Moon Festival is also known as Mid Autumn Festival. Moon Festival is the theme for September. Here is the reading list. Don’t forget to try some moon cake! (1) Thanking the Moon – celebrating the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival by Grace Lin (2) Thank you, Meiling by Linda Talley (3) Mei Ling in China City by Icy Smith Do you have any favorite culture books you would like to share? Leave a reply and let me know.
Read more →Check out PBS Kids for “Sagwa-The Chinese Siamese Cat” interactive games for young children. Fun exposure to kids for Chinese culture and China’s historical past. Click Link below. PBS Kis Sagwa-The Chinese Siamese Cat
Read more →Who’s speaking Mandarin Chinese? Jackie Chan! Jackie Chan did voice over for the movie, Mulan. Listen to Jackie Chan singing in Mandarin Chinese for movie, MuLan. What do you think? Music Video with lyrics in Chinese traditional characters and pinyin as well as English translation: Official Music Video – All Video links from YouTube.
Read more →Here is a short video giving an Introduction to the beautiful Chinese characters in the pictogram group. Many Chinese characters are like pictures and those are the basic elements/words to form the compound characters. Enjoy the beauty of Chinese characters and culture!
Read more →Writing Chinese characters is a lot of fun. Follow the strokes and write the character. They are all picture words. Let’s take a look at each word, its pronunciation, and its meaning. 人 – reń – person, people 大 – dà – big 天 – tān – sky 中 – zhōng – middle 小 – xiǎo – small, little ***Click on the characters below and see how they are written.*** Word List #1 人 大
Read more →Writing Chinese characters is a lot of fun. Follow the strokes and write the character. They are all picture words. Let’s take a look at each word, its pronunciation, and its meaning. 人 – reń – person, people 大 – dà – big 天 – tān – sky 中 – zhōng – middle 小 – xiǎo – small, little ***Click on the characters below and see how they are written.*** Word List #1 人 大
Read more →Chinese Play Time with Miss Panda introduces songs and activities to children and parents. Today we are singing Eensy Weensy Spider in Chinese. You know this song very well and now you can sing it in Chinese. Activity: (1) Finger play – use fingers as a spider and going up and down. (2) Spider fun – use a plastic or plush spider to climb up all the way to the head and down. Game: “Is the
Read more →Do you know this year is the year of the Rabbit? There are 12 Chinese animal or birth signs. It is a 12-year cycle. Do you know that the Chinese Lunar Calendar is based on the cycles of the moon? Chinese New Year is also called the Spring Festival. Let’s say Happy New Year in Chinese…Xin Niań Kuaì Lè!
Read more →The 12 Chinese animal or birth signs are (1) Mouse (2) Ox (3) Tiger (4) Rabbit (5) Dragon (6) Snake (7) Horse (8) Ram (9) Monkey (10) Rooster (11) Dog (12) Pig
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