A Gift for Amma Book Review Multicultural Children’s Book Day I am thrilled to review one outstanding multicultural book featured in Multicultural Children’s Book Day this year. If you and your child enjoy farmer markets on a sunny day you will fall in love with this picture book that takes you on an adventure in a market in India. let’s go! A Gift for Amma – Market Day in India by Meera Sriram is a beautiful
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Counting up and adding up What you do every day with your child adds up. It does not just apply to the target language but all learning. In the last month of the year, what do you do? Are you counting down or are you counting up? When you count up you add up all the things you have done with your child every day. When you count up you see the progress from Day 1
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What Are You Grateful For? What are you grateful for? This holiday season is likely to be different from the previous years due to the pandemic. As I am sitting here in quarantine. In solitary for the past several days upon arrival in Taiwan. I am grateful for the food and grocery delivery app and its service that brings the daily delight of street food, fresh fruit, and bubble tea drinks to the door. At the same
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How do you stay on the path of raising a bilingual child? The answer is simple. Daily practice. Do it every day. Rain or shine. Do it anyway even if you feel like taking a day off. Even if it gets challenging. Never stop. Some days you will have the flow with your child. Other days you will get stuck. You are not looking for perfection. Building up a language takes time. Patience. Sometimes you need to
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Back To School Back to school now has a new meaning. For some families, it is 100% distance learning but it is happening at home. For some families, it is physically going to school with masks on, and with social distance on the school ground. There are also some families who have the option to have a hybrid style. Summer 2020 had been quite a ride for parents and schools. You followed the admin emails, webinars, discussion
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Teaching is about togetherness Who did you teach? “My mom is learning Mandarin with me.” said the sixth-grader. Big smile. I looked at him and I saw the joy in his eyes. “My dad and my sister were so good…I taught them some expressions I’ve learned.” said a third-grader. More hands raised on the screen. Waving at me. I saw the excitement on their faces. This is a summer camp that created for distance learning at
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This Is Just A Test – Read Around the World Summer Series. This post contains affiliate links to support the maintenance of this website. What is it like to live in three cultures as a tween? There is the community culture that he connects with his friends at the school, in the neighborhood. A culture that is from Dad’s side. A Grandma who really knows how to properly arrange the bar mitzvah. And, there is one
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The First Ten-Run Streak!!! The First Ten-Run Streak!! You and your child did it! You have been listening to a Mandarin learning album 10 days in a row. Your child has been watching a Chinese program for children 10 days in a row. You get the idea. This event has become a part of the daily activity. Parents are always the facilitator for the daily program. What I’ve seen in the families who have been coming
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Learn from home The year I homeschooled my boy when he was in 7th grade many people were curious about it. When I was exploring the homeschooling option due to the relocation most of the parent friends were worried about my boy and me. They were skeptical. And, I could understand why. My homeschooling parent friends were supportive. They were so supportive that they took the time to walk me through their journey and told me their
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Home Education Opportunity I ran into a six-year-old boy and his grandmother when I was waiting for my turn to go into a grocery store. The boy had a very cool mask on. I mentioned that to his grandmother who was also waiting in line. The boy heard me and started to tell me everything about his mask.What can we help children learn about the current situation? What can they do to connect with their grandparents who
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