Our Lunar New Year celebration will be held this Friday (February 5th) as the day of the actual holiday is on Monday, February 8th which is a statutory holiday (Family Day).

We will begin our day by each making some traditional Chinese dumplings with the wonderful mums of the PAC who come in to teach the students this technique.  The dumplings are then cooked and brought to classrooms as part of the luncheon.

After Recess we will be holding our assembly.  Some classes will be presenting and there will also be our school’s version of the dragon dance performed by divisions 3 and 1.

We will be back in our classes by 11:30 a.m. to enjoy our annual potluck luncheon. Thank you, in advance, for the wonderful food that you will send in.  It would be great if a few parents could stay and help with setting up and cleaning up the food.

In our classroom this week we have been doing activities about the traditions of Lunar New Year.  Students wrote poems about dragons. These are on display on the bulletin board by the office.

Today our Directed Drawing lesson was on a Chinese dragon.  These are on display on the bulletin board at the back of our classroom.  Unfortunately the photos of most of the pencil drawings are too light to show up.  I have a few included below.  It would be great if you could see them in the classroom.  The students are showing strong improvement in their drawings from September!!  These dragons are quite impressive!

Tomorrow morning the whole school will be in the gym enjoying a traditional Chinese musical group called Golden Pearl.  Tomorrow afternoon our class will continue with our theme-based activities.

Happy Year of the Monkey!