The Foundation students have been learning about colours in Mandarin Chinese. They sang the colour songs to help them remember the words. Here are the links to the songs.
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The Year 5 & 6 students are learning about the Five Elements Theory which is used by a lot of Chinese people for interaction between internal organs, Chinese medicine and even Chinese cooking and food. The Five Elements are metal(金), wood(木), water(水), fire(火) and earth(土).
Similar to the perfect balance found in 'yin and yang', Chinese people always try to find the perfect balance between the five elements. The students learnt to write the symbols and made a mobile using paper and branches to represent the importance of maintaining a balanced diet in order to stay healthy.
The students had a great start to Term 2. The Foundation students have started learning about the phonetics of Mandarin Chinese. They learnt to pronounce the Pinyin Initials. Some found it difficult to say the ji, qi, xi and zi, ci , si sounds. Please encourage your child to watch this short video in order to familiarise themselves with those tricky sounds.
Due to teacher planning, the Year 1 & 2 students had one Chinese lesson this week. They revised the numbers and colour words in Mandarin Chinese. They had fun making a chatter box using the words they learnt.
The Foundation students have been learning to count in Mandarin Chinese. They enjoyed using the mini-whiteboards to practise writing the numbers. Clink this link to the song that they have been singing in class.
We had a fantastic Chinese New Year celebration on 13 February. In the morning, the Lion Dance appeared in the asphalt area accompanied by loud drumming, cymbals and a gong. All the students went outside of their classrooms to watch the Lion dance as it moved and threw mandarines to some of the lucky students who caught them. It certainly brought a lot of fun and energy to our school. Some of the students also had a chance to pat the lion. The students then went back to their classes to participate in activities related to the theme of the year of the Rooster.
Thank you to all the staff at TPPS. The day would not have been possible without your support. Thank you to the parents who helped your children dress for the day and especially thank you to your gold coin donations for the Lion Dance performance by the Jow Ga Kuen Martial Arts Association. Thank you to James C and Sihana from 5A for explaining to the crowd the significance of the Lion Dance, such as how mandarines symbolise good luck in Chinese culture. Thank you to Samantha and Kara from 5K for collecting the money from all the classes. Finally, I would like to thank the Chinese parent community for providing the delicious staff morning tea. Welcome to the year of the Rooster, the tenth sign of the Chinese zodiac, which symbolizes carefulness and decisiveness. There will be a whole school celebration for Chinese New Year on Monday, 13 February at TPPS. Jow Ga Kuen Dragon & Lion Dance Association will perform a Lion Dance at 9am at the asphalt area. Students are encouraged to dress in red or in Chinese costume on the day. Please bring a gold coin donation for the performance. Students will also take part in activities with their class teachers during the day to celebrate this event. For Chinese people, the Lion Dance is an important ritual performed during celebrations, such as Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival. It signifies a new beginning and it brings wealth and good luck. Wishing you a happy and prosperous year. 新年快乐(xīn nián kuài lè) The Foundation, Year 1 & 2 students have started to learn words on the topic of 'Animals'. Here are the photos of them taking part in a class activity. The Grade 6 students have learnt to say family members in Mandarin Chinese. Here is a link to the games that will help them revise the words learnt in class.
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The foundation, Year 1 & 2 students have been learning to name different colours in Mandarin Chinese. Here are the photos of them taking part in activities to practise reading the Chinese characters.
These are the songs that the students have been singing in class.
Welcome back to Term 4. The students have started the new term really well. Foundation, Year 1 & 2 students have finished making their mini number books to share with classmates and next week they are going to learn words on the topic of 'colours.'
The Year 6 students have started to learn about Pinyin, the phonetic system of Mandarin Chinese. They have also started using the resources posted on this website which include quizzes for revising the words and phrases learnt in class. The Mid-Autumn Festival also known as the Moon Festival falls on 15 September in 2016, the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. It is the second most important festival of the Chinese lunar calendar, after the Spring Festival that celebrates the New Year. The festival has been celebrated since ancient times in China. Chinese people all around the world celebrate the festival with dances, feasting and moon gazing. To many Chinese people, a full moon is a symbol of prosperity, happiness and family reunion. It is a custom for families to have dinner together and go out to admire the beautiful full moon in the evening. They also have mooncakes which are small pastries traditionally filled with lotus seed paste and salty duck yolks. Today, mooncakes may be filled with everything from dates, nuts, fruit and even dried sausage. Mooncakes are often given as gifts by friends and company employers. This festival is also celebrated in other Asian countries, such as Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan. The students at TPPS have learnt about how the festival is celebrated, made lanterns, tasted mooncakes and read the following folktale related to the festival. This is a folktale read to children during the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is about 后羿 Hòu Yì, an excellent archer and his beautiful wife嫦娥 Cháng É. The Story Goes Like This ..…Long, long ago, there were 10 suns in the sky. The suns burnt all the plants on Earth. People were dying.
One day, Hòu Yì used his bow and arrows to shoot down nine of the 10 suns. All the people on Earth were saved. The Queen Mother of the West gave Hòu Yì a bottle of elixir that could make him immortal. But there was only enough for one person. Although Hòu Yì did want to become immortal, he also wanted to stay with Cháng É. Therefore, he didn't drink the elixir and asked Cháng É to keep it safe for him. Hòu Yì became more and more famous after he shot down the nine suns. People wanted him to be their master. Not every student of Hòu Yì had good morality. Péng Mèng, one such student, wanted to steal his elixir. One day on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, Hòu Yì went hunting with his students, but Péng Mèng pretended to be ill and stayed at home. After making sure Hòu Yì had gone, he went to Hou Yi's house and tried to force Cháng É to give him the elixir. Cháng É knew she couldn't defeat Péng Mèng, so she drank the elixir immediately. The elixir made her fly high up into the sky. In the end, she stopped on the moon and became immortal. Hòu Yì was very sad when he received the news. He came back home and moved a table under the moon, preparing some food on it. He wished Cháng É could come back to earth but she never did. Ever since then, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, people set up a table with offerings of food to worship the moon just like Hòu Yì. |
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