Last week we learned about the Chinese New Year. We read many great books that taught us about the Chinese New Year and why it is celebrated. We talked about the Chinese Zodiac and learned that each year is represented by a special animal! This was the year of the dragon. In celebration of all of this, we made lanterns with Chinese symbols on them and we made our very own dragon! Wow—what a process! The kids did a great job and our dragon turned out SO GOOD! Here are some pictures of our dragon making process:
This is what each group started with—a big, blank piece of white paper! They already had their ideas rolling around in their head so they got started right away!
Adding detail:
After our dragon body was made, we ALL worked together to create the dragon head. It’s the best dragon head I’ve ever seen! 
The front
The side
The back
After all of our hard work, we are ready for the parade!
Here we go!!!
If you missed the link on the school website, you can view the entire dragon parade here:
Here are some pictures of our lanterns and lucky money. On Friday, we celebrated by listening to the story, Sam and the Lucky Money. Then each of the kids got an envelope with lucky money of their own. They got to choose to come to “the store” and buy some candy with their lucky money or save it and take it home!
It was a fun week in kindergarten learning about a different culture and pretending to celebrate like they do!
This week we will be focusing on the 100th day of school and Valentine’s Day activities!
Happy Super Bowl Sunday!
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