TCLP - February 2024 Highlights
In this video:
• Liu Hai (Haven Elementary School, GA) uses song and dance to get students excited to learn emotion vocabulary in Mandarin. The use of movement, sound, and expression helps students identify the emotions both while singing and playing a matching game.
• Larbi Hachard (Advanced Learning Academy, TX) plays a competitive game with students to test their vocabulary acquisition. Students listen to the vocabulary and follow along with its associated movement. When the teacher says the word, the fastest to grab the object on the ground wins.
• Wu Yi-Ting (Mandarin Immersion Magnet School, TX) celebrates the Lunar New Year with students by practicing Mandarin riddles and teaching students how to make red envelopes with a special gold embossing using heat.
• Yuan Zhen (Butler Academy, SC) teaches students about zodiac animals for the Lunar New Year. The students listen to the teacher call out vocabulary words, and they jump to the area on the mat that has the correct zodiac vocabulary.