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School Room Tour 2015-2016

July 19, 2015December 10, 2017 Guavarama

They say it takes about 3 years to normalize a classroom.  I definitely feel so much better the second year when it comes to prepping

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Mandarin Materials

More Sagebook Readers for Pink and Blue Series

April 2, 2015February 15, 2016 Guavarama

Ooohoo.  Thumper and Astroboy finished their respective Sage books in March.  Thumper finished Pink Series book 4 and Astroboy the Blue Series book 2.  I racked my

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Homeschool Mandarin Materials

Learning how to write beautiful Chinese characters

March 12, 2015February 15, 2016 Guavarama

After teaching Thumper the different character shape, I gave her our first writing lesson about 2 days later.  I’m definitely on a high because the results

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Homeschool Mandarin Materials

Learning Chinese Character Shapes

March 12, 2015 Guavarama

This week I introduced the second part of Chinese character structure.  These are two different things but I don’t know how to translate them into

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Mandarin Materials

Sagebook Blue Series book 1 Reader

March 8, 2015 Guavarama

Last week, I had a crazy idea that I would take the 20 characters in Sagebook Blue Series book 1 and make up a new

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Mandarin Materials

Sagebook Progress Week 5

February 14, 2015February 22, 2016 Guavarama

Things got a little crazy after we started on Sagebooks.  I started researching on teaching stroke orders, character layout, character components, and then started school.

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Mandarin Materials

Sagebook Chutes and Ladders

January 28, 2015 Guavarama

This is the third week that Astroboy is on Sagebook’s first book.  He seems to be having a lot of trouble with the “concept” characters

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DIY Nomenclature Cards or Flashcards

January 25, 2015February 15, 2016 Guavarama

If you homeschool at home, suddenly there are many “tools” you need to get in order to make materials.  In Montessori education especially, there are

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Homeschool Mandarin Materials

Second week using Sagebooks

January 23, 2015 Guavarama

This week, we continued our work in Sagebook.  Those flashcards are making learning a bit easier because there are so many uses for them.  For

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