Never enough time for crafts!

Would you like to make spider web by paper cutting or the vampire origami? Children shouted "Can we do both please?".

So to avoid the disappointment, we did both.

Sorry the home time was delayed! 

萬聖節快樂 wàn shèng jié kuài lè Happy Halloween!

Are you dare enough to eat these tea eggs (茶葉蛋 chá yè dàn)??We have got plenty if you dare!Tea egg is a traditional snack and still very popular in Asia. You can find them in many street vendors in China, Chinese herbal shops in HongKong and 7-11 convenience stores in Taiwan.

Halloween in Mandarin is literally translated - ten thousand saints festival and I guess because this is used to called "all saints' day" and ten thousands covers "all"??!!

Song - What is your name? 你叫什麼？nǐ jiào shén me

你叫什麼？你叫什麼？

nǐ  jiào shén me       nǐ  jiào shén me

你幾歲？你幾歲？

nǐ    jǐ   suì       nǐ    jǐ  suì

我叫Evan，我叫Evan

wǒ jiào                    wǒ jiào

我三十八歲，我三十八歲

wǒ sān shí bā  suì        wǒ sān shí bā  suì

中秋節快樂 zhōng qiū jié kuài lè Happy mid-autumn festival

中秋節快樂 zhōng qiū jié kuài lè Happy mid-autumn festival

We have the first class tasted the moon cakes (月餅 yuè bǐng） today - most of them tried but some wanted more! Due to the very limited supplies I have, I can not offer more, sorry kids! I shall order more next year!

We enjoyed watching the animated story about the moon festival and the colouring afterwards.

Mid-Autumn Festival

We are so delighted to have so many children enrolled this Sept. Welcome! 歡迎 huān yíng!

We've had busy two weeks to get to know everybody and make every child feel welcome.
Next week will be an even more exciting week  for us as we are planning some interesting activities with children to celebrate one of our big festivals - Mid Autumn Festival, 中秋節 zhōng qiū jié.
Here're some youtube links about the festival.  Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXczHYZcRvo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYu2ksKOMIE&feature=related

Culture Teacher at EAIE 2012

What a start of a new term! I was delighted to be invited to the EAIE 2012 exhibition as a culture teacher and very proud to be part of the team of 19 exhibiting universities from Taiwan.
I had fun in those three days demostrating the Chinese art - caligraphy, painting and paper cutting.

Here're some photos to share.

Enrolling for Sept. 2012

Dublin School of Mandarin Chinese for Children 都柏林中文小學

Is now enrolling for Sept 2012. Please send us an email for application form.

The class for 1st year younger children will be hold on Tuesdays 15:30-17:30 and the class for older children will be hold on Thursday 16:00-17:30PM

Please note that the text books we carefully selected are approved by both Dept of Education and the Overseas Compatriots Affairs Commission in Taiwan and are sponsored by OCAC for this coming academic year.

The advantage of these series of books is they include both traditional and simplified Chinese characters as well as the homework books. I always wish my children can learn both systems and these series turns my dream into a reality! More info can be found here.

Living Mandarin (Mon, Tue and Wed’s class)
http://www.skymandarin.org/living-mandarin.htm

Speak Mandarin in 1000 words (Thur’s class)
http://media.huayuworld.org/lang/medium/ch_1000/index.htm

More photos from our 2nd week of summer camp!

Thank you so much for the encouragement and the opportunity to make our first ever Chinese summer camp possible!

We had a great time and a very successful summer camp!  We’ll be doing this every summer!

We had fun at our 1st week of summer camp! Here're few photos from our fun summer camp!