Thursday, May 9, 2013

五月八日星期三 May 8, Wednesday - B Day


For Chinese Level I absent students - 1) first watch the videos below that shows what story we were telling/acting out in class; 2) Time reading the story up to 2 minutes, 3) copy down the story below and translate it into English sentence by sentence. 
For Chinese Level I, first we review the words taught before, and then we acted out the story with TPRStorytelling circling questions. Next the teacher read aloud the story word by word and sentence by sentence and the students chorally translate it into English. Later, we did the time-reading. Students read the story up to 2 minutes, and then up to 1 minutes, and then up to 30 seconds. The goal is at least 80% of students are able to finish reading the story once in 30 seconds. At the end we played Bingo games with the vocabulary we learned.



Tuesday, May 7, 2013

五月七日星期二 May 7, Tuesday - A Day

For Chinese Level I absent students - 1) first watch the videos below that shows what story we were telling/acting out in class; 2) Time reading the story up to 2 minutes, 3) copy down the story below and translate it into English sentence by sentence. 

For Chinese Level II & III absent students - 1) first do the word search and find 20 words from them; write down the words you find and their English meaning on the back of the paper. 2) Time reading the story up to 5 minutes, 3) copy down the new words and show the teacher your notes. 

For Chinese Level I, first we review the words taught before, and then we acted out the story with TPRStorytelling circling questions. Next the teacher read aloud the story word by word and sentence by sentence and the students chorally translate it into English. Later, we did the time-reading. Students read the story up to 2 minutes, and then up to 1 minutes, and then up to 30 seconds. The goal is at least 80% of students are able to finish reading the story once in 30 seconds.

For Chinese Level II & III, first we review the words taught before, and then we did the word search. Students were asked to find 20 words from the word search and write down the words they find and their English meaning on the the back of the word search paper. After that we did chorally read aloud for each sentence word by word backward. Next we did whole class read aloud to yourselves up to 5 minutes; read aloud as pairs up to 4 minutes. The goal is at least 80% of students are able to finish reading the story once in a minute.


Monday, May 6, 2013

五月六日星期一 May 6, Monday - B Day

I had a sick day today so a sub came to help me with the classes. Since I couldn't find a Chinese-speaking sub so here is the sub plan.
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#1, Please distribute the textbooks name I Love Learning Chinese Volume one to the students which are placed on the  
bottom layer on the  bookshelf by the door, and have the students copy down the story on page 49 in CHINESE characters and PINYIN(pronunciation), and translate into English. 

#2,please ask them to copy down the questions on the same page in CHINESE characters, PINYIN (pronunciation), and ANSWER the questions in PINYIN.

#3, please ask them to read aloud to themselves up to 5 minutes when they are one all the paper work.

#4,If there is any time left, please ask them to use their notes and create a 100 word story. 

Friday, May 3, 2013

五月三日星期五 - May 3rd, Friday - A Day

I just learned the technology named padlet and I think it's quite cool to put everything together together in a small screen on the blog. Seems it saves lots of space for the blog. I just hope my students will have the opportunity to take a look.


> Chinese Level I -we first reviewed the words. We acted out the story, using TPRStorytelling circling questions to review all the words. We watched the video assigned for homework.




Thursday, May 2, 2013

HOMEWORK - May 2-3 DUE May 6 (A Day) -7 (B Day)

Homework for Chinese Level I -
#1, Watch the video below at least 5 times and write a paragraph in English about the story on a piece of paper
#2, Write 3 new words heard in the video each time you watch and 15 different new words in total for this assignment.
#3, Have the parent sign on the paper and then turn it in by Monday, May 6.


蠟筆小新
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Homework for Chinese Level II & III -
#1, Watch the video below at least 5 times and write a paragraph in CHINESE PINYIN about the story on a piece of paper.
#2, Write 3 new words heard in the video each time you watch and 15 different new words in total for this assignment.
#3, Have the parent sign on the paper and then turn it in by Monday, May 6.

蠟筆小新 - 爸爸生病了

五月二日星期四 May 2nd, Thursday - B Day

For the students who are absent - We learned the following words.
下大雨xià dà yǔ = it rains hard
現在xiàn zài  = now
一張床yī zhāng chuáng = one bed
睡覺shuì jiào = sleep
在樹上zài shù shàng= in tree/on the tree
身上都是水shēn shàng dōu shì shuǐ = water all over the body

We first used ASL/TPR strategy to introduce the words and then we played ribbon game in paper.

First, students folded a piece of paper into half, and one side for Chinese, and the other side for English. And write down number 1-6 in vertical on the left edge of the paper.
Second, students worked as a group of 6 and assigned a number 1-5 in the group. And write down the assigned number in Chinese on the right top corner.
Third, students created a sentence with a new word, and after they're done then pass their paper to the next number student. The next number student has to translate the sentence that created by the student before and then create another sentence with another new word and then after they are done pass it to the next number student. Continue the steps until all the words are created.
Forth, after all the new words are done and the paper should be returned to the owner. The owner student has to check if the translation is correct or not.

For 6th period students we acted out the story first and then we read the story later.

Next, we read the story on page 49 on the textbook; the teacher read aloud word by word and the students chorally responded in English and then the teacher read aloud sentence by sentence and the students chorally responded in English. And then we used TPRStorytelling questioning to ask students the story for comprehension, listening, and speaking skills.

At the end of class, we watched the video named 蠟筆小新- 下雨接人  and explained to students how to do their homework assignment.

蠟筆小新- 下雨接人

五月一日星期三 - May 1st, Wednesday - A Day

For the students who are absent - We learned the following words.
下大雨xià dà yǔ = it rains hard
現在xiàn zài = now
一張床yī zhāng chuáng = one bed
睡覺shuì jiào = sleep
在樹上zài shù shàng= in tree/on the tree
身上都是水shēn shàng dōu shì shuǐ = water all over the body


We first used ASL/TPR strategy to introduce the words and then we played ribbon game in paper. (Our classroom procedures at the beginning of the class is COPY DOWN THE WORDS ON THE BOARD, CALENDAR INTRODUCTION, REVIEW THE OLD WORDS). Since B-Day students worked on the stories pages 43 & 46 and our lesson story is for the page 49, after using ASL/TPR introducing the new words and small whiteboards to practice the words and phrases, we worked on the stories on pages 46 & 49. We read both stories on page 46 & 49 on the textbook; the teacher read aloud word by word and the students chorally responded in English and then the teacher read aloud sentence by sentence and the students chorally responded in English. And then we used TPRStorytelling questioning to ask students the story for comprehension, listening, and speaking skills. We created sentences on a piece of paper.

 For Chinese Level II & III students we worked on the vocabulary on sickness. We first used the powerpoint to introduce the new words. We made sentences with these words according to the following picture. After practicing these words with sentences, we read a story with these words in. The teacher read aloud sentence by sentence and the students chorally respond in English. And then we use TPRStorytelling circling questions to practice the listening and speaking skills and check the comprehension as well.