Helpful websites

http://www.semanda.com
http://chinese4kids.net
mandarin-immersion.blogspot.com
http://www.asianparent.com/index.aspx

These are some of the websites and blog I found months and months ago. This might be a great way to start searching for resources when I need it.

• Semana.com has a lot of flashcards. Because our program is an Immersion program, no English is encouraged to be used during class. That, I might need to edit.
• chinesefkids.net is a bunch of activities, stories, videos, etc. on it. It's just a good resource to go to it whenever I need something for a lesson I just cannot find anywhere else.
• mandarin-immersion.blogspot is a website that helped me find the other three websites. The teacher, 畢老师, is from Utah. The last updated blog was back in 2012. Even though that is a little outdated, it's a good place to find any activities or lessons s/he's done in the past.
• asianparent.com might be a great website for my district to take a look at. We are still looking for books the kids can read during the school day so this might be a good website for us.

BraniPOP's Main Idea and Details Table

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1qqVU0yowwxZnpCN0t0bDhrZ3M/edit

I found this, a looooong time ago. I feel like this is a very good visual representation for the kids; it's a good 3D graphic organizer. I just have to translate to Chinese, which is fine, but the format is in .pdf so it's going to take some time.

Update

Just updated this post!

http://mandarinbilingual.blogspot.com/2013/12/going-to-taiwan.html

Chinese New Year

I skipped a week's post... I'm sorry (to myself).

Chinese New Year celebration is a pain in th @ss for the Chinese Immersion program. It's fun, but painful to plan for. It's not supposed to be called "Chinese New Year" anyways.

Next year's ideas:

• Start a month early
• Review everyday for two weeks (maybe starting guided reading)
• For the next week, review as a class, everyday.
• For the week before the performance, review a couple more times
• Have the kids say something one row at a time
• Do I really want instruments?????

Song's ideas:

• 对不起我的中文不好
• 贺新年
• 对面的同学看过来