Little Sheep Chinese Learning Center

OMG, don’t tell me it’s the last day of Saturday School 😭!The kiddos aced their final Chinese trivia of all our African foods, holidays and people we learned about this semester. Our final dish was Sega Wat, Ethiopian beef stew made with berebere spice 🇪🇹🥰🥩.
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You mean I get to sit in the sunshine and tell stories to infants and toddlers? I love my job 🤗☀️! This week I led two toddler storytimes for AAPI month at the Point Playhouse in El Cerrito. In the adapted story of the young girl Mulan, we learned words like 花huā🌼，马mǎ🐎 and 鸡jī🐔.

Can you smell what’s been cooking at Saturday School? These past two weeks, we made Misir Wot (lentils) and Doro Wot (chicken berebere stew). For AAPI month, we learned about Oakland’s very own Alysia Liu ⛸️ and Jeremy Lin 🏀.

Come out for our next Mandarin Mixer on Sunday June 7th from 2:30-4pm at Kinfolx in Oakland. We’ll be learning about the Dragon Boat Festival as we play games and practice Chinese. All levels welcome! RSVP using the link in our bio, and please consider donating. All donations go to our cool raffle prizes and activity materials. See you there 😉🐲🐉🛶☕️🏖️⛱️🌊

Why make Chinese Mother’s Day cards for moms who don’t speak Chinese? Well, not only does it help us practice Character writing, but we can also play teacher as we show our moms the pinyin and English. I did it myself as a beginner Chinese student. Afterwards, we made kik alicha, a creamy yellow split dish from Ethiopia. 😋🤗🇪🇹💐🎉🥰

For our May Mandarin mixer, we had a blast writing Mother’s Day cards, chatting about local restaurants to take our mamas to and whooping each other in Uno. Come out to play more games with us next month. Thanks for having us ☕️
And remember to always “听妈妈的话tīng māmā de huà!” or “Listen to your mama!”💐🤗❤️

We kicked off May by learning about Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month 亚太裔传统月yàtàiyìchuántǒngyuè.
For our new cooking unit on Ethiopia, we made sambusa, fried treats with lentil filling. Students had a fun time folding and stuffing the sambusa wrappers 🫘🇪🇹❤️.

Our new rule is wash dishes or no food 🤨🧼🧽!
Today we talked about Earth Day 地球日dìqiúrì and ways to protect our environment. After, we cooked Obe Ata, a Yoruban red pepper stew with chicken. Last week we also made jollof rice 🇳🇬🥘🍲🌍🌳🧼🧽🫧

Guess what? Little Sheep is now hosting monthly Mandarin Mixers at Kinfolx. Come through for our next one on Sunday May 3rd 2:30-4pm, pre-Mother’s Day Edition 💐. RSVP using the link in our bio, and swipe right for all of our upcoming dates 💕💜❤️💐☕️🤗🗓️

I had some much fun watching folks pick up marshmallows with chopsticks and yell out Chinese colors and numbers during Uno🥢 🤗! And as always, Kinfolx came through with the AMAZING coffee and vibes. If you missed this one, please come to the next one. Hoping to host these monthly 🀄️☕️🫘🍚!