It is indeed a lot of work to try to write sentences with just 500 characters under your belt and making sure that you reuse characters you just learned, while also making sure you introduce new vocabulary that uses the same character later on. Plus, it has to follow your theme. I came up with the first 3 characters on Monday, then changed the order completely on Tuesday when I had to add new words. As of now, I’m heavy on first grade characters, and low on verbs and adjectives. Often, I come up with a sentence, only to realize I need to introduce this OTHER character first, and then 3 characters later, I see it’s all nouns. All this to say, it took me a few hours……and I have 10. I’m having lot of fun though. Sadly, it took Thumper all of 3 minutes to go through the 3 characters on Monday. She said she knew them. I wonder just how many characters she actually knows. On my word doc, I color-coded the characters to highlight current character and review character. I also made a list of words introduced. Too lazy to do color-code here. So here they are.
#601 蛇 這是一條蛇。 這條蛇住在我家。 我的蛇喜歡吃老鼠, 也喜歡曬太陽,因為蛇是冷血動物。 平常沒太陽時, 蛇在暖的燈下。 #602 錢 我在地上找到一塊錢。 昨天沒錢,今天有錢了! 我要把它放進我的錢包。 用他來買下一條魚。 一塊錢可以買什麼魚呢? #603 借 一條魚要十塊錢。 我沒有十塊錢, 想跟媽媽借。 媽媽問:「你想要借多少?」 我說:「我要借用九塊錢。」 她說:「記得,有借有還,再借不難!」 #604 但 我用十塊錢買了一條魚。 我現在不但有蛇,還有一條魚。 蛇沒有腳,所以用身子爬。 魚也沒有腳,他在水中遊。 蛇爬得慢,但是魚游得快。 #605 食 老鼠,蛋,小鳥 是蛇的食物, 因為他是肉食動物, 他只會吃別的動物, 有些蛇還會吃豬! 還好我們家的蛇只吃老鼠。 #606 第 我是第一個出生的,我是老大。 弟弟是第二個,所以是老二。 我們喜歡比跑步。 當我跑得快,我是第一名。 有時我跑得慢,變最後一名。 #607 龜 弟弟想要買一隻烏龜。 他第一眼看到烏龜就愛上了。 但是有些烏龜是肉食動物。 我們的蛇會吃烏龜嗎? 還是烏龜會吃蛇? #608 躲 弟弟也跟媽媽借錢, 買了一隻小烏龜。 烏龜喜歡玩躲貓貓, 如果你要抓它,他會躲進水裡 。 但是給他食物時他就不躲了! #609洲 地球有七大洲。 洲是一塊很大的地。 有一些洲很大, 但是有一個洲很小。 非洲是最大的洲。 #610 洋 非常大的海叫大洋。 地球有五大洋。 太平洋是地球最大的海洋。 大西洋是第二大洋。 他在非洲和美洲的中間。