Chinese Through Story features Earth Day! What Earth Day activities are there for your kids to try? What can you do to protect our Earth as a family, a community, class or school? There are a lot of fun ways to celebrate Earth Day and generate ideas of how to protect our environment through discussion and a walk around a neighborhood. For example, one fourth grade class at my local school made a “water hero” statue
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Teach Chinese through pictures uses fun images and audio to introduce a carefully selected high frequency phrases and sentences that learners can use every day. See it, touch it, and say it! I designed Picture Chinese program to go with outdoor or hands-on activities. Students learn best with a combination of auditory, visual, and kinesthetic approach. You may also want to read Teach Chinese through Songs. “We found our students were completely engaged in class when they
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Raising bilingual children in Chinese There are many parents who are raising bilingual children in Chinese and English. As they are on this bilingual journey they share their own family experiences and resources with fellow parents. It takes a village to raise a child and it takes “two” villages to raise a bilingual child as some may say. It is wonderful to see the community of raising bilingual children keeps growing. I want to share four
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Disclosure: Bilingual World Maps -Miss Panda received a sample to evaluate. All opinions are my own. Creating a literacy-rich environment is important for a bilingual home and a world language classroom. Pictureta makes it easy for you to decorate your home or your classroom with bilingual world maps and décor. When you blend decorate & educate together you see a product line that is playful and vibrant. Pictureta helps parents inspire children to learn about our
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Chinese cartoons for kids is featuring 15 Chinese Cartoons for children! Stories are wonderful for target language teaching and learning. A good and simple story contains repeated words, expressions, and a fun storyline to keep the attention of children. By using cartoons in small parts to deliver a lesson can be a very effective way to reinforce Chinese language learning and see some cultural elements at times. In addition to Chinese Cartoons for kids, I will be
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Teach Your Kids Chinese: The Ultimate Resource Guide! Online and offline Chinese resources for parents who are non-native speakers. You are learning Mandarin as a family and you can make it happen! 2020 update. This post has affiliate links. Thank you for your support! Teach Your Kids Chinese as you are learning Mandarin at the same time. Teach Your Kids Chinese: The Ultimate Resource Guide! When I first started teaching Mandarin Chinese almost all of my students
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