Chinese New Year

We learned about the new year of China! Chinese New Year has 3 names , Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year and Spring Festival. This week we have been learning and doing lots of Chinese activities and art  e.g. chinese dragons and fortune tellers. Chinese new year last 15 days on the 15th they light lanterns and let them off to the sky. There was an abundance of animals, there were 13 animals altogether but the cat unfortunately died or was disqualified. First came the rat, then the ox, the tiger,the rabbit,the dragon,the snake, the horse, the sheep, the monkey, the dog, the rooster and finally the pig. In Chinese you say xin nian kuai le which means Happy Chinese New Year!

Written by the children in Primary 5a.