玉鈴老師的班

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: z pronunced as ㄗ, and zh as ㄘ。It seemd a bit easier for them now.

The virtue for April is: Modesty （謙虛）。Kids still didn't know the meaning of modesty. I replaced it with humble, and some kids got it. For those still puzzled I said a story 「誰的本領有用」to help them understand.

We started lesson 7: PhutQo 葡萄 (Grapes). Vocabularies were: phutQo葡萄 (grape)、thQar桃仔 (peach)、phoxngkQr蘋果 (apple)、kam’ar柑仔 (tangerine)、sikoef西瓜 (watermelon)、kinciQf香蕉 (banana)、lyar李仔 (plum)、leborng檸檬 (lemon)、lai’ar梨仔 (pear)、onglaai旺來 (pineapple).

I believed all the kids had seen these fruits and knew the taste. I asked them what color was the fruit and if they liked it when I taught one. Basically there were pros and cons for every fruit. To my surprise was that Yen-ui didn't like watermelon. I've never heard anyone didn't like watermelon!

We did the activity in textbook, then we ran out of time. I'll review the Taiwanese Alphabets next time.

Homework are:

• 學習單 7 葡萄(What fruits made this person? Say them in Taiwanese.)
• When your family eats fruit, ask your child/ren what the fruit is in Taiwanese.
• Made flashcards of lesson 7.
• Listen to the CD and learn to sing lesson 7

See you next week!