這是我和台語學校華語二班和台語幼稚園班的橋樑；希望藉著這個部落格和家長溝通，給孩子們一個快樂又有效率的學習環境！
Taiwanese K | 2009
5/31 Closing Ceremony and End-of-Year Picnic, 11 am - 3:30 pm at Cabin John Regional Park I was absent today. Teacher Amy substituted me for the Final Test. All the children did very well. The results follow: 100: 5 90-99: 2 80-89: 3 Absent: 1 I will hand out the test and...
Taiwanese K | 2009
5/17 Final Exam 5/24 No School: Memorial Weekend 5/31 Closing Ceremony and End-of-Year Picnic, 11 am - 3:30 pm at Cabin John Regional Park Teacher Amy checked homework. Maxine told me she left it at home. I said that's ok. She could always make up next time. The...
Taiwanese K | 2009
Saturday 5/2 Mother's Day Party at Wheaton Church Sunday 5/3 Field Day at Churchill High School 5/10 Regular class 5/17 Final exam and Happy Hour Dinner Welcome back, Annika! Today we did two types of craft for Mother's Day. The craft was not easy, but the...
Taiwanese K | 2009
Welcome back, Aaron! Teacher Amy checked homework. I reviewed lesson 7: PhutQo 葡萄 (Grapes) . I gave each child a fruit card and asked them to come to stage and introduce their fruit, eg. name, color, taste and whether they liked it or not. Kids all did this very well. I reinforced the...
Taiwanese K | 2009
Today we had 曉婷 (Victoria's mom) sub for Teacher Amy. Welcome and thanks, Hsiao-Ting. We checked homework first. Children wrote 5 times of zaxng, zhaix, say, and joah at home. Most of them forgot how to say zaxng and zhaix. I know it's very different to English. I reminded them:...
Taiwanese K | 2009
4/5 No school. School resumes on 4/12. We missed Annika and Aaron today. They will be in Taiwan for 3 weeks. We checked homework. I asked the kids to say the electronics in Taiwanese. Most of them did a good job. We reviewed lesson 6 tiexnsi 電視 (Television)...
Taiwanese K | 2009
There's no school on 4/5. School resumes on 4/12. Today I returned the midterm test sheet. Teacher Amy made up the test for Eric and Hannahlise who were absent last week. Our kids all did very well. I start to think maybe I should give them some challenging ones next time. The...
Taiwanese K | 2009
We had mid-term test today. I was absent. Teacher Amy substituted me for the class. There is no homework this week. See you next week!
Taiwanese K | 2009
We'll have midterm next week. Please help your child review lessons 1-5. Today we reviewed lessons 1-5, and taught new alphabets: c (cih 舌 ), ch (chiaf 車 ), s (sikoef 西瓜 ), j (jixtiern 字典 ). I found some kids could already sound the words out! I'll...
Taiwanese K | 2009
3/8夏令節約時間開始 3/15 Midterm test. We'll evaluate lessons 1-5. According to the suggestion of a parent, now Teacher Amy will mark the homework after she checked. The virtue of March is "Responsibility". I asked the kids what their responsibilities were. Some...
Taiwanese K | 2009
3/15 Midterm test. We'll evaluate lessons 1-5. Please tell me 5 of your child's favorite Taiwanese songs. Teacher Amy checked homework. Our children were proud they could "write" Taiwanese. We started with playing "number relay"（數字接龍）. Not...
Taiwanese K | 2009
Teacher Amy checked homework. Not having school last Sunday made some kids forgot what homework was and whether they did it or not. It was human nature. But when I started class, they all remembered what we taught last time! I reviewed numbers from 1 to 100. It was boring to say the...
Taiwanese K | 2009
No school next week (2/8). School resumes on 2/15. Thanks to Teh-Lin (Eric and Jason's mom) helped in the classroom today. After checking and reviewing homework, we learned counting from 1 to 100 in Taiwanese. All of them could already count to 10. I taught them to count by 10s (xx...
Taiwanese K | 2009
No school on 2/8. In the beginning of the class, we practiced 「猴猻仔」and 「摒掃」with the "tail". Our children performed for parents and guests in the evening. I was very impressed by their good manner while waiting patiently and quietly for their time. They...
Taiwanese K | 2009
Taiwanese Speech Contest was held in the class time.