My mum is ethnically Chinese, so another link to this part of the world as we continue our tour. My husband and I are also both (retired now after becoming parents it seems 😂) martial artists, so I wanted to use this opportunity to focus more on the idea and see if they were interested in learning too.
Maps, atlases, we discussed which countries we would focus on (China, Japan, South Korea)... Discussions on food (they had a go using chopsticks!), climate, clothing and beliefs... Lots of YouTube videos and library books...
I was pleased to find a book in the library on the origins of the Chinese Zodiac, beautifully illustrated in a calligraphic style with Chinese writing on some pages, so we talked a little about astrology with the reminder of what we believe in and why we don't follow star signs etc.
Another book featured a character based on origami, so we watched a couple of How To videos - but they weren't that interested so we missed the opportunity to try our own. 😁
As mentioned above, we looked at different martial arts styles from the different East Asian countries - namely karate (Japan), taekwondo (South Korea) and kung-fu (China) - talking about the differences in movement, which one was their favourite, and trying out a few techniques. F liked taekwondo because she liked the flips and M liked kung-fu because she liked it! 😂
Finally, we ordered dinner from a Chinese takeaway, including fortune cookies for the experience and also to talk some more about astrology and beliefs which are different to ours: you can respect a different opinion by being polite and friendly with the people who believe it and still believe something else.
With all the above this was quite a busy week in terms of activities so I chose not to do any formal writing with them. In the build up to Ramadaan and giving myself to prepare, I'm going to focus on word level and sentence level Literacy skills for the next few weeks inshaAllah - so just tidying up their basic grammar for a while rather than another big topic like this.
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