Chinese New Year started on February 14th and goes until February 28th. It is a 15-day celebration follows a lunar cycle and ends with a full moon. This year we are celebrating the year of the TIGER. We made animal puppets and speech bubbles to represent the different animals in the Chinese calendar. Your students were either born in the year of the goat (2003) or the year of the monkey (2004). I was born the year of the ox!
We have also made dancing dragons an Chinese fans. We painted the fans with delicate flowers and Chinese characters (letters). Out in the hall we have been workiong all week to create our dragon with different bright colors and materials. We will be making a dragon head for the parade on Friday. We made drums, will use instruments, carry our fans, lanterns, and dragons in our parade.
On Wednesday, our very own Lantrip 5th grader, Jonathon Tran come to speak to our class about his family's Chinese traditions. We can't wait for our celebration on Friday!
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