Chinese Characters

[Anonymous]

It honestly was amazing. The kids were engaged and eager to practice their calligraphy. They had so much fun with it. The gentleman who led the lesson is an engineer and had no experience with instructing children, especially 60 at one time. He was wonderful with them and shared his passion of calligraphy. I participated too and found it more challenging than it looks but so much fun. I look forward to finding a book to teach them more characters and learn some myself.

[Anonymous]

I found a website where you can print out calligraphy sheets that show you how to write some characters. This won't work for younger kids, but if you're serious about trying calligraphy, they look interesting.

http://www.wfu.edu/~moran/callig.html

[Anonymous]

This project was a school wide effort. It is really amazing to see students from grades kindergarten to 5th grade. The students were so interested in learning calligraphy. It was a project where the students learned brush strokes and got time to practice characters. It was also a time for members of our community and parents to come to school and help participate with this project. It was a great experience for all of the children at our school.

[Anonymous]

Here are some things I learned about practicing chinese characters

- you can use newspaper to practice; cut them into squares, practice large characters or small
-always start your characters fro the upper left corner; go down and right
-the character for spring is often found in the windows of stores and shops. It represents a happy time of year, prosperity. You may also see the character upside-down which means that spring is coming

[Anonymous]

This may sound strange, but there are also neat examples from Chinese Churches. At my Chinese Language class our teacher broght us in poster sized examples like the words "peace" and "prosperity" in chinese characters. It was neat. I especially liked "peace" because then I could teach about symbols, etc. too!

[Anonymous]

Kathryn,
Our fifth grade as your fourth was inthralled with the wonderful lesson. I paint ceramics as a hobby and I was thrilled with the brushes and the style in which the characters are created. One holds the brushes in a very unique way to create Chinese charachters.

At any rate, I was able to get a disc copy of the pictures from that day and I created a slide show for the "teacher" section, under "pictures and links" on our group web page. Yahoo!

[Anonymous]

My students made a Chinese Counting Chart to continue to practice writing numbers with Chinese Characters. Each Student received a counting chart that displays Chinese characters for numbers 1-10. Students then went to a painting center and create a counting book with Chinese characters and words. Each page of the book had a different number and the pictures included items apparent in Chinese culture that represent the number on each page. For example items could include chopsticks, lanterns, dragons, or zodiac characters found in the Chinese calendar. It was an easy project to prep and the students enjoyed doing it.

[Anonymous]

Kim-

Can I borrow a few models? I would love to do that same thing with my 4th graders. They would love it! What an easy idea and simple way to reinforce the language they are learning through PE and can be adapted and used in all different ways. I love the sharing of the ideas!

[Anonymous]

The kids at Pt. Vicente will be able to count from 1 up to 100 at least through the Chinese P.E. sessions that I have been taught them. I have found teaching the Chinese language to the children to be very rewarding at Pt. Vicente. When I heard they said “ni hao”（”Hello” in Chinese）to me every time they saw me, I just felt so great and so proud of them. There are even some 3rd graders’ girls said “ wo ai ni” (“I love you” in Chinese) to me when they walked by me every time at school. I’m enjoying teaching and exploring the Chinese language with them.

[Anonymous]

If you're interested, i purchased some great books through amazon on writing chinese characters. Some give the history of each character, how it's changed over the years and others give you a cartoon-like image to help you remember what the character represents.

250 Essential Chinese Characters
A Chinese Character a Day
Fun with Chinese Characters

[Anonymous]

This website is a very useful site for beginners in learning Chinese.
The history of Chinese characters, The Formation of Chinese characters,Pictographs,Ideographs...etc
http://www.blss.portsmouth.sch.uk/hsc/chinchars.shtml

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

Our fourth graders just had an amazing experience. The principal and some teachers from the Chinese school taught all 60 of our kids some calligraphy. Our kids all were taught how to hold the brush and make the character for spring and dog. The kids have never been so quiet and interested. When asked at the end if they would like to learn more characters at a later time, they responded with a resounding "Yes!"
Does anyone know of any books that teach how to write Chinese characters for kids?

[clay dube]

This woman from Taiwan wanted her children, growing up in Britain, to love Chinese characters. See the solution she came up with:

She creates clever illustrations incorporating the character. Read about this from NPR. http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/03/11/288986143/these-cute-images-make-reading-chinese-characters-chineasy

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