四月二十六日星期五 April 25, Friday - B Day

For Chinese Level I absent students - #1, please copy down the words we learned today and show the teacher your notes when you come back


We used ASL (TPR) to help students to introduce the new words like 上面 下面 裡面 外面 to connect these words to their memory. After introducing the words, we read the story on the textbook. First, the teacher read aloud the sentence by sentence and the students translated aloud into English as a whole class. To make sure every student understand the meaning, choral translation was required. Later, students were asked to fold a sheet of linepaper into half and then on the first half they write each sentence of the story in pinyin and on the other half they translate the sentence into English. Next they answered the questions on the book. After that they read the story aloud and we did the time-reading pair activities.
上面shàng miàn = on/on the top/ above
下面xià miàn = under/ below
裡面 lǐ miàn = inside
外面wài miàn = outside
Reviewed he following words -
賓館bīn guǎn = hotel
帶dài = to bring/to take
地方dì fāng = place
房子fáng zǐ = house
進去jìn qù = enter/go inside
and we reviewed some words
問wèn = ask
說shuō = say, speak
上面shàng miàn = on/on the top/ above

裡面lǐ miàn = inside

四月二十五日星期四 April 25, Thursday - A Day

For Chinese Level I absent students - #1, please copy down the words we learned today and show the teacher your notes when you come back
Today we learned a couple of new words - 上面,下面,裡面, 和外面

上面shàng miàn = on/on the top/ above
下面xià miàn = under/ below
裡面 lǐ miàn = inside
外面wài miàn = outside
Reviewed he following words -
賓館bīn guǎn = hotel
帶dài = to bring/to take
地方dì fāng = place
房子fáng zǐ = house
進去jìn qù = enter/go inside
and we reviewed some words
問wèn = ask
說shuō = say, speak
上面shàng miàn = on/on the top/ above

裡面lǐ miàn = inside

Of course, after we did calendar introduction we reviewed the words learned last time. Next we introduced the new words with TPR/ASL. We did the charade games as pairs. And then instead of using small whiteboards we used a sheet of paper and folded it into 16 boxes and students were asked to write down pinyin, Chinese characters and its English meaning according to what they heard from the teacher. After that we did the ribbon game.

For Chinese Level II and III, we first watched a video and then students were asked to write what they watch in the video. We talked about the words they might not be familiar with such as 單節棍 雙節棍 三節棍 骷顱頭 忍者 舞者etc. Next we llearn the words 醫生 護士 覺得 不舒服 生病了. they used the Ipads BetterChinese app to practice their listening and reading skills on Lesson 8-10 for the last 30 minutes.

四月二十四日星期三 April 24, Wednesday - B Day

For Chinese Level I absent students - #1, please copy down the words we learned today and show the teacher your notes when you come back
We had an assembly today and several students were absent due to the participation of it. First, we used TPR/ASL to introduce the new words, and then we did a quick close-eye assessment. Later we did a game like charade. Students worked as pairs; in a minute student A created the sentences with gestures and Student B said them in Chinese, and then Student B created the sentences with gestures and Student A said them in Chinese. Next we did the charade game as a whole class. After that, students were asked to create 3 sentences with each word and 15 sentences in total on a sheet of paper.

四月二十三日星期二 April 23, Tuesday - A Day

For Chinese Level I absent students - #1, please copy down the words we learned today and show the teacher your notes when you come back

Today for Chinese Level I students we learned the following words -
賓館bīn guǎn = hotel
帶dài = to bring/to take
地方dì fāng = place
房子fáng zǐ = house
進去jìn qù = enter/go inside
and we reviewed some words
問wèn = ask
說shuō = say, speak
上面shàng miàn = on/on the top/ above

