我是学生，我长大了想做。。。I am a student and I want to be…when I grow up.
I hope you all had a relaxing President’s Day long weekend! Welcome back to Ms. Song Mandarin class! 欢迎回到宋老师的中文课！I am glad to see my students maintaining their interest in learning Mandarin and still keep the knowledge they learned last week fresh.
As classes on the Chinese New Year topic rounded up well before the long weekend, we kick off this new weekend with topic of “Student, Classroom and Career Dream”.
To transit from the 12 Zodiac animals, I asked the children to practice writing speaking the 12 months in Chinese as well as writing down the date on each worksheet they do each day of class. For example, today is February 24th, they are supposed to put down “2月24日／二月二十四日”。 So far most of them did a good job!
During the first section of this week, children learned some mostly used words of objects in a classroom in Chinese like “教 (jiao 4)室 (shi 4) ” [classroom], “黑 （hei 1）板（ban 3）” ［chalkboard］， “墙（qiang 2）” ［wall］， “窗（chuang 1）户 （hu 4）” ［window］“桌（zhuo 1）子（zi）”［table］， “书（shu 1）”［book］， “书（shu 1）桌（zhuo 1）”［desk］ “椅（yi 3）子（zi）”［chair］and “地（di 4）面（mian 4）”［floor］。Generally, they did a good job reading those words by following me. Only “墙（qiang 2）” ［wall］is kinda confusing for them and they tended to read it as “床 （chuang 2）”［bed］. They practiced speaking those words in a conversation involving 2 persons. One is supposed to ask “这是什么（zhe4 shi4 shen2 me）”［What is this?］ while pointing at a certain object on the worksheet; the other one is supposed to answer that question by saying that object pointed at in Chinese. And they exchange roles. They got extra stickers for doing it correctly.
During the second section of this week. Children learned a few well-known careers and professions like “教师 （jiao4
shi 1）”［teacher］，“厨师（chu2 shi1）”［chef／cook］， “演员 （yan3 yuan2）”［actor／actress］，“歌星（ge1 xing1）”［singer］， “警察（jing3 cha2）”［policeman／cop］and “工程师（gong1 cheng2 shi1）”［engineer］ I am glad to see them volunteer to speak each work to me as fast as they can. Children also did some arts by drawing a picture of who they want to be when they grow up on a template called “我de梦想（wo3 de meng4 xiang3）”［My Dream］.
I wish all their dream will come true in the future. One of the children asked me why I was not drawing mine (very cute). I told them I am doing what I wanted to do now: teaching children. My dream would be they will improve their Chinese skills and enjoy this after school program!
Have a nice weekend! Stay warm ^_^
