If you are setting up a Chinese restaurant in your classroom to celebrate Chinese New Year, you may like to make your own fake food using sponges or felt.
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Use these badges to get your whole school community involved in Chinese New Celebrations!
Download Year of the Pig badges (color)
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Students will love creating their own wall hanging for the Year of the Pig. Once students have made the hanging, they will write the Chinese character for pig a... Read More...
Chinese New Year stickers
Kick off 2019, the Year of the Pig with these fun stickers!
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Looking for a quick way to create an exciting Chinese New Year atmosphere at your school?
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Students will use authentic materials (stamps) to explore dates. Use this worksheet to help students complete translation activities.
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Gone are the days when teachers stood at the front of the class and students learned individually. Research over the years shows that learning is a social activ... Read More...
Build student independence immediately. Have materials in your classroom that students can access when they have completed work.
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Communication Strategies
Personal contact, including conferences, home visits, telephone calls, and curriculum nights or open houses, seems to be the most ef... Read More...
Students will compare and contrast how Chinese New Year is celebrated and how New Year is celebrated in Western societies.
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Essential Questions are the focus of Personalized Learning. Students are encouraged to develop questions that they want to explore.
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Chinese New Year is a great time for students to understand and appreciate the culture and traditions of the Chinese people.
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A good activity to help students write 福 is below.
Download the Writing sheet here. Students will use this worksheet to decorate the 红包.
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Download the Year of the Monkey Poster here.
This is an easy way for students to learn the character 猴 and to create their own Poster to celebrate the Year o... Read More...
Teach students lots of verbs / doing words - run, jump, swim, dance, sit, stand, talk, walk etc.,
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2016 is the Year of the Monkey. Print the 3 Bookmarks below and encourage students to decorate them with Chinese characters.
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This year, why not ask students to research Chinese New Year, and write a report about their findings?
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The red colour is good luck and supposed to ward off evil spirits. Typically, red envelopes are given by the married to the unmarried, most of whom a... Read More...
It's that time of the year when we get busy decorating our language classroom ready for the new school year.
This 28 page PDF contains mini-flash cards t... Read More...
Start of the new school year with Work Stations! This is a good opportunity for students to become familiar with the Chinese language and reinforce Collaboratio... Read More...
At EtonHouse, provocation pages aimed at initiating ideas, imagination are replacing drills that limit self-expression.
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With over 25 years combined experience, our team at Creative Chinese love visiting classrooms and supporting teachers of Chinese. At the Mentoring Center, you c... Read More...
Download the 12 Animals of the Zodiac flashcards for Chinese New Year. Students can decorate each flashcard and they can be displayed in the classroom.
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Vivian Liu Eckmann is our December 3rd, 2018 Chinese Teacher of the Week!
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This easy classroom display uses a branch decorated with pink crepe paper. Add some lanterns and you have a lovely display for Chinese New Year.... Read More...
Pop-Up Chinese Workshops
Chinese teachers are busy people! Our Pop-up workshops are short and packed with ideas and resources that can be implemented into the ... Read More...
Making sure students understand the Chinese language can be challenging. With Elementary School students the easiest way to ensure understanding is to use props... Read More...
Hang in there!
You are half way through the school year and it's been a battle. Some students continue to disrupt the class, others call out, and even some s... Read More...
Creative Chinese organizes conferences, workshops, training sessions, and e-learning for teachers, school heads, and organizations. A complete list of these, al... Read More...
Chinese traditionally has a long history of coupling aesthetics with communication. The character is deemed worthy if it looks perfect and appears beautiful. ... Read More...
At the beginning of the school year, it is important to explain to students what you want to hear, and see when students are working in groups.
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SPEAKING
TOPIC: Leisure, Youth Interests and Chinese Festivals
Chinese New Year - Students will explore Chinese New Year - traffic problems, special food, h... Read More...
If you are planning themes for the new school year, use this Planning sheet to get started. Summary below:
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Grade K - Me
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As teachers, we often forget to teach our students how to repair communication. If they don't understand, or if they want someone to say it again, these phrases... Read More...