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Misc. Activities
Contact_FullName: Missy Contact_Email: seabound73@yahoo.com Area: Chinese New Year: Misc Idea: Every year, we read a great book called "Moy Moy" by Leo Politi. (it's an older book, but can still be found in libraries). The book is a little bit long, so you might have to paraphrase for very young children with short attention spans. It's great, and my kids LOVE it. Contact_FullName: Stacey Contact_Email: sivey8@email.com Idea: We celebrate the Chinese New Year by bring life to our sensory table..live goldfish! The goldfish is a symbol of good fortune. My students loved this and at the end of the day each child, with their parent's permission were allowed to take one home. I did send a note in advance letting the parents know what we were doing. The kids loved catching their own fish and we made sure to double bag them just in case they were dropped. Make sure you fill your water table ahead of time, so the water reaches room temperature and get the goldfish the morning of, so you won't have any floaters. Contact_FullName: Sherri Anthony Contact_Email: steeler_sherri@hotmail.com Idea: For Chinese New Year I place different sized cotton balls, (small, jumbo etc) in the sensory table. I provided the children with chopsticks. I went to my nearby Chinese restaurant and got two small, two large to go boxes. I placed this in the sensory table as well. The children had a wonderful time trying to pick up the cotton balls with the chopsticks as well as using comparison words, sorting by size, matching (small cotton balls to small box). I share my classroom with the after school program (grades 5-6) and they loved this activity too! Contact_FullName: Samantha Contact_Email: nickybear3665@optonline.net Area: Chinese New Year Idea: This year for Chinese New Year, we really went to town. One of the children in my class is Chinese and her parents donated some red money envelopes (you can find them in Chinese grocery stores), we then photocopied them and had the children glue them to red construction paper envelopes that we had made. We stuffed each envelope with fake money from the dollar store and the children were able to wish each other good luck by handing out their envelopes. We made dragon masks with a simple dragon face glued to construction paper with a tongue depressor handle and we held a dragon parade. Finally for the lantern festival following New Year, we made red construction paper lanterns. Contact_FullName: Amy Contact_Email: amybeth164024@yahoo.com Area: Chinese New Year- Misc. Idea: For the Chinese New Year- we read Sam and the Lucky Money( on audio Cd-has great sound affects) and the I give out red envelopes with the correct amount of money for our pop machine. But you could give out what amount you wanted and set up a small store for them to use their money in. My kids last year thought this was great. While we were drinking our pop, we ate Ramen noodle with chopsticks. This went over great. Contact_FullName: Contact_Email: Area: Chinese New Year; Misc. Idea: Here's a fun movement idea for Chinese New Year. Last year was the year of the horse, and, since this celebration incorporates the use of firecrackers and the legend of the monster Nian, at circle time, I pretended to wave my magic wand and turned the children into firecrackers, monsters and horses. They loved pretending to be all these things. Contact_FullName: Diane Contact_Email: carpe@pacbell.net Area: Chinese New Year Idea: We fold the paper that chopsticks come wrapped in into a small square. Place it between the two chopsticks and wrap with a rubber band. They are now more like tongs and easier for children to use. We let the children try to eat ramen noodles with these. This idea was shared with us from a teacher from Thailand who says that this is how children there learn to use chopsticks. 1-11-01Instead of just one child being the dragon, we let all the children be the dragon. Find a good outline of a dragons head (enlarge if necessary, on the photocopier) and copy for each child. Each child color and cut out their dragons head. Then have them staple to a tag board strip. Staple to tag board to fit each child' head, and they have dragon hats.
Date: 4-5-00For Chinese New Year Preschool Story times we read: Chili Chili Chin Chin (Belle Yang), The Greatest Treasure (Demi) and Sam and the Lucky Money. The kids especially loved Chili, Chili, Chin, Chin. We made our own leesie, putting chocolate coins in them and sharing them with friends and family. We made Chinese dragon masks and had a parade. We used the Five Green Dragons finger play and the Lion Dance Song. I purchased Zoo Sticks (one piece chopsticks with animals on the top) from Oriental Trader and made Chinese noodles for the kids to eat with their chopsticks. They loved it!!!
Date: 2-7-00We celebrated Chinese New Year at our Preschool this year. We made a dragon head out of a Kleenex box. We let the kids help decorate it. The eyes were made from Styrofoam balls with pipe cleaner antenna's. We used lots of red paper and streamers. Then we tied streamers on all the kids arms and played a traditional Chinese children's game called chase the dragon tail. All the kids lined up and held the hips of the child in front of them. The child at the head of the line wore the dragon head and tried to tag the child at the end of the line. It was a lot of fun and our large dragon line looked really neat. After the game we sat down and tried to eat Chinese food with chop sticks. We also had someone from our town who had been to china come and share her experience with the children. She brought lots of items she had gotten from her trip. I was surprised by the children's interest in this world so far away. It was a hit and we plan on doing every year from now on.
Date: 1-24-00Make Chinese lanterns from red construction paper. Fold the paper like a hotdog...lengthwise...and draw straight lines an inch apart starting at the fold of the paper but ending an inch below edge of paper. Children will cut on the lines. Unfold paper and turn it as if to fold hamburger style but roll like a burrito instead. Attach at the top, middle, and bottom with dots of glue. Make a handle and hang around the room for lots of good luck. You can add white hearts if it is close to Valentine's, too.
Date: 1-24-00By this time of the year I always have a few students who are copying letters of the alphabet. I like to point out that some of the Chinese writing is written different from ours and read different. So in the writing center a sample of Gung Hay Fat Choy is put so that the children can copy this to write their own New Year cards. I provide red and white paper and black markers. They think they are so smart because they have written something in another language! Contact_FullName:
Date: 12-21-00We are talking about Asia and Asian Americans during January (prior to Chinese New Years on Feb 5) I brought in chopsticks and after demonstrating and talking about them, I put them on a tray with two bowls - one with small red cotton pompom balls. The children can get out this "shelf work" at our preschool and try to transfer the balls to the other bowl with the chopsticks. Many have been successful, although some do it with one chopstick in each hand! |
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