Counting in Chinese

Joshua, Foote School's exchange teacher from China joined our class to teach a lesson on counting in Chinese. This was much more than memorizing the number words to 10! Joshua demonstrated how the Chinese number system incorporates place value when counting above 10. For example: The number 21 in Chinese is said two-tens-one (er shi yi). Before we knew it, the class was counting to 100 in Chinese!

The students listened intently as Joshua gave each child a Chinese name during his last class visit!