What's the buzz? The Chinese New Year!

We completed a unit on China this week culminating with a Chinese New Year celebration on January 23rd.  Throughout the unit we learned about Chinese culture.  Perhaps the most interesting part of the unit was learning about the Chinese New Year.  We learned about many of their customs.   We wore red on Monday, January 23rd, since red is the color of good luck.  We celebrated the year of the dragon by making foam dragons.  We wrote our names in Chinese using brushes made from bamboo and black ink.  We made lanterns after learning about the lantern festival.We read Grandfather Tang's Story and created our own tangram pictures.  We read many other books which you can check out on our Shelfari. However the best part was having a celebration which included fried rice, green tea and fortune cookies.  Can you believe that we ate our fried rice with chopsticks!  We had a great time!

Here is a picture of one of our tangrams:

Here is some of our Chinese writing:

Here is one of our dragons:

We hung our red lanterns in the classroom:

A special thanks to all the parents who help with our celebration!