Summer Mandarin Chinese Immersion camp in Dublin 2016

Summer Mandarin Chinese Immersion Camp is now enrolling!
July 11-15, 2016 from 10:00-15:00.
Click here for application

Paper tearing collage 撕畫 sī huà

Paper tearing collage. 
撕畫 sī huà 
Happy mid-autumn festival!!
中秋節快樂zhōng qiū jié kuài lè!!
I was inspired by a book I read and thought it would be a cool project for children to do 撕畫 sī huà. I was looking for cotton & Kraft paper and no one has heard of paper tearing collage! Glad to be the first to show the kids!

Summer Camp 2015

Comics and Instagram in the class

Comics fun! We took a paragraph and turn it into comics. Children really enjoyed this activity, a great way to learn! 
DSMC Instagram

DSMC's summer camp 2015

2015 Mandarin summer camp will be hold for one week only from 6th to 10th July this year. The popular hands on routines such as Chinese arts and crafts & Chinese culinary are there but our main theme for this year would be DIY toys so book your child/children's places now. Detail timetable will be out soon.

Voki

Take my Voki avatar's challenge! See how many questions can you answer in 60 seconds! A great tool to engage children and encourage them to create one too!
Take the Voki challenge!

Kahoot!

Kahoot is a classroomj response system which create an engaging learning space through quiz and etc.  I made another Kahoot Quiz game for Happy Chinese learners. Go on, I dare you to take on the quiz challenge!
Have fun!
https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/835efba4-5477-46f8-88ad-c60c9ad30e2d/intro

Create a fun class by make a short play

Most children love role play. I divided the children into groups and tell them to make a short play according to the content of lesson. I told them it's a competition to make it even more interesting. First I asked them to draw different props, then they need to decide among themselves for each role. I gave them few minutes to practice.
Here's a video of one group I recorded. 

聖誕倒數日曆 shèng dàn dào shǔ rì lì (advent calendar)

With all the excitement this time of the year, you can't not to take the advantage of it! Advent calendar is a great thing to make for big and small.

For older children, we recycle the "left over" sweets from Halloween and the egg carton, turn them into the advent calendar.
For younger children, we recycle again. We use the Christmas cards from last year and turn them into something beautiful and fun for children to create.
Not single one of them complain about writing numbers from 1 to 24!

Halloween 2014 - The Scream by Chinese painting

I was thinking about art and craft activity we can do for the Halloween this year. Then the famous The Scream painting came into my head. I thought it should be very doable to paint that in Chinese painting. I searched the internet but couldn't find any so I have to try it out myself. It turned out great I thought and children love it too.
Here're some from my Wed's class.

孔子kǒng zǐ (Confucius)

28th Sept is teachers' day in Taiwan since 1950s. Teachers’ Day has been changing in China. Last year the Chinese government released a draft amendment proposing to shift the day to September 28th (widely held to be the birth date of Confucius). I told stories about 孔子 Confucius to children this week and how important Confucianism is to us. I would love our children to learn kindness, respectful to others and filial to their parents. They loved this presentation and video.

Video on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ximqppmkfc4

Dublin School of Mandarin Chinese Online Registration 2014/2015

Day of classes	Time	Classroom	Material	Teacher	Fee per class
Monday	1500-1600	GET Busy Kids Greystones	Happy Chinese	Evan	7 euro
Wednesday	1530-1730	Bray	Living Mandarin 3	Evan	7 euro
Thursday	1530-1730	Bray	Living Mandarin 1	Evan	7 euro
Thursday	1530-1730	Bray	Living Mandarin 2	Shuping	7 euro
Saturday	0900-1000	Kildare	Living Mandarin 1	Sage	10 euro
Saturday	1030-1130	Kildare	Living Mandarin 2	Sage	10 euro
Private lesson	available upon request
extra curriculum	available upon request

Online registration by Friday 5th Sept on first come first serve basis. (please spend a few minutes, thank you very much)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11uA0L870cQKLN1dN1HTMGv2XqeC-ZgvYM-PVegH6FM4/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link

Certificate 獎狀 jiǎng zhuàng

Giving exams, correcting papers, collecting data, grading pupils, give parents reports and printing certificates are not fun at all. But hey, it means the summer holiday is coming soon!

Chinese puppets 布袋戲 bù dài xì

These puppets are great assets to our school as children loved playing with them. They enjoyed the stories and practice lines for their puppet show.  

Thank you all very much for coming to celebrate Dragon Boat Festival with us. I hope you enjoyed the food, games and chat.

Special thanks to Jessica Bird, Jane Byrne, Nell Lin, Yafen Tsai, Amy Hsu for making delicious food. Also, thanks to Emiel Brennan, Mandy Reilly and Denise for helping me to make 200+ Zongzi. Mission accomplished!!
I also need to say thanks to all the volunteers who serve drinks, food and games. Thank you all!

Please do share your photos with us on our Facebook page. Thank you and see you next year!!
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152488370732437.1073741830.191107337436&type=3

杯子歌 bēi zǐ gē

我  拿了 我    的 車   票      要      遠  走

wǒ ná le wǒ de chē piào yào yuǎn zǒu 

可樂  兩       瓶   來   跟   著  我

kě lè liǎng píng lái gēn zhe wǒ

我   肯    定     想       要  你來 陪   我

wǒ kěn dìng xiǎng yào nǐ lái péi wǒ 

我    明     天    離開，你說呢

wǒ míng tiān lí kāi    nǐ shuō ne

當     我   走了

dāng wǒ zǒu le 

當     我   走了

dāng wǒ zǒu le 

我  走  了 你   將    會      想   我

wǒ zǒu le nǐ jiāng huì xiǎng wǒ

你會     想      念    我的髮

nǐ huì xiǎng niàn wǒ de fà

你會    想      念     我一切

nǐ huì xiǎng niàn wǒ yī qiē 

我  走   了  你 將    會      想我

wǒ zǒu le nǐ jiāng huì xiǎng wǒ 

你好！

我們的學生在愛爾蘭國家兒童電視台教小朋友說中文！
Our pupils taught Irish children some Mandarin Chinese words on RTE junior national TV. April 2014.

RTE Jr.

We are so proud of you guys! Our pupils taught Irish children some Mandarin Chinese words on RTE Jr.

復活節 fù huó jiē Easter

I hope children were sharing those chocolates eggs they hunted.  They enjoyed the egg hunt where most of them have no problem follow their clues without realize I was giving them a mini test!!

Before we have some fun, we work them hard!  We made the cute little box and we learned how to write Easter in Chinese - 復活節 fù huó jiē!

中文四子棋 zhōng wén sì zǐ qí Chinese Connect 4

I am very proud to invent this game and children wants to play it over and over again!! You have to know every word to win!