Teaching Materials and activities Gallery

All teaching materials are created in-house, and are carefully curated to align with the pedagogical vision of Mandarin Tree. We have an ever growing collection of fun and creative activities that work for children from ages 2 to 12. For online lessons, all printable materials are provided via email the week before to give parents time to prepare. For In-person lessons, all teaching and activity materials will be provided during the lesson.

You will find some of the latest examples of our teaching materials and activities below. Be sure to follow us on Instagram and Facebook to see more!

View fullsize A new term of playgroup is starting in 3 weeks! Is your child between the ages of 2-5? Do you want your child to be read specially curated Chinese stories, learn to sing Chinese songs, do fun activities like (craft/ science experiments/baking) in Man
View fullsize COMPETITION TIME (only for mandarin tree playgroup students)! Post your tiger 🐯 drawing in the comments section (only on fb) to win a small gift from Karen lao shi! This week’s playgroup was so much fun! We read a children’s classic
View fullsize This was SOOOO FUN! We made “elephant toothpaste” during our online Mandarin playgroup this week and learnt how mixing baking soda and vinegar produces carbon dioxide! 🐘🪥 Seeing the children’s excited faces was priceless and such
View fullsize Scroll right to see what you can expect from an online Chinese class with Karen lao shi at Mandarin Tree Chinese School! One hour of pure fun learning pinyin and Chinese characters through games, stories, songs, sensory writing and craft! Designed
View fullsize 元宵节快乐！Happy Lantern Festival! 🏮 Today marks the last day of Chinese New Year celebrations! On this day, we eat tāng yuán 汤圆because the name of the dish is a homophone for union (tuán yuán)团圆. Due to covid restrictions, many are not able to re
View fullsize A parent of my student came up with a brilliant idea of getting the children to send Chinese New Year cards to each other! I LOVE this idea! The children have been in the class together for a while now, interacting online with their classmates from a
View fullsize Karen 老师一家人还有 Mandarin Tree Chinese School上报了! ☺️ So honoured to be interviewed by Singapore’s national newspaper @straits_times on how we celebrate Chinese New Year away from Singapore! Did you attend our free CNY online Mandarin playgroup
View fullsize I’ve received a few messages asking how we celebrate Chinese New Year away from home (Singapore) and under strict lockdown. I’m not going to lie. It’s hard. You feel almost alone trying to drum up a festive atmosphere that doesn&rsq
View fullsize 🐭🐂🐯🐰🐲🐍🐴🐐🐒🐔🐶🐷 2021 is the year of the Ox! The children from our online Mandarin playgroup ushered in the year of the Ox with a catchy song and dance about the 12 Zodiac animals, beautiful origami oxen, fun games and one of the most well w
View fullsize The Netherlands (where I live), is under strict lockdown but I’ve managed to celebrate Chinese New Year 16 times with a few hundred families across 30 countries in 2 weeks! Seeing the children (even parents!) decked out in traditional Chinese
View fullsize How do you celebrate Chinese New Year on lockdown and when it is cold and miserable outside? You send your kids on a TREASURE HUNT around the house! (Ok one of the clues was in the car). I designed 8 Chinese New Year themed questions, stuck them in
View fullsize WOW! 500 sign ups from more than 30 different countries for our free online Chinese New Year celebration! We are ready and so excited to meet everyone! Our spots are limited so this also means that we will sadly have to turn some people away. If yo
View fullsize Chinese characters are really like building blocks, made up of different components, that’s why these Lego Duplo blocks are perfect for teaching characters! We used them for our online lesson last week when we introduced words with 足字旁to our st
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View fullsize The parents in my online Mandarin playgroup are the BEST! They were all game for crazy craft ideas even though it was messy and required prep work! Armed with shaving foam and food colouring, we went through an imaginary journey, making up stories
View fullsize What does this look like to you? A window? Squares? This is actually the Chinese character “田” (tián) which means “field”, where crops are grown. The character for men “男”, is actually made up of “田&rd
View fullsize HAPPY 2021! 🎆 Teaching the online playgroup on New Year’s Eve was amazing! I had kids from the US and UK spending this special day with me and guess what? There were real fireworks going off during the firework themed class! Such perfect tim
View fullsize Do you know what is beautiful? Not only these 3D cats🐱we made during online Mandarin playgroup but also the fact that our playgroup brings people together! Over the months, so many heartwarming stories played out before my eyes. We have 3 siblin
View fullsize 圣诞快乐！🎄 Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas! It’s not Christmas like everyone is used to (we would have been in the UK having the most fantastic Christmas dinner and be surrounded by family we don’t get to see the whole year) but we mad
View fullsize 平安夜🎄 Christmas Eve Lockdown Activity Our plan was to head out for a walk in the dunes but it has been raining and hailing the whole day! While waiting for the weather to get better, the kids and I created a Christmas tree with @playmags_tiles and d

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