I started making up some storybook activities for #3 because unlike materials for English books, such things are virtually non-existent on the internet for Chinese children books. To trawl internet sites for these materials is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. It is actually faster for me to make them myself. Basically, they are like a ‘mini-lapbook’
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I shared in my Review for the ???? seriesthat I made tactile Chinese Character Cards to use in conjunction with the book. This is a step-by-step instruction of how you can make tactile cards using sandpaper or felt. I use felt because it is cheaper and easily available from Daiso (Japanese $2 store selling practically everything under the sun and more). You
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In How I Chose Preschool – Part I, I talked about how preschool hunt is really a very subjective matter, and discussed some of the very important factors that influenced my choice of preschool. I will continue with the other factors in this second part of How I Chose Preschool. The whole article will continue on to Part III where
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This is the third and last instalment of How I Chose Preschool. In Part I, I touched on how preschool hunt is a very subjective matter and discussed some factors that I considered very important to me. In Part II, I continue with many other factors of consideration. In this 3rd part, I will touch on the actual steps and
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If there is anything I learned through my preschool hunt, it is this – preschool hunt is very subjective. How I assess a school is going to be very different from how another person assesses a school. What is important to me may not be important to you. Preschool hunt is largely influenced by how we want to bring up
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