• Uses familiar nursery rhyme tunes and some catch melodies
• Songs are task based
  
• Incorporates other approaches to language teaching such as total physical response, inquiry skills, and multiple intelligence.

Let's Sing Mandarin Contents

Let's Sing Mandarin #1

1. Good Morning
2. How are you
3. What's your name
4. A new friend
5. Come in Please
6. How do you say this
7. Let's make a big circle
8. Classroom rules
9. School Bag
10. I love you
11. Brothers and Sisters
12. Numbers
13. Days of the week
14. What's the Time
15. Months of the year
16. Three Owls

Let's Sing Mandarin #2 Contents:

1. Hanyu Pinyin
2. Little Monkey
3. What Animal is this
4. Brother has a lamb
5. Let's Guess
6. Puppy and Kitten
7. Two Little Pigs
8. Big Frog Little Frog
9. Vegetables
10. Fruits
11. Big Red Apple
12. Colours 1
13. Colours 2
14. My body
15. I see with my eyes
16. Let's Run Together
    

Let's Sing Mandarin #3 Contents:

1. About Myself
2. Left and Right
3. Scissors Paper Stone
4. I Love Sports
5. I nod you nod
6. Grandpa likes to dance
7. My after-school activities
8. Transportation
9. Countries
10. My House
11. School Subjects
12. Mid-Autumn Festival
13. Happy New Year
14. Four Seasons
15. It's raining
16. Bye

Singing greatly enhances the learning of a language and is instrumental in engaging all children, resulting in greater language acquisition and production. 

About  the author

Xiong Huali is presently teaching Mandarin at the Singapore American School.

Each book features 16 songs and comes with a CD. PB, 37pp. For ages 3 and up.

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