準備好要上學了嗎? Ready for back to school?!!

準備好要上學了嗎? Ready for back to school?!!
School is going to start in 2 weeks. Time flies!! While I was complaining the long boredom summer without students, here I'm busy with the new school year's lesson plans.
For parents, would you please help your child prepare the supplies that we would use most time in the classroom, which include --

• A 3-ring binder
• A spiral notebook
• A package of lined paper
• 2 sharpened pencil
• A package of dry erase markers
• A rug/cloth

For students, would you please help yourself ready for Chinese learning? Chinese is a language that the language system is different from alphabets. To learn the language well you may need to put aside the concepts how you learned English or alphabets and adapt new methods learning the target language.

五月三十日星期四 May 30 Thursday - A Day

WE LOST AN IPAD  - We lost an ipad with PURPLE RED cover; on its back it says 12S8. Only the students at the advisory and my 3rd period students used them. I don't believe my Chinese students would take them away and most likely it is misplaced so if you see your child or as a student you see your friend suddenly is using an unknown ipad today without cover or with the purple red cover, would you please let me know? thanks tons.  

Since Monday and Tuesday we are going to play soccer against Spanish students so we learned the following words..
踢tī = kick

足zú = foot

球qiú = ball
足球zú qiú= soccer
踢足球tī zú qiú = play soccer
打dǎ = hit
籃lán = basket
籃球lán qiú = basketball
打籃球dǎ lán qiú = play basket
對duì = (to) face/toward, right, correct, pair
抗kàng = resist
對抗duì kàng = (be) aganist, (to) withstand
西班牙xī bān yá = Spain
隊duì= team
西班牙隊xī bān yá duì= Spain team
智利zhì lì = Chile
智利隊zhì lì duì= Chile team
守shǒu = guard
門mén = door
員yuán = person
守門員shǒu mén yuán = goalie, keeper
發fā = (to) set off, (to) develop
發球員fā qiú yuán = fowarder
中華隊zhōng huá duì = Chinese team
加jiā = add
油yóu = oil/gass
加油jiā yóu = GO!!GO!!GO!!
防fáng = (to) prevent, (to) guard
守shǒu = (to) guard
防守員fáng shǒu yuán = defense
得dé = (to) get/receive
分fèn = point/score
得分dé fèn= scored
中zhōng = center/middle
控kòng = control
中控員zhōng kòng yuán = mid-fielder

liù yuè sān rì xīng qī yī wǒ men zhōng huá duì yào tī zú qiú duì kàng xī bān yá duì hé zhì lì duì , xī bān yá
六月  三  日星期一 我   們      中    華  隊要   踢足球對抗西班牙隊和智利隊, 西班牙
duì shì       ǎo shī de xī bān yá wén de xué shēn g , zhì lì duì shì Johnsonlǎo shī de xī bān yá wén de xué shēng 
隊是Cannell老師的西班牙文的學生, 智利隊是Johnson老師的西班牙文的學生

五月二十九日星期三 May 29, Wednesday - B Day

We learned the following words --
帽子mào zǐ = hat
襪子wà zǐ = socks
鞋子xié zǐ = shoes
褲子kù zǐ = pants
商店shāng diàn= store
穿chuān = wear/put on (clothes)
戴dài = wear/put (accesories)

We reviewed the words --
住在 zhù zài =  live in
冬天dōng tiān = winter
很冷hěn lěng= very cold
夏天xià tiān = summer
很炎熱hěn yán rè = very hot
秋天qiū tiān = fall
很暖和hěn nuǎn hé= very warm
春天chūn tiān = spring
很涼爽hěn liáng shuǎng = very cool

五月二十八日星期二 May 28, Tuesdday - A Day

For Chinese Level I students we learned the following words -
春天chūn tiān = spring
夏天xià tiān  = summer
秋天qiū tiān = fall
冬天dōng tiān = winter 
住在zhù zài  =  live in
很冷hěn lěng  = very cold
很炎熱hěn yán rè  =very hot
很涼爽hěn liáng shuǎng  = very cool
很暖和hěn nuǎn huo  = very warm

First we introduced the words and then used PQA such as where do you live? and then with the questions --what season do you like? and why? And then we made flashcards to practice these words; putting them into phrases and sentences. At the end we watched video to learn the song. 

