Sing and Dance Chinese

One of our local libraries hosted a local woman who is native Chinese to teach Chinese words, songs and dance to children. In the past when she has hosted these classes, they have been during the week at 4:00pm. Of course, I work til 6:00pm every night so Emmie has not been able to attend. They offered the classes again this time on Saturday afternoon for those with working mothers. So this Saturday was a bit busy for us. We had a soccer game this morning and the Chinese song and dance this afternoon. Below are a few pictures of the song and dance.

We learned the words for a song Emmie has listened to and danced to for a couple years. We have a tape called Sing and Dance Chinese with Mei Mei. Emmie used to watch it all the time. We also learned to count to 10 in Chinese, all of the family names (not new to me but some what new to Emmie), and how to interchange all of those titles when saying things like I love you, big brother loves little sister, Mommy loves you. We also learned the proper tone to use when we saying a few greatings like Good Morning, good afternoon, good evening, how are you, I am fine, thank you and good bye.

We also learned a few China/Olympic facts. Did you know that the 2008 summer olympics mascot is actually 5 or 6 mascots in one? Each one is named after the Chinese word for Beijing welcomes you. For example the Beijing is actually two words so the names of two of the mascots are Bei Bei and Jing Jing. We learned the names of each. They had a display of the mascots in a glass case as well.

In two weeks we have class two. It is a continuation of class one. I was impressed with the instructor and how much she covered. She sent us home with hand outs with the information we learned today. She also teaches an adult class for anyone going to China for adoption or for a holiday. I would have loved to have taken that class before my trip to China.