Skip to main content
Main Menu Toggle
Ruirui Zhang » Home Page

Home Page

   Kāi xué le, huān yíng huí dào xué xiào zhāng lǎo shī de zhōng wén kè táng!

    开学了，欢迎回到学校张老师的中文课堂！

      School starts,    welcome back to Zhang Lao Shi's Chinese class!

 

 

 

Dear Families,
 
Welcome back to school!
 
I will be your children's Mandarin Chinese teacher for the 2023-2024 school year. I am very excited to meet all of my students and I believe we will have another wonderful school year together. 
 
I have been teaching Mandarin for 3 years at WCA since 2021, and have enjoyed the time with my students!  I like the campus cultural atmosphere, because we have wonderful children and families here to put our care and enthusiasm in, to serve a vital purpose of building a future generation, growing in understanding and accepting each other deeper.
 
Learning new things and making new friends are very exciting. Let's start our journey of learning Mandarin, pass on this culture and spirit in the future, and make this year a blast at WCA!

 

    🚩  Please sign up your student’s name here for your 15 minute slot on Friday 9/22 morning to discuss his/her language learning strengths, next steps and class performance with Zhang Lao Shi. 

    🚩 Mandarin Parent Teacher conference:

9/21    @Gym   2:30-4:30;  5:30-7:30   （No appointment need）

9:22     @ Room 119 Mandarin Classroom  7:30-12:00   (One on One meeting sign here)
 
 
 
 
Q/A
 
Q: How to login Zhang Lao Shi's Mandarin Google Classroom?
A: You need to use your student’s WorldCompassAcademy.com email address to log on their email account (instead of yours), and there was an invite to “Join” the 2nd - 5th grade Google Classroom. Simply click the invite to "Join" from my email, and your student will be able to enter the Google Classroom to check their daily class’ teaching contents, behaviors and homeworks.

 

 

 

 

Early Mandarin Immersion Class 23/24


Dear Parents,


The supplemental Mandarin Immersion Class program is open to all 5th-8th grade advanced students. It is a year round course from Monday to Friday, runs the whole year as the daily routine classes. 


Students need to check the Google Classroom for daily teaching contents and do some assignments and get ready for the next day's quizzes at home. This course requires students to have a sense of foreign language,  take this class seriously, and work hard. All upper school students are welcome to try. I believe immersion in this class the longer time, the more pays off.

 

First early immersion class starts on Aug 28th. This class is open to 5th-8th students. This year I opened a new curriculum for Immersion class. This course opens to 5th-8th students who are interested in Chinese culture. I will introduce China in many ways. No language proficiency required. I will present 30 topics, four topics per month, including geography, history, cities, architecture, famous scenic spots, operas, animals, plants, food, snacks and so on. For example: Terracotta Warriors, Cloisonne, Potala Palace, etc. Through the understanding of some topics of interest, students can comprehensively improve their listening, speaking, and reading skills.

 

This course has videos and photos presentations and a little bit of food tasting.  Classroom activities include dialogue practices, reading aloud texts, memorizing new words, classroom games and public performances. I will ask students to memorize some sentences. For example: 

I saw a sprinkler truck. The streets were clean.The bayberry drink is delicious, etc. They are always welcome to try, I think most students will be all right to stay.


If there is an emergency, for example there is a teacher's early meeting that I cannot make it, I will send out an email to let the parents and students know to skip the next day's class.


When:        Monday to Friday 7:20-8:00

Where:       WCA Room 119

Who:          5th-8th Advanced Mandarin Students

Cost:          No cost

First class: Aug 28, Monday

Registration:  

No need to register. Simply arrive at the Room 119 at 7:20AM on 8/28 Monday



张老师 Zhang Lao Shi

8/16/2023