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

Term 2 Week 2 Mandarin Online Learning Folder

Nihao! I hope you have had a great Easter weekend and tried out the fun craft activity I've posted.
Welcome back to Term 2. From Week 2 children will be expected to do some Mandarin learning and tasks online. Please see below the links for each year level. Native speakers can also try out the writing task and do readings online. I look forward to receiving your work - you can either email me or post comments on the Google slides.

Week 2 tasks for:
Native Speakers (Year 2 to 6)
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6

Easter activities in Mandarin 复活节 (fùhuó jié)

Let's learn some vocabulary that are related to Easter! 

复活节 (fùhuó jié) means Easter.
兔子” (tùzǐ) Bunny
彩蛋 (cǎidàn) “colour eggs”
巧克力 (qiǎokèlì) Chocolate
小鸡 (xiǎo jī) Chicken
复活节快乐！(fùhuó jié kuàilè) Happy Easter!



Here are some useful links and activities. Have fun!
Vocabulary
Story + Make your own Easter eggs
Easter bunny craft to learn Chinese character 兔



I look forward to receiving some pictures of your lovely Easter craft work!

Shared resource folder - Mandarin

I've collated some online learning materials for each year level in this shared resource folder. Children can continue to learn Mandarin at home during the lockdown period. Children have attended lessons in Term 1 so they should have some ideas about the topic and vocabularies.
Please click the following link to view materials which included vocab lists, bingo games and printable worksheets.

SHARED RESOURCE FOLDER LINK

Mandarin activities for each year level

Dear Parents and Students,

We would like to keep learning Mandarin during the period of lockdown. Here is a list of activities that students of each year level can do at home. I will add materials to the post regularly. Thanks, xiexie.

Kind regards
Miss Ko

Year 2: Numbers
Number song 1 2 3 4
How to write Chinese number 1 to 10 video
Chinese number game
Practical work: Practise writing Chinese numbers 1 to 10 and make a poster.

Year 3: Fruits
Fruit song 1 2 3 4 5
Fruit market game
Practical work: Make a booklet of fruit with Mandarin names.

Year 4: Body parts
Body parts songs and dance 1 2 3 4 5
Body parts game
Practical work: Create a cartoon character and label the body parts in Mandarin.

Year 5: Hobbies
Hobbies songs & video 1 2 3 4
Practical work: Research about the favourite hobbies in China and NZ and make a Venn Diagram or make a presentation on Goggle Slides. You can research about the Mandarin names for the new hobbies.

Year 6: Sports
Sports songs and video 1 2 3 4 5 6
Sports in ancient China
Pingpong in China
Practical work: Research about the favourite sports in China and NZ and make a Venn Diagram or make a presentation on Goggle Slides. You can research about the Mandarin names for the new sports.

Other fun cultural activities
Paper cutting 1 2 3 4
Origami (Paper folding) 1 2 3 4
Taichi relaxation exercises 1 2
The little apple fitness dance

Chinese New Year Celebrations - Year of the Rat

Xin nian hao! Happy Chinese New Year!
2020 is the Year of the Rat. Children from all year levels have learned about the Chinese new year and experienced different activities. We made haobao (red packets) and learned about the meanings and blessings. Senior classes worked on their research projects in groups on Google Slides about the Lunar New Year and shared with the class. Topics include food, costumes, zodiac animals, lantern festival and new year celebrations in other Asian countries. Children also enjoyed listening to the legend stories about the Chinese New Year.
Story of Nian Video
Story of the 12 Animal Zodiac Race
Fortune Tales
Lion Dance