Videos of Students Showing Their Chinese Skills

Ever wonder if your children can really speak Chinese? Watch these videos from KES fourth grade and you'll see how skilled they are in the language! This lesson was about School Subjects.

Students Interview Classmates for Maze Game

Second-grade KES students take turns interviewing each other for the "Maze Game." Each student finds at least seven other classmates to interview to check for understanding. When students have successfully completed the maze they do a final check with Mrs. Hussey to confirm their understanding.

Students practice cultural skills at schools across Mid-Prairie district

Students across the district celebrate Chinese New Year and practice their calligraphy, using chopsticks, making puppets for the Year of the Monkey, making a long dragon puppet, and many other Chinese language and cultural skills.

Chinese Club Celebrates Chinese New Year at KES

More than 60 students and parents attended the February 11 Chinese Club event at Kalona Elementary School at which the attendees celebrated the Chinese New Year and the Year of the Monkey.

Students practiced using chopsticks, made monkey masks, finished puzzles, played games, and the whole family got involved!

Christmas Cards in Chinese - and Happy New Year!

Fifth grade students in Wellman decorate holiday-themed cards to hang as ornaments on their home Christmas trees -- and a few gave them as gifts for their parents!

Holiday video - Chinese

Fifth grade students in Wellman read Christmas-themed words with traditional Chinese noisemakers (快板 kuài bǎn).

Student teacher fun

For the past six weeks our Middle school Chinese students have had the pleasure of working with our student teacher Xi Ma.  Xi is from the University of Iowa and has been doing fantastic lessons with the students.

Here is a character writing activity she taught to sixth graders.

Here she is having her students introduce themselves to native Chinese speakers over Google hangout.

She also taught a cultural activity to out eighth graders.