Chinese and Korean New Year

As we look at Winter celebrations,
Wednesday, we learned about Chinese
and Korean New Year.
Our students who celebrated, shared their traditions
and others made connections 
to their own celebrations.
We made our own Dragons and watched a Chinese Dragon Dance.





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