ILP Multicultural Event

We will have a multicultural event this weekend at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School:

Date: May 02, 2009 (Saturday)
Time: 9:00am – 12:00pm
Place: St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School
          1360 Oxford Street W. London, Ontario
          Tel: 519-660-2795

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There will be no teaching on May 02 at our school site (St. Catherine of Siena).
No children under 12 years old are allowed to be left alone on the premises of the event.

I will demonstrate abacus there.
I have prepared some treat for my students. Please bring your kid to me when you get there.

Origami and game: Fortune Teller

摺紙與遊戲：东西南北


1. 先将纸两侧向中对角线折，回复原状留下折痕，重复另一侧。
Fold a square of paper in half diagonally. Unfold, rotate the paper then fold in half again. Unfold once more.



2. 将四个角往中心折。
Fold each of the four outer corners in turn to the centre.

3.翻到背面 Turn over



4. 将四个角往中心折。将算命结果写在三角形里
Fold each of the four outer corners in turn to the centre. Write fortunes in the 8 triangles



5. 翻到背面，写上东西南北
Turn over. Write 东西南北 in the 4 squares



6. 对折之后以两手拿着如图所示，利用现成折线挤压
Fold the model in half. Then hold it as shown and collapse using existing crease.



7. 将食指与拇指伸入四个口袋里
Place fingers and thumbs into the four respective pockets


让朋友挑一个号码 (手指张合的次数) 和方向，把他选的方向结果告诉他。

Ask your friend to pick a number and a direction (one of 东西南北). Pinch and separate your thumbs and index fingers several times according to the number then tell your friend his/her fortune inside the direction s/he pick.

Week 25 (2009/04/25)

We reviewed the words regarding positions and directions.
We also made sentences by rearranging cards.

I am glad that the children are now more familiar with PinYin.
We sang all 9 songs, under the condition that no one should run around when I play the music.
I gave the kids some rice cakes before I sent them home.

All the students were very well-behaved today! Good job!


Homework for week 25:

• Homework Book A Lesson 11 练习册第1册A 第11课 p.75~82
  
• HanYu PinYin Book 汉语拼音 p.51 and 52
  

What browser are you using? (Follow up)

There is no problem (that I mentioned the other day) when using IE 7.0.
It seems that they fixed the "bug" after version 7.0

Please update your IE to version 7.0 (or above) or switch to "Fire Fox" if the image is bothering you.

Happy Surfing!

No after school program this week!

The teachers are going to have a meeting this weekend. There are no after school programs tomorrow.

What browser are you using?

I just found out that this page does not appear the same on different browsers.

You can see that the transparency of the title picture( the birds) doesn't work if you are using "Internet Explorer".

With "Fire Fox"

With "Internet Explorer"

It happens to all the pictures with transparency on "Internet Explorer". Even the web site I am developing has the same problem.

There is no problem using the browser "Fire Fox". You can see what I really want to display. I personally recommend "Fire Fox" because it is the safest browser on the market and it is free.


"I.E." also decodes "HTML" differently than "Fire Fox". I am working on it.

It is very appreciated that you inform me of other problems you encounter while using browsers other than Fire Fox.

Thanks a million!


By the way, My I.E. version is 6.0.

Earth Day!

Week 24 (2009/04/18)

We had a really excellent class this week.
Everybody (well... most of them) paid good attention to me. We learned all the words in lesson 11, and reviewed all the PinYin we learned.


We also did some origami and played a game called
"东西南北" ("dong xi nan bei")




I hope we can have more weeks like this. Good Job! Kids!


Homework for week 24:

• Homework Book A Lesson 11 练习册第1册A 第11课 p.68~74
  
• HanYu PinYin Book 汉语拼音 p.47, p.48(四), and p.49(五)
  

Homework Schedule

In order to help parents assist their children doing homework, I add a calender at the very bottom of the page.

Just click on the event and it pops up the schedule. You can also click on "more details" (which will open another page) to discuss this event. I set the homework time at 6:00pm to 7:00pm everyday. You can shift the time at your convenience. I think it should take less than an hour to do what I assign in the schedule.

Please give it a try and let me know how it is going.

Week 23 (2009/04/04)

We stayed in the Gym longer this morning. But we were asked to leave before we could sing all the songs. It was a shame that we could not share the gym with the adult TaiChi Lessons.

Anyway! When we settled down in the classroom, I told everyone that I would ask the student to step aside if s/he talks during class because s/he is disturbing other students.

Some students still talked, but we had a quieter day. Most of the children paid good attention to me. Well done kids!


Homework for week 23:

• Homework Book B Lesson 10 练习册第1册B 第10课 p.58~59, and P.61~63
• HanYu PinYin Book 汉语拼音 p.39, p.44~45
• Practicing writing your Chinese Name

No school next week because of Easter long weekend!

I hope you like the Easter Eggs I bought from States.