Chinese New Year

[Anonymous]

Thank you for this article. This help me further understand the meaning of Chinese New Year's how the calendar is used to determine when the festivities are taking place.

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

For my East Asian lesson plan, I will teaching my students about Chinese New Year. I plan to focus on studying the Chinese Calendar, the traditions, and finally the decorations. To help me plan and teach these lessons I found the following websites:

Chinese Calendar: This page shows the history of the Chinses Calendar, the Chinese Zodiac, and explains how to use the Chinese Calendar.
http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-chinese.html

New Year Celebrations:
http://education2.uvic.ca/Faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/15-day_celebration.html - explains the 15 day celebration
http://chinese-new-year.123holiday.net/index.html - the history of Chinese New Year

Decorations:
http://education2.uvic.ca/Faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/decorations.html

These websites provide a good, basic description and traditions of Chinese New Year. I plan on having students work in groups at a computer to complete activities using the information. Some of my 4th graders will need a bit of help to be able to understand the information on the websites.

[Anonymous]

I found the more detailed celebration of the chinese new year very interesting. I had not know that each day had a different celebration. It interesting and something i can use in my classroom.

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