Happy lunar new year to all our Nihaoma families!- January 2023

Time: January 28，2023 Saturday, 11:00am-4:00pm
Place: The Asia Society Texas Center 1370 Southmore Blvd Houston, TX 77004

- Activities: 10–11AM for Asia Society members only and 11AM– 4PM for general public
-  Practise Chinese Calligraphy
-  Create Rabbit Hats
-  Photo Booth with costumed Peking Opera performers.
-  Zodiac Game
-  Make lanterns
-  Chinese Cultural Crafts
-  Instrument Demonstrations
-  Lunar New Year Storytime | 11 a.m., 2:30 p.m.
-  Hear the story of New Year come to life in a kid-friendly opera! 11:30 a.m., 2 p.m.
-  Lion Dance | 12 p.m.
-  Spring Festival: Splendor of Huaxing

TICKETS: $10 (Asia Society members receive 35% off)
Performance times at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. inside the Brown Foundation Performing Arts Theater. Each showtime features the same music and dance performances.

Virtual TaiChi class for Nihaoma families and friends - Oct 2020

In order to benefit NIHAOMA families by improving our physical and mental health conditions during this unusual time, NIHAOMA Chinese has invited Coach Ningke share his experience in Chen Style-Taichi. NIHAOMA will post a link every week for you to follow Coach Ningke on a beach, on a hill, or in a park to practice this internal Chinese martial art. You can practice anywhere as long as there is a flat surface.

Tai Chi has many physical and emotional benefits: - Stress reduction
- Better sleep
- Muscle strength
- Balance and flexibility
- Improved cognition in the elderly
- Better symptom management of certain chronic diseases

Coach Ningke has been the Tai Chi and Kungfu coach for schools in Houston since 2016. He has practiced Chinese martial arts for 25 years with a variety of renowned masters in both China and the USA. Just recently, he won 1st & 2nd place in Tai Chi boxing and weapons in the “China 2020 - Foshan Virtual Tai Chi Competition”.

NIHAOMA Chinese one-on-one and group remote class - Apr 2020

NIHAOMA Chinese is on the front lines of adapting remote learning/online classes! We started this new type of learning and teaching due to the current worldwide situation in mid-March and achieved great results and excellent comments from students and families.

Main platforms that NIHAOMA is using:

- StoryJumper: Create, collaborate and share books
- Zoom: An online classroom allowing audio and video sharing, screen sharing, working on a whiteboard and recording
- Google classroom: Create, distribute, and grade assignments
- Google Tour Creator: Create VR tour using imagery from Google's Street View, your own 360-degree photos
- Kahoot: A game-based learning platform offering fun activities to a remote class
- Quizlet: Trains students via online flashcards and various games and tests

Technologies that NIHAOMA is exploring:

- Screencastify: Record videos and slide shows easily
- Edpuzzle: Take any video and add questions to make it interactive
- Insert Learning: Make websites interactive
- Pear Deck: Add interactive questions and formative assessments
- Flipgrid: Supports self-assessment; motivates students to speak; great for parent involvement and communication
- Canvas: Allows teachers to post grades, information, and assignments online
- Seesaw: Students add photos, videos, drawings, text, and more to show what they know. Teachers can see these posts and share with families

Our experiences on remote class/ online teaching:

- Eye contact
- Body language
- Listen
- Voice and facial expression
- Writing strokes, type characters or draw on the screen
- Above all, maintaining efficient communication and interaction, as in an ordinary classroom, is the key to our success!

NIHAOMA has a unique award system “Sticker Race” to atract young learners:

Happy lunar new year to all our Nihaoma families! - Jan 2020

Happy Thanksgiving to all our Nihaoma families! - Nov 2018
Nihaoma students' favorite - HelloChinese App

Review from all language resources website This app has a ton of content and engaging exercises that will have you practicing Chinese immediately. It’s great for beginners and covers a lot of material; including reading, writing, listening, speaking, vocabulary, grammar, and even parts of Chinese culture. Not only that, it’s actually fun to use.
Practicing Chinese every day for 15 minutes will greatly improve your language skill.

The 10th National Chinese Language Conference 2017

The tenth annual National Chinese Language Conference organized by Asia Society and College Board was held in Houston, TX, April 6-8, 2017. One thousand two hundred educators from all over the world joined this event at the Hilton Americas-Houston. The National Chinese Language Conference (NCLC) provides a high–profile platform for sharing new ideas and the best practices in the fields of Chinese language teaching and learning, Chinese arts and culture, and U.S.–China educational exchange. David Leebron, the president of Rice University, and Neil Bush, brother of former President George W. Bush, were two of the featured speakers of the conference.
Ms. Pang, founder and program director of NIHAOMA Chinese, presented at the conference with the topic “Chinese as second language reading comprehension instruction: A focus on strategies”.

2015 Magical Winter Lights Exhibition will debut Nov. 20 in Houston
   冬季梦幻彩灯展”将于11月20日亮相美国第四大城市休斯顿。

The Asian lantern section displays various landmarks from the opera house to the temple of Heaven.

A fun fact for this weekend!

On this Sunday, 27th September around 9:45pm there will be a Total Eclipse of the Harvest Moon. This Sunday happens to be the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. When the Moon eclipse and a full Moon occur together, the moon could be 13% larger in our eyes, and 25-30 times brighter than it is! In Houston the entire eclipse will be visible. It really will be a marvelous sight! The media have taken to calling this and recent total eclipses of the Moon “Blood Moons” due to the red or coppery-red color of the Moon during totality. The weather forecast predicts clear skies and cooler temperatures at the time of the eclipse.

Enjoy this special event & Have a happy Mid-Autumn Festival with your family!

   14th Greater Houston Area Chinese Speech Competition

   NIHAOMA offers Chinese classes for G/T students at the Deer Park Junior High School!

   Ms. Pang, President of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of Texas, hosted the 2013 CLTA-TX annual conference at TX A&M on Oct 5th.