2013-2014 Class sallybus

Cascades Heights Public Charter School

 

Mandarin Language Class 2013-2014

Teacher: Wenny Laoshi

Classes: K-8

Phone:

Email: w.liao@chpcs.org

Welcome to Wenny Laoshi’s Chinese Class!

      欢迎, 来到中文班!

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course is China’s official language Mandarin class which will help students to develop understanding of Chinese Culture through learning language. The purpose of this course is to increases student’s interest in speaking, reading and writing in Chinese. At the same time, the course follows International Foreign Language Standard called the “5 C’s” (communication, cultures, connections, comparisons, communities) teaching students to develop Chinese speaking, reading and writing skills. At the same time make big connection to the whole world to get ready to be a global citizen.

 

Content:

We will follow the standard to develop our own learning materials from K and 8^th Grade. At the same time, we will use Better Chinese, Text book Chinese Paradise， Experience Chinese 体验汉语 and  Kuai Le Han Yu 快乐汉语 (Happy Chinese) as supporting learning material.

 

In addition you may expect your student to learn

· Learn “Pinyin” (four tones of pronunciation of the Chinese characters)

· Learn vocabulary and simple interactions’ communication through following topics: Greeting, My Classroom, Counting, Colors and shapes, Time and Date, My Body, My Home, Sports and Hobbies, Food and Drinks, Birthday and Festivals, Shopping, Daily Life, Location, Occupations, Animals and Nature, Seasons and Weather, Nationalities and Cities, Traffic and Travel and more.

· Learn how to recognize the basic Chinese Characters and read short stories

· Learn the rules of writing Chinese Characters including the strokes, the sequence of the strokes and the radicals (strokes and radicals are marks on the page which combine to create Chinese characters).

· Learn how to write short sentences in correct Chinese sentence construction

· Learn Chinese culture activities, such as traditional Games, Chinese songs, Calligraphy, Paper-cutting, Chinese painting, Chinese cooking, etc.

· Learn how to type in Chinese into Computer for upper Grade.

· Learn how Chinese people celebrate traditional holidays in China

 

Materials:

Text: Kuai Le Hanyu for 6^th Grade to 8^th Grade , Chinese Paradise for 2^nd Grade to 5^th Grade, Better Chinese Reading Packet for 1^st Grade. K- 8 Teacher’s Handout (Teacher created materials) and some materials from the Hanban donated to our Confucius Chinese classroom. 

 

 

Course Requirements:

· Read all handout materials. Attend all classes on time and be prepared. Follow class rule. Participate in all class and group discussions.

· Keep all classroom handouts in Chinese folder and bring notebook to class for 5^th grade and up every day.

 

· Homework: Please turn in your homework on time. 2nd Grade and up will have home work once a week.

Please bring you planner to Chinese class every Thursday and homework is due on following Monday.

Short assessment will be given every Monday.

Late homework will count lower grade. (Except late homework due to special case such as illness)

 

I hope all of my students will have fun while learning Chinese this year!

 

Wenny Laoshi

w.liao@chpcs.org