Language Barriers

[Half Pint]

I have never posted here, but I'm having trouble finding what I need online.
I teach VPK (pre-k) and I have a new student who speaks only Mandarin
Chinese. Mom does speak enough English to speak to me, but she is just
teaching her daughter the language.

I feel that -like my Spanish speaking children, I need to learn enough to
speak to them if I'm asking them to learn enough to speak to me. But I
can't find any translations online for Mandarin. I can find how to create
the chinese characters, but I would like to know the basic words a teacher
would need such as: hello, come here, bathroom, eat, quiet, sit, etc.

If anybody could help me out on this I would greatly appreciate it. I will
ask mom for list, however, if anybody knows of an online resource so I don't
always have to ask mom, that would be fantastic.

Thanks, and good luck to all the new teachers out there this year.... I'm
bushed!

T