The Krause Early Elementary School

Chinese Your Kindergarten

Dear parents, Being the fth week at school, most children adapt themselves well into the school life as well as learning in a Chinese environment. Listening: Children are more and more used to the routine languages I use in classroom. With the learning of family members and shapes, we listen to a story with a rectangle grandpa and circle

is introduced and the old one This is ... is reinforced by This is a triangle., This is a square. We also make a book called Learning Lessons about Shapes. At home, you may ask your child to read the book he or she makes. A shape song is also taught.

grandma in Chinese. With the help of pictures, children are able to understand it. I will gradually add story telling and video watching to my lesson to expand their listening skills. Speaking: We learn to recognize eight basic shapes and their names in Chinese. We watch a video on shape by Baby Einstein in Chinese. A new sentence pattern What is it?

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The Krause Early Elementary School

Chinese Your Kindergarten

Reading: By knowing how to read from 1 to 20, children easily knows how to read from 21 to 30. Why? The Chinese character (21) consists of two, ten and one. Theoretically, if children know numbers from 1 to 10 and directionality, they will be able to read numbers from 1 to 99. Also, we start learning to recognize Chinese characters of family members we learnt. Each Chinese character has a meaning or multiple meanings under different contexts. Two or more characters can form a word or a short phrase. Because of its origin from pictographs, children use their imagination to relate character with image or picture. For instance, when learning (daddy), we say the upper part of the character looks like daddys eyebrow and beard. The left part of resembles a dancing girl. (grandpa) holds a cane to walk and has two mouths and likes to talk. Writing: We will formally start to teach writing Chinese characters from next week. During the past few weeks, Chinese characters from 1 to 30 have been exposed to children and some of them learn to write by themselves and I am surprised to see how well they can write. We use the (the grid on page 1) to learn how to write and follow the order of strokes when writing. For kindergartners, following the order of strokes will be introduced, but not required. Math: We learn to count from 41 to 50 this week. I try to let children count from 1 to 100 in the rst two days, but switch to 41-50 to ensure the majority of children master it before we move on. Chinese culture: To go along with the learning of shapes, we play the tangram, a game originated from China. All the seven shapes need to be used and they may not overlap. Children follow the samples provided, and they can also create out of their imagination. All childrens works are displayed in the hallway. Your child is invited to participate in a study conducted by my teacher at MSU. If you are interested, please sign the invitation letter and ll out the questionnaire. To nd video and audio materials of this week on our website, please click resources, websites, quizlet for sentence (dialogue #10) and shape word (math #3) and click resources, songs for the song. A template of tangram is also included in the folder. You may cut it out and ask your child to color it to play. Have fun.
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