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In January, Kaijun, one of seventh grade students’ mother specially told his teacher, Mrs. Wenfang Gao, that Kaijun likes Chinese so much that he even taught his young cousin Chinese at home.
Three Chinese teachers joined high school classes at NCA to help international students, especially students from China, to learn health, life science, and history. Health is one of the most difficult lessons for students from China. Kevin Zheng, a sophomore from Guangdong, China, came to NCA less than six months ago. Due to his newness and poor English foundation, he initially found his health class to be very hard. Mrs. Wenfang Gao came into the classroom to help Kevin translate classroom instruction and at the same time study with him. After two months, Kevin's health score went from D or F to a B.
Yang Yang and Xiaochao Tao also helped students and learned with them.
Gage and Joshua at Northstar Christian Academy talking about time and what people are doing in Chinese
Teachers and students from Northstar Christian School brought in the Chinese New Year with a number of different activities to celebrate Spring Festival. Many teachers, students and parents in the school participated in. The students who are learning Chinese not only came to understand the Spring Festival legends and customs, but also cut out spring flowers, made dumplings, and sang the Spring Festival blessing songs while experiencing almost a native Chinese flavor.
The Chinese Spring Festival bulletin board with some informative pictures
First Graders’ achievements--- Dough dumplings and pictures with “Happy New Year” in Chinese
A display of students’ work in the hallway
Mrs. Xiaochao Tao showing her students how to use a calligraphy brush
Miss Yang preparing red envelopes with chocolate coins
Mrs. Gao and her students, Kaijun Joshua and Weiping Gage, writing the Chinese character “fu”(福) with a calligraphy brush