a young boy teaches his friends about his culture and the language with different items from the fall. He also with the help of his mothers teaches them some of the words in chinese. ( )

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Xiao and his friends look at the his new Chinese characters he has just learned to draw. He takes them on a tour of his family’s farm and shows his friends how Chinese characters are read using the crops that his family raises. Xiao explains the reasoning behind the placement of the charcters. Beautiful drawings accompany the story and there is a glossary of ten chinese characters in the back of the book with a pronunciation chart for Mandarin Chinese. Grades 1-2

A good way to talk about China. Learn the chinese symbols. Have the student use their paint brush to paint symbols.