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Chinese Playgroup #3 🏡♥
July 4th weekend (but we didn't do anything thematic)
Five kids again this week. This week's playgroup was a bit heavy on character recognition and writing, so the other six-year-old lost interest. (She hasn't had any formal Chinese instruction yet.)
1. SONGS:
1a. 我的朋友在哪里 (Where is My Friend?)
Show/remind them the ASL gestures for 我的 (My), 朋友 (Friend), 在哪里 (Where) and 在这里 (Here).
1b. 小白兔，白又白 (Little white bunny)
2. INTRODUCTION:
Introduce themselves by their Chinese name. Explain the meaning. "我叫NAME. 国王的王. 生日的生." etc. I modeled the introduction by writing my name on the whiteboard and explaining the characters' meaning. Brooks introduced himself:
3. READ-ALOUD:
3a. Read 先有蛋 (xiān yǒu dàn)/先有鸡 (xiān yǒu jī). First the Egg/First the Chicken by Laura Vaccaro Seeger.
3b. Read 红花红花几月开？(When Will The Red Flower Bloom?) from MyFirstChineseWords (#16)
3c. River asked me to also read 你在做什么? (What Are You Doing?) (#25) because he finds the deformed illustrations hilarious.
4. SHOW AND TELL:
"这是OBJECT."
One or two additional sentence about the object's color/size/physical characteristics.
Ask follow-up questions as appropriate.
River shared 这是我的耳机. 我的耳机是红色的. This is my headphones. My headphones are red.
Brooks shared 这是电玩 (Trad. 電玩 diàn wán). This is a video game.
I picked 电玩 over 游戏机 (Trad. 遊戲機 yóu xì jī) because they recently learned the character 电.
5. ACTIVITY #1:
Guess which character I'm writing.
One child write on the whiteboard one stroke at a time, pausing in between strokes to give the other kids chance to guess the character.
We cut the playgroup short at 30 minutes because the kids were vibrating more than usual this week.
6. REFRESHMENTS:
Bing & Rainier cherries 樱桃 Trad. 櫻桃 (yīng táo) etc.labeled with their Chinese names.
My mom made a plate of 饺子 Trad. 餃子 (jiǎo zi), which immediately disappeared.
There were also some sunflower seeds 葵花子 (kuí huā zǐ)
There was another playgroup in-between at V's house, which for the purposes of this blog will be called #V1 and so on.
Plans for Playgroup #4:
1. SONGS:
1a. 我的朋友在哪里 (Where is My Friend?)
Use the ASL gestures for 我的 (My), 朋友 (Friend), 在哪里 (Where) and 在这里 (Here).
1b. 小白兔，白又白 (Little White Bunny)
1c. 两只老虎 (Two Tigers), introduced by V in Playgroup #V1 last week.
Teach ASL gestures for 老虎 (Tiger), 跑 (Run), 眼睛 (Eyes) and 耳朵 (Ears).
2. Skipping introductions this week.
3. SHOW AND TELL:
"我喜欢FOOD/DRINK." Theme: favorite food/fruit/vegetable/drink.
Bring the actual item or a picture/representative toy.
Ask follow-up questions as appropriate.
4. READ-ALOUD:
(?)4a. Read 我饿了 (I Am Hungry)
(?)4b. Read 好饿的毛毛虫 (The Very Hungry Caterpillar) << Next playgroup (#5)
4c. Read 红花红花几月开？(When Will The Red Flower Bloom?)
5. ACTIVITY #1:
Compare the food/drink items that people brought and say
- 我喜欢FOOD/DRINK.
- 我不喜欢FOOD/DRINK.
- 我最喜欢FOOD/DRINK.
etc.
Refer to Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert.
Take a poll/draw a graph.
6. ACTIVITY #2:
红花红花几月开？(When Will The Red Flower Bloom?)
Have one child sit in the middle of the circle.
Everyone in the circle says the chorus: 红花红花几月开？
The child in the middle: 一月开.
Everyone else: 一月不开, 几月开？
Child: 二月开.
Everyone else: 二月不开, 几月开？
etc.
If the child wants to be done with their turn, they answer: 三月一定开!
Everyone should have a turn sitting in the middle and should answer at least two or three times.
7. REFRESHMENTS:
- popcorn 爆米花 (bào mǐ huā)
- ice cream 冰淇淋 (bīng qí lín)
labeled with their Chinese names.
