Next week we will begin our third week of zhuyin class. Nothing beats working on a subject daily, or Mon/Wed/Friday + homework. I definitely see
Category: Mandarin
The way I learned how to teach phonics is that there is a long period of preparation (for reading and writing) before you actually teach
Though I have plans to do a Sagebook-like thing after 500 characters, I’m currently researching Greenfield to see what books they have and put together
So after my post WAAAAY back in September, we did not touch on actual zhuyin for the rest of the year. Me bad. Now, I’m forming
Age: 4.75 & 7.75 Presentation: 文字接龍 Shiritori The kids and I played a fun game today while eating our Chocolate Chip cookies at Fat Apples. It’s something
Age: 7.75 & 4.75 Grade: 1st+ The children and I have been immersed in the world of Chinese history the last 2 weeks. I finally
As we start getting into the harder level Chinese, more subject vocabularies, and thinking about grammar, I keep coming back to the need to use our
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
I have finally come up with how I’m going to choose my next characters. That took me two blurry eye days and back to drinking coffee.
As I mentioned in my last post, early this Spring semester, I decided to stop trying to ask Thumper to read the books we have at home (okay,