July 10- We started the fourth day by finishing the base of the folded box.  We continued working with greetings and times of the day (i.e. good afternoon, lunch, good evening, dinner).  We then reviewed the ‘Earth song’ followed by Chinese painting.  As this is the year of the horse in the Chinese Zodiac the students learned to draw a horse while being introduced to the various body parts of the horse in Chinese.  After the first drawing of the horse the students had an opportunity to choose another style of horse that they liked to draw.  We will finish this painting on Friday as we ran out of time today. Continue reading

Wednesday July 9-  Day three we took the laminated Chinese names and the students each made their own Chinese knot using two strings and interweaving them together.  A powerpoint presentation of basic greetings was introduced as well as numbers.  This was reviewed on a basic worksheet and again through a number song that students listened to.  We then played a game called “Da Feng Chuei: Big wind blows” and “rock paper scissors.”  The remainder of the class we began working on the lid of an origami box which will be completed at the beginning of the next class session.
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Tuesday July 8- For the start of the second day of class, we finished the calligraphy project. The students wrote their full Chinese name on rice paper and then used water to separate and create the ripped effect of the borders.  This was then mounted onto a sheet of paper and laminated.  We then began to introduce shapes by completing an paper folded triangle box.
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