二月二十八日星期四 - February 28, Thursday - A Day

FOR CHINESE LEVEL I ABSENT STUDENTS - #1, Copy down the words and the story onto your notebook and then show the teacher when you come back, #2, created a story with 8 sentences using the patter as the following example...

Oooops, we forgot to do the calendar today. :-( Well, it's okay. We will remember it next time. :-)
Today we first introduced these two words --

天空tiān kōng  = sky

掉下來diào xià lái /掉下去diào xià qù = fall down/fall off

And then  we viewed a powerpoint on "天空掉下來了" (please click 天空掉下來了to access the story) and also use circling questions for listening, speaking, and comprehension check. We quickly reviewed the story by filling the blank --


yī gè hé guǒ cóng shù shàng diào xià lái le 
一個核果從樹上掉下來了
zhè gè hé guǒ zá dào le tù zǐ 
這個核果砸到了兔子
tù zǐ pǎo dào hú lí nà lǐ shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
兔子跑到狐狸那裡說天空掉下來了
hú lí pǎo dào xióng nà lǐ shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
狐狸跑到熊那裡說天空掉下來了
xióng pǎo dào sōng shǔ nà lǐ shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
熊跑到松鼠那裡說天空掉下來了
sōng shǔ pǎo dào lù nà lǐ shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
松鼠跑到鹿那裡說天空掉下來了
lù pǎo dào xiǎo lǎo shǔ nà lǐ shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
鹿跑到小老鼠那裡說天空掉下來了
xiǎo lǎo shǔ pǎo dào māo tóu yīng nà lǐ shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
小老鼠跑到貓頭鷹那裡說天空掉下來了
māo tóu yīng shuō tiān kōng méi yǒu diào xià lái 
貓頭鷹說天空沒有掉下來

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yī gè hé guǒ cóng shù shàng diào xià lái le 

一個核果從樹上掉下來了
zhè  gè hé guǒ    zá dào le 
這個核果砸到了                    
                              pǎo dào                              nà    lǐ  shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
                    跑到                    那裡說天空掉下來了
                             pǎo dào                              nà    lǐ  shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
                    跑到                    那裡說天空掉下來了

                              pǎo dào                              nà    lǐ  shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
                    跑到                    那裡說天空掉下來了


                              pǎo dào                              nà    lǐ  shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
                    跑到                    那裡說天空掉下來了


                              pǎo dào                              nà    lǐ  shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
                    跑到                    那裡說天空掉下來了

                             pǎo dào                              nà    lǐ  shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
                    跑到                    那裡說天空掉下來了
                              shuō tiān kōng méi yǒu diào xià lái
                    說天空沒有掉下來

After that students were asked to create their own story according the pattern. Some students did a super awesome job. 

Oh, by the way, to help students remember 找 zhǎo and 找到zhǎo dào, we played a game "hide and seek" (hide a Chinese knot and have a student seek for it). It's a around-15 minute game.

二月二十七日星期三 Feb 27, Wednesday - A Day

FOR CHINESE LEVEL I ABSENT STUDENTS - #1, Copy down the words and the story onto your notebook and then show the teacher when you come back.

FOR CHINESE LEVEL II & III ABSENT STUDENTS - #1, Copy down the words onto your notebook and then show the teacher when you come back.

For Chinese Level I students we first did the calendar. After the calendar, we introduced the following new words --

天空tiān kōng  = sky

掉下來diào xià lái /掉下去diào xià qù = fall down/fall off

And the students were asked to copy down the story in pinyin and then we translated the story as a whole group, using TPRS circling questions to practice listening and speaking. Next we viewed a powerpoint on "天空掉下來了" (please click 天空掉下來了to access the reading story) and also use circling questions for comprehension check. Later students were given a piece of paper with verbs in Chinese and practiced these words on their own. (Please click a piece of paper with verbs to access the worksheet. Oh, by the way, to help students remember 找 zhǎo and 找到zhǎo dào, we played a game "hide and seek" (hide a Chinese knot and have a student seek for it). It's a around-15 minute game.

