Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Mini-Book 7- 動物護照 (Animal Passport)



動物護 (Dòng Wù Hù Zhào, Animal Passport)- I'm branching out a bit and trying something new.  This is actually a project that I have wanted to do with my own kids (ages 5 and 7).  It is a "passport" listing some of the animals at the zoo.  The book is designed to reinforce some of the animal names they already know (but haven't learned to read yet) and to introduce some new words.  It is not a teaching book; any learning the kids do will be a result of hearing the words over and over again as they are used while at the zoo.

Inside the book are 14 animals names and the corresponding animal stickers.  As the kids travel through the zoo, the animal stickers can be placed next to the correct Chinese name.

HAVE FUN!

Notes on Printing-
  • Printing a file makes 2 copies of a passport.
  • The passport is simply much more cooler if the cover (first page) is printed in color on white card stock.
  • When you print the animal stickers, print them on Avery Shipping Labels 48863.  They can be found in the office section of large retailers.
  • After printing the animal stickers, cut the stickers into sections of 2*2 pictures so that the sections fit the dimensions of the passport book and you can staple the stickers into the book.
Click here for a Video Tutorial.

動物護照- traditional characters with 注音符
動物護照- simplified characters with 漢語拼音 (Hànyǔ pīnyīn) 
Animal Stickers
 

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Venn Diagram, Who Live in Water & Who Lives on Land?

Venn Diagram, Who Live in Water & Who Lives on Land?-  This is a cute idea to help review animal names and the characters (shuǐ; water) and (tǔ; land).  It also introduces the character (dōu; both).  Cut and paste animals into the correct section in the diagram.  Who lives in water; who lives on land; who can do both?  The pictures and the idea come from http://kinder-pond.blogspot.com/. I've adapted it to make it Chinese friendly.

Monday, September 5, 2011

LinguPingu Chinese/English Picture Dictionary

      LinguPingu- This picture dictionary is a favorite of my kids.  Their favorite feature of the app is that they can easily switch between Chinese and English and hear the item being labeled in each language.  I like this concept because it seems to emphasis that both languages are important, which is important if you want to encourage bilingualism rather than stressing one language over another.

The lite version (free) has two pages:  animals and transportation.  You can upgrade to include seven other pages:  food, body parts, farm, toys, nature, clothes, and apartment.