Our Mandarin classes for children have been researched and developed for children who are both native and non-native Chinese speakers. Currently, the majority of children who attend our classes are non-native speakers. Our Mandarin Stars community is diverse and we welcome children from all cultural backgrounds.
Safina, Alex and Jazmine were in our Panda Group today in the first session, and for the second session we had Hong Tong, Larissa, Asha and Lily. All the children did a good job today in our flash-cards review, especially Larissa and Lily.
We played with the animal puzzle during activity time today. Safina was really interested in the rabbit, and kept saying the word ‘tu zi’ (rabbit). Lily even said to me ‘I have ‘yu’ in my home’ when she saw the fish in the puzzles.
We then had a rather interesting craft – a paper-folded fish. The children all drew fish scales and stuck big eyes on them. How cute!
See you next week!
Xie Xie!
Colleen
The topic this week was ‘my pet’. Again we brought toy dogs, cats, birds and fish for our playgroup and played the game of fishing! We counted the fish together – yi, er, san, si, wu, liu, qi!
The story we told this week was about the parrots, snakes, lions and hippos in the jungle. They were playing ‘hide and seek’ – but we found them all!
We then had a rather interesting craft – a paper-folded fish. The children all drew fish scales and stuck big eyes on them. How cute!
It was also the birthday of our lovely Hong Tong. Thanks for Hong Tong’s mum who brought us cake to the playgroup! We sang the ‘Happy Birthday’ song together to her. Sheng ri kuai le, Hong Tong!
See you next week!
Xie Xie!
Colleen