裡面lǐ miàn = inside

We had a student named from Univeristy of Utah come and observe our classes for these two weeks. Students asked Kevin questions. 1st period students such as Nicolette asked him questions in Chinese and did a great job but 2nd period students, instead, asked in English though. After Kevin's introduction, we used ASL (TPR) to help students to connect these words to their memory. After introducing the words, we used small whiteboard activity to practice the pinyin, the characters, and their meanings. Next we acted out a story and used the TPRStorytelling circling questions asked students the questions about the story for comprehension and listening/speaking skill practices
yǒu yī gè nán hái 
有一個男孩 = there is a boy
tā de míng zì jiào       
他的名字叫 Brent = his name is Brent
         shí èr suì 
Brent十二歲  = Brent is 12 years old
tā qī nián jí 
他七年級 = he is in 7th grade
yī tiān         yào qù mài dāng láo
一天 Brent 要去麥當勞 = One day, Brent wants to go to McDonald's.
tā kàn dào yī tóu nǎi niú 
他看到一頭奶牛 = He sees a cow.
nǎi niú wèn       
奶牛問Brent = The cow asks Brent,
nǐ yào qù nǎ lǐ 
你要去哪裡? = Where are you going?
       shuō ;wǒ yào qù mài dāng láo 
Brent說;我要去麥當勞 = Brent says, I'm going to McDonald's.
nǎi niú wèn       
奶牛問Brent = The cow asks Brent,
nǐ dài wǒ qù hǎo bù hǎo 你帶我去好不好? Would you please take me there?
       shuō hǎo 
Brent說好 = Brent says, okay.
tā dài nǎi niú qù mài dāng láo 他帶奶牛去麥當勞 = Brent takes the cow to McDonald's.
nǎi niú kàn dào mài dāng láo mài hàn bǎo bāo 奶牛看到麥當勞賣漢堡包 = The cow sees McDonald's sell hamburgers.
nǎi niú bù jìn qù mài dāng láo
奶牛不進去麥當勞 = The cow doesn't go inside McDonald's.

Brent帶奶牛去賓館 just with reading aloud. 


Brent帶奶牛去賓館 with TPRStorytelling circling questions


For Chinese Level II and III we practiced typing again.

四月二十二日星期一 April 22, Monday - B Day

Today Chinese Level I students we worked on ipad's app, BetterChinese, lesson five - 我上大華高中. The objectives for the learning are
#1, students are able to tell the English meanings to the Chinese characters of 初中 and 高中
#2. students are able to comprehend the conversations about age, grade, and school.
#3, students are able to distinguish the different tones of the Chinese words related to age, grade, and school.

四月十九日星期五 - April 19, Friday - A Day

Today Chinese Level I students we worked on ipad's app, BetterChinese, lesson five - 我上大華高中.

The objectives for the learning are
#1, students are able to tell the English meanings to the Chinese characters of 初中 and 高中
#2. students are able to comprehend the conversations about age, grade, and school.
#3, students are able to distinguish the different tones of the Chinese words related to age, grade, and school.

For Chinese Level II and III, since we are going to have a AAAPL test on April 23 and students haven't been practicing typing yet. Fortunately Mrs. Hirshi was not taking her class to the computer lab and thanks to Mrs. Zaidi was willing to let us use the computer lab 134 which the Chinese program installed so students for Level II and III went to the computer lab 134 to practice typing. The objectives for the learning are
#1, students are able to type correct pinyin and choose correct Chinese characters
#2, students are able to operate the computer Chinese input system

四月十八日星期四 - April 18, Thursday - B Day

Today I took 26 students to BYU for Chinese Language Fair. This year we Chinese students only attend two competitions; conversation/interview and poetry; they grade as Excellent, Very good, Good, and Fair. Kids had fun time there experiencing lots of activities related to Chinese culture. We had 5 Chinese Level III students, 2 Chinese Level II students, and 3 Chinese Level I students attended the competition; a couple of them just attended either poetry or conversation competition.
 Chinese Level I - Conversation
 Excellent - Dalin Stone
Very Good - Case Sorensen - Kali Tuttle (All their poetry are GOOD).
 Chinese Level II - Poetry
 Excellent - Brandon Bunderson
  Excellent - Keegan Mussalo
 (All their conversation are GOOD).
 Chinese Level III - Conversation
Excellent - Katherine Free
Excellent - Maddie Duncan
 (Others are GOOD).
 Chinese Level III - Poetry
Very Good- Katherine Free
Very Good - Corbin Berrong
Very Good- Luke Tidwell
 (Others are GOOD).
 Our sub lesson plan as the followings.. Students view the Chinese stroke order videos and trace Chinese characters on the sheet.