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RED BANK, NJ – Colts Neck’s Lin Fong-O’Neill, author of “Mommy, Why?” - a book encouraging children to embrace differences in people, has been making her appearance in Monmouth County schools and libraries to speak about Chinese culture and language.
RB district librarian Ms Pattwell introduces Lin Fong-O'Neill “Chinese is a pictorial language, and kids always have fun learning it,” said Fong-O’Neill. And from the recent reaction of the 90 third-graders at Red Bank Primary School, she was perfectly right. Each picture Fong-O’Neill drew on the board, she gave the kids multiple choice to guess what the drawing represented. Little hands likened emerging buds of spring, eager to yell out answers. Fong-O’Neill went on to write the Chinese calligraphy on the board and asked the children to follow the strokes to write on the handouts. Holding up a Chinese dictionary, Fong-O’Neill explained to the kids, “In English, you use the alphabet to find a word in the dictionary, while in Chinese, we count the strokes of the basic word in order to find the character.”
Lin Fong-O'Neill teaching Chinese calligraphy Dr. Elizabeth Keshish, assistant superintendent of the Red Bank Public School District, commented that Fong-O’Neill’s program was a very valuable learning opportunity for the students and staff at the school. For more information on Lin Fong-O’Neill and her book, visit www.lotuswriting.com.
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