Fun Idea!

Josh's Chinese class gets very creative and we enjoy seeing the many ways they find of getting the kids excited about the new language and culture.

The children have the opportunity to correspond electronically with kids at a sister school in Taiwan. The kids are really excited about this.

Well, I was surprised when Josh came home from school yesterday with a Chinese Dragon beany baby. He said that they had two dragons come to their class and they each get a chance to have one spend the night with them. He showed me a book that pictured three stuffed dragons that introduced them as the Dragon Family from China (the book also featured pictures of the dragons on different things in China) and explained that the two baby dragons were Ting and Tang. Josh brought Tang home. The kids were then encouraged to play with the dragon and teach him about things that they like to do, then write about it in the book and add photos if they wanted.

Josh was only the second student in the class to get a turn and he was so excited. Tang went with him everywhere and he even took him to bed and read him stories. Below are the pictures we put in the book.