Mandarin Monthly Update #2

Y1- Students in Year One have been learning about simple greetings in Mandarin such as 你好(hello) 早上好（good morning）下午好(good afternoon)and 再见 (bye)。 They have also been learning and practising numbers 1-10 in Mandarin. They should be able to sing a number song and recognise most of the number characters in Chinese.

Y2 – Students in Year Two have been learning basic sight words such as 又两水中不见日月山石田火土木禾。Please encourage them to practise writing these words at home.

Y3 -Students in Year Three have continued with the unit of Pinyin. They are encouraged to practise the pinyin initials and finals at home when they have time. 

Y4 -Students in Year Four have started the unit of Food. They have learned how to type in Mandarin using the Pinyin input method and are having lots of fun designing their own menus.

Y5 –  Students in Year Five have been working on 大自然的语言，要下雨了，月亮上有什么 和 人造卫星。

Y6 – Students in Year Six have completed two units – Family and Physical descriptions of people. The next unit will be Colours and Clothing.

Y1- Students in Year One have been learning about simple greetings in Mandarin such as 你好(hello) 早上好（good morning）下午好(good afternoon)and 再见 (bye)。 They have also been learning and practising numbers 1-10 in Mandarin. They should be able to sing a number song and recognize most of the number characters in Chinese.

Y2-  Students in Year Two have been practising self introduction in Mandarin.  They should be able to answer the questions of “你叫什么名字？(what’s your name?)你几岁？(How old are you?)你家有谁？We are also exploring one Chinese story at every lesson.

Y3- We have been learning PinYin.

Y4- We have started new topic  食物和饮料。we are working on our restaurant role play script.

Y5- We have started 2B 小学华文。 We are working on chapter three 学华语。  Please assist your child read the text without Pinyin at home.

Y6- The children have been producing one piece of composition each week and we are also working on 中文 6 at same time. 

Y1- Students in Year One have been learning about simple greetings in Mandarin such as 你好(hello) 早上好（good morning）下午好(good afternoon)and 再见 (bye)。 They have also been learning and practising numbers 1-10 in Mandarin. They should be able to sing a number song and recognize most of the number characters in Chinese.

Y2- They should be able to do a 5-sentence self introduction in Mandarin, which includes a morning or afternoon greeting, name, age, family and bye-bye. They have also learned a list of food items in Mandarin and discussed about healthy eating.

Y3- Students in Year Three have finished the unit of Pinyin, however, they will keep practising and using pinyin. We have reviewed some of the texts learned last year. We are learning lesson 5 (中文2）“买东西”，“加横歌” now。

Y4-  Students in Year Four have finished learning “去书店”，“一和万”。We have just started lesson 3 “在医院里“。The Students have also learned how to write 读后感。.

Y5-   We have just finished the unit of hobbies. The students should be able to tell about the hobbies of the family members in Mandarin. They also practise vocabulary recognition as well as strokes of writing.

Y6-    We have covered the topics of “颜色“ and ”我的一天“。We are learning about “中国的节日”。They will continue to do a lot of reading and writing practice.