Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Sample Joshua's 1st grade class

This is the poem Joshua is learning today:

蜻蜓半空展翅飞,蝴蝶花间捉迷藏。
蚯蚓土里造宫殿,蚂蚁地上运食粮。
蝌蚪池中游得欢,蜘蛛房前结网忙。

Out of the 42 characters, 25 of them are new to him.
He's expected to learn this in 1 day.  (He only needs to be able to write 6 of them, but should be able to recognize the others and write the pinyin for them).
It's hard. I've been trying to learn it all morning, and I'm getting a headache.

I add words to a flashcard app to study for his tests. Over these past 7 months, we've already added over 1000!

Crazy Chinese school.  The great thing is Joshua loves school.
It would drive me crazy.  

After an exam, the teacher takes a picture of the students who got 100, and posts it on Wechat, and says that the "other students" should copy their example.  Yish.