Kung Hei Fat Choi

There is always a first time.

Today,I planned to have some Chinese-New-Year inspired classes. We did a number of activities that made us feel and experience the Chinese way of life.

1. We had a 'show and tell' portion. They brought some items related to this celebration. Some brought tikoy, lucky charms, calendars, chinese dress, red envelopes and other stuff which we cannot named.

2. We listened to a lot of some traditional Chinese music.

3. We wrote our names in pseudo-Chinese alphabet. And they loved it so much. Check out the pictures below.

4. We tried to pronounce properly some simple Mandarin(?) phrases (e.g. Good morning, good-bye, yes, no and thank you)

5. And the one I like the most is our SABEW or Share A Book Every Week, where I got to share Lily Toy Hong's Two of Everything. I also had the chance to tell one famous legend on this holiday. They story of the human-eating beast Nien/Nian really amused them.

My Chinese New Year has never been this memorable.

Kung Hei Fat Choi