“海上生明月，天涯共此时”，又是一年中秋至。每年农历八月十五日，是传统的中秋佳节。这时是一年秋季的中期，所以被称为中秋，又称月夕、秋节、仲秋节、八月节、八月会、追月节、玩月节、拜月节、女儿节或团圆节。
在这一天，大家祭月、拜月、赏月、燃灯、猜谜、吃月饼、赏桂花、玩花灯，这么好玩的节日，爸爸妈妈们打算怎么陪孩子度过一个难忘的节日？有没有准备好跟孩子一起玩的中秋知识、活动或游戏呢？如果还没准备，那就跟小编一起来看看吧！
Daily Dialogue
P: Baby, do you know what day it is today? It’s Mid-Autumn Festival. It falls on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. In Chinese, it’s called Zhong Qiu Jie. Mommy and Daddy have one day off. We don’t go to work today. We can stay and play together. Are you happy?
K: Yes. I’m very happy.
P: Today we can make something delicious to eat. Then, we can play something interesting. Do you know what it is?
K: No, Mommy. I want to eat first.
P: Can’t you wait to eat? OK. Let’s make some mooncakes first.
以下对话中的P=Parent（家长），K=Kid（孩子）
词汇语法解析和例句
1.Can't wait to do sth. 迫不及待要去做某事（将要去做还没做）
例句：I can’t wait to eat. / I can’t wait to knowthe surprise.
2.can't help doing sth. 忍不住做某事，情不自禁做某事
例句：I can’t help laughing when I see her funnyface.
Make Mooncakes
There’re many kinds of mooncakes in the market.
Per regions: Beijing-style, Cantonese-style, Yunnan-style, Chaoshan-style, Suzhou-style, Taiwan-style, Hong Kong-style, or even Japanese style mooncakes.
月饼按产地分有：京式月饼、广式月饼、滇式月饼、潮式月饼、苏式月饼、台式月饼、港式月饼，甚至日式等；
Per the flavors: there’re sweet, salty, salty sweet, spicy and hot flavors.
就口味而言：有甜味、咸味、咸甜味、麻辣味；
Per the Fillings: there’re Five Kernel and Roast Pork, Red Bean Paste, Lotus Seed Paste, Snow Skin, Fruit and Vegetable, Chocolate, Ice Cream, Green Tea, Seafood flavors etc.
从馅料分：有五仁、豆沙、莲蓉、饼皮、果蔬、巧克力、冰激凌、绿茶、海鲜月饼等。
Five Kernel and Roast Pork mooncake
五仁叉烧月饼
还记得某年某月中秋节，五仁月饼不幸躺枪。五仁月饼当中的杏仁、核桃仁、花生仁、芝麻仁和瓜子仁混在一起，甜不甜咸不咸，吃到嘴里“又咸又干”，嚼起来如同吃米饭时咬到沙子一样难受，简直是月饼界的“黑暗料理”。但是后来因为有了肉味月饼和月饼炒辣椒，五仁君才存活了下来。
Red Bean Paste mooncake
红豆沙月饼
月饼当中最长寿的一款，虽然没有那么好吃，却是中秋节月饼礼盒中最常见的口味之一。
Lotus Seed Paste mooncake
莲蓉月饼
此款月饼把月饼的甜腻味发挥到了极致，大家懂的。
Snow Skin mooncake
冰皮月饼
最冰清玉洁的一款月饼，最重要的是，操作简单，即包即吃，最适合用来做亲子DIY，让宝贝们体会到满满成就感。
Fruit and Vegetable mooncake
果蔬月饼
苹果味，凤梨味，芒果味，草莓味，哈密瓜味，水蜜桃味，香橙味……喜爱水果的朋友们的最爱！
Chocolate mooncake
巧克力月饼
用巧克力来拯救月饼，这么聪明的办法是谁想到的？仪式感与口感的紧密融合~
So many kinds of mooncakes, which one is your favorite? 这么多好吃的月饼，哪些是你最想吃的呢？
Today we’ll make the traditional mooncakes - Lotus Seed Paste Mooncakes. Let’s start......
1.What we need (传统月饼）
1. Dough饼皮
Flour中粉: 165g
Alkaline Water枧水（也叫碱水）: 4g
Golden syrup 转化糖浆: 116g
Peanut oil花生油: 50g
2. Filling馅料
Lotus seed paste莲蓉 (20, 27-28g each)
Slated egg yolks 咸蛋黄 (20, 7-8g each, about half of an egg yolk)
3. Egg Glaze表面刷液
Egg yolk蛋黄 (1个）
Egg white蛋白 (1/4, about 8g)
2.Steps
1. Mix together the ingredients for the dough.
Stir (搅拌) together the alkaline water, golden syrup, and peanut oil.
Sift (筛) in the flour into the mix slowly.
