January 31st 2012 二零一二年一月三十一日星期二 - A

January 31st 2012

Periods 1, 2 & 3 are writing their Chinese New Year Culture project. The following are the requirements of the project. Chinese II & III need to have their slides in pin yin. They will present in class using mostly Chinese.

Choose one of the following topics for your personal project:
· Chinese New Year Legend
· Chinese New Year Food
· Chinese New Year Culture/Celebration
· Chinese New Year Superstition

Research at least 3 websites about your topic on Chinese New Year and write down the information you need for your project.

Design a powerpoint file with 25 slides (including title page and the resources page) and present what you’ve learned in class. Chinese Level I students may create the powerpoint in English.

January 30th 2012 二零一二年一月三十日星期一 - B

January 28th 2012


Period 8 is writing their Chinese New Year Culture project. The following are the requirements of the project. Chinese II & III need to have their slides in pin yin. They will present in class using mostly Chinese.

Choose one of the following topics for your personal project:

· Chinese New Year Legend
· Chinese New Year Food
· Chinese New Year Culture/Celebration
· Chinese New Year Superstition

Research at least 3 websites about your topic on Chinese New Year and write down the information you need for your project.


Design a powerpoint file with 25 slides (including title page and the resources page) and present what you’ve learned in class. Chinese Level I students may create the powerpoint in English.

January 27th 2012 二零一二年一月二十七日星期五 - A

January 27th 2012 二零一二年一月二十七日星期五 - A

Periods 1 - 3:

Chinese New Years continues! We took a pretest on cultural symbols and common myths of Chinese New Year.

Vocabulary words:

吃(chī)

過(guò) 新(xīn) 年(nián)

大(dà)

放(fàng) 鞭(biān) 炮(páo)

我(wǒ)

春(chūn) 聯(lián)

餃(jiǎo) 子(zǐ)

回(huí) 家(jiā)

去(qù) 舊(jiù)

慶(qìng) 祝(zhù)

快(kuài) 樂(lè)

舞(wǔ)

We then filled in the blanks in our New Years Books and started preparing to read these books to the Chinese students at Syracuse Elem.

January 26th 2012 二零一二年一月二十六日星期四 - B

January 26th 2012 二零一二年一月二十六日星期四 - B

8th Period:

Chinese New Years continues! We took a pretest on cultural symbols and common myths of Chinese New Year.

We also reviewed radicals. Radicals help us understand the meanings of and origins Chinese characters.

Students had to identify the radicals in texts as well as match characters with the correct radical group.

Students (in groups) were asked to speculate about the origins of Chinese characters in relation with radicals. For example ( the tin man is missing a 心 "heart" so his life carries no 意思 "meaning" noticing that the radicals on the bottom of the characters are the heart radical, good job group one)

Radicals used:

grass

tree

metal

hand

heart

mouth

water

meat

people

soil

animal

speaking

January 25th 2012 二零一二年一月二十五日星期三 - A

January 25th 2012 二零一二年一月二十五日星期三 - A

1st-2nd periods:

This week we are celebrating Chinese New Years. We made dragons while watching a Chinese movie: 功夫之王 gong fu zhi wang. After being graded, we will put the dragons on the classroom wall.

3rd Period: Field Trip!! We were actually able to talk to the chef and the servers in Chinese!! The food was great and all you can eat!

January 24rd 2012 二零一二年一月二十四日星期二 - B

January 24rd 2012 二零一二年一月二十四日星期二 - B

8th period:

This week we are celebrating Chinese New Years. We made dragons while watching a Chinese movie: 功夫之王 gong fu zhi wang. After being graded, we will put the dragons on the classroom wall.

January 23rd 2012 二零一二年一月二十三日星期一 - A- B

January 23rd 2012 二零一二年一月二十三日星期一 - A

Today's topic was radicals. Radicals help us understand the meanings of and origins Chinese characters.

This lesson was used for periods 1-3. Students had to identify the radicals in texts as well as match characters with the correct radical group.

Students (in groups) were asked to speculate about the origins of Chinese characters in relation with radicals. For example ( the tin man is missing a 心 "heart" so his life carries no 意思 "meaning" noticing that the radicals on the bottom of the characters are the heart radical, good job group one)

Radicals used:

grass

tree

metal

hand

heart

mouth

water

meat

people

soil

animal

speaking