Five kids again this week. This week's playgroup was a bit heavy on character recognition and writing, so the other six-year-old lost interest. (She hasn't had any formal Chinese instruction yet.)
1. SONGS:
1a. 我的朋友在哪里 (Where is My Friend?)
Show/remind them the ASL gestures for 我的 (My), 朋友 (Friend), 在哪里 (Where) and 在这里 (Here).
1b. 小白兔，白又白 (Little white bunny)
2. INTRODUCTION:
Introduce themselves by their Chinese name. Explain the meaning. "我叫NAME. 国王的王. 生日的生." etc. I modeled the introduction by writing my name on the whiteboard and explaining the characters' meaning. Brooks introduced himself:
3. READ-ALOUD:
3a. Read 先有蛋 (xiān yǒu dàn)/先有鸡 (xiān yǒu jī). First the Egg/First the Chicken by Laura Vaccaro Seeger.
3b. Read 红花红花几月开？(When Will The Red Flower Bloom?) from MyFirstChineseWords (#16)
3c. River asked me to also read 你在做什么? (What Are You Doing?) (#25) because he finds the deformed illustrations hilarious.
4. SHOW AND TELL:
"这是OBJECT."
One or two additional sentence about the object's color/size/physical characteristics.
Ask follow-up questions as appropriate.
River shared 这是我的耳机. 我的耳机是红色的. This is my headphones. My headphones are red.
Brooks shared 这是电玩 (Trad. 電玩 diàn wán). This is a video game.
I picked 电玩 over 游戏机 (Trad. 遊戲機 yóu xì jī) because they recently learned the character 电.
5. ACTIVITY #1:
Guess which character I'm writing.
One child write on the whiteboard one stroke at a time, pausing in between strokes to give the other kids chance to guess the character.
We cut the playgroup short at 30 minutes because the kids were vibrating more than usual this week.
6. REFRESHMENTS:
Bing & Rainier cherries 樱桃 Trad. 櫻桃 (yīng táo) etc.labeled with their Chinese names.
My mom made a plate of 饺子 Trad. 餃子 (jiǎo zi), which immediately disappeared.
There were also some sunflower seeds 葵花子 (kuí huā zǐ)
There was another playgroup in-between at V's house, which for the purposes of this blog will be called #V1 and so on.
Plans for Playgroup #4:
1. SONGS:
1a. 我的朋友在哪里 (Where is My Friend?)
Use the ASL gestures for 我的 (My), 朋友 (Friend), 在哪里 (Where) and 在这里 (Here).
1b. 小白兔，白又白 (Little White Bunny)
1c. 两只老虎 (Two Tigers), introduced by V in Playgroup #V1 last week.
Teach ASL gestures for 老虎 (Tiger), 跑 (Run), 眼睛 (Eyes) and 耳朵 (Ears).
2. Skipping introductions this week.
3. SHOW AND TELL:
"我喜欢FOOD/DRINK." Theme: favorite food/fruit/vegetable/drink.
Bring the actual item or a picture/representative toy.
Ask follow-up questions as appropriate.
4. READ-ALOUD:
(?)4a. Read 我饿了 (I Am Hungry)
(?)4b. Read 好饿的毛毛虫 (The Very Hungry Caterpillar) << Next playgroup (#5)
4c. Read 红花红花几月开？(When Will The Red Flower Bloom?)
5. ACTIVITY #1:
Compare the food/drink items that people brought and say
- 我喜欢FOOD/DRINK.
- 我不喜欢FOOD/DRINK.
- 我最喜欢FOOD/DRINK.
etc.
Refer to Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert.
Take a poll/draw a graph.
6. ACTIVITY #2:
红花红花几月开？(When Will The Red Flower Bloom?)
Have one child sit in the middle of the circle.
Everyone in the circle says the chorus: 红花红花几月开？
The child in the middle: 一月开.
Everyone else: 一月不开, 几月开？
Child: 二月开.
Everyone else: 二月不开, 几月开？
etc.
If the child wants to be done with their turn, they answer: 三月一定开!
Everyone should have a turn sitting in the middle and should answer at least two or three times.
7. REFRESHMENTS:
- popcorn 爆米花 (bào mǐ huā)
- ice cream 冰淇淋 (bīng qí lín)
labeled with their Chinese names.