Sunday, April 26, 2020

April 26, 2020 - Washington DC Taiwanese School, Advanced Mandarin Conversation Class


April 26, 2020 Washington DC Taiwanese School, Advanced Mandarin Conversation Class
Raymond and the teacher discussed the following issues:
 (Steve and Andrew were absent due to schedule conflict)

How we fare with the 5th week Coronavirus lockdown situation for each family: 

1.      Wúlǎoshī de xīn fàxíng, Tā jiǎnle zìjǐ de tóufà. - New Haircut from Teacher (Wú lǎoshī). She cut her own hair.
2.      (書宗) xūyào jiǎn tóufà - Raymond needs a hair cut
3.      Yǒu jǐ gè guójiā kāifàng chéngshì. Táiwān jiùshì qízhōng zhī yī - There are a few countries in the world that have cities opened, and Taiwan is one of them.
4.      Yīngguó hé déguó yǐjí xǔduō qítā guójiā zhèngzài zhēnduì Corinavirus bìngdú yìmiáo jìnxíng Dì yī qī línchuáng shìyàn – England, Germany and many other countries are doing the Phase I clinical trial for Corinavirus vaccines.
5.      Měiguó yǒu jǐ gè zhōu zhǔnbèi kāifàng – There are a few states in America are ready to open.
      6.       Kōngqì wūrǎn wèntí – air pollution problems 
      7.      Huǒchē, gōngchē hé cāntīng kāimén shí róngliàng zhǐyǒu yībàn, kě ràng rénmen shūyuǎn
     Trains, buses and restaurants open with half capacities to allow the social distancing  
          8. Cóng Las Vegas dào Regan guójì jīchǎng dì měiguó hángkōng zhǐyǒu 6 gè  chéngkè – There were only 6 passengers from American Airline (Las Vegas to Regan International Airport)


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Thursday, April 23, 2020

Zoom Teaching for Grandsons, Day 3 Report - April 15, 2020

Day 3 report (Wesley) April 15, 2020 Wednesday
I put Winter Berries on my hair to start the class. 
Oops! I do not know Winter Berries are poisonous. Oh, well, I will just use “the bag of tricks” to make the best of a bad situation.
Forest
1.       The poisonous plants as these berries l picked from the front yard are my lesson plans. Amazingly, Forest instead teaches me about "Golden poisonous frog - Terribilis,” They are so poisonous that can kill 2000 mice!
2.       Turtle sources/quizzes/jokes are the subjects that he covered today as my teacher! Thanks! Forest!
3.       Ants/anteaters-He teaches me that there are quadrillion's ants live in the world!
4.       Forest shows me his Spirograph -turkey & Spirograph-man design!
5.       Fun with math, numbers, alphabets to come up with the addition results of "Cole", "Forest", & "frog."
6.       He draws a frog - a smiley one!
Wesley
1.       Wesley guesses the berries as cherries - he chatters about dolphins live in the ocean - people live in the house from the pictures he draws! He knows family name, but he doesn't know my name----
“Mommy’s name is Mommy…. A-Ma’s name is Ama!” ……” I don’t know because I don’t know!”
2.       Show "fire truck 2 minutes YouTube to discuss the story-----he has good memories, knows the story and each character name 100% - draw more pictures about dogs to tell me the story
3.       Continues the gingerbread man story YouTube 3 minutes - old grandfather/grandmother, pig, cow, horse chasing the Gingerbread Man & finally the bad fox that pretends to help him cross the river ended eating him up!
4.       Use google to show him the difference between fox & wolf
* 45 minutes are enough for him! (3-year-old boy attention span is short)

Hope you feel better soon!