Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year began on Friday, Jan. 31st.  We had fun learning about it in class.  These are some of the things we learned:

Gong Hei Fat Choy is how you say Happy New Year in Chinese.

China is a long way away.

Chinese New Year is a big holiday in China, often kids get a holiday break from school during this time.

Chinese New Year is celebrated with parades, fire crackers, and lots of red for good luck!

Chinese dragons or lions march in parades as part of the fun.

Many Chinese people have moved to America and created Chinatowns all over the country.

The night before Chinese New Year, families clean to get ready to bring in the New Year.

Oranges are considered a sign of good luck.

Families celebrate with big meals.

To help us celebrate Chinese New Year we tried to be dragon marching in a parade.  

We discovered it wasn't easy to stay together and march under something, but it was lots of fun and brought lots of giggles!!

We ate mandarin oranges, (for good luck) ramen noodles (long noodles for a long life) and fortune cookies.  We also tried using chop sticks!!

Jonas's Uncle Phil spent two years in China and so Jonas brought in some cool Chinese stuff to share.  We saw outfits that boys and girls would wear, a stuffed panda bear, and we all got to take home some real Chinese money.  Thanks Jonas and Uncle Phil!!

We had a lot of fun making Chinese dragons during activity time.

We also learned how to count to 6 in Chinese and we tried writing the numbers 1-6 in Chinese!