Chinese New Year

We have spent time learning about ancient China this month.  

 The girls looked up "what" they are on the horoscope.  They wrote the characters for the numbers 1-10 and then some other ones we could find on the internet with a bamboo brush and ink. 

 Seriously, they did these, not me.  

 They built the Great Wall of China throughout our house with every block we could find.  We pretended to climb Mt. Everest (I know actually Nepal, but it is on the border and we are not studying Nepal, and I at least wanted to touch on it.)  Talked about dynasties, emperors, the Silk Road, and inventions.  Read lots of traditional stories.  This week we are going to dive more into culture.They held a parade for Chinese New Year.  We watched the San Francisco parade on the internet and then they recreated some of the things they saw.  Complete with a dragon they made.

 Fans and dancing.

 Drummers and a band.

 And Annika created "fireworks" from tin foil.  When you threw them in the air little bits of confetti came out.