Sunday, February 10, 2013

Chinese New Year Celebrations

On Friday we celebrated Chinese New Year in school. A local dance troop came to school and put on a lion dance show for students.

Each lion is controlled by two men who move the head and body. Sometimes one man jumps on the other man's shoulders to make the lion look tall. The lions dance to rhythmic drumming that is very loud!

2013 is the year of the snake.  The snake is wise and can sometimes be greedy.

In Thailand we celebrate the new year with loud crackers in the streets!

What is your Chinese zodiac?






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7 comments:

  1. Powerful Learners in Room 7!February 12, 2013 at 1:09 PM

    Hello
    We have just researched Chinese Zodiac. We found out that we have monkeys, roosters, dogs in our class and our teacher is a snake.
    We found out lot's of interesting information about what our zodiac means.
    The monkeys are clever and smart but could be a bit cheeky and jealous!
    Thanks for sharing this post with us.
    Room 7
    Vardon School
    NZ

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  2. Powerful Learners in Room 7!February 12, 2013 at 1:34 PM

    Hello

    Today I've been checking out my chinese zodiac. I am a rooster. That means I am a deep thinker.

    From Adelei
    Vardon School
    NZ

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  3. Powerful Learners in Room 7!February 12, 2013 at 1:35 PM

    Hello

    Today I've just checked what is my zodiac is. I am a Rooster
    and I am proud of my Zodiac.There are lots of monkeys in our class. Our Teacher is a snake.
    We found lots information on the cool website.

    From Zaric in room7
    NZ

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  4. Powerful Learners in Room 7!February 12, 2013 at 1:36 PM

    Hi my name Thomas

    I am in room 7.

    I learnt that I am a rooster. That mean's I am a deep thinker, honest,bright.

    What are you?

    From Thomas

    Vardon School
    NZ

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  5. Powerful Learners in Room 7!February 13, 2013 at 12:58 PM

    Hi my name is Aaron
    I learnt that I'm a monkey.
    I learnt that monkeys are fast like me also they're clever like me.
    From Aaron
    Room7
    Vardon School
    NZ

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  6. Kellman Brown AcademyFebruary 14, 2013 at 9:51 AM

    We had a Chinese exchange student in our class for 2 weeks. We taught him a little bit of Hebrew, and he taught us some Chinese. My brother has a Chinese student in his class, and they each got assigned a Chinese Zodaic. Then when he came home, my family got to look at which ones we were.

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  7. Mrs WatkinsFebruary 25, 2013 at 8:49 AM

    Year 3 at Heather Garth Primary School (UK) have been looking at your chinese new year celebrations. We were very impressed at the dragon and we are going to research our own zodaic signs.
    Mrs Watkins

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