As the school years nears its end, it’s time to start thinking about various ways to keep your kids listening to and reading in Mandarin over the summer. Once again the folks at 5Q Channel in Taiwan are making available a special ‘parents’ rate for their web site, which offers illustrated stories with the Mandarin…

http://vickietsui96.blogspot.com/ Really useful English write ups of books that do well with smaller kids. She’s also got a blog about raising Mandarin/English bilingual children. http://mandarin-tiger-mom.blogspot.com/

Don’t know anything about them but thought folks might be interested. Beth   Dear Parent, Greetings from YK Pao School! As you may know, this year we are organizing the Mandarin Summer Camp and instermediate Chinese program for 5-12 year olds and we would be delighted to have your child take part. Our Summer Camp is a…

[I don’t know anything about these organizations, but it seemed it might be of interest to readers.  — Beth] Abroad101 Launches Record $17,000 Summer Scholarship Giveaway Partners with Forum Nexus and INTO China, Supporting Obama Administration 100,000 Strong Initiative Boston, MA (PRWEB) May 07, 2012 Abroad101, the world’s first and largest study abroad review website,…

Broadway Elementary in Venice Receives Title I Academic Achievement Award Broadway Elementary School in Venice is one of 117 schools statewide honored with the Title I Academic Achievement Award for schools receiving federal funding. By Paul Chavez May 4, 2012        Broadway Elementary School in Venice was one of 117 schools statewide recently awarded with a…

Students’ Year With Chinese Immersion Program May 2, 2012 8:20 AM Reporting Holly Wagner Filed Under ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) – Some Minnesota kindergartners are about to complete their first year of school, and they did it all in Chinese. At the start of the school year, WCCO visited the first class ofstudents in the new Mandarin immersion program at…

Bilingualism Fine-Tunes Hearing, Enhances Attention Dual language speakers better able to encode basic language sounds and patterns By Wendy Leopold EVANSTON, Ill. — A new Northwestern University study provides the first biological evidence that bilinguals’ rich experience with language “fine-tunes” their auditory nervous system and helps them juggle linguistic input in ways that enhance attention…