On October 5th, Guo Zhaoyang, the Chinese director of Confucius Institute at St. Mary's University (CISMU), with three teachers visited the Confucius Institute in New Brunswick(CINB). According to the plan, CINB set up a one-day visit and teaching exchange for the guests. They were divided into two groups and attended some Chinese classes at Hillcrest School, West Riverview Elementary School (WRES) and Riverview High School, accompanied respectively by Teng Jing and Dai Zunfeng. They also visited the Chinese learning corner at WRES and had classes with kindergarten, elementary and high school students. The volunteer teacher, Sun Xiaojiao sang and danced with kindergarten children, using Chinese Kungfu fans and oil paper umbrellas to teach them to say colors in Chinese. In another class, she taught students to paint Chinese maps so that the students could learn about Chinese geography and Chinese vocabulary of colors.

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