Sunday, December 9, 2012

This site is created for the William Land Elementary Mandarin Immersion parents to provide their children with learning tools outside the school setting.

Please help our school earn money!  Remember to indicate William Land Elementary on the receipts or when you attend the Arden Fair events.
Click here to go to William Land Elementary School's Official Web Site.

Summer Reading:
http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/biweekly/animation3/pdf/fables_book-web.pdf

Books used in the classrooms - for reference only:
Kindergarten

1st Grade
Rainbow Series 1 - Red 2

Animation Chinese characters and pronunciation from these links:
YellowBridge
Taiwan Ministry of Education.

 
HuaYu World :  The Overseas Compatriot Affairs Commission, R.O.C.(Taiwan) in conjunction with HuaYu World provides great resources.  There are language options and mobile (手機版) button on the top right corner.  E-bookstore is free and has three levels : beginner (初級), intermediate (中級)  & advanced (高級).

Interactive books for beginner: 小豆豆學華語1,  小豆豆學華語2 ,
 安弟與小甜甜

http://www.5qchannel.com

If you want to view these books on smartphones or tablets which do not support Adobe Flash, try Puffin app.

English & Mandarin stories apps from Apple itunes, simply search for (故事) or the following:
       iReading
       JoyOrange
       RyeBooks
       iBigToy 

Applications some parents may enjoy on their smartphone:
KTdict , iCED , Pleco for Free (English-Chinese Dictionary)
Puffin , Rover for iPhone & iPad Free Web Browser that support Adobe Flash
eStroke for iPad $8.99 (Learn to write Chinese)
eStroke for iPhone/iPod $6.99 which also works on iPad with lower resolution




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