Flat square, three strokes.
GRADE-1 CHINESE · LITERACY 33 min
Long ago people drew pictures to make characters
Chinese characters were once pictures!
Today learn mouth/ear/eye/hand/foot—see how they look like the body.
口耳目手足
WARM-UP · PICTOGRAPH5 min
ri = sun, yue = moon, shan = mountain
Look at these three—do they look like drawings?
☀️ → 日🌙 → 月⛰️ → 山
Teacher: the earliest characters drew the thing itself—called pictographs.
TEACH · HEAD6 min
kou = open mouth, er = ear, mu = eye sideways
Point: where are your mouth, ears, eyes?
👄 → 口👂 → 耳👁️ → 目
What did mu originally draw?
TEACH · HAND FOOT6 min
shou = a hand, zu = a foot
Clap your hands, stomp your feet, remember the two words.
✋ → 手🦶 → 足
Teacher leads: shou (clap), zu (stomp). Read while doing the actions.
TEACH · ACTIONS6 min
Stand like a pine, sit like a bell, walk like the wind
Teacher says a word; you do the action.
🧍 → 站🧎 → 坐🚶 → 走
Listening carefully in class, we should?
PRACTICE · MATCH6 min
Teacher acts, students guess the character
Teacher points to her eyes—which character?
👁️ → ?
Train game: teacher acts (touch ear, clap, stomp); each team guesses one character.
WRITE5 min
kou square, mu long, er steady
Write in the tian-zi grid: kou, mu, er, shou, zu.
Rectangle, two inner horizontals.
Pie, heng, shu, heng, wan gou.
Three onces: one fist, one foot, one inch. Sit straight, hold the pen high.
SUMMARY · HOMEWORK3 min
🖐️
Today we met
mouth, ear, eye, hand, foot, and stand/sit/walk.
Body parts.
kou mu er shou zu.
Homework: point to your mouth/ear/eye/hand/foot in the mirror; write each character one line.