January Them Board

Gong Xi, Gong Xi. We had a small Chinese New Year board setting up in our house. I let the kids do the dragon and lantern craft, coloring and writing and put all the materials on the boards to remind them it is OX year.

Family Lapbook

Ethan is learning to write Chinese and I always thinking a way to let him feel that learning Chinese can be a fun thing to learn too. I got the lapbooking idea from homeschooling resources and I asked him to cut off all the family member pictures and pasted them on to a file folder. He had to write the chinese words such as 妈妈, 爸爸 and etc.

Chinese Zodiac Wreath

Chinese New Year is coming. I being teaching Ethan about the meaning of Chinese New Year and also the zodiac. We color the 12 animals and cut them out and paste them on a cut out cardboard as a wreath.

He learned about the story of the zodiac and found it interesting.

The paper dragon

Chinese New Year is approaching... Jan 26 is the beginning of OX year according to the Lunar Calendar. I find some craft online for the kids to make the dragon. Ethan seen the dragon dance before last year during Chinese New Year Celebration at Chinese Community Center.


The boys are having fun to make the paper dragon and dance with it.

I used some AngPau packets to decorate the board. Ethan colored the Ox and write some word about Chinese New Year.

December Them Board

I use on of our white wall to set up a bulletin board for the kids. Every holiday or events during the months, we will make some craft to put on it. I will print out some worksheets which related to the events for Ethan to do.

December is the Christmas time. The kids already make Snowmen, Christmas tree and Santa. I used the recycleble materials the we can find around the house.

Snowman Craft

December is the cold month, too bad we do not have snow in Houston, TX. I let the kids make the snowman craft by using screw, styrofoam, wire, beans and their imagination. I helped Evan to make the craft ( it is lots more prettier than Ethan's) and Ethan made his own and wrote his own name.

This craft is good to introduce the shape and number concept. I asked the kids what shape do we need for the snowman and they told me circle. Then I asked how many circles we need and Ethan told me 3 and Evan answered 3 after his brother. Ethan suggested to put screws for the eyes and I thought it was a good idea.

This is a good craft to introduce the kids about snow and the snowman. I found some good poem about the snowman too.

Snowman

S is for snowman
Round and fat
Sitting outside wearing hat

I brought him inside,
And sat him on the mat
And before very long
The snowman was flat

---Author unknown

"Green" Snowman

I found a craft idea on a book by using the things that we can find around the house. These snowmen were made from plastic bag, peanuts ( the stuffing that we found from the packaging), my scarf, my sons' used sock and the twigs that we found from the trees outside.


Too bad I did not have the colorful socks or scarf, otherwise, they will turn out better. Eric took these two snowmen to the office for Christmas decoration on his desk.