Last week the second
graders at Baker-Butler Elementary were finally able to celebrate the Chinese
New Year on Friday with a festival of Chinese foods and culture. Students were joined by
parents for a delicious Chinese luncheon catered by Oriental Express.
The owners of the restaurant, who are parents of a former Baker-Butler
student, also provided traditional new year’s banners for the doors of each
second grade classroom. The banners were hand lettered especially for the
classes by a family member in China
After
the luncheon students moved through different hands-on stations focused on
Chinese culture. They painted bamboo scrolls, made tangram puzzle
designs, practiced Tai Chi, performed ribbon dances to traditional Chinese
music, and recreated the life cycle of the silkworm in a chopstick relay race.
The festival and luncheon were the culminating activities for the
second grade study of ancient China. Throughout the study, students
created beautiful silk paintings with natural dyes, used the computer program
Comic Life to share their knowledge about pandas and Chinese inventions,
researched and created panda dioramas, wrote dragon Haiku poems, and practiced
writing Chinese characters with brushes and ink.
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