Sunday, February 8, 2015

新年活动 Chinese New Year Activity:写羊字 Writing Character Yang, 新年小彩旗 New Year Bunting,说吉祥话 Say Lucky Phrases

The stoke order of yang.


Those are all yang. Let's create you own yang.


First Graders Fantastic Work



Draw New Year Buntings



Here is a video of all the lucky phrases we use when greet each other during the Chinese New Year. When I was little, I memorized a lot of lucky phrases. When I greet adults, especially grand parents, they were so happy and give me a lot of red envelopes.





Sometimes we write wrong characters on purpose to make up a new and different meaning.


See the lucky phrases below all contain "yang". Let's try to create new meanings.


yáng míng lì wàn
扬名立万
sān yáng kāi tài
三阳开泰
xǐ qì yáng yáng
喜气洋洋
Here are my fourth graders' work. I made fire crackers 鞭炮.



If you have a good one, don't forget to share it with me!

羊年行大运!
Lucky Sheep Year!