Language Stars-Week 3

She did it!! We just got home from week 3 at Language Stars and exciting news! E spoke Mandarin today, loudly and clearly to the teacher. She said please and good-bye. She also counted to six correctly!

It took her a while to settle down at the beginning of class. She decided that running circles around me and giving me hugs was more fun.  I try to corral her and get her to sit and listen and interact.  It is challenging, though, because I'm really trying to stick to only speaking Mandarin in the classroom.  I don't know how to tell her to sit down yet. But, definitely something to sort out before next class.

This week we continued to cover cold weather, some winter clothing and counting. The teacher read the book The Mitten to us-the one where a boy loses his mitten and all the animals climb into it to stay warm. We used masks for some of the different animals.  There was also an activity where we put small finger puppets of the animals into a large silicone oven mitten.  We had a coloring and taping activity with mittens and some animals. E did a great job with the double sided tape.  The cookies and gold fish crackers were a big hit again.


We were excited to see one of the other teachers in our local paper-visiting the Elmhurst Library. Not sure how we missed it, but we hope to make it to Naperville's 95th Street library tomorrow for Mandarin Storytime there!