On Tue, Oct the 14th, we introduced the incredible ancient Chinese puzzle: "Qi Qiao Ban (Pronunciation: chee-chiao-baann, or, Tangram in English)." Literarily translated, Qi Qiao Ban means "seven versatile boards." It is hard to imagine how versatile they are until you give it a try! Of course, the boards themselves won't be so great without your effort and wise input; it is challenging at times. But it turned out that all the kids in our club enjoyed playing with it. Out of these seven small boards, we made all kinds of animals: cat, fish, duck, sheep, cow, rabbit, swan, dog, turtle, jelly fish, and even beaver....Our creativity is quite impressive, isn't it?
On Thursday, October the 16th, we read the story book, "Three Pigs, One Wolf, and Seven Magic Shapes." Besides learning the new animal vocabulary in Chinese, we were further inspired by the book and made more Qi-qiao-ban animals in the last 15 minutes of our class time.
The next Tuesday, we reviewed the Ha-ba-goy song, not only by singing, but also went through the lyrics line by line. It's actually fun to play this word game. Sometimes, we felt like we were reading the Chinese lyrics word-by-word already! We tried to finish our Qi-qiao-ban animal book. But then we had more creations and run out of time.
We are aiming to finish our Qi-qiao-ban Animal Book on Thursday, the 23rd, by adding covers to all our animal book pages. We'll go through the Ha-ba-Guo song word by word one more time. If things are going well, we may learn a new song. Of course, it will be related to animals again! Stay tuned. ; )
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