The zhuyin class is starting to flow by. Week 3 seems to be a magical week, just like our summer zhuyin class, where the beginning
Month: September 2015
What a terrible subject line. But one way to guarantee only people who want to read a brain dump will read it. Because the post
The other magazine my friend lent me is 康軒學習雜誌. Kang Xuan 康軒 is one of the 3 major textbook publishing companies in Taiwan. I recently found
Age: Almost 8 Grade Level: 3-4th grade Pages: 180 Tonight, we went to the Oakland library and I happened upon what I thought was another
Week 2 ㄈㄏㄓㄔㄨㄚㄜ is introduced. When I was making my flashcards, I realized that 康軒 is introducing these zhuyin based on frequency. For sure, ㄠ is
September is unofficially our month for studying the moon and all things 中秋節 Mid-Autum Festival related. Thanks to Mandarin Mama, I was spurred to choose
One of my goals this year for Astroboy is learning 500 characters. Last year, I wasn’t consistent and we only went through 40 characters. This
August was a strange month. We had zhuyin class and playdates for 3 weeks, and 1 week of vacation for Thumper with the kids been gone
Age: Almost 8! Grade: 2nd-3rd grade (低中年級) Pages: 261 Yippie! Another hump crossed on the reading front. After starting with the 亮亮 series, then the
Age: 5 Grade: Primary (3-6yrs old) Tonight marks a momentous occasion. Astroboy insisted on reading through a whole picture book by himself. This last week, we