十一月二十七日星期二 November 27, Tuesday - A Day

For Chinese Level II and III, we only introduced 3 words today as the followings:
懶惰 = lazy
工作 = work
繼續 = continue

Students used the rest of the time to introduce their family members with pictures in the target language.
Today we have James, Brandon D. Tyler, Liam, Becca, Payton, Brandon B., Brayden A., Austin, Keegan, and Joshua W. did the presentation. They all did a great job. Interesting is Brayden and Austin are brothers but they have different opinions about the ages of their family members.
Today we learned some words such as 
看 kàn = look, watch
書shū = book
看書kàn shū = read
寫xiě = write
字zì = word/character
寫字xiě zì = write (word/character)
高興gāo xìng = happy, glad
指一指zhǐ yī zhǐ = point at
用yòng = use
拿ná = take
剪jiǎn  = cut (with scisscors)
刀dāo = knife
剪刀 jiǎn dāo = scisscors 

First, we used TPR/ASL to introduce the new words. After that we used whiteboard activities to practices these words. Next, we acted out a story with these words. Last, the students who haven't introduce their family in Chinese came up to the front and did the presentation. 

yǒu yī gè nǚ hái zuò zài yǐ zǐ shàng kàn shū 
有 一個女 孩 坐在椅子上     看   書

yī gè nán hái kuài kuài pǎo dào nǚ hái nà lǐ 
一個男 孩 快    快  跑   到  女孩那裡

nán hái shuō :nǐ gěi wǒ shū hǎo ma ?
男 孩   說:  你給 我 書 好 嗎?

nǚ hái shuō :bú yào 
女孩     說: 不要

nán hái ná nǚ hái de shū pǎo le 
男  孩 拿女 孩 的書 跑了

nǚ hái bú gāo xìng 
女 孩不 高 興

nǚ hái ná jiǎn dāo jiǎn nán hái de tóu fà
女 孩 拿剪 刀 剪 男 孩 的頭髮

十一月二十六日星期一 November 26, Monday - B Day

Today we learned some words such as
看 kàn = look, watch
書shū = book
看書kàn shū = read
寫xiě = write
字zì = word/character
寫字xiě zì = write (word/character)
高興gāo xìng = happy, glad
指一指zhǐ yī zhǐ = point at
用yòng = use
拿ná = take
剪jiǎn  = cut (with scisscors)
刀dāo = knife
剪刀 jiǎn dāo = scisscors

First, we used TPR/ASL to introduce the new words. After that we used whiteboard activities to practices these words. Next, we acted out a story with these words. Last, the students who haven't introduce their family in Chinese came up to the front and did the presentation.

yǒu yī gè nǚ hái zuò zài yǐ zǐ shàng kàn shū
有 一個女 孩 坐在椅子上     看   書

yī gè nán hái kuài kuài pǎo dào nǚ hái nà lǐ
一個男 孩 快    快  跑   到  女孩那裡

nán hái shuō :nǐ gěi wǒ shū hǎo ma ?
男 孩   說:  你給 我 書 好 嗎?

nǚ hái shuō :bú yào
女孩     說: 不要

nán hái ná nǚ hái de shū pǎo le
男  孩 拿女 孩 的書 跑了

nǚ hái bú gāo xìng
女 孩不 高 興

nǚ hái ná jiǎn dāo jiǎn nán hái de tóu fà 
女 孩 拿剪 刀 剪 男 孩 的頭髮

十一月二十日星期二 November 20, Tuesday - A Day

We reveiwed the old words with DaFengChui Game; and then students who haven't done their famiy introduction in Chinese did their presentation. After that we watched a video named IP Man 2 for 30 minutes.

十一月十九日星期一 November 19, Monday- B Day

Today we just learned a couple of new words, changing seatings, working on the app - BetterChinese Lesson 6 - 你家有幾個人 students only worked on Lesson's parts - Goals, animation - watching the animation at least 3 times, illustration - reading along the listening at least 3 times, and lesson text - read along the listening at least 3 times and finally that you get to the point that you may read the text without pinyin and immediately know what it means in English.

The notes for guitars 對不起我的中文不好

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http://teachchinese.wikispaces.com/file/view/對不起我的中文不好.pdf

十一月十六日星期五 November 16, Friday - A Day

Today we Chinese Level I-III learned the similar stuff. We learned the new words similar activities. First we learned the following words.
zhè shì ... 
這是... = thiis is
nà shì ... 
那是... = that is
tā ....suì 
他....歲 = he is ...years old
 tā de míng zì jiào ....
他的名字叫....= his name is .....

And then we review the words we taught before. Next, we had students come up to the classroom to introduce their family in Chinese with their family photos. Every student needed to take notes to what presenters said. When a student was done her/his presentation, the teacher asked questions about the family and students either chorus response or raise their hands to answer questions. In other words, along with introduction, the teacher asked questions for clarification and students' comprehension.

Around 15-20 minutes before the class dismissed we played "DAFENGCHUI" which is like musical chair but we use it with family members.
Ghost: DaFengChui (Big wind blow)
Everyone: ChuiShenMe? (Blow what?)
Ghost: ChuiYou .... (Blow those who have....)
If the Ghost says ChuiYou BaBa (Blow those who have dad), then anyone who has dad needs to switch their spots.

十一月十五日星期四 November 15, Thursday - B Day

                                                   wàigōng   wàipó bófù  shūshū   gūgū  jiùjiù  āyí   yě 
 Today we introduced the words 外 公、 外婆、伯父、叔叔、 姑姑、舅舅、阿姨、也 and before we introduced the new words we reviewed the words as usual. After that we either use PQA to review the words and/or whiteboards to practice the words.
 Rest of time students who brought their family photo introduced their family using the structures as the followings:
 zhè shì wǒ de
 這 是 我 的.... this is my ....
tā de míng zì jiào
 他的 名 字叫.... his name is ....
tā ....suì 
 他....歲 he is.... years old. 
We briefly introduced why grandpa and grandma on mom's side are called 外wài公gōng and 外wài婆pó and the seven reasons that the married woman could be divorced by her husband in ancient China.

 After that we played the DaFengChui game to practice the family members. (6th period) we also did our family tree. Of course, we had students come up to the front to introduce their family in Chinese. This time the teacher involved in and asking questions and comprehensive check after each student's introduction.