First Grade Holidays & Events Chinese New Year Patriot Day (9/11) Martin Luther King Jr. Day Christmas New Year's Eve Back to School Black History Month 100th Day of School Valentine's Day Easter Grandparents Day Halloween Arbor Day Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Caribbean American Heritage Month Cesar Chavez Day Chuseok Dragons, animals, dancers, and more make appearances on these first grade Chinese New Year worksheets that celebrate the turn of the Chinese calendar. From Chinese Zodiac math to Chinese New Year addition pracitce to Chinese New Year greetings, your kids will learn academic skills as well as culture and history with these first grade worksheets The Chinese New Year Word Scramble is an engaging and challenging printable activity. It presents kids with scrambled words related to the Chinese New Year, encouraging them to rearrange the letters correctly. This activity enhances vocabulary related to the holiday, improves spelling skills, and stimulates cognitive development. Our Chinese New Year worksheets will engage students and children in learning about the Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year or Spring Festival. These worksheets cover a wide variety of activities and exercises that aim to enhance students’ understanding of the cultural, historical, and social significance of this important holiday. You can use the Chinese new year theme to teach about place value. This section is based on The Chinese Numeration System and Place Value by Frederick Uy (published in Teaching Children Mathematics). How to Write Chinese Numbers Writing Chinese Characters to Represent Numbers (Rules) Shows how to write the numbers 1 to 7 The first three Chinese New Year Activities can be found in my Chinese New Year Activities for 1st Grade. 1. Chinese New Year Activity Reading Passage. Alright, let me share how I kick off Chinese New Year with my awesome bunch of students. We start with a short passage explaining what this holiday is about. Lesson plans about the Chinese zodiac and New Year traditions. Books like Ruby’s Wish by Shirin Yim Bridges or Bringing in the New Year by Grace Lin for engaging read-aloud. Authentic decorations or inspiration for classroom decor. These resources help you create well-rounded Chinese New Year activities that are both fun and educational. The Chinese New Year festival begins on the first day of the first month and ends with the Lantern Festival, celebrated on the 15th day of the traditional Chinese calendar. Most Chinese families traditionally celebrate this holiday with a large family dinner. The holiday is celebrated for fifteen days. Each day brings new traditions and This Lunar New Year / Chinese New Year/ Tet packet comes complete with printables, vocabulary cards, colorful signs, graphic organizers, a Chinese Zodiac Calendar and bookmarks, and an interactive game with game mats and dice templates, students will be greatly informed and thoroughly engaged the entire unit! Celebrate the Chinese New Year and teach your kids about a different culture with this super fun Chinese New Year Activity Pack for 1st grade. This pack includes 6 activities. No prep required, print and go!Included:mini book- key points of the Chinese New Year origins, celebrations, and more, beautifully illustrated. Colored and black and Celebrate Chinese New Year 2025 in your classroom with this engaging and educational resource designed for 1st and 2nd graders! This resource includes: ⭐4 Short Passages: Explore the traditions and excitement of the Chinese New Year with these easy-to-read passages:Chinese New YearJoyful Celebratio 15 Chinese New Year Activities for Kids. Keep the Chinese tradition of cleaning the house before the New Year comes in sounds like a good excuse to get the whole family doing a bit of housework 😉; Read a Book. There are many great books about Chinese New Year and Chinese folk tales to be found. – See more at the bottom of this post As Chinese New Year 2025 approaches, now is the perfect time to explore fascinating facts about the Year of the Snake for kids. This blog offers a variety of Chinese New Year activities for kids that will help your little ones to understand the significance of the Year of the Snake and its symbolism in the Chinese zodiac. Celebrate 2025 Lunar New Year/ Chinese New Year/ Tet with this reading, writing, craft, and game packet. It is perfect for Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2 grade and includes facts and interactive activities!This Lunar New Year / Chinese New Year/ Tet packet comes complete with printables, vocabulary This fun, LUNAR NEW YEAR-themed, Boom Card, math bundle includes 12 decks (540+ Boom Cards) to engage your students in practicing 1st Grade math skills such as adding and subtracting with a number line, number bonds, ordering numbers, odd or even, using a 100 chart, and practicing place value. How to celebrate Chinese New Year activities with kids. Traditionally, houses are cleaned and decorated with lucky colors, red and gold, for a fresh start to Chinese New Year. In addition, Chinese lanterns and banners have messages of fortune, happiness, wealth, and longevity! Food is also a huge part of Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year is a social studies holiday packet filled with activities to learn about and celebrate the Chinese holiday. You can use it during January and February. Your students will have an opportunity to learn about the holiday thru informational posters, a mini-reader, engaging printables, z Are you looking for Lunar New Year crafts, lessons, activities and coloring pages? This Chinese New Year unit is perfect for kindergarten, 1st or 2nd grade classrooms. Travel around the world and see how Asian countries celebrate the New Year. This resource for Lunar New Year includes:Lunar New Ye The updated product combines both the Pre-K to 1st grade simplified version and the 2nd to 6th grade standard version in one convenient res View Preview Previous Next And we did indeed first make these back in 2013 for Chinese New Year. All these years later, and it is time to make some more lovely snake paper chains. So fun.
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