P1 Chinese - General Discussion

[Callie Tan]

We are almost at the end of term 1 and I must say time really flies.


The hanyu pinyin for P1 is no joke. Kids with no or little prior knowledge will definitely struggle a bit… it’s really just hanyu pinyin all the way so far. However, practise makes perfect, my girl has certainly master quite a bit of hanyu pinyin now…

[janet88]

Callie Tan:

We are almost at the end of term 1 and I must say time really flies.


The hanyu pinyin for P1 is no joke. Kids with no or little prior knowledge will definitely struggle a bit... it's really just hanyu pinyin all the way so far. However, practise makes perfect, my girl has certainly master quite a bit of hanyu pinyin now....

Yes, it's hanyu pinyin all the way for at least 2 terms.

[SPIES]

janet_lee88:

Callie Tan:

We are almost at the end of term 1 and I must say time really flies.


The hanyu pinyin for P1 is no joke. Kids with no or little prior knowledge will definitely struggle a bit... it's really just hanyu pinyin all the way so far. However, practise makes perfect, my girl has certainly master quite a bit of hanyu pinyin now....

Yes, it's hanyu pinyin all the way for at least 2 terms.

all schools are teachin hanyu pinyin now or only for those higher chinese schools?

[janet88]

SPIES:

janet_lee88:

[quote=\"Callie Tan\"]We are almost at the end of term 1 and I must say time really flies.


The hanyu pinyin for P1 is no joke. Kids with no or little prior knowledge will definitely struggle a bit... it's really just hanyu pinyin all the way so far. However, practise makes perfect, my girl has certainly master quite a bit of hanyu pinyin now....

Yes, it's hanyu pinyin all the way for at least 2 terms.

all schools are teachin hanyu pinyin now or only for those higher chinese schools?[/quote]P1s in all schools have to learn hanyu pinyin.

[Daddy D]

janet_lee88:

SPIES:

The rules are confusing.


Which means if we don't know the word and just based on listening, we will get the tones wrong. Like 蚂蚁，洗手，举手 etc.

Yes, there are 3-4 different ways of testing CL spelling...from choosing what you think is correct, to filling in the different tones. Next week, I don't know why there is spelling on Wed and Friday.

So the spelling tests are also in hanyu pinyin only?
So the sch is teaching from the basics... or doing the \"you should know already\" thingy?

[janet88]

Daddy

janet_lee88:

[quote=\"SPIES\"]The rules are confusing.


Which means if we don't know the word and just based on listening, we will get the tones wrong. Like 蚂蚁，洗手，举手 etc.

Yes, there are 3-4 different ways of testing CL spelling...from choosing what you think is correct, to filling in the different tones. Next week, I don't know why there is spelling on Wed and Friday.

So the spelling tests are also in hanyu pinyin only?
So the sch is teaching from the basics... or doing the \"you should know already\" thingy?[/quote]Yes, spelling is in hanyu pinyin but daughter's school also testing chinese characters although no need to write them but must know the what they sound like...her school rather ON.

[Callie Tan]

Daddy

janet_lee88:

[quote=\"SPIES\"]The rules are confusing.


Which means if we don't know the word and just based on listening, we will get the tones wrong. Like 蚂蚁，洗手，举手 etc.

Yes, there are 3-4 different ways of testing CL spelling...from choosing what you think is correct, to filling in the different tones. Next week, I don't know why there is spelling on Wed and Friday.

So the spelling tests are also in hanyu pinyin only?
So the sch is teaching from the basics... or doing the \"you should know already\" thingy?[/quote]The spellings for Term 1 for my girl are all hanyu pinyin only. It's not only hanyu pinyin of 2 words, it can be hanyu pinyin for the whole sentence...

And I am not sure about how schools teach but I Strongly encourage parents to prepare the kids in K2 for this hanyu pinyin drilling session in P1. If not sure faint....

But if you look at the exercises my girl is doing in school, the kids are expected to be able to 认字. They have to be able to identify the hanyu pinyin with the right 汉字.

[janet88]

Hi Mummies,

Sorry to disrupt the thread regarding assessment book.
Just wondering what titles/publishers you get for P1/2 Chinese. Maybe we can share useful titles instead of having to stand for hours at Popular combing through the shelves of books.

*Intensive Exercises for Primary 1 (Victoria Publications)
*Hanyu Pinyin for Primary 1 (Victoria Publications)
*Primary Chinese Practice 4+1 (EPH)

[Daddy D]

janet_lee88:

Yes, spelling is in hanyu pinyin but daughter's school also testing chinese characters although no need to write them but must know the what they sound like...her school rather ON.

cool.... but I thought the Pri1 textbooks don't have chinese characters... how to expect the kids the know... or they have other supplementary notes?

[Daddy D]

Callie Tan:

The spellings for Term 1 for my girl are all hanyu pinyin only. It's not only hanyu pinyin of 2 words, it can be hanyu pinyin for the whole sentence...

And I am not sure about how schools teach but I Strongly encourage parents to prepare the kids in K2 for this hanyu pinyin drilling session in P1. If not sure faint....

But if you look at the exercises my girl is doing in school, the kids are expected to be able to 认字. They have to be able to identify the hanyu pinyin with the right 汉字.

Cool... the kids need to write hanyu pinyin with the tone thingy too? A bit challenging to teach that to K2 kid... cos' my kid does it as phonics... and they only do 汉字 in K2... and chinese library books are 汉字 of cos.
How come they don't teach hanyu pinyin in K1/K2 levels and yet expect the kids to know that in Pri 1?
Someone in MOE HQ sleeping ah? :?