Monday, February 29, 2016

Week 26, 27 - The Story Time

故事時間gu shi shi jian/story time
Objectives
1. Students can learn the power of entrust those who think that they are untrustworthy.
2. Students can tell the significance of Chinese new Year for the Chinese people.
3. Students will be willing to write a letter to someone they despised.
4. Students will know their worth does not depend on what other people say but the one who made you.
5. Students will know that everything we do have eternal values.

母親的借據     http://www.tdtb.org/information_2_view.aspx?sid=20140128094537
主人的手的觸摸    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jSlU45Y_lk
Movie of Touch of the Master's Hand    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma_p6haSavI
Your DNA Matters    http://rzim.org/just-thinking/your-dna-matters

Monday, February 22, 2016

Week 25, Lantern Festival & Banqi

元宵節yuan xiao jie/Lantern Festival; 半棋ban qi/Banqi
Objectives
1. Students will know the day of Lantern Festival.
2. Students can tell three things that Chinese people celebrate Lantern Festival.
3. Students can make lanterns with papers.
4. Students will learn the common vocabularies for making lanterns.
5. k-3rd graders will learn how to play Banqi.
6. 4-5th graders will play Chinese chess and learn the rules.
Vocabularies
習俗xi su/custom,提燈籠ti deng long/hold lanterns,吃元宵chi yuan xiao/eat glutinous dumplings,放鞭炮fang bian pao/set up fire crackers,做zuo/make,剪jian/cut,貼tie/paste,畫hua/draw,塗tu/paint,訂ding/staple。半棋ban qi/Banqi,盲棋mang qi/blind chess,靠kao/depend upon,運氣yun qi/luck,技術ji shu/skill,知識zhi shi/knowledge。
Relevant web links
How to make paper lantern    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg-Dne5G3yU
Pingxi Lantern show     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4eb0aDPwBY
Banqi rules      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqi

Monday, February 8, 2016

Week 23-24, Chinese New Year Games - Chinese Chess

象棋xiang qi/Chinese Chess
Objectives
1. Students will sound out the name of each piece in Chinese Chess.
2. Students will memorize the role for each piece in Chinese Chess.
3. Kindergarten-2nd grade students can put the pieces on the chess board correctly.
4. 3-4th grade students can play against each other on Chinese Chess.

Vocabularies
帥shuai/general,將jiang/general,仕士shi/guards; advisors,相象xiang/bishop;elephant,車ju/chariot,馬ma/horse,炮砲pao/cannon,兵bing/soldier,卒zu/soldier,下棋xia qi/play chess,棋子qi zi/game pieces,棋盤qi pan/chess board

Relevant web links
Introduction and rules        http://www.wikihow.com/Play-Chinese-Chess
Defensive strategies on video      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5dkNn2vC04
How to play Chinese Chess     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UuDiL9CLPI

Monday, January 25, 2016

Week 21 & 22, Present Chinese New Year to the Public

中國年Chinese new Year
Objectives
1.  Students can tell the story of Nian (年) to their family.
2.  Students can sing the song, Gong Xi.
3. Students can connect the meaning of spring couplets with the blood of the Lamb.
4. Students can compare the New Year Cake (年糕nian gao) with the unleavened bread.
5. Students can recite the poems of  忙年歌mang nian ge/poem of busy New year

Relevant  web links
1. the story of Nian        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXOS99vWI_o
2. Gong Xi, Gong Xi      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_IS5BycMzE
3. write spring couplets       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0t9Lw2qctQ
4. Chinese New Year Cake      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nian_gao
5. 忙年歌      http://www.letv.com/ptv/vplay/24222603.html


Thursday, January 21, 2016

Special videos for snow break--- a week before Chinese New Year

忙忙碌碌盼大年In and out, get ready for Chinese New Year.

1. What are people busy for before Chinese New Year?     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz0jcqkwQjI
2. Different food for Chinese New Year's Eve     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipBWVDpFqmA
3. Taste of Chinese New year from different area    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5IcIOBvz30

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Week 20, Getting Ready for Chinese New Year

迎新年ying xin nian/get ready for New Year
Objectives
1. 3rd graders, be able to understand the purpose of spring couplets and will be able to write the symbols of 福fu/blessed,春chun/spring in Chinese and with Chinese brush.
2. 2nd grade will watch the Chinese New Year slide show and be able to know the tradition of Chinese New Year by drawing pictures to go with the specific Chinese New Year terminologies.
3. 1st graders will learn the song - gong xi/congradulation, and be able to sing without looking.
4. Kindergarten will memory a short poem in Chinese calls 忙過年mang guo nian/busy for New Year.

Relevant web link
恭喜恭喜恭喜你    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf0btvROwXQ
Sing Happy Chinese New Year in English version     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONxL8yDksb0


Monday, January 11, 2016

Videos for you over the break 01/15 - 01/19/2016

1. Tradition in Chinese New Year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT1MX_v8C7U
2. Story of Nian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guwPTBmuiN8
3. Learn to Sing Chinese New Year Songs with Pinyin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf0btvROwXQ