On With Book Two

Yesterday was the Easter Sunday and it was snowing, so it was perfect for us to keep on with our Chinese school at home!

We moved on to the Book 2 of our second-grade textbook. Our first lesson is about a seed sprouting in the Spring. Perfect for our season, despite of the snow. For some reason, it felt that the lesson text actually got a little easier. Maybe the emphasize was shifted a little bit more to the reading materials.

The homework assignment now asks the students to read the reading material to their parents for a grade. We have never done it before. So far I only required my daughter to read them on her own, without any checking. We will see how this goes.

The homework also includes a set of known characters for the students to study so that they could write them from memory in a dictation quiz when they come back to class. The first set was quite trivial, just numbers. It could get harder as we go along.

We are continuing with our homework reduction scheme. We are ditching the "white card" scramble game entirely and only require her to do the reading assignments twice instead of four times.