Tuesday, May 24, 2011

A New Friend for C

Recently, a new boy joined C's first grade class.  This boy is from China and is just learning to speak English.  C is very excited about his new friend and about the opportunity to learn a little about China.

The class has learned a few Chinese words and they even practiced drawing/writing a few of the words.


We are going to look for a few good books about China, but since many of my blogland friends have studied other countries, I thought I would begin by asking for book suggestions.  If you have read any good books about China, please leave me a comment and feel free to leave a link to a post if you have one with books about China!

9 comments:

MaryAnne said...

How cool that his class has learned a few Chinese words and characters!

I'd love to hear about any good books you find!

Ticia said...

We did a bunch of stuff about china. I'd highly recommend the story of books. There was noodles paper and kite at our library

Jenny said...

That is so cool that they learned some Chinese characters!

Debbie said...

How fun! I remember always loving it when we had exchange students in school.

Jennifer said...

What a fun way to welcome him in the class!

Joyful Learner said...

That must have made him very welcomed! What a wonderful idea to do it with every class!

Anonymous said...

I think it's great they are welcoming this student by teaching the students are his culture. Great lessons in citizenship and understanding.

Natalie PlanetSmarty said...

How exciting to have this direct contact with someone from another culture. We had many books during our China study, but the ones that come to my mind without going back to my posts are "Look What Came From China" and Demi stories - The Greatest Treasure is my personal favorite.

Valerie @ Inner Child Fun said...

Oh, wow!! Emily is so jealous of C for having a new classmate from China -- she has an undying obsession with China! She has several books.. I'll pass along some titles to you!