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  • Written by Elizabeth Olson In March 2009, I went to the Chinese Language Bridge Cup Contest in San Francisco to watch my first grader participate in a poetry recital. He was contestant #478 – I couldn’t believe so many kids would show up on a Saturday morning to recite poetry! I saw a friend there…

  • Congratulations to all our Jose Ortega and Starr King students who participated in the 6th Annual Confucius Institute Chinese Language Bridge Cup Competition. The names of winning Starr King and Jose Ortega students appear in the Painting/Drawing results for kindergarten and the Poetry Recital results for both native and non-native speakers. This year marks the…

  • The Bridge Cup Chinese poetry recitation contest, sponsored by the Confucius Institute at San Francisco State University is Saturday, March 3rd. One of the  Starr King Mandrin teachers recorded the poems for the 1st and 3rd grade Bridge cup.You can listen below by clicking on the highlighted poem name. The poems are listed by《poem name》(Dynasty)…

  • 旧金山州立大学孔子学院与旧金山联合校区主办 中国国家汉语国际推广领导小组办公室与中国驻旧金山领事馆教育组赞助 The Bridge Cup is a multi-event competition for Kindergarten through 12th graders covering a variety of Chinese classical arts… calligraphy with a brush calligraphy with a pen painting/drawing Chinese essay writing Poetry recitation Such competitions have a long and honored history in Chinese education, and in Chinese schools in the United States. The…

  • If your child is participating in the Chinese Language Bridge Cup, then you may know that the required poem for grades K-2 is “The Song of the Traveling Son 游子吟” by Mèng Jiāo 孟郊”.  You can get some tips for reciting this poem from The King…