Mix these ingredients together to form a dough.
Cover the dough with saran wrap. (保鲜膜)
Set the dough aside for at least 3 hours.
制作饼皮，将枧水、糖浆、花生油混合后搅拌，加入过筛面粉，制成面团。保鲜膜包好放置3个小时。
2.Prepare the filling.
Separate the lotus seed paste into 20 equal parts and roll into balls.
将莲蓉分成20等分
Make a hole in the ball of lotus paste, put the egg yolk inside, and wrap it.
在莲蓉团中压出一个洞，把半个生蛋黄放进去，用莲蓉包住它
Making sure the weight of wrapped lotus seed and egg yolk is about 35g.
莲蓉蛋黄球的总量大概在35克左右，否则太大会包不下哦。
Make the lotus seed paste that covers the egg yolk into a ball again.
把莲蓉鸭蛋馅料揉成球。
Cover the balls with saran wrap and set it aside.
用保鲜膜包好放置待用。
3.Separate the dough into 20 equal parts, 15g each.
Roll each of those into a ball as well. Cover the balls with saran wrap and set it aside.
分割饼皮成20等份，15g一个，揉成球形，保鲜膜包好放置待用。
4.Assemble your mooncake.
Flatten each piece of dough into a small disk.
Cover the lotus paste ball (with the egg yolk inside) with the dough completely.
Repeat this for each mooncake.
We should have about 20 mooncakes.
取饼皮，用大拇指把中间部分压扁，放入馅料并包好，重复此步。
5.Decorate the mooncake with mooncake mold.
Spray your mooncake mold with nonstick spray or oil.
Press each mooncake lightly into the mold.
Take the mooncake out of the mold, and put it onto a baking sheet or baking pan.
月饼模具喷/刷一层薄薄的油，将月饼放入模具里压花，取出放入烤盘。
6.Bake mooncakes for the first time.
Preheat the oven to 200℃ (degrees celsius)
Put the mooncakes into the oven and bake for 5 minutes.
While the mooncakes are baking, make the egg wash (蛋液).
Mix together the egg whites and the egg yolk; sift them through a sieve (过筛) (sieving can be neglected).
预热烤箱200度。将月饼放入烤箱烤5分钟。期间做蛋液（可过筛，也可不过）
7.Brush the baked mooncake with egg wash.
Take the mooncakes out of the oven after about 5 minutes and brush them with the egg wash.
5分钟后取出月饼，刷蛋液。
8.Bake the mooncake again.
Put them back in the oven with temperature set at 180℃.
Bake around 15 minutes until they become golden brown.
放入预热（180度）的烤箱，烤15分钟，中间鼓出并上色后即可取出。
看到这里，是不是已经流口水了！可是有人说，我家没有烤箱怎么办？表急，小编还准备了免烤月饼——冰皮月饼的做法，赶快带小朋友一起操作起来吧！
1.What we need （冰皮月饼）
The ingredients
Mooncake Skin powder (冰皮月饼粉): 200g
Boiled water (开水): 200g
Fillings (馅) (choose the flavors you like): 400g
Mold (模具): 50g mooncake mold. You can make 16 mooncakes.
2.Steps
1. Pour the mooncake skin powder into the boiled water.
2. Stir with an eggbeater (打蛋器) or chopsticks (筷子).
3. While it’s not too hot, roll it into smooth dough.
4. Separate the dough into 16 equal parts, each 25g. Roll them into balls. Cover the saran wrap and set it aside for 1 hour.
5. Prepare 16 fillings, with weight 25g each. Roll them into balls as well.
6. Wrap each filling with the snow skin completely and roll them into balls.
7. Shape the filled dough with the mold
8. Put the filled dough into the mold, press, and the mooncake is ready.
9. If you want to make colorful mooncakes, add some fruit and vegetable powder in step 2 before separating dough.
Moon Phases Demonstration (1)
P: Look baby, the moon rises. What shape is it?
K: It’s round.
P: Yes, you’re right. It's said that the moon is the brightest and roundest on this day. It means family reunion (团圆). But have you ever seen other shapes of the moon?
K: Yes.
P: Correct. The moon looks different at different times throughout the month. Sometimes the moon looks like a banana, and other times it looks like half of a circle, and other times it looks like a big round ball.
以下对话中的P=Parent（家长），K=Kid（孩子）
白天制作了美味可口的月饼，晚上赏月更是不容错过的环节。都说国外的月亮比国内圆，是真的吗？有机会可以亲自去验证一下哦。太阳总是圆圆的，而月亮为什么有时圆，有时缺，有时却没有。在赏月之前，宝贝们要是问起这样的问题，爸比妈咪们要是接不上话可怎么办，没有关系，小西妈双语工程这个坚强的后盾始终在身后。
新月、峨眉月、上弦月、盈凸月、满月、亏凸月、下弦月、残月……说得不错吗？
可以，以为这样就能把淘气包们打发了吗？
多年摸爬滚打的经验告诉我，千万不要低估了他们,有了看的，还得有玩的!
