We’ve been doing a remedial zhuyin class for Astroboy for the last few weeks. He really needed a review because he just doesn’t know his
Author: Guavarama
Ages: 6.5 & 9.5 Suitable for: 6 and up Reading 西遊記 to the kids this semester is our foray into more advanced Chinese, including vocabulary used in
Age: 6.5 & 9.5 Grade Level: 4+ (listening), lower elementary (reading) This semester, I’ve introduced a new routine. The children can listen to an audiobook
We did bare minimal homeschooling while in Taiwan and getting over jet lag took me all of January. Early February, my ceiling leaked, which resulted
Age: 6 & 9 My February monthly summary is sitting in draft, because we’re finally back on track homeschooling-wise and I had so many things
About a month ago, I finally started that book club I’d been wanting to start for over a year. This is our fifth week and
Age: 8-9 (Thumper), 7-8 (Astroboy) Thumper was a late reader. She learned to read Chinese around 7.5 and English around 8.5. I like to console myself
Age: 9Grade: 3rd-JH （中高年級到國中), most are 5th-6thPages: 200+. Updated Aug, 2019: I documented what we’ve done with the set since 2017 at the bottom of the post,
We’ve been back for 3 weeks now. Ironically, life in the States is faster paced. There are so many more chores and various other “life”
This is part of my series on building A Chinese Library. For a complete list of posts, see here. Last year, I re-organized Mandarin Mama’s Library.