I was losing
my voice last Sat because of the cold; therefore I altered the class into quieter
activities like writing, craft and some videos in Chinese.As well I planned a Treasure Hunt for kids to
reinforce the Bopomo we learnt in class. I wanted them to tick off the Bopomo on their paper once they found on
the trail, and the Bopomo sequence was the direction to go.I had a couple of parent helpers leading kids
for me, only I didn’t predict that our lovely mums didn’t quite know the Bopomo
well enough to keep the game flowing..^^ And the kids of course, loved the
chance to run around in the hall.Kids
had fun and got the treasure at the end. I asked them to paste the alphabets,
which prepared by Melissa earlier, on top of their paper again.Also we talked about clock and the 12
numbers, and asked kids to draw clocks. Crystal drew a digital one! That was
funny.Everyone was present only Ethan
was on holiday.
Today my
voice was back! (that means I could yell as loud as I wanted. ^^)We had everyone there but Lester as he was
sick.We had Ms Yang too, the new
teacher who is going to replace me upon my leave. Ms Yang is also from Taiwan, and a mother of
two, about my age? I guess. She was lovely and patient with children.Already I saw some kids hugging her today.I think she’ll work well with kids next term.To create chances for kids knowing her, I had
Ms Yang reading a couple of stories, and running the poetry reading section.She walked around and chatting with the
children when they did drawing.She didn’t
speak English to the kids at all, this was the best part!
I spent a
bit of time pushing the Bopomo pinyin today. Kids were doing great once I got their attention, but they distracted
each other quite easily. This was hardiest
part of their learning as they need to recognize the individual alphabets, then
putting the sound together with different tones. They were doing great considering they were
just learning Chinese for 6 months. Slowly they are going to be the little
experts in pinyin!
We reviewed
the clock and 12 numbers followed by a treasure hunt again.I made 2 sets of 12 cards and stuck them on
the hall way. This time I had kids in 2
teams and they just needed to collect their team shape cards on the way, and
brought them back to the class.We
double checked the numbers together, and read the numbers again. I was going to ask them to copy the 12 numbers
on paper again, but ran out of the time! Yes, time seems always flying faster
on Sat afternoon!The treasures were all
from home and were mostly new, not even 2nd hand, so there shouldn’t
have the hygiene issue.
Tomorrow is
Father’s Day, I taught the sentence, Daddy I love you, 爸爸我愛您; and had the related drawings for kids to colour. There was
a word search I designed for the topic, and it seemed too hard for kids.It’s actually, in fact, very easy.I had all the answers stood out amongst the
different signs.We had this worksheet
on the last 10 mins of the day, and perhaps kids were all tired.Please spend a bit of time sit down with your
child and go through with him/her again. Enjoy the time together!I love to see the result next Sat.