Celebrating Pi π Day with Kids Celebrating Pi π Day with numbers, math symbols, and Chinese! Facts About Pi Day Pi π Day is March 14. It is celebrated around the world. Pi π in Greek is a mathematics symbol. When people work on the simple calculation of a circle they usually use 3.14. Fun Number Activities Counting numbers is just like singing the ABC song. It’s a lot of fun. Young kids learn the number concept
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Join the year of the TIGER (2022) celebration with Lantern Festival Riddle Game and WIN prizes! Enter and have fun! The event closes at 11:59 pm (PTS) on February 19, 2022 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Miss Panda Chinese (@miss_panda_chinese) Chinese Lantern Festival – Yuán xiāo jié – 元宵節 is always landing on the fifteenth day of the lunar new year celebration. This day wraps up the 15-day Chinese Lunar New
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Winter Olympics Games Facts And Activities for Kids + Chinese Word Search Winter Olympic Games 2022 is happening in Beijing, China. This makes Beijing the first city in the world to host both the Summer Olympics (2008) and Winter Olympics (2022). For Chinese language learners, this event is a perfect time to learn about the current host country and sports with hands-on activities from crafts to STEM projects. WINTER OLYMPICS FUN FACTS When people talk
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Top Chinese New Year Books and Culture Books for Children Chinese Culture for Kids series features TOP Lunar New Year books for children. Lunar New Year culture books take children to explore Chinese culture beyond the surface. Reading takes kids to learn more about family roles, expectations, manners, family values, and more in Chinese culture. We are hoping you can pick some best books in this multicultural book list, share it with your school and local
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Teach Kids Chinese Song Turkey in The Straw! Got turkey? I mean got a turkey plush toy? Where is the turkey? Kids asked. Good question! This month the pet turkey is the star and kids will learn how to sing Turkey in The Straw in Mandarin. Turkey is also the leading character in many of the stories. A popular kids’ song, Turkey in The Straw is a story. When kids learn this song they will get to
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Chinese Literacy for Fall Season Celebrate Autumn with Culture Around Us From September to December, there is a lot to celebrate in autumn – the season, the colors, and the cultural holidays and celebrations. As we are guiding children to build literacy in the target language (Mandarin) we also need to feed children the background knowledge in their native language. That way they can better connect with the content that we want to share with them. Here
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Chinese Halloween Literacy Activities and Resources | Halloween Activities | Chinese Activities for Kids The last quarter of the year is packed with teaching topics that are seasonal, festival, and cultural. The season change is visible. The festivals and celebrations are loved by children big and small. The cultural essence and stories are connecting, inclusive and global. Playing with purpose is the design of each of the resources included here. Literacy building is a part of learning
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Teach Children Languages Through Play with Habbi Habbi + You now have a chance to give a fabulous set of Habbi Habbi books (10 bilingual books and a reading wand) to a family or a school! Hanna and Anne-Louise are the two Mom founders of Habbi Habbi bilingual books and reading wand. The available language combinations for the books are Chinese-English and Spanish-English at this time. Their growing number of books for young readers covers
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Chinese Disney Songs Here is a collection of beloved Chinese Disney songs for kids and families! There are over 15 Chinese Disney songs and a couple of more bonus songs that kids and parents can sing together. The power of music is big for language learners. Singing is fun, playful, and engaging. The benefits of music and songs in learning Mandarin include literacy building, vocabulary familiarity, Mandarin tone confidence, and targeted language listening input. I am
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The Great Race The Story of the 12 Chinese Animal Birth Signs Chinese Zodiac There are many stories and folktales about the Great Race of the 12 Chinese birth sign animals. Here is a simple version and it is quite exciting. THE STORY STARTED WITH… Jade Emperor, the God of all Gods, announced that animal names would be added to the calendar years according to their arrival order to the big meeting. Then, the word got
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