五月二十四日星期五 May 24, Friday - B Day

For Chinese Level I students we learned the following words -
春天chūn tiān = spring
夏天xià tiān  = summer
秋天qiū tiān = fall
冬天dōng tiān = winter 
住在zhù zài  =  live in
很冷hěn lěng  = very cold
很炎熱hěn yán rè  =very hot
很涼爽hěn liáng shuǎng  = very cool
很暖和hěn nuǎn huo  = very warm

First we introduced the words and then used PQA such as where do you live? and then with the questions --what season do you like? and why? And then we made flashcards to practice these words; putting them into phrases and sentences. For 5th period students we had time to work on the story on page 73 and its questions but for 6th period we didn't have enough time so we didn't do the story on the textbook.

五月二十三日星期四 May 23, Thursday - A Day

For Chinese Level I we reviewed all the colors-
白色bái sè = white
黑色hēi sè = black
灰色huī sè = gray
綠色lǜ sè = green
紅色hóng sè = red
藍色lán sè = blue
紫色zǐ sè = purple
粉紅色fěn hóng sè = pink 
咖啡色kā fēi sè = brown
褐色hè sè = brown
棕色 zōng sè = brown
橘色jú sè = orange
橙色chéng sè = orange
黃色huáng sè = yellow
金黃色jīn huáng sè = blond/golden
銀色yín sè = silver
淺qiǎn = light (color)
深shēn = dark/deep (color)
顏色yán sè = colors
We used PQA to ask what is your favorite color. We acted out the story about James 的狗跑了and practiced with TPRS circling questions. We did the time-reading and aswer the questions to the story.

For Chinese Level II & III we learned the following wrods first and then we read the article.
電視diàn shì = TV
電影diàn yǐng = movie
演員yǎn yuán = actor
有名的yǒu míng de= famous
遇yù 見jiàn = meet
約會yuē huì = have a date/be on the date

中文二

中文三

五月二十二日星期三 May 22, Wednesday - B Day

For Chinese Level I students, we learned the following words -

For Chinese Level I students we learned the following words -
書包shū bāo = backpack (for the purpose of school use/ school study)
買mǎi  = buy
家樂福jiā lè fú  = Carrifoure
找zhǎo  = look for
找不到zhǎo bù dào = can't find
找到zhǎo dào = find

supplementary words...
賣mài = sell
背包bèi bāo =  backpack
如果rú guǒ = if
學校xué xiào  = school
學生xué shēng = student
太貴了tài guì le  = too expensive

We used PQA to learn these words. For example,
Kali yǒu yī gè qiān bǐ hé
Kali 有一個鉛筆盒
lǎo shī yào mǎi Kalide qiān bǐ hé 
老師要買Kali的鉛筆盒
lǎo shī wèn Kalimài bù mài tā de qiān bǐ hé
老師問Kali賣不賣他的鉛筆盒 
Kalishuō mài 
Kali說賣
lǎo shī yòu wèn Kaliduō shǎo qián mài tā de qiān bǐ hé 
老師又問Kali多少錢賣她的鉛筆盒
Kalishuō 250kuài qián 
Kali說兩百五十塊錢
lǎo shī wèn Jace liǎng bǎi wǔ shí kuài qián mǎi bù mǎi Kalide qiān bǐ hé 
老師問Jace 兩百五十塊錢買不買Kali的鉛筆盒
Jaceshuō bù mài 
Jace說不賣
.....etc.
After we practiced買mǎi and 賣mài, instead of using small whiteboards, we practiced on these words on a sheet of paper. We folded the paper into 16 boxes. The teacher said, 找zhǎo書shū, and students write its Chinese characters and draw a picture to its meaning on the front, and write its English meaning and pinyin in the back.

(By Emma Saxey, Chinese Level I, 5th period)

 At the last 15 minutes we acted out the story three times. Instead of using the name "James" we used the actor's/actress' names. Also we used TPRS circling questions.