Mandarin Resources (Apps & Mandarin strokes)

Hi families,

All audio files in homework & dictation page are working now, please give it a try (click "download" , then "view") and if you still have problems accessing the audio files, please let me know 😀

I am so happy to meet you at our conferences, thank you for all your warm welcomes. Thank you for being extremely supportive and helpful in your child's learning. We are truly a team working together to best support your child. :) 

Thank you for giving me many good feedbacks on our homework and some requests for more Mandarin resources. 

Below are some good iPhone/iPad/Andriod Apps I found that targeting stroke order practices, Mandarin character printing practices, and listening/reading skills practices. This might be a fun/engaging way to motivate kids to learn Mandarin.  I played around with all of those apps, and they all work pretty well. 

If you find some other good learning apps, please let me know so I can share it with our families. 

Stroke order practices 

I know many of you are working so hard on practicing our Mandarin stroke printing, I want to let you know that I think it is VERY important to learn the stroke order rules, however, students DO NOT need to know/memorize all of the stroke names (they only need to know a few basic ones---see picture below). If students are able to follow the correct stroke order rules when they print Mandarin characters, they are doing great! So please do not worry about memorizing name for each stroke :) 

Here are the stroke order rules: 

Basic strokes that students need to know:

Thank you! Have a good weekend! 祝你们有个美好的周末！

凡老师

Nov. 18- 21 Learning updates

Hi families,

This week is really short. Early dismissal (12:05pm) on Thursday and NO SCHOOL on Friday.

Parent Teacher Conferences are on Nov.20, 21, 22. We can’t wait to see all of you J

With the winter concert coming up (Nov.28), we are learning about seasons, temperatures, weather, and Arctic animals in these few weeks. We need parent volunteers for next week!! Please let me know if you can come and help with the preparation for the winter concert. 

This week (Nov.18-21)

Mandarin中文:

Continuing from last week, we will keep learning more about seasons, temperature, weather and Arctic animals. We are going to continue working on practice using and writing our mandarin name.

Sentences we are reviewing and learning:

1)-你(nǐ)家(jiā)有(yǒu)几(jǐ)个(gè)人(rén)？（How many people in your family?）

    -我(wǒ)家(jiā)有(yǒu)______个(gè)人(rén)。 （I have _____people in my family.）

2) –你(nǐ)喜(xǐ)欢(huan) 什(shén)么(me)季(jì)节(jié)？ （What season do you like?）

- 我(wǒ)喜(xǐ)欢(huan)________。（I like…..）

  

3) New sentence of the week

  -今(jīn)天(tiān) 天(tiān)气(qì)怎(zěn)么(me)样(yàng)？ （How’s the weather today?）

  -今(jīn)天(tiān)天(tiān)气(qì)很(hěn)_____。（The weather is _____ today.）

Vocabularies we are reviewing:

家(jiā)（family）你(nǐ) （you）我(wǒ)（I, me）喜欢(xǐhuan)（like）春(chūn)（spring）夏(xià) （summer）秋(qiū)（fall）冬(dōng)（winter） 季(jì)节(jié)（season）和(hé)（and）

New vocabularies we are learning this week:

春(chūn)（spring）夏(xià) （summer） 季(jì)节(jié)（season）天(tiān)气(qì) (weather) 热(rè)(hot)  冷(lěng)(cold) 很(hěn) (very) 怎(zěn)么(me) (how)

Math:

Grade 1: This week, grade 1s will keep learning about subtraction, and we will be looking at different strategies to solve subtraction questions. At the end of the week, students will be able to use more than 2 ways to solve simple subtraction questions.

Grade 2: Grade 2s will finish working on double-digit addition (with/without regrouping). Students will start learning about double-digit subtraction without regrouping.

Science:

Grade 1s will be learning more about seasonal change, students will think about colors that represent each season.

Grade 2s will keep talking about extreme cold/hot temperature and extreme hot/cold areas in the world. We will also discuss about how Arctic animals survive the cold weather.