by Colin Goh | May 3, 2023 | Bilingual, App, Blog, Books, Chinese, Comics, Creativity, Dim Sum Warriors, Drawing, Education, Events, Imagination, Language, Parenting
A Special Bilingual Story for Mother’s Day! Moms must have magical powers to be able to do all that you do for the family! Here’s a special bilingual story for Mother’s Day for each mother in the world! Watch/Read it with the family and then discuss:...
by Yen Yen | Apr 8, 2023 | Bilingual, App, Blog, Books, Chengyu, Child Development, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Chinese Traditions, Comics, Creativity, Diversity, Drawing, Education, Events, Global Competence, Imagination, Language
April 22nd – Earth Day in Chinese is 地球日. Protecting the earth is something many of us are all still a bit too casual about—we try to do something when we remember and don’t feel too bad when we don’t. This year, our actions on Earth have taken on a new urgency...
by Colin Goh | Aug 18, 2022 | App, Bilingual, Blog, Books, Child Development, Chinese, Comics, Creativity, Diversity, Drawing, Education, Imagination, Language, Parenting
Guest blogger: Lim Swee Pei is a mother of 4 and she is homeschooling her kids in Singapore. She shares her experience with competitive parenting, homeschooling and struggling with Chinese. (Her kids are members of the Dim Sum Warriors Club.) Introduction We have a...
by Woo Yen Yen | Jul 18, 2022 | App, Bilingual, Blog, Chengyu, Child Development, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Chinese Traditions, Comics, Creativity, Dim Sum Warriors, Diversity, Doodle Date, Drawing, Education, Global Competence, Imagination, Language, Parenting, Reading
Guest contributor: Jocelyn Sara Lim-Tan is a seasoned teacher and education researcher and the mom of Jude and Joshua. In this piece, she shares her tips for building a daily routine to boost Chinese language learning for her bilingual children. Bilingual Children...
by Yen Yen | Jan 7, 2022 | App, Bilingual, Blog, Books, Child Development, Chinese, Creativity, Education, Parenting, Yen Yen
Cosplay: Meaning For Our Immigrant Family Coming from Singapore, I didn’t really care about Halloween – to me it was just a highly commercialized holiday involving too much candy that was celebrated mainly by expatriates and poseurs. Since moving to New York,...
by Yen Yen | Jan 3, 2022 | Bilingual, App, Blog, Books, Child Development, Chinese, Comics, Creativity, Dim Sum Warriors, Diversity, Education, Global Competence, Imagination, Language, Reading, Yen Yen
Many classrooms employ reading levels charts for their students, but up-to-date research is showing that this way of regulating students’ reading doesn’t have strong scientific evidence to support it. This is why we have deliberately shied away from...
