January 31, 2018 Story Time - Chinese New Year

If you missed this weeks story time here is what we did:

*marks the books we read

My First Chinese New Year  by Karen Katz*
Chinese New Year (The Library of Holidays)  by Leslie C. Kaplan
Bringing In the New Year  by Grace Lin*
Chinese New Year  by Rebecca Pettiford*
Chinese New Year  by Lisa J. Amstutz
PoPo's Lucky Chinese New Year  by Virginia Loh-Hagan

2018 is the year of the dog so we made a craft like this:





















Directions and a template for this craft can be found here:
https://goo.gl/QW8m2b

Extra activities
We talked about how the Chinese New Year is celebrated and that is marks the end of the long winter season and the beginning of spring. It celebrates the earth coming back to life and the beginning of the growing cycle. This is why it is also called the Spring Festival.
For Chinese people all over, the Lunar New Year is the celebration of the year, a time for happy reunions, family and friends, rich in colorful traditions and customs.
We used the Chinese Zodiac to see what animal corresponds to the year we were born.