For Chinese, we learned the characters for "Person, head, eye, mouth, ear, hand, foot, big, small, more, less". In chinese they are "人，头，眼，嘴，口，耳，手，足，大， 小，多，少”. Refer to the <ZhongWen> (Mandarin Chinese Language) course materials lesson 2.
Today we played a game called "follow the instructions", or "follow the leader" in English, but simply "听指挥" in Chinese. I gave out the order and M executes it. Orders like "stand up", "sit down", "turn around", "touch your nose", "cover your eyes","blow kisses", "touch your belly button"... They were all spoken in Chinese of course, “ 站起来”，“坐下”，“转圈”，“摸鼻子”，“盖住眼睛”，“飞吻”，“摸肚脐眼”， etc. If you do not speak Chinese yourself, here is a good video to show you different body parts:
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| M pointing to his nose |
M wanted to be the leader and led me all the hard poses and movements. I felt like I just had my exercises for the day!
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| M being the "Leader" and one of his poses |
We also sang the "if you are happy and you know it" song, "幸福拍手歌", you will see the video on the collection of songs that we like to sing to our kids.
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| M stumping his feet during the song |
Those are the pre-activities before the lesson to get his wiggles out. The actual lesson is anywhere from 10-20 mins long. M is semi-easily bored from all the listening and learning, so I try to keep it short. When he shows signs of getting bored, I just call it a lesson and gave him homework to do. By "Homework", I mean just practicing writing characters. I know it's debatable if its worth it for kids to practise writing, but at our house, we make our kids practice. And don't worry, we are not tiger parents, we are something in between where we call it a "happy medium". We push our kids, but not to the extreme. We are not saying that you should do the same, I think everybody decides for themselves, what's a good fit.
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