Taniwha Art

We have been been discussing what a taniwha is and what they look like.  The children viewed a variety of pictures and we talked about the features of a taniwha.
Then they did a pencil outline of a taniwha and drew the features.  The children outlined this in black felt pen and then used pastels to colour their work.
They had so much fun!!

We showed our art at a full school assembly.

Mandarin Lessons

Yan Si came to our classroom to teach us Mandarin.  We are very lucky because she will be coming each week to help us speak mandarin.
We learned how to say:
What's your name?
My name is ________.
How are you?
I'm very good.
We moved into groups to have a conversation with each other in Mandarin.
We can't wait to see her next week.

Today we learned how to say the numbers up to ten in Mandarin.  We had a games and we had to find the number that the person was thinking of.  We talked to each other in Mandarin.  We are learning so much and having lots of fun.

Today we revised counting to 10 in Mandarin then we discussed numbers beyond 10.  The children made a bridge and each child counted in Mandarin as they went under the bridge.

Today we revised what we were taught last week.  Then we focused on saying colours in Mandarin.  The children made small groups and pointed to a colour and said that colour in Mandarin.  Then one child said a colour in Mandarin to the child next to them and they pointed to that colour.

What fun we had!

25/8/16

Today we revised our number song in Mandarin and we went over the colours.  The children played a game using colours.  One child said the colour and the other child stood by the colour.  We are having so much fun learning Mandarin.

1/9/16

Today we learned to say '"Dad, I love you'' in Mandarin.

We also learned how to say some animal names in Mandarin/  We played a game using animal names which was lots of fun.

8/9/16

Today we revised how to say names of animals in Mandarin.  Then we played a game with pictures of animals and we had to see which card was missing.

We learned to say I like and I don't like in Mandarin then we learned how to say kiwi bird in Mandarin.

After that we watched a video of a panda bear.

We had so much fun!

15/9/16

Today is a very special day because it is the Moon Festival.

The moon is the roundest and brightest today and families enjoy getting together to celebrate.

Our Mandarin teacher talked about the importance of today.  We learned how to say family names in Mandarin and then we started designing our own family tree.

22/9/16

Today we went over our family names in Mandarin.  We watched a video about our family, using finger puppets then we completed our family tree.  We had so much fun!