The Mandarin activities for Year 0 and 1 children (Term 4, Week 4)

 Dear parents and children,

The Mandarin activities for Year 0 and 1 children will be:

Sea animals in Mandarin

Please watch this video and then tell your family about your favorite sea animals 😄

The Mandarin activities for Year 0 and 1 children (Term 4, Week 3)

 Dear parents and children,

The Mandarin activities for Year 0 and 1 children will be:

How to say wild animals in Mandarin

Can you try to find out more about panda? 

e.g. where do they live? what do they eat? 

Mandarin activity for Year 0 and 1 (Term 4, week 2)

 Dear parents and children,

The Mandarin activities for Year 0 and 1 children will be:

Learning to sing the animals song in Mandarin

Can you try to say 5 animals in Mandarin?

Mandarin activity for Year 0 & 1 (Term 4, Week 1)

Dear parents and children,

The Mandarin activities for Year 0 and 1 children will be:

Animals video

Fun activity: Choose 5 to 10 animals and make a poster (include names in Mandarin). 

Chinese Language Week Activities (Term 3, Week 10)

Chinese Language Week Activities

Please refer to this Google Slides for various fun activities. 

Children are welcome to try the daily challenge :)

The Mandarin activities for Year 0 and 1 (Term 3, Week 9)

Dear parents and children,

The Mandarin activities for Year 0 and 1 children will be:

Family Song 1

Family Song 2

Fun activity: Find a family photo and say each of the family member in Chinese, e.g. baba, mama, yeye, nainai... You can even try descibring them in a sentence, e.g. This is my Dad. (Zhe shi wo de baba.)

Mandarin activities for Year 0 and 1 children (Term 3, Week 8)

 Dear parents and children,

The Mandarin activities for Year 0 and 1 children will be:

Family Song 1

Family Song 2

Fun activity: Make a family tree and label the the names in Chinese, e.g. baba, mama. 

Mandarin activities for Year 0 and 1 children (Term 3 Week 7)

Dear parents and children,

The Mandarin activities for Year 0 and 1 children will be:

Colour Song

Colour game

Fun activity: Make a poster of colours in Mandarin. Include at least 5 colours. Please see the colour chart and an example below:

Mandarin activities for Year 0 and 1 (Term 3 Week 6)

Dear parents and children,

The Mandarin activities for Year 0 and 1 children will be:

Colour Song

Colour game

Fun activity: Can you find any objects in your house in these colours? 

e.g. Can you find anything that is hong se (red)? how about huang se (yellow)?

Year 0 and 1 Mandarin activity Term 3 Week 5

Dear parents and children,

The Mandarin activities for Year 0 and 1 children will be:

Number Song

Number game

Practise writing one to ten in Chinese and make a Chinese number poster on a piece of paper 

(please see the example below):

Please fee free to share your work on Seesaw :)

From Miss Ko

Mandarin activities for the first week of lockdown (18th - 20th August 2021)

Dear children, here are some Mandarin activities and games that you can try at home in the first week of lockdown:

Year 0 to 2: Colour game & Number game

Year 3: Country names in Mandarin

Year 4: Stationery vocabulary games (see 'classroom objects') You can also finish off your dragon boat research project on Google Slides and share it with me. 

Year 5 & 6 : Review YCT level 1 & 2 vocabulary (there's a digital copy with/without answers on Seesaw) and practise your speech. You can record your speech and send the video to me. 

I will see you online next week. 

Stay safe and take care!

From Miss Ko 😄

Dragon Boat Festival Fun Activities!

The dragon boat festival was on 14 June this year. Here are some great resources if you would like to try some fun craft activities:

How to make an origami zongzi (zongzi is a type of traditional food in triangular shape with sticky rice inside)

Paper dragon boat (Dragon boat race is an important activity)

Dragon boat race video

Please feel free to share photos/video of your work to Miss Ko 😄

Dragon boat race

The dragon boat races happen in many places in the world. It has become a sports event. Team members train very hard during the year. 

Zongzi

Zongzi is a special type of food that people make for the Dragon Boat Festival. There are sweet and savory ones. There are red bean filling the sweet ones. The savory ones contain rice, meat, egg yolk and green beans. They are delicious! Here is a red bean zongzi recipe if you are interested to make some!

Chinese New Year Fortune Tales & Celebrations

Welcome to Mandarin classes! In the first few weeks of Term 1, we learned about the Chinese New Year. Children had the opportunities to view different cultural items and we had some meaningful discussions. We also tried to make some beautiful paper cuttings. 

  

 

 

 Here are some interesting video links:

Chinese New Year Fortune Tales and Celebrations 

How to write the Chinese symbol for Ox

Lucky Lunar New Year Food