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November 29, 2012|By Joe Burris, The Baltimore Sun
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The Kai-lan Superhero Team by Gamekirby on DeviantArt | Ni Hao Kai Lan Dress Up GamesWhen you access Julie Chang's apple languages chic at Waverly Elementary Academy in Ellicott City, you leave English at the door. Then, if you apperceive the acknowledgment to a catechism and are told to "qing ju shou," you accession your hand. If you're told, "bu shou hua," again you charge accumulate quiet. And if addition asks about the acclimate and it's brilliant outside, you say, "yin tian."
Chang teaches Chinese, one of two languages offered in the Howard County academy system's apple languages pilot, which is in its additional year at Laurel Woods and Waverly elementary schools. Acceptance in every brand booty one division of Chinese and one of Spanish during the academy year, usually for 30 minutes, alert a week.
The pilot was alien afterwards academy admiral approved to absorb adopted languages in aboriginal grades application a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) curriculum. Classes are centered about a science curriculum, absorption on such capacity as weather. It additionally incorporates acquaint in culture, health, accent arts and amusing studies.
"We do amateur like Simon Says and do bingo games," Chang said. "We try to actualize gestures for everything."
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Ni Hao, Kai-lan: Super Happy Day! - Children's Learning Game ... | Ni Hao Kai Lan Dress Up GamesChang has abounding the walls in her allowance with images and photos, best captioned with words in Chinese. Occasionally, she will airing the allowance as acceptance are speaking amid themselves to accomplish abiding as little English as accessible is actuality used. During a contempo second-grade class, acceptance batten with about ease, with some occasionally pausing to appear up with the appropriate word.
"I'm consistently acquirements new stuff. Plus we're starting to accomplish sentences," Waverly second-grader Kevin Baker said. "My admired words are [those for] introducing yourself, adage hello, allurement what added bodies are doing, and colors, numbers and weather."
Joelle Becker said she abstruse some Chinese words while watching the Nick Jr. television alternation "Ni Hao, Kai-Lan," whose capital character, Kai-Lan, is Chinese. "It teaches you how to allege Chinese, and Kai-Lan is array of like your teacher," Joelle said. "And Ms. Chang is our abecedary for school. Chic teaches us Chinese in fun ways. I achievement added accouchement can do it at altered schools because it's absolutely fun to apprentice a new language."
Students are not activated and no grades are given, academy admiral said.
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10 Best And Interesting Wii Games For Toddlers | Ni Hao Kai Lan Dress Up Games"The absolute purpose at the elementary akin at the present time is for them to be apparent and to accept the befalling to access the accent and to apprentice about altered cultures," Waverly Principal Kathy Jacobs said.
Howard Superintendent Renee Foose said the pilot has generated "positive feedback" from the community, and "many of our added academy communities are requesting apple languages in their schools as well."
Departing Howard academy lath affiliate Allen Dyer, who helped advance the way in accepting the affairs launched, said, "I'd like to see it go ... to every elementary school."
At Laurel Woods, third-grade acceptance angle and recite Spanish words and boring accomplish agnate gestures and duke signals. Back abecedary Jonathan Browning utters "rapido!" the acceptance echo the words and gestures in a agitated pace.
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Ni Hao Kai-Lan Sticker Books | Toys | Paper Dolls, Stickers and ... | Ni Hao Kai Lan Dress Up GamesSome students, like Laurel Woods third-graders Marvin Aguilar and Sheyla Rivera, say they already apperceive a lot of Spanish but are acquirements new words in the class, or new means to use the words they know. "I like it because we get to do Spanish activities," Marvin said.
Laurel Woods Principal Susan Brown said the academy began with Spanish aftermost year, and the classes accept generated a absolute acknowledgment in the school's Hispanic community. The Howard schools website says Laurel Woods' acceptance is 21.3 percent Hispanic.
"My acquaintance abutting to me, back she asks how to say a chat correctly, I advice her complete it out, and I acquaint her to accumulate on trying," said Sheyla, who said she speaks mostly Spanish at home. "Finally, she says the chat right."
jburris@baltsun.com
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