A popular choice of story about Chinese New Year for EYFS and KS1 is I Love Chinese New Year by Eva Wong Nava and Li Xin, which provides an introduction to Chinese New Year traditions for one girl and her family -including the special food, decorations and exciting dragon dance. 过年啦! It’s the New Year! This interactive pop-up book is perfect for introducing young readers to Chinese New Year customs, such as watching dragon dances, receiving red envelopes, wearing new clothes, and putting up Spring Festival couplets. The vibrant illustrations and engaging pop-up pages will make it a favorite for early Chinese Experience the fireworks, drums, and dancing of Chinese New Year from your classroom! These 12 children's books will immerse you and your students in this 15-day holiday that signifies the start of the Lunar New Year. Links are included to video read-alouds, so you just press play. Happy reading! In Dragon Dance it's Chinese New Year and there are so many fun things to do! Shopping at the outdoor market for fresh flowers, eating New Year's dinner with the whole family. Plus receiving red envelopes from Grandma and Grandpa, and best of all-watching the spectacular Chinese New Year's parade. A lovely lift-the-flap book. Peppa's Chinese To mark Chinese New Year 2025 - the Year of the Snake - we have a collection of books that celebrate Chinese culture. Enjoy a delicious feast in Dim Sum Palace by X Fang, one of our Star Books of the Year. Discover the New Year traditions including the Lucky Red Envelope and fortune cookies, with Winnie and Wilbur. Find out more about the The Chinese New Year is the Chinese festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional Chinese calendar. The festival has a history of over 3,000 years. The festival is usually referred to as the Spring Festival in mainland China, and is one of several Lunar New Years in Asia. A great Chinese New Year book for kids, How to Catch a Dragon is the perfect dragon book for kids ages 3-8. Set in China during the Spring Festival, otherwise known as Chinese New Year, the wily dragon will have to avoid trap after trap as the kids run through paper lanterns, red lunar envelopes, fireworks, and more! During Chinese New Year, a young boy encounters a homeless person and discovers that no gift is too small when it comes from the heart. Sam can hardly wait to go shopping with his mom. It's Chinese New Year's day and his grandparents have given him the traditional gift of lucky money-red envelopes called leisees (lay-sees). An ideal introduction to the celebration of Chinese New Year for children aged 4-7 in Foundation Stage and KS1 classes. This book describes how Chinese people prepare for New Year by cleaning their house and having their hair cut. It shows how people around the world scare the monster Nian away with fireworks and watch the dragon dance in the [picture book, ages 4 and up] Chinese New Year Craft and Activity Books Lucky Bamboo Book of Crafts by Jennifer DeCristoforo. With over 100 projects and ideas celebrating Chinese culture, Lucky Bamboo Book of Crafts is perfect for celebrating Chinese New Year with the kids, and all year as well. 2025 is the Year of the Snake, and this informative PowerPoint provides many fun and age-appropriate facts about the Chinese New Year, snakes in Chinese culture, and snakes! The Year of the Snake slithers its way into our celebrations on the 29th of January 2025 as Chinese New Year begins, bringing with it opportunities to inspire curiosity Chinese New Year and Lunar New Year are dates not to be missed in the calendar. It is important to explore different festivals and cultural celebrations from around the world with your toddlers, so this blog aims to provide some fantastic activities and ideas for Lunar New Year and Chinese New Year you can carry out in your early years settings! This list contains a lovely selection of fiction and non-fiction books that can be used during a topic about Chinese New Year. Discover engaging Chinese New Year activities for EYFS, designed to support creativity, cultural understanding, and development. From dragon dances to lantern crafts, explore fun and educational ways to celebrate the festival in your early years setting. Perfect for UK nurseries looking for cultural and festive learning activities. Why is Chinese New Year celebrated? Chinese New Year is celebrated by Chinese communities all over the world. Usually, the celebrations go on for around 15 days and are centred around bringing in the good, welcoming the new, and getting rid of anything bad. A young girl learns the customs and traditions of Chinese New Year for the first time. She experiences the preparation and celebration of the festival, from cleaning the house to receiving red envelopes. My First Chinese New Year explores Chinese New Year traditions, family rituals and the joy of new experiences. Every January or February, when there is a new moon, lots of people all over the world celebrate Chinese New Year and Lunar New Year. Follow the legend of Chinese New Year and learn why people Celebrating Chinese New Year: A Kid's Adventure story book, the Lunar New Year Celebration History and Learning about Chinese Traditions by Kim juani yo | 7 Aug 2024 4.2 out of 5 stars 12 Use iPads to record and peer review their Chinese New Year dancing. Ongoing developmental writing linked to re telling a story. Write about one of the animals in the New Year Story. Captions Illustrations RWI Reading RWI ORT: Chinese New Year Range of books available in the reading area with links to China Fiction and non-fiction. You could make Chinese New Year cards - give the children little mini clip-art pics of the different animals in the calendar to stick on red card, then add black felt tips and examples of Chinese scripts to your mark-making area for the children to write in their cards.
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