the month, the date, and days of the week in Chinese.

Vocabularies
我的wode/my,你的nide/your,他的tade/his,生日shengri/birthday,年nian/year月yue/month,日ri/day,數字shuzi/number,一yi/1,二er/2,三san/3,四si/4,五wu/5,六liu/6,七qi/7,八ba/8,九jiu/9,十shi/10,十一shiyi/11,十二shier/12,十三shisan/13,十四shisi/14,十五shiwu/15,十六shiliu/16,十七shiqi/17,十八shiba/18,十九shijiu/19,二十ershi/20,二十一ershiyi/21,二十二ershier/22,二十三ershisan/23,二十四ershisi/24,二十五ershiwu/25,二十六ershiliu/26,二十七ershiqi/27,二十八ershiba/28,二十九ershijiu/29,三十sanshi/30,今天jin tian/today,明天ming tian/tomorrow,後天hou tian/day after tomorrow,昨天zuo tian.yesterday,前天qian tian/day before yesterday,星期xing qi/week

Relevant videos
1. How Many Months Are There in A Year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2gUFlwxUfI
2. Happy Birthday To You     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S28a3esOoVw
3. Count the year, month, date, and days of the week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd61kjaCI3M

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Week 8: Counting ages

你今年幾歲ni jin nian ji sui/How Old Are You
Learning objectives
k-2nd grade---Students be able to count their own ages.
3-5th grade---Students be able to count their own ages and family members' ages.

Vocabularies
今年jin nian/this year,明年ming nian/next year,後年hou nian/year after next year,去年qu nina/last year,前年qian nian/year before last year,歲sui/year;age,幾歲ji sui/how old

Relevant videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzOr1F-Z0C0

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Week 7 Counting Family Members

Learning objectives
k-2nd grades:  Students will learn family members through a nursery rhyme:你家你家有幾個人ni jia ni jia you ji ge ren/How Many People Are There In Your Family
3-5th grades: Students will write about family members

Vocabularies for this week
家jia/family,有you/there are,幾ji/how many,個ge/counting unit for people,這是zhe shi/this is,那是na shi/that is,爸爸baba/dad,媽媽mama/mom,繼父ji fu/step dad,繼母ji mu/step ma,養父母yang fu mu/adoptive parents,同母異父兄弟tong mu yi fu xiong di/half brother with the same biological mom,同母異父姐妹tong mu yi fu jie mei/half sister with the same biological mom,同父異母兄弟tong fu yi mu xiong di/half brother with the same biological dad,同父異母姐妹tong fu yi mu jie mei/half sister with the same biological father。

Relevant video
song        http://music.weibo.com/ting?songids=100141450&songlist=0&flag=0&coflag=50001613
youtube      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsC9RsOKOak

Friday, September 25, 2015

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Week 6--Numbers

This week students will learn how to count in Chinese and how to write Chinese numbers.
K-2nd grade,  Make monthly calendar for September and count to 30 in Chinese.
3-5th grade,  Make monthly calendar of September in Chinese, count to 100 in Chinese.

Relevant web link:
http://www.languageguide.org/vocabulary/numbers/?lang=zh&target=zh-tw

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Week 5- Review and Story time

1. This week students will review the greetings words and the way to address family members.

2. k-2 will learn the nursery rhymes:
兩隻老虎Two Tiger   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrYCw6F3p7M
三輪車跑得快Tricycle Run Fast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmEp7R5uKrY

問候歌Greeting Song    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O64d81Qor_Q

3. 3-5th grade will read the story: 小馬過河(The Little Horse Crosses the River)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGPolg8MRsw

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Week 3,4 Family

Objectives:

1. Students will learn how to call family members in Chinese.
2. Learn the different addresses for fraternal and maternal parents, brothers, sisters, and their children.
3. The vocabularies students have to master are:爸爸baba/dad,媽媽mama/mom,哥哥gege/older brother,姐姐jiejie/older sister,弟弟didi/younger brother, 妹妹meimei/younger sister,爺爺yeye/dad' dad,奶奶nainai/dad's mom,伯伯bobo/dad's older brother, 叔叔shushu/dad's younger brother,姑姑gugu/dad's sister,外公waigong/mom's dad,外婆waipo/mom's mom,舅舅jiujiu/mom's brother,阿姨ayi/mom's sister,堂兄弟tang xiongdi/cousin,表兄弟biao xiongdi/cousin on mom's site,堂姐妹tang jiemei/girl cousin,表姐妹biao jie mei/girl cousin on mom's site。

Relevant youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdqOaOxLxec