Read a classic Chinese poem with kids in the National Poetry Month. Young kids enjoy singing, rhyming, and poems. As children sing songs, recite rhymes, and listen to the reading of poems, they hear sounds, rhymes, and language patterns. They are all great ways for literacy building. Classic Chinese poems are short with limited word count. The 5-word poems have twenty Chinese characters. Here we are looking at Quiet Night Thought written by one of the most
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Lunar New Year Story Videos that facilitate children big and small to see and experience Spring Festival and Chinese culture from a different perspective. These videos and the bonus videos (2021 update) are short stories in different formats. A story about the Lunar New Year for children. A story about the color RED. A story about Gratitude. A music video that many people love about firecrackers and more. A story about a Bucket, a Mother and a
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Chinese New Year is Lunar New Year or Spring Festival in Chinese. Lunar New Year is the most amazing time of the year for many Asian countries. It is celebrated in China, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Macau, and Chinese communities around the world! Now, you can also see Lunar New Year festival activities in major international cities. You cansee event listing by location at the end of this post. These events are for the Chinese
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Disclosure: As a book reviewer of Multicultural Children’s Book Day, I received a copy of Brandon Makes Jiǎo zi (餃子) to review. All opinions are my own. Brandon is a young boy who loves Chinese dumplings, jiăo zi 餃子|饺子. One day after school, Mom had a surprise for him in the car. He had a special visitor from China and you will see who that is in Brandon Makes Jiao Zi (餃子) . Brandon Makes Jiǎo Zi
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Lunar New Year Papercutting Craft Chinese Lunar New Year paper cutting craft is a lot of fun for children. This paper design art is originated from cutting patterns for Chinese embroidery and later developed into folk art. The history of paper cutting began during the Hàn dynasty in China. It was in the 4th century. You may want to share some of the following cultural facts with your children when you introduce this Chinese New Year paper
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Chinese Culture for Kids Series features teaching resources with videos, hands-on activities, printables, eBooks, and craft units! Exploring Chinese Culture with Kids! China, the oldest civilization on earth has so much for us to explore. The resources that I have included here will take children on an adventure with the Chinese language, festivities, food, music, art, architecture, philosophy, traditions, medicine, martial arts, and more. Here are the Chinese culture teaching tools for you at home or at
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The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival or “Zhōng Qiū Jié” (中秋節) occurs on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month each year (falling in September or October on our familiar solar calendar). Because this holiday is based on the lunar calendar, where it falls on the solar calendar varies from year to year. As the festival is celebrated at the midpoint of the lunar month (also the middle of autumn), it is
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Read Around the World Summer Reading Series: What Was It Like, Mr. Emperor Read Around the World Summer Reading Series What Was It like, Mr. Emperor? Life in China’s Forbidden City Follow Read Around the World Summer Series and discover cultures in our amazing world! In this book, readers will go on an adventure to learn about the life of the emperor living in the Forbidden City in China. Do you know the emperor is supremely
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Read Learning Unit Description here. Are you a Monkey? Are you a Chicken/Rooster? Are you a dog? Are you a pig? Chinese children ask their friends these questions for fun. They also use the Animal Birth Signs to figure out how old their friends are. With the arrival of the Year of the Rooster less than 10 days, we are going to take a look at the fun twelve Chinese Animal Birth Signs . There are
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What is the one Chinese dish that is close to roasted Turkey that we have for Thanksgiving in the U.S.? Have you tried Peking Roasted Duck? Have you heard about three ways of eating Peking roasted duck? The first one is crispy duck wrap, the second one is duck stir fry and the third one is duck soup. All three dishes are from one Peking roasted duck. Does it sound similar to how we eat Thanksgiving turkey?
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