Message from apeel

[Anonymous]

My experiences are with the second grade curriculum. I usually end up exposing my students to Asia with holidays. Although I would like to expand on my own knowledge of Asia in order to teach it, I inevitably end up talking about the Chinese new year. I have amanged to expand my lessons to art and music though. I try to teach my kids how to write some Chinese characters and explain how they are written from top to bottom. The kids get a big kick out of this, especially because they use watercolor paint and a paintbrush to write with. I also have managed learn how to teach a traditional Japanese dance from our third grade teacher. All children love movement and always giggle at the sound of the Japanese music which is so different from what they are used to hearing. This also manages to satisfy the dance standard we have in second grade. Just two ideas of things I have done that really get students to interact with learning about Asian cultures.