One of Katy's greatest worries when we were moving from Hong Kong to Minnesota was the loss of all the Chinese festivals and traditions she loves. So, we were very excited and curious to take part in our first "official" Chinese New Year celebration in Minnesota. It's the District wide celebration held at Minnetonka High School and featuring performances from all the Chinese immersion classes.
Excelsior First Grade classes all performed as one group. They sang one song, but repeated it about four times to make it longer. Katy said her class knew other songs but the other classes did not so they could only do one song together.
The kids were very excited and really enjoyed performing together. Katy is here with Elsa, Mikayla, Paisley (Zizi) and Sophia in the picture above, and with Kyle, Kenzie, Tirfe and Benjamin in the picture below. They have a very diverse class!
Katy and Elsa are great friends but unfortunately we don't get to spend much time with the Caldies as they live over by Ridgedale and are super busy with a new baby in the family.
Each class also displayed artwork on a large scroll hung outside the cafeteria and performance area.
The kids get very upset about their drawing abilities in the classroom. I'm trying to encourage them to embrace their own versions of whatever they are drawing, and we had fun inventing dinosaur horses and elephant unicorn horses and babies. Horses are really really hard for six year old kids to draw!
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