In Grade 1 we used a brush pen to write the Chinese character 月 which means moon, as part of the celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
In Grade 3 we are learning about how the Chinese celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. In Mandarin in G4 we are learning to:
1. Understand the story about the Mid-Autumn Festival 2. Say the key words of the Mid-Autumn Festival 3. Write the keys words of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Chinese characters You may have known that 27 September Sunday is the Mid-Autumn Festival for the Chinese all over the world. As one of the important celebrations among the Chinese community, it is also called the Moon cake Festival or Lantern Festival in Singapore. The words about this festival are: 中秋节 Zhōng qiū jié ( Mid-Autumn Festival) 月亮 yuè liang ( moon ) 月饼 yuè bǐng ( moon cake) 灯笼 dēng lóng ( lantern) 团圆 tuán yuán ( reunion) 故事 gù shì ( story) 后羿 Hòu Yì ( Hou Yi) 后羿射日 Hòu Yì shè rì ( Hou Yi shot the suns down.) 妻子 qī zǐ ( wife) 嫦娥 Cháng é ( Cháng é) 嫦娥奔月 Cháng é bēn yuè ( Cháng é flew to the moon.) 兔子 tù zi ( rabbit) I have made a set of cards on Quizlet (quizlet.com or download the app for phone or ipad) to help your child practice learning this topic. Search for laoshilinda (all one word lower case) and then choose Mid-Autumn Festival. The video here explains how to use Quizlet https://vimeo.com/113241642 You do not need to know any Mandarin yourself to use any of these resources. Please let me know if you have any questions. In Grade 5 we were learning Chinese classic poems about Mid-Autumn Festival. In Mandarin in G3 we are learning to: 1. Read descriptive messages of one’s appearance in Mandarin 2. Write a piece of descriptive writing of one’s appearance in Chinese characters Learning the description of one’s appearance in Mandarin is not too difficult. Using the previous knowledge from the sets we learned about body parts and the opposite words, they can make specific sentences describing the appearance. In details, the descriptions of one’s appearance are: 他的脸圆圆的。 Tā de liǎn yuán yuan de. (His face is round.) 他个子高。 Tā gè zi gāo. (He is tall.) 他个子矮。 Tā gè zi ǎi. (He is short.) 他的头发短短的。 Tā de tóu fa duǎn duan de. (His hair is short.) 她的头发长长的。 Tā de tóu fa cháng chang de. (Her hair is long.) 他的眼睛大大的。 Tā de yǎn jing dà da de. (His eyes are big.) 他的耳朵小小的。 Tā de ěr duo xiǎo xiao de. (His ears are small.) 他掉牙了。 Tā diào yá le. (He lost a tooth.) 他掉了两颗牙。 Tā diào le liǎng kē yá. (He lost two teeth.) 他长什么样? Tā chǎng shén me yàng? (What does he look like?) I have made a set of cards on Quizlet (quizlet.com or download the app for phone or ipad) to help your child practice learning the this topic. Search for laoshilinda (all one word lower case) and then choose description of body. The video here explains how to use Quizlet https://vimeo.com/113241642 You do not need to know any Mandarin yourself to use any of these resources. Please let me know if you have any questions. In Mandarin in K2 we are learning to:
1. Say the numbers 1-20 in Mandarin 2. Read the Chinese characters of 1-20 3. Write the Chinese characters of 1-20 Learning the Chinese characters of 1-20 is not too difficult. As you may have discovered, the number 11 in Chinese characters is 10 plus 1 , as十一 shí yī (eleven). Following this rule, the other numbers are all combinations of two Chinese characters. In details, the numbers 1-20 are: 一 yī (One) 二 èr (Two) 三 sān (Three) 四 sì (four) 五 wǔ (five) 六 liù (Six) 七 qī (Seven) 八 bā (Eight) 九 jiǔ (Nine) 十 shí (ten) 十一 shí yī (eleven) 十二 shí èr (twelve) 十三 shí sān(thirteen) 十四 shí sì (fourteen) 十五 shí wǔ (fifteen) 十六 shí liù (sixteen) 十七 shí qī (seventeen) 十八 shí bā (eighteen) 十九 shí jiǔ (nineteen) 二十 èr shí (twenty) I have made a set of cards on Quizlet (quizlet.com or download the app for phone or ipad) to help your child practice learning the numbers. Search for laoshilinda (all one word lower case) and then choose numbers 1-20. The video here explains how to use Quizlet https://vimeo.com/113241642 You do not need to know any Mandarin yourself to use any of these resources. Please let me know if you have any questions. |
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