Name: Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Festival and Flag-raising Ceremony
Implementation date: 29 September 2023
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Event Name: Dancing Dragon to celebrate the Chinese New Year
Date: February 3, 2024
Objective: Let children know that the New Year is a traditional Chinese festival. Let children learn about Chinese New Year activities and traditional Chinese games. K3 children volunteered to build a culture of collaboration and self-confidence.
Contents: Parents were invited to celebrate the Lunar New Year with their children in traditional Chinese costumes, and children were encouraged to wear traditional Chinese costumes (Chinese costumes) to participate in different Chinese cultural element booth games. At the same time, the children made sachets together, used Chinese printing technology to make Fai Chun, and invited the children to post the Fai Chun at home to bring blessings to the new year. There is also an ancient Chinese game, which originated from the Tang Dynasty “Bu Playing Ball”, and in the Song Dynasty, it became a daily social sport called “Hammer Pill” to enjoy the joyful atmosphere of the festival and feel the cultural atmosphere of the traditional New Year.
Event Name: Visit the New Year’s Flower Market
Date:February 6, 2024, Beijing time
Objective:
Contents:Through stories, children can have a preliminary understanding of the origin, customs, habits and traditions of the Lunar New Year, know the attitude they should have when greeting the New Year, and cultivate respect for their elders. At the same time, children and their parents visited the Lunar New Year Flower Market, allowing children to experience the joyful atmosphere of the Chinese New Year before the Lunar New Year, and explore through different senses to understand the Chinese New Year flowers, food and their names.
Event Name: Chinese Culture and Art Day
Event date: 1 March 2024
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Contents:During the Chinese Culture Week, our school allows children to explore and appreciate different traditional Chinese customs and art activities step by step, and build a sense of belonging to the country. From the learning activities, the children selected one of the items as the performance project of the Chinese Culture and Arts Day, and the children performed with their hearts. Through appreciating the performance, children can learn to abide by the rules, learn to respect and care for others, and build a good foundation for Chinese culture.
Event Name: Multicultural & Easter Celebration
Event date: 23 March 2024
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Contents:Our school held a multicultural and Easter celebration with booths and snacks from different cultures, including Chinese pot throwing, Filipino bamboo dance, Thailand Boxing, Japan fencing, cherry blossom painting, stacking Russia dolls, India painting, Korea costume photo shoot, etc., so that children can enjoy operating gadgets from different countries with their classmates and tasting food from different countries at food stalls. Parents and children participated in the activities to cultivate parent-child relationships, broaden their understanding of Chinese and Western cultures, and give children an opportunity to thank their parents and inherit traditional Chinese filial piety through family massages.
Event Name: Visit to the Ecology Learning Centre of Mrs. Ho Tung Medical Centre
Date: 27 February 2024
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Contents:Through a visit to the Chinese Medicine Garden in the centre, children learn about ancient Chinese and commonly used plants. The children put on their teachers’ uniforms and tried to find out the Chinese herbal medicines, and used the Chinese tool “Weighing Stones” to measure and make sachets. To enable children to explore and experience the work of learning Chinese medicine, as well as to understand Chinese herbal plants and traditional Chinese culture.
Event Name: Dragon Boat Festival Activity
Date: 7 June 2024
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Contents:The most common customs of the Dragon Boat Festival include “dragon boat rowing and making Chinese dumpling allowing children to enhance children’s understanding of the Dragon Boