In class
today, I let kids colouring dinosaurs,恐kong3龍long3,  which matched
one of  the subjects today ㄥ.  And we spent a lot
more time on learning fireflies, 螢ying2火huo3蟲chong2, by doing a colouring about
fireflies, learning the song and watching some related film clips I attached
below, if you like to play them for your child as a review of today’s lesson.

We also made
a triangle flag, 三角旗, by using some different sizes of
felt circles and buttons, and a chopstick. Most kids already forgot how to say
chopsticks in Chinese which we learnt in Term2! Again this just proved the importance
of reviewing the old information.  I shall
put more efforts on this part in future.

I introduced
5 pictures with their Chinese characters & bopomo together in the ppt, and
later let every kid have a go on the PC game regarding the same vocabularies, followed
up with a paper work to check out if they understood everything.  Kids were generally fond of the pc game, and
were excited about it.  But when doing
the paper work, some could not quite get it. 
I wonder if they are still too young to be familiar with the worksheet.

I learnt to
create the pc game from my first daughter last night. She suggested me to
design something that attracts kids to play and learn.  The main attraction of the game is for kids
try to make the connection with the sound and the bopomo.  I promised them I will send the game to their
Mums/Dads, so they could have another go at home.

Homework: ㄆㄨㄡㄥworksheets & pc game:bopomo1808.pptx

從昨晚雨就下個不停,怕大塞車, 我特地提早去學校附近吃午餐!就在Bridge Rd 上, 台灣人開的“台灣小吃” 銘楷爸爸分享的news!  這也是促進我們提早出發的原因.. 事實證明我們早到學校是.明智的, 因為傍晚回家時蠻塞的, 因為今天下午有球賽!!  但雨停了, 還好.

三個小時我們做了不少東西.
今天我們主要是介紹注音符號的ㄥ和ㄡ, 和相關拼音. 我挑幾個跟我們日常相關或動物玩偶, 小朋友容易內化的物件來做生字引導. 盼慢慢地可把小朋友的字彙累積起來. (這時,又開始希望可每天跟這些小朋友見面,複習他們的中文多好.. 我其實是個急性子!)

除了新知, 主要還是溫故. 不斷複習前面學過的東西. 加深印象. 畢竟一週只有3小時, 小朋友學的快,但忘的也快, 若爸媽在家沒有稍微複習一下, 其實每一個星期六對某些孩子幾乎都是一個新起點. 大女兒昨晚分享了她在學校數學課學的遊戲設計, 她給了我這個idea設計了電腦遊戲讓小朋友可在家複習課堂上學的生字. 我們也在課堂上玩過一輪, 希望對每個孩子的學習都有幫助.

我們做用筷子和大大小小圓形的和扣子做成三角旗的圖案. 又, 學了”螢火蟲” . 相關歌謠和影音和畫畫恐龍 …和 唱歌..

*****唱小小螢火蟲(song we leant to sing today)******

 

 

*****發光的小小螢火蟲 (see the fireflies in the field)*****

 

***螢火蟲找朋友(story)***

Sources of vedio clips: Youtube

For learning purpose only

Mums &
Dads, please praise your little one/s for the hard work they’ve done last Sat
afternoon in Chinese school. I had given them a few “extras” to do, and they
completed all the tasks.  I was very pleased
with them.

 It was about six months since we met for
learning Chinese together, I strongly felt the children are ready to move on
for serious work.  This term I started
introducing children Pin-Yin, the sounds of putting 2 or 3 alphabets together.  This would hopefully help children to be familiar
with PinYin, and prepare them for next year of their further pin-yin studies.

We learned
about squares and triangles, long and short, and a new poem of Wang W.ei, Tang Dynasty.

Sorry my review came so late this week.         

我就知道如果星期六晚上不馬上接著做日誌, 我就會拖….拉.. 不好意思, 上星期六晚上有飯局. 回家甚晚.  星期日忙孩子… …. 所以就拖到現在. 
請見諒.

上週六小朋友們忙碌得很, 小朋友可能稍微感受到多一些些壓力. 美勞中帶入方形和三角形, 也再次用折紙加強概念, 不知道小朋友有沒有問了爸媽找出幾個三角形(在折紙上面)? 也用撕紙來複習長和短. 也介紹了新詩, 王維的雜詩, 君自故鄉來…..寒梅著花未?

我發現銘楷很會照顧人, 美勞時,他很主動地幫忙坐他兩旁的同學, 小小年紀,真的很棒.

從這學期我開始介紹拼音, 二拼和三拼都會有. 多多少少給小朋友拼音的概念, 也為明年的功課鋪點底子. 中文底子很薄的Milla
很快就抓住方法,可能是她年齡較長,夠成熟 ,領悟力就相對高了些 .但小朋友若有認真聽課, 應該也是可以吸收起來.  在做評量時, 最小最安靜的文財令我驚訝, 當大家還在想辦法問清楚怎麼做, 他靜靜地把答案排好在紙上, (全答對ㄛ!) 等著他的turn 來用膠水!!

每個孩子都不同, 所以進度一定會有長短. 如果您的孩子慢了些, 請不要太心急, 適度的鼓勵和讚美是很受用的. 當他們準備好了, 他們亦將到達終點.  我們堅持,一起加油!

 

“Happy 88 Day!” to all the Dads!!  We celebrated Father’s Day in advance at
school this afternoon.  In Taiwan our Father’s
day is set on the 8^th of August, taking the homophonic sound of 8 8 sounds
like ba ba/ 爸爸 that’s exactly meant Daddy.  The faculty only decided the theme late last
Saturday after school, it had to be the mini Olympic to fit the latest trend!  

Time was tight
before the fun started!  That meant we
got to finish making all the decorations and the Father’s day cards, fitted in
my teaching plans somewhere in 90 mins. 
Well, we did a lot of it, and had a bit of fun too.  The children were a little timid but excited when
we walked in to the hall meeting their Mums & Dads.  I hope all parent/s had a fun time with your
little one/s this afternoon.   

今天學校提前慶祝88節!  上週六下課後,老師們開會決定以mini 
Olympic型態 來做親子活動,讓孩子們與爸爸同歡. 
 這實在是沒有比這更應景,更適合爸爸節了!!  

今天下午前半段,可能幾乎每班老師都忙著小朋友趕著完成給爸爸的卡片, 或要出場的旗子,或頭飾… 我們班也不例外!! 只是我把美勞的顏色縮小至Olympic colour, 藍,紅,黃,黑,绿.

 托爸爸的福, 下午我們很早就到了學校, 女兒又喜歡幫我忙, 我讓她們把顏色挑好的小氣球先吹起來. 滿桌子的氣球,藍.黃.紅.绿, 就差了黑色! (實在是買不到! ) 不過小朋友們並不挑剔, 一看到氣球, 眼睛立刻閃出一道光!  把小氣球套上橡皮筋, 小朋友們可挑選自己喜歡的顏色掛在手腕上. 
我們又用pipe cleaners和氣球做頭飾.  今天下午可忙的!

時間很趕, 我讓孩子們用很有限的資源做了三角旗. 以黑色為底色, 黏貼上藍.黃.紅.绿tissue paper.  再來,來把這些小旗子黏到我準備好的大旗子(很遺憾,是桃紅色的,^^) 本來去學校的路上還在遺憾沒找多一些花俏的小東西給小朋友們黏貼, 這時想起來還好我沒丟太多東西出去, 不然一定做不完!

我們坐下來圍成一個圓圈, 讀了一本繪本, My Dad is brilliant by Nick Butterworth. Grade1的 Milla幫我讀英文原文, 我用中文把故事再講解一次.. (真奇妙但也是新的經驗!) 
銘楷告訴我他有讀過這本書. 
每位孩子都樂意分享他們爸爸拿手的事! 宇澤說爸爸擅長打呼, 和煮bacon & eggs. 麗燕的爸爸也是會做 bacon & eggs. 美娥也幫爸爸做蛋糕.  銘楷說 Daddy is good at riding bikes.  Milla’s daddy is good at everything, she said.  ..  又, 教唱了兩首新歌, 頭肩膀膝腳趾 和 朋友歌. 前一首和英文head shoulders knees & toes 旋侓一樣, 孩子們很容易就朗朗上口,再加上動作, 小朋友很快就學會了.  朋友歌就有點兒挑戰性, 但歌詞的重複性高, 所以也不難學, 我畫蛇添足地加了動作,孩子們似乎還挺開心唱的, 我想下一堂課再複習複習就更容易了.   愛雯因為去練中國舞, 所以這部分她就沒參與到.

把我們合做的旗子套上旗杆 (家裡找到一根長棍子來應急!)  3點左右,雙手套上小氣球, 戴上我們手做的頭飾, 手牽手, 嘴裡哼著歌, 我們入場去和爸爸/媽媽們同歡了! 希望大家有個開心的下午.

祝所有的爸爸們 
88節快樂!!