十二月十一日星期二 December 11, Tuesday - A Day

Fro 1st period, I first expressed my disappointment about the quiz they did last time that half of the students failed to reach the goal - 80%. We discussed why this happened and how it happened - students zoned out in class, not take notes, not respond to the questions aloud, etc. After that, we started to learn the following three words 
坐在地上zuò zài dì shàng = sit on the floor
走到那裡zǒu dào nà lǐ = walk over to....頭髮 tóu fà = hair

As usual, we first review the old words like 拿, 用,剪,看,指一指,高興,生氣,跑了,寫字,書。While we introduced 頭髮 tóu fà, we also extensionly introduced 
長chang = long 
短duǎn = short (length)
比較bǐ jiào = compared to, more...., ___er
最zuì = most...., ____est
高gāo = tall
矮ǎi = short (height)

For 1st period, we used each student to do the comparison (PQA) and had a great fun time. the last 30 minutes students worked on the page 16 on the textbook; they copied down the story in pinyin and translate it into English. 



For 2nd period which we have a smaller class but more talkative students who like to argue with the teacher.  And the extension words only reach to 長chang (long) and 短duǎn = (short in length). We did the similar things that 1st period students did but since it is a smaller class and noisier class we added in a whiteboard activity to calm the students down and to pay more attention to learn.

For 3rd period Chinese II and III, most of time we practice a game named "五子棋". Each student drew 13 x 13 lines on a piece of paper with 13 words - 洗臉,刷牙,洗澡,吃早飯,起床,穿衣服,刮鬍子,醒來,吃午飯,去上學,梳頭髮,看電視,睡覺 on the first horizontal row and vertical column. Students started to use the  phrase "先....然後...' it's like a tic-tac-toe game but to win you need to have 5 Os or 5Xs in a row. For example,
Student A: 我先起床然後刷牙wǒ xiān qǐ chuáng rán hòu shuā yá 
And then student A can make a O on the box cross with 起床qǐ chuáng and 刷牙shuā yá 
Student B: 我先刷牙然後梳頭wǒ xiān shuā yá rán hòu shū tóu 



And then student B can make a X on the box cross with 刷牙shuā yá and 梳頭shū tóu. 
Whoever has more than 5 Os or 5 Xs consequently in a row wins the game.

After the game, we collected the story books the students write on a Reading A-Z book (My Day), and showed some of the students' storybooks through the document camera and for TPRS circling questions.