This week, we are not able to use classrooms because of the parents-teacher meeting to deliver instruction in a comfortable environment. Though we still did our best to make the best of space in the library and cafeteria to have meaningful and fun class. This week is about food and drink. ^_^

We have a deck of flash cards of food and drink with colorful pictures of yummy food, Chinese characters and Pinyin on the front under the picture and English names on the back. This is a vivid way for the children to learn Chinese words of food and drink both visual and audio assistant at the same time. Each of them get a few chances to show the cards at hand, read them to the whole class and listen and learn from classmates. In order to implement those words into real-life usage, I divided those flash cards into categories of drink, courses and dessert, then developed a worksheet of a basic but handy conversation between a waiter/waitress and a customer set in a restaurant. Through this conversation, children are expected to get familiar with how to interact and communicate in the restaurant to order food/take orders. I am glad half of them already complete the worksheet with the flash cards under my instruction.

Besides, we did two fun coloring this week, one of them is for St. Patrick’s Day. Children are encouraged to draw pictures of green stuff they know, such as grass, leaves, apples and even green tea ice cream! Go Green~ The other coloring sheet is part of the topic of food. This sheet includes Chinese words of some popular fruits in large font size. Children are supposed to identify the fruits corresponding to the Chinese words and color the words in the color of that particular fruit. I am glad to see almost all the children are passionate in it and share crayons and color pens. They also do their best to write down the English names of the fruit, circle their favorite fruit(s) on the list and draw a little picture of the fruit. Guess what, we were offered apples and water melons after the class in the cafeteria by a school staff. Children 喜欢水果 (like fruits)！

I will enter the words and conversation we learned this week into the online Chinese learning program. I already got a positive feedback from one of the children and he likes it! I hope this would be helpful for our parents to stimulate their children to practice and review the Mandarin Chinese they learned in the week and maintain their interest in Chinese outside the classroom.

我们爱食物 We love food! 我们爱国语 We love Mandarin！

Xiexie~