We Have Completed Book One

We had a review session yesterday, and with that, we completed the Book One of our second-grade textbook. That is, we are one-third done for the year, as there are three books for a grade.

During the review session, I had my daughter reading the text of all four lessons, without the help of Pinyin. I had expected some hiccups in the first couple of lessons, which were learned two months ago. But she surprised and impressed me by reading all lessons quite smoothly. There were only a handful of characters she had difficulty with. She had also improved in managing the tones in sentences.

For the four lessons in Book One, there are 118 "new" characters to learn. It was quite a pile to put all these character cards together and took a while to go through them one by one. Without context, it was a little more difficult to recognize some of these characters. But she was able to do so for all by 29 of them!

For this week's homework, I asked her to record her own readings of the four lessons into a digital voice recorder. Maybe we could save them as archives as we progress.