Happy almost Year of the Dragon! Lunar New year is undoubtedly the most important holiday in my family’s culture, and I have such fond memories of celebrating it (feeling all the nostalgia reading this post from Guangzhou)! After having kids, it became more important to me to learn and share pieces of my culture alongside the language. It’s not always easy especially in a multi-cultural household, but if they grow up even a tiny bit proud of this part of themselves, then it’ll have been worth it!
Here are a few ways we’ll be celebrating:
1. Crafting + sharing at school
It made my heart happy that Nori asked me to come back to her school and share about LNY again! Last year for Pre-K I read a book (see #6 below), shared Asian fruits and made paper lanterns with the class. This year for her Kindergarten class, I’ll be sharing this dragon clothespin craft (using ours to clip bags of snacks) and handing out…
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