Gung Hay Fat Choy! Today our classroom was transformed into the "House of ING." We used the Chinese New Year to enhance our learnING. We did lots for learning about Chinese New Year. For instance, we watched a Reading Rainbow video on the Chinese New Year and read a wonderful book called Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas. Go to the Reading Rainbow link on the top button bar if you would like to check out these wonderful resources.
Our morning work was learning to write the numbers 1-10 in Chinese characters. Then the students completed a dragon dot to dot written with Chinese numbers. Students even opened the app Sum Stacker and used Chinese numbers to solve addition puzzles.
We also filled in a message with tons of missing INGs! Perfect for the residence in the "House of ING." We became ING ending experts. We discussed the different phonics rules about adding the ing ending to a root word. For example, if there is a short vowel and single consonant you have to double the consonant before adding the ing. Also, if there is a silent e, you have to drop the e before adding ing. Isn't English spelling complex!
One my favorite activities today was spelling. The students practiced adding ING to words with the added challenge of chopsticks. We had Chinese take out boxes filled with words. The children had to use chopsticks to pull out a word. They read the word and added -ING. Next, the students glued the word with -ING to the paper plate and read the new word. Sometimes, students had to double a consonant, sometimes they had to drop an e, and sometimes they could leave the root word and simply add ing. They worked so hard at the reading and spelling until their plates were full!
As we read fiction stories and nonfiction articles about Chinese New Year, we learned that one tradition is to clean out your house before the new year begins. We did a thorough desk cleaning and washing.
In math, we used Chinese tangram puzzles to make animals. Tangrams are seven flat shapes that are arranged to make pictures. We used the Osmo to guide our geometrical creations. Look at that concentration.
It was a terrific day in the House of ING. Students earned a coin for luck and happiness at the end of the day.
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