Chinese at home
LOTE Chinese Issue 11 - August 28, 2020
Hello Bimbadeen families, dà jiā hǎo大家好!
I continue to be impressed by the efforts and enthusiasm our students show for learning Chinese. Other than the remote learning heroes nominated for Chinese and students whose photos are shown in this newsletter, I’d like to congratulate the following Year 1 and 2 students for their efforts and achievements with their recent Chinese work: Olivia B of 1/2S and Keira G of 1/2E.
I thank our families for the continuous support for our Chinese program, by sharing with me our students’ work and their learning experience at home, by giving feedback, by asking me questions and sending me positive messages and encouragements. All these are valuable in helping me continue to improve our Chinese program and try my best to bring about the best learning experience for our students.
Students home learning guide is now called ‘a Week 7 Planner’ both in Sentral as well as in the google drive linkhttps://bit.ly/3fvDoTY. The name change makes it easier to locate the file. The planner helps students to achieve learning goals with a step-by-step guide for using the learning resources. Each family with students in different year levels only needs to access this one document with links to all learning resources. As links in the planner bring you directly to all learning resources, there will no longer be files uploaded in Sentral for Chinese. Google drive learning resource linkhttps://bit.ly/3fvDoTY will continue to be used to store Chinese learning resources. Answer sheets (if applicable) will be available on the drive on Mondays in week 6, 8 and week 10.
Weeks 7-8
In weeks 7 to 8, the focus is language review - examples of Bimbadeen values that assessment is based on, as well as review of the new language learnt in Term 3.
Below are more tips for the remote learning for Chinese (continued from the last newsletter):
4. Use the translations in the lesson plans only after watching the videos a few times and still not understanding the language. Pause the video where you do not understand and have a look at the translation up to that point.
5. The last task is usually the ‘worksheet’, please leave this task as the last activity to do, as it’s based on all the other resources. You could, however, refer to the word list and expressions in this ‘worksheet’ to help you understand words and expressions.
There is no need to do the ‘extention’ or ‘optional’ worksheet questions such as ‘ordering words’ (to make a grammatically correct sentence) as they are not explicitly taught, but are embedded in the video clips as spoken Chinese. Until students can reflect on the pattern or structure of the spoken Chinese and compare it to the structure in English to notice the differences, students might still use English structure to build an expression in Chinese.
6. The more you hear the language and practice it, the quicker you remember it. Language sense develops quicker if you also try to use the language you have learnt. Try to ‘think’ in Chinese as you communicate by replacing the words and expressions you know in Chinese in your everyday ‘thinking’ and communication. Use ‘wǒ de shǒu我的手 (my hand)’ in Chinese when you want to say ‘wash my hand’ in English. Google and listen to some easy Chinese songs from ‘Little Fox Chinese’ or maybe ‘Chinese buddy’. It does not matter if your sentences do not have the correct sentence order. You will notice that it’s easier to decode structure and meaning of a sentence when you know most of the words in the sentence.
Home Learning Photos
Learning Chinese is cool - sharing home learning experience with our Bimbadeen community:
Message Zheng laoshi what words Indigo is saying in Chinese for stamps or tokens to get your name in the
lucky dip draw for the Chinese treasure chest.
Marley C (1/2D) not only did her work correctly but also coloured all the pictures
Can you guess what Zac S (1/2D) is saying in Chinese?
Featuring our fabulous 0BD girls - (Happy Father’s Day to all the dads in our community!)
