Monday, July 21, 2008

Chin*ese Cu*lture Camp

Today Elizabeth started a summer camp. Its Chinese Culture and I hope she is having a great time. She was a little sad when we dropped her off but I just know she will be enjoying herself soon. Here is her schedule:
Dropped off between 8:00 and 9:00
9-9:10 Songs and Exercises
9:10-10:00 Tour of China
10:10-11:00 Real Life Simulation - they are taught how to use Chinese at a birthday party, doctors office, store, etc.
11:10-12:00 Basic Chinese Language and Songs
12:00-1:00 Lunch and Free Time - Elizabeth brought her ball to play with during free time
The students get to pick two electives and those classes are after lunch.
1:00-1:55 Chinese Paper cut.
2:05-3:00 Chinese Flute Music
3:00-5:30 After Care, play and snack.
Many of our friends will be there as well and Elizabeth's teacher's husband is teaching Kung Fu. Elizabeth didn't want to do that because it makes her sweat. After we found out that Adrian was the instructor, she wished she could change her elective. But, I left it as is.
On Friday they have performances in the afternoon and I can't wait.

From there I took Ella to her weekly Speech Therapy and all went well. She is working on the middle B sounds, like ladyBug or cowBoy. I think Ella's speech is getting better but the test will be this weekend. We have our family reunion on Saturday so we'll see how much better they all think she sounds.

Have a great Monday!

Had to post this picture... Thanks Julie - This was from the Hinkley weekend and I believe Elizabeth was chasing the little girls. Julie got this shot of Ella as she was running screaming into the living room.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I just love that photo, it makes me smile. Gotta love that kid!

Anonymous said...

The kids are so cute, joining in that camp can help them understand Chinese culture in an interesting way, and further contribute to their Chinese learning .

Anonymous said...

How adorable they are, I'd like to experience such kind of camp, which is really an amazing Chinese Culture journey.