Cang Jie, The Inventor of Chinese Characters! Cang Jie is a legendary figure in Chinese history. Chinese children know Cang Jie as the Chinese characters’ creator 倉頡造字|仓颉造字. During the time of the Yellow Emperor at around 2500 B.C.) Chinese people were using knots and stones to record their lives. It was not an efficient way to document events. Yellow Emperor ordered the historian, Cang Jie to find a better way to keep a record of all significant
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Chinese Language Activity Calendar! Chinese Reading Playground features The Chinese Language Activity Calendar! “The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.” -Maria Montessori Children like to have a routine. When they have a routine they know what to expect. Routine is important at home and in the classroom. When there is a routine kids know what to expect. The summer Chinese Language Activity Calendar
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I Spy in Chinese I hope you all are having a great summer. Summer reading activities are essential for kids to practice their target language in a playful and hands-on approach. If your children are in a world language program or an immersion program summer reading will keep their language skills active and have a good start in the new school year. The reading activity I Spy… is an outdoor program you can do in the yard
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Chinese Summer Reading Program is featuring reading activity bookmarks for kids! Keeping kids reading every day! Adding activities to reading routine! We are here to support you with playful resources! Register in the Chinese Summer Reading Program here! Drum roll, please! I want to make an announcement about an upcoming giveaway. We will be giving away Chinese Stories reading app subscriptions for 2018 reading program! More details to come. Stay tuned! Now, let’s look into the
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Chinese Reading Logs for Kids are here! Summer reading program features Chinese Reading Logs for Kids! This is a resource you can use to engage and motivate children to play and read in Chinese during summer. Reading is fun. Stories are engaging. Let’s add some pixie dust to the reading routine and get kids excited about target language summer reading. Chinese Reading Logs for Kids: There are three formats you can choose from according to the reading
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Affiliate links are included in this post to support this website. There is no cost to you. Chinese Books for Children Book List! This Reading Playground Book List includes Chinese books, Chinese -English bilingual books, English culture books, and books recommended by fellow Chinese teachers. There are over 90 books in the collection and it is a growing list. You can download the list in PDF. “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s
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Miss Panda’s Chinese Reading Playground Summer Reading Program 2018 for Kids is now OPEN for registration! Summer is here! What an exciting time to play, to enjoy and to read all the books that you want to read and to share with your children! “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” -Walt Disney We want kids to feel the fun and the joy of reading! Every child is
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Happy Father’s Day! How do you celebrate Father’s Day in your family? This is a great time to surround the learning around “All About Dad!” You can do a countdown and start from 5 things about Dad! I have created literacy-building resources for Happy Father’s Day. This is a post with audio support! You will also enjoy the Happy Mother’s Day eBook. Also, make sure you check out the Chinese Culture for Kids Series: Dragon Boat Festival
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May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Teaching your heritage language to your children is a way to celebrate your family culture and your heritage culture. For my children, Chinese is their heritage language and I am the only source of Chinese language in our family. Over the years I have noticed that more and more schools and libraries share featured resources with children, parents and educators in the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. When I lived
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Six steps for teaching Chinese to young learners! Being bilingual or multilingual has so many benefits. Research shows how easily young children can learn a different language when they are exposed to it, especially when they are immersed in it. We are in an era of raising young global citizens. Learning a language is learning a culture and it expands a child’s world. Speak Mandarin Chinese to your child if you are a native Chinese speaker. Learn
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