玉鈴老師的班

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 similar words for so many times, but it also reinforce their memory and improved their pronunciation by repeating words.

Then I told a story: 群鳥學搭窩 to teach the children be patient and focus. Again, I spoke in both Mandarin and English to be sure all the kids understand the meaning. A girl told me that she liked me to tell stories. I said I would try to tell more stories in the future.

We reviewed lesson 3: A'Go khix sarmpo. Most of the kids could sing the song. Then I taught a cute song 「小胖哥」。Everyone has their candle to blow at the end of the song.

I taught lesson 4: SiQfti小弟 (Little Brother). Vocabularies are: paktor iaw腹肚餓 (hungry)、ciaqpar食飽 (full)、chiQx-mimy笑微微 (smile)、gyn’afmih囝仔物 (toy)、hvoahie歡喜 (happy) 

The audio recordings:

Today we started learning Taiwanese Alphabets. Four alphabets were introduced to the class: p (pax 豹), ph (phQef 信), m (mi 麵), b (bQ’ar 帽仔), in which x means low tone, f means high tone, and r is shouting tone. Please refer to this website for details: http://wdcts.org/TaiwaneseMaterial/mltalphabets.htm

Consonants:  

Vowels:  

Homework are:

• 學習單4. 小弟 (Match the number and say it in Taiwanese.)
• Write 5 times of pax, phQef, mi, bQ’ar
• Make flashcards of lesson 4 if you received the blank index cards (Sorry I was short of index cards this time. Will make up next time.) 
• Listen to the CD and learn to sing「小弟」 

See you next week.