Kindergarten Mandarin
Gu Lao Shi
您好！nín hǎo Welcome to Kindergarten Mandarin!
My name is Vivian Gu Wei. I am from China. I have been teaching Mandarin for 2 years at DBIS. I am going to teach Mandarin for the second year in Kindergarten. I am looking forward to having a wonderful and fruitful year introducing Mandarin to the Nursery classes and building on last year’s learning for the Reception classes.
I hope the children will begin to share their knowledge of Mandarin with you at home. Please check here regularly to find the details of what we are doing as well as to support your child’s Mandarin learning more efficiently. Thank you very much in advance!
See you soon!
Zaijian!
Gu Lao Shi
What's going on in Kindergarten Mandarin?
Good news here for you!
From now on, our Mandarin topics are available with the song sheet & recording here (school web page). Please feel free to print out the song sheets. Enjoy singing the song/s with your lovely little ones. I sincerely hope that these resources will be helpful for you to boost your child's Mandarin interest and hopefully will help your Mandarin learning as well. Have fun!
1. Greeting is our very first topic of the year. The students are expected to greet the teacher properly with“Gu Lao Shi, nin hao!” and to be able to greet anyone else with “ni hao”.
Our lovely little ones are also learning "greeting song" (song sheet), Click here for the song (recording) if you wish to sing along with your child.
2.Our second topic is Birthdays and we are learning a "Birthday song" (song sheet) You amy wish to sing the Birthday song (recording) at home especially on any of your family member's Birthday.
3. Our third topic is "Animals". I am introducing animals using a song based on the story of Noah’s Ark "Noah's Ark"song (song sheet). We have broken the song down into 3 parts.Here's the recording Song recording of Noah's Ark for you to sing with your child at home.
4. Our number song(recording) includes numbers 1-10 for Nursery and numbers 1-20 for Reception. Here's the song sheet for number 1-20
5. Over the Christmas period we learnt
For Nursery: We wish you a merry Christmas (song sheet )& song recording
For Reception: Jingle Bells song sheet & song recording
Enjoy!
6. Our Chinese New Year Greeting language includes:恭喜(congratulations)gōng xǐ /
龙年大吉(big fortune in the dragon’s year) lóng nián dà jí /
恭喜发财(wish you prosperity)gōng xǐ fā cái
7.For our new topic we will be singing a Rainbow song to help us learn the colours. Here is our Rainbow song: 红 色、 黄 色、 粉 红、 绿 色， Hóng sè, huáng sè, fěn hóng, lǜ sè,紫 色、橙 色、蓝 色，咖啡色,Zǐ sè, chéng sè, lán sè, kāfēisè
8. We will continue to review the colours while learning the names of some popular fruits such as: apple, banana, orange, grapes, watermelon, kiwi, blueberry and peach. Enjoy the song here
Píng guǒ苹 果, xiāng jiāo 香 蕉，(peach)táo zi桃子，xī guā 西瓜, (Grapes)Pú táo葡萄， chéng zi 橙子， lánméi蓝莓,qíyìguǒ奇异果
Enjoy the songs!
