At the end
of the day, I was on the floor, exhausted! I have to say partly it’s my own
fault getting up at 6am to watch the Opening Ceremony of Olympic Games with
family this morning. Really didn’t want
to miss out the spectacular big event.
Kids were always much the same, energetic!
No Kahlil
and William today, but we had 2 new friends joined us at the 1st hour
and decided to join us officially next week.
With almost full attendance this afternoon, kids were all happy to see
some old friends. They became very
chatty, then they were carried away in the chit chatting & laughter while
doing their art work. It was great kids enjoying each other’s
company. However with English as their
main language, the class was driven away in a different direction, or should I
say, that was their original little world. And yet, I really could not stop them from
talking “English”, because this was the only language they could communicate. I reminded myself to use Chinese if I could,
and I encouraged them to use “Chinese a”, and praised them all the time. I did all I could to keep them a great
interest in learning Chinese!
Today, we
continued to learn the poem – “Jing Ye Si” by Li Bai of Tang Dynasty. We recited the poem quite a few times, and
tried to get kids into the habit of using their index fingers to point out each
words they read along. I had printed out
the poem with PinYin in line with the Chinese characters for Mums & Dads’
use. Please use it to review the poem
with your children. A short clip of the
poem would be also embedded for your guide following.
The very
hungry caterpillar by Eric Carle, was one of the best & the most popular picture
book for young children. Hence I used it’s
setting of this book to teach kids colour, food,big/small, … Today kids got a name of fruits/sweets from
the book, instead of their own name I
called them whatever fruit they were! This
was first time kids didn’t quite get it, yet, I’m sure they will enjoy it more
next time. This was to reinforce kids to remember of those fruits names and to
use the words when they need to talk to their mates.
We reviewed
big/small, circle, and introduce long/short by tearing a piece of paper into a
long strip. The first time most kids had
troubles to tear the paper in the right way, but into a Jellyfish-like strips. Lester
was almost in tears, poor baby. That was
because they couldn’t wait to try and ignored my instruction. I let them taste the feeling of failure. Without discouraging them, I sat them down
again, and showed them how to do it.
Some got it straight away, some didn’t.
Never mind, we did it again. At
the end, I think everyone got the right idea.
Another main
part of today’s learning was ㄤ,ㄧ,ㄒ in the bopomofo, using a combination of games & songs. I hope kids had some fun today.
Today’s
homework: the worksheets of ㄤ,ㄧ; & please help
your child review the poem.
静夜思
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