Confucius Institute Journey to China Spring 2014, Issue 21 | Page 23

CI NEWS SPRING 2014

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Girl Scout China Class
The Girl Scout leader for Troop 1118 in Wake Forest
invited our CI to introduce Chinese culture to their girls.
On February 9th, twenty eager 6, 7 year-old girl scouts
waited for CI staffs to arrive. Upon arrival, CI staffs were
greeted by the question, “Are you driving all the way
from China?” The cute question brought much laughter.
CI staffs introduced Chinese New Year history and
tradition. When talking about Chinese Zodiac, the girls
were very interested in figuring out their own Chinese
Zodiac and realized everyone was born in the year of
dog or pig. Next, CI staffs showed how it’s like to be a kid
in China; things suggested including school uniform,
daily exercises, eye exercises, Chinese cartoons - Please
Goat and Big Big Wolf, and the National Children’s Day.
The girl scouts showed great interests in this topic and
shared their student life with us. The most popular
part was learning about the panda. When these girls
watched a video about pandas, they kept saying that
“The panda is so cute!” During the last part of the event,
our staffs demonstrated how to make Chinese animals
with colored papers. Girl scouts made lively South
Chinese tiger, panda, golden monkey and Chinese
alligator. After the event, all the girls took their Chinese
paper animals home.
北卡州维克弗斯特1118号女童子军团盛情邀请北卡州大孔院为女童子军们介绍中国文化。2月9日下午，20名6、
7岁的女童子军们早早
地等待着孔院老师的到来。老师们一出现
，一名6岁的小童子军就问 “你们是从中国开车过来的吗？” 可爱的问题把老师们都逗乐了
：
，
。
孔院的老师首先介绍了中国新年，
当谈到生肖的时候，孩子们立刻兴奋地想要根据自己的出生日期了解自己的生肖 当得知自己属狗
，
或者属猪时
，她们开心不已
。随后，老师们介绍了中国小朋友的校园生活，包括校服、
广播体操、眼保健操；
最热门的动画片——
《喜羊羊
与灰太狼》
；六一国际儿童节等。
小童子军们都觉得很有意思
，并且向老师们分享了自己的校园生活。孩子们最有兴趣的是大熊猫。当看到
大熊猫憨态可掬的视频时
，孩子们情不自禁地说
“熊猫太可爱了 。最后，老师们还指导小童子军们用彩纸制作了一种中国独有的动物，
！”
他们有的做华南虎
，有的做大熊猫，有的做金丝猴，有的做扬子鳄，制作得惟妙惟肖 活动结束后，孩子们纷纷表示，要把自己制作的动物
。
带回家好好收藏。