“Mama, I love reading!……when I’m in the mood.” Thumper said the other day after our visit to the local Chinese Library. I guess I will
Category: Mandarin
Ooohoo. Thumper and Astroboy finished their respective Sage books in March. Thumper finished Pink Series book 4 and Astroboy the Blue Series book 2. I racked my
Finally! Today, I went through the mess that was 巧虎 (Chiao Hu) and had been bugging me for the last 3 years. I don’t think
After teaching Thumper the different character shape, I gave her our first writing lesson about 2 days later. I’m definitely on a high because the results
This week I introduced the second part of Chinese character structure. These are two different things but I don’t know how to translate them into
Last week, I had a crazy idea that I would take the 20 characters in Sagebook Blue Series book 1 and make up a new
This week, I finally decided that I cannot wait until I make the material for learning about character structures. We’re not making headway in the
Things got a little crazy after we started on Sagebooks. I started researching on teaching stroke orders, character layout, character components, and then started school.
One of the anxieties for me is wondering if the kids are hitting “grade level” in their Chinese characters knowledge. In the past teachers have refused
This is the third week that Astroboy is on Sagebook’s first book. He seems to be having a lot of trouble with the “concept” characters