玉鈴老師的班

• 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 zap). After they were familiar with the 10th digit, they add the ones to form the whole number (xx zap xx). For example: 56 reads "go zap lak".

We sang 飛機 and 一陣大雨 to bring back their memory of thviterng 天頂 (sky) and toaxho 大雨 (rain). Then I told a story about 韓信 to deliver the spirit of this month's virtue「忍耐」(self-countrol, be patient, tolerance, etc.)。I told the story in both English and Mandarin, so every child understood and was very impressed by 韓信's self-control ability. I also reviewed with them the 5 steps their school counselor taught when dealing with someone annoying: Ignore, Move away, Talk friendly, Talk firmly, Tell an adult for help. Hanna memorized every singly word!

Then we move to lesson 3: A’Go khix sarmpo 阿五去散步 (A’Go goes for a walk). We did the exercise in the textbook, and reviewed flashcards.

Finally we did the craft 「我的愛心」。The kids loved it and decorated their heart beautifully. Some of them have younger siblings. I suggested them give the heart to their baby sister or brother for they couldn't get any valentine from school. Thus, you would be their "first" valentine!

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