Most of my methods of teaching little children are self taught/through observation. For example, for language, I know that cultivating interest is more important than forcing them to memorise. When she was younger this theory is easily applied to teaching Chinese language. For example the characters "人＂ or "口" resembles the actual thing, so teaching Chinese spelling was never a problem. As she goes to k1 and k2, she learn more difficult words and thus it became more difficult to apply the same technique. But of course I still try my best to make learning Chinese interesting for her.
2 days ago, something happened that make me feel very happy and encouraged. Tomorrow's spelling has the word "快艇". I started teaching her on Monday. On Thursday night, she told me these: (1) 舟 is like a double decker ship, and there is one person one the first and second level respectively. (2) the 廴is like a ladder to board the ship. (3) 壬 is a person about to climb up the ship. I was so delighted because she is using association to learn, and that's one of the best method to learn anything. I don't think she is smart, I just happy that she has an enjoyable time learning so far.
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