Our Unit on China

We just finished an educational unit on China. We learned so much! We learned to find China on the map. We can identify the Chinese flag. We learned about some animals in China. We also learned about Chinese inventions and culture. We are posting some of our activities. Here is a photostory that we completed.

We also made an over-sized "travel brochure". Each person researched a part of Chinese culture. From the research we made this brochure that looked at places, people, inventions and animals.

We also learned about the Lantern festival and made lanterns in art class.

We also learned about Chinese calligraphy. In art class we practiced writing with Chinese calligraphy.

We learned about the importance of dragons, the color red, the emphasis on good luck. Check out our dragons. (We got the idea from Scholastic.)

We had a guest speaker come in and talk to us about her visit to the Great Wall of China. She gave us postcards to create. We put the postcards around our own great wall that we made in art class.

We read a lot of stories from China. We read 'Grandfather Tang's Story'. The story is about tangrams. We had fun with our own tangrams.

Some of our class mates brought in some Chinese items that they had at home.

The unit on China was so much fun! It was a great way to integrate ELA, math, writing, social studies and art!


Here is a picture of our guest sharing her visit to the Great Wall of China!

What is the most interesting fact that you know about China?