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China Jeopardy

Homework 3AB for next thursday May 20th.

Instruction: Draw in your notebook the 4 characters of the story "The Golden Fish".
Remember to be CREATIVE, you can paste pictures of magazzine, color paper, etc :)

-Girl (Yeh Hsien).

Golden fish

Stepmother


Emperor

Homework for Thursday April 15th.

-Draw the picture of the chinese calendar in your notebook.
-Read the names of the animals for each year, you can paste pictures of the animals too, if you want.

Homework 3A and B. For Thursday March 18th.

- Copy this information in your notebook.
- Bring a glass container (it can be a Gerber container) and a brush. We are going to make a Chinese Lantern in the classroom! :)

"Chinese New Year".

Gung Hay Fat Choy means to wish a Happy New Year in Chinese. New Year celebrations is a grand event of China. Chinese New Year falls on a different date every year. Chinese calendar is a combination of solar and lunar calendar. Chinese calendar has a 12 year cycle and each year has a name of an animal. Chinese believe that every person resembles an animal and this reflects their traits.

Check out this video of the Chinese New Year.

Check the parade, you will like it a lot! :)
Post your comments on the blog :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKzNPxu_QBU

Look for some old buildings of China!

Homework.

Worksheet. Try to draw the chinese signs we practiced in class.
Have a wonderful week :)