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Chinese Videos

Learning Chinese
is an activity for all students every day, in levels appropriate to their experience in our school.  Students perform in class, at the book fairs, and at school dinners.   Here is a selection of videos:

 

Rapid recognition of characters

 

Young students see how fast they can say the Han character on each flash card put out by teacher Mei Dai.

 

Here is another session of recognizing Han characters quickly on the flash cards put out by teacher Mei Dai.

 

Younger students compete with older students to find the card with the character called out by teacher Mei Dai.

 

Performances (including recitations, singing, dancing)

 

Here is a rapid-fire, animated recitation about the Chinese language by a 5th-grader and a 4th-grader, on 21 April 2011.

 

Here is lively recitation, in Mandarin Chinese, of a Chinese fable, Monkey and Crocodile (猴子和鳄鱼) by two 1st-graders, on 21 April 2011.

 

Here is a series of stand-up recitations and songs, in Mandarin Chinese by new students at the Las Cruces Academy, in their first year of studying Mandarin Chinese.  The recitations and songs have the Chinese titles 方向歌；  鱼；  马；  羊；  一天；白天晚上；  手套；两只耳朵；  当我们同在一起；  世上只有妈妈好；  春天在哪里?.  The last one is, in English, Where is Spring?

 

Here, students who have just begun Chinese recite a short poem about the colors of hair,头发.

 

Younger students sing the Song of Emotion,表情歌

 

Three of our older students who have studied Chinese for almost two school years sing the Chinese Song,Snails and Yellowbirds  (“蜗牛与黄鹂鸟”), led by teacher Mei Dai.

 

Younger students sing the Chinese Song, Snails and Yellowbirds (“蜗牛与黄鹂鸟”), led by teacher Mei Dai.

 

Students from 1st through 5th grade recite the Chinese poem,Clay Dull (“泥娃娃”), for teacher Mei Dai. These students are 3/4 of the way through their first year of studying Chinese.

 

Reading, from text in Chinese characters (Han characters, the most difficult form of writing)

 

In this video, two of our young students read a Chinese story,Xiao Yanzi (Little Swallow; 小燕子（), in Han Chinese characters).

 

Young students in their first year of studying Mandarin read lessons in Chinese characters (hanzi, or logograms) for teacher Mei Dai.

 

Three students in their second year of studying Chinese read the Secret of Spring (春天的秘密) from text in Chinese Han characters.

 

Three students in their second year of studying Chinese read the Chinese story, the Trees in the Four Seasons (四季的树) from text in Chinese Han characters.

 

A Chinese story, Little Monkey Goes Down the Mountain (小猴子下山), is read from text in Chinese Han characters by three students.

 

A Chinese story, Two Ears (两只耳朵), is read from text in Chinese Han characters by two 1st-grade students.

 

Two 1st-grade students read a Chinese story, We Are All Good Friends (我们都是好朋友), in Chinese Han characters.