For Chinese Level II & III students we worked a piece of paper with verbs; different from the Level I students, we first discussed the English meaning, and gave the students 1 minute to study the words. And then students started to write their English meaning in a time frame. The teacher time the speed how fast a student finish writing the English meanings. For example, Josh finished at 一分二十七秒 (1'27"), Brandon finished at 三分十七秒 (3'17") etc. When 5 minutes up, no matter whether all the students or not finished the English meaning. We quickly discussed the meanings and then gave students a minute to review the words. After that the teacher timed the speed how fast a student finish writing the English meaning. We repeated this step for 3 times.

Next we played "拍蒼蠅" (swap the flies). The teacher said a word and two students swapped the character that the teacher said. The faster one received a point for their team.

我	畫	男孩	知道	畫	男孩	我	畫	男孩	知道
要	下	女孩	有	下	女孩	要	下	女孩	有
說	上	你好	沒有	上	你好	說	上	你好	沒有
停	走	給	他	走	給	停	走	給	他
問	拍拍	用	這個	拍拍	用	問	拍拍	用	這個
天	碰碰	拿	那個	碰碰	拿	天	碰碰	拿	那個
大	工作	手	什麼	工作	手	大	工作	手	什麼
太	做	頭	吻	做	頭	太	做	頭	吻

二月二十六日星期二 February 26, Tuesday - B Day

FOR CHINESE LEVEL I ABSENT STUDENTS - #1, Copy down the words onto your notebook and then show the teacher when you come back.

Basically Our routine in the class every day is
#1, copy down the words on the board onto your notebook
#2, calendar introduction
#3, Review the old words and/or stories
#4, Introduce new words and/or stories
#5, TPRS time + activities/games
#6, Reading

Words need to copy down in Chinese characters are -
為什麼wéi shen me? = why?
因為.yīn wéi  = because
可是kě shì ...= but

Students were asked to copy down the reviewed words in pinyin first, and then we discussed their English meaning. Next we used small whiteboards to practice the words by sentences and a story. We also used TPR circling questions to do the sentences with words.

We continued to the package/story learned last time we did; next we did the speed-reading the Fat Pink Pig story that students are able to finish reading the story in 1 minute.

中文 zhōng wén	英文 yīng wén	中文 zhōng wén	英文 yīng wén	中文 zhōng wén	英文 yīng wén	中文 zhōng wén	英文 yīng wén	中文 zhōng wén	英文 yīng wén
找zhǎo	look  for	撞到 zhuàng dào	bump into	看書kàn shū	read books	碰碰 pèng pèng	touch	看電影kàn diàn yǐng	see a movie
抓zhuā	grab, catch	停tíng	stop	寫字xiě zì	write (characters)	拍拍 pāi pāi	pat	知道zhī dào	know
要yào	want	說shuō	say	懂dǒng	understand	走zǒu	walk	打算dǎ suàn	plan to
跑pǎo	run	問wèn	ask	會huì	be able to	工作 gōng zuò	work	剪jiǎn	cut
跳tiào	jump	站起來 zhàn qǐ lái	stand up	畫huà	draw	做zuò	do	指一指 zhǐ yī zhǐ	point at
拉lā	pull	坐下 zuò xià	sit down	畫圖huà tú	draw pic	飛fēi	fly	給gěi	give
推tuī	push	爬pá	climb	蹲下dūn xià	squat down	爬樹pá shù	climb tree	用yòng	use
游泳 yóu yǒng	swim	有yǒu	there is there are has have	賽跑sài pǎo	race	爬山pá shān	climb mountains	拿ná	take
睡覺shuì jiào	sleep	寫xiě	write	開玩笑 kāi wán xiào	joke	穿chuān	put on wear	退休tuì xiū	retire
喜歡xǐ huān	like	看kàn	see, look, watch	慶生qìng shēng	celebrate birthday	喝hē	drink	拍拍手 pāi pāi shǒu	clap hand