10/25 Class Review

We started today's lesson off with a little review. The students were asked to write characters they have learned in previous lessons: 是、什、么、书。 However, it seemed that many failed in this task and the teacher had to give hint as reminders. As our lesson progresses, the characters we teach get more complicated over time. Please make sure your children practice writing newly learned characters at least once or twice per week as part of their homework.

This week's new characters are: 子 (usually attached to the end of nouns), 这 (this),  不 (not), 你 (you). The teacher went through Pinyin, writing strokes, and word-making for each character and played "Beat the Teacher" game after each writing demonstration. 
 

We also added four more cards to their Pinyin Cards collection: zh, b, e, n. Students used their creativity and illustrated images on the backs of the cards to remind themselves of the proper pronunciation of each pinyin. 

In the second half of today's class, we reviewed some songs students have learned in past lessons. They did very well in performing those past songs! We also learned a new song, 礼貌歌. Since this song can be sung as a conversation between two people, each student practiced this song with a partner.