Taking Notes

New year, new book. We started our first class of the year today, at the Lesson One of the 2nd Book of the third grade.

On her own initiative, my daughter brought a little notebook with me. She said she would like to start taking notes during the classes. As we went through the list of new characters for this lesson, she wrote each of them down in her note book, the pinyin, the character itself, and its meaning in English.

It's a nice way to break the dullness of going through new characters. It also reinforces her learning of them, as she was paying close attention when she had to write them down. As such, later in the class, we spent less time going through the character cards.