Today I’ll show you how this happens.
What we need in this model is: the table lamp, which represents the Sun, the white foam ball representing the moon, your head representing the earth, a pencil and a dark room (the darker, the better).
1. Now, come inside the room. I’ll turn off the light, and turn on the lamp. look at me. I hold this ball and turn around. /What can you see? /What’s the difference between this side and the other side? Yes, you’re right. This half ball is bright, and the other half is dark.
2. In this position, I can't see any of the bright side of the moon. Can you see it? No? You’re right. We call this a new moon.
3.Then I make the ball (moon) orbit to my left. What can you see now? Can you see the tiny lighted side, just like a sickle (镰刀) or banana? We call that a crescent moon.
4.As the ball (moon) keeps moving, we can see more and more of that lighted side. In this position, we can see half of the lighted side. We call it a quarter moon. As it is our first time to see it, it’s called a first quarter moon.
5.As we keep moving, we see almost the whole lighted side. We call it a gibbous moon.
6.Then we can see the entire light at half of the moon, that’s a full moon.
7. As the moon continues to orbit, we begin to see less and less of that lighted side. We're back to a gibbous moon at this position. But this time the light is on the opposite side, then another quarter moon, last quarter moon (another crescent), and finally back to new moon and the cycle begins again.
抱着孩子，围着太阳和月亮，斗转星移，亲身体验着月亮的阴晴圆缺，表象和真相之间，宇宙间的奥秘，原来是这么的简单。接下来是亲子互动环节，亲自动手体验月相的变化，在孩子天真无邪的眼睛中种下最美的月亮。
互动对话
P: Is it interesting? Do you want to hold the ball and turn around by yourself? Have a try, please. Fantastic! Let’s turn on the room light, turn off the lamp and get out.
P: From this activity, do you know if the moon makes light?
K: No.
P: Yes, how clever you are! The moon makes no light. It gets light from the sun, just like the earth. It reflects sunlight towards the earth. Do you want to show everyone what you have seen just now? Now let’s go on the next interesting activity.
Moon Phases Demonstration (2)
P: Can you get out your Oreo cookies? I need 8 pieces.
K: Yes, mommy. 1, 2, 3……8.
P: Perfect. Now let’s do it. The white frosting is the lighted part of the moon, we need to separate the cookies into two halves. Try best to get the frosting in one half.
以下对话中的P=Parent（家长），K=Kid（孩子）
1.What we need
8 Oreo cookies
Apopsicle [ˈpɑpsɪk(ə)l] stick (雪糕棒) or other tool, such as toothpick (牙签) for scraping the frosting (去掉糖霜)
2.Steps
1. Twist an Oreo slowly to maximize the amount of frosting on one side when you separate the halves. In case you fail, you can eat the cookie and then try a new one.
2. Create the phases of the moon out of the frosting with the popsicle stick or other tools.
3. Arrange the phases of the moon in order, just as what we have seen. Well done sweetheart.
If you don’t have Oreo cookies at home, you can ask your kids to draw the moon phases on paper.
如果家里没有奥利奥饼干，也可以要求宝贝儿在纸上画出来哦。
What? 还没玩够？
没关系，双语工程教材 0a Unit 10 Zoom Zoom Zoom单元当中有更多游戏，想去太阳系，银河系都可以，八大行星任你挑，连各式“火箭”都给大家准备好了，来不及翻书的亲们，可以直接看公众号上这个单元的游戏解说哦~
中秋节不只是一个节日，不只是天上的月亮与口中的月饼，更是有着诸多美好寓意和寄托的节日。“仰头望明月，寄情千里光。”此夜，人们仰望天空如玉如盘的朗朗明月，远在他乡的游子借此寄托自己对故乡和亲人的思念之情。
人生当中，我们会遇到不同的人，渐渐的，有些人也会从我们的生活中远离。每个人的心中都住着特别爱的人，和特别想念的人，宝贝们儿也是一样。
@##￥% 我爱你，我要和你永远在一起
XXX，我很喜欢和你一起玩
记得X年X月X日，我们在海滩上一起堆沙堡吗？
@%…）&%& 对不起……
*&&*…￥%~ 我很想你
………………
不如借此机会，带着做好的月饼，再来一幅全家福的画，把心中的爱和思念痛痛快快地表达出来吧！
以上中秋节相关亲子活动和游戏，都配有英文对话和说明。台词背不会没关系，可以做成小手抄，照着说给孩子听，重要的是仪式和体验。
中秋节看过、吃过、玩过的有意思的东西，有任何相对亲人说的话、关心、祝福，不要忘记拍摄视频，留下珍贵的纪念哦~
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