Chinese New Year - Think Education

Chinese New Year is almost here!

I love spending a few days on this tradition. It’s such a fun holiday teach, filled with tons of rich culture.

Typically, for our non-fiction reading/research, I like to use Scholastic News (and yes, I keep all of the year’s sets so I have the theme when I need them to fit a theme or subject), ReadWorks.org, PebbleGo, and Reading A-Z.

Here are a few activities we get to throughout the week.

We make a dragon puppet – using popsicle sticks. It’s great as a stand-alone activity, or I actually like to glue it to the top of the compare/contrast writing activity for a little added flare.

Another fun activity we do – write about the Chinese New Year and glue it to a flap book with the dragon attached to the ends. You could also use the page without a title to do a Sam and the Lucky Money summary (or any book)

Sam and the Lucky Money is one of my go-to books. It actually used to be a 2nd Grade story in the Reading series. I don’t teach from the reading series, but it was one of the stories I actually did.

There’s a really cute directed draw from Art Hub for Kids, too – a lantern. My kids always love doing those drawings. I’ll post the link in our Google Classroom and it can be a center activity, the drawing to a writing response, OR maybe it’s an option for morning “tubs” if they’re finished with all their work.

Another cute activity we do is with the book, The Panda Problem…just because. It’s SUCH a cute book! It was a Florida Sunshine State book and I read it during this week and I fell in love with it!

We did a directed draw from – yep, you guessed it – Art for Kids Hub,

Then we did a little writing to go with it. You can download the free writing page HERE.

Have a great Wednesday!

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