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Gung Hay Fat Choi!

Gung Hay Fat Choi! Ask me what this means!
It is "Happy New Year" in Chinese. This week is Chinese New Year, and Mrs. Ly is teaching us all about the holiday and celebrations. Today we read a song called Gung Hay Fat Choi, and learned that sweeping, oranges, apples, the colour red, fire works, and dragons are all important traditions during Chinese New Year. Ask me to tell you why!

Here is the song, and the sight words we are learning this week:
good, with, now, too, get
We also looked for the diagraph "ch" and the sound "oo"in our song.




Here is a version of the song to sing at home!

Gung Hay Fat Choy


This week will be learning something new each day about Chinese New Year. We can't wait to share with you what we will learn.
Today we started an art page in our visual journals for Chinese New Year. We used the colours red for good luck with gold and glitter to represent gold and good fortune.








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