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Azevada Elementary says ‘ni hao’ By Miriam G. Mazliach Photos By Miriam G. Mazliach As Azevada kindergarten teacher Orchid Wang enters the classroom, she instructs her students in Mandarin to find a spot and sit down on the large rug at the front of the room. The classroom is quiet and lights are dimmed as…

Making friends through Mandarin in San Mateo January 25, 2011, 03:36 AM By Heather Murtagh Daily Journal Staff Heather Murtaugh/Daily Journal Students from Beijing, China visited College Park Elementary School and performed traditional music and dance Monday afternoon. In addition to performing, the students in the Happy Angel Chorus of Yi Shi Fu Xiao had…

First Mandarin Immersion Public Charter School Opening in East Bay By Chrissy Schwinn – January 25, 2011Posted in: Bay Area, Education, In the Classroom, News Yu Ming Charter School, the East Bay’s first Mandarin immersion public charter school, is now holding information sessions and accepting applications for fall 2011 enrollment of kindergartners and first graders.…

“Nihao, Hou Laoshi!” The Best Moment for a Chinese Guest Teacher By Amanda Yan Hou In the summer of 2010, I became the guest teacher at the MaST Community Charter School in Philadelphia. In the first day of school, the kids who knew no Chinese were able to say “Nihao, Hou Laoshi!” My students’ first…

Most school districts start with Spanish and add Mandarin immersion later. Evergreen, in Vancouver, Wash., did it the other way. Evergreen schools to offer English-Spanish immersion program By Marissa Harshman Columbian Staff Reporter Wednesday, January 12, 2011 More like this Kindergartners learn quickly in Vancouver schools’ new Mandarin immersion program Evergreen school district offers tours…

The St. Paul, Minn, school district, home to Ying Hua, the first Mandarin immersion charter school in the US, is making some changes. The article below (click on the link) refers to a focus on Mandarin, but they don’t say what that means. Any anyone from St. Paul enlighten us as to what’s going on?…

The registration for the (new) Early Mandarin-English Bilingual (Chinese Immersion) Program at the John Norquay Elementary School 4710 Slocan St. Vancouver, BC, V5R 2A1 Canada, Phone: (604) 713-4666, Fax: (604) 713-4668 for the K and 1st Grade, school year 2011/2012 will end on Jan 31, 2011! more information at http://www.vsb.bc.ca/programs/mandarin-bilingual