This is my third in my series on Greenfield curriculum. I also reviewed their Rainbow Reading series, their High Efficiency Character Recognition books, and and
Tag: Chinese writing
We’re picking up using Skritter again for Astroboy after dropping it for Thumper a few years back because I decided we weren’t focusing on her writing yet.
Beginning February of this year, I finally signed the kids up to a Chinese calligraphy class. Best extra-curriculer class we took this semester, other than music. I’d
Two weeks ago, I convinced a friend to try Skritter with her child and went through the installation process with her. I thought I’d document reasons for
Two months ago, while I was researching Anki, I re-tried Skritter and Chinese Writer for the writing characters part. Unfortunately Skritter required a subscription. So I dropped
So I wrote this way last year, summarizing a research paper I read about learning to read/write Chinese. Upon re-reading it, I realized how so much
As I mentioned in my previous post, I decided that for us, writing for now means learning to handwrite beautifully in addition to learning the composition
A week ago, I printed out 1200 characters or so. Thumper and I highlighted the characters she recognized. Close to 800! When did that happen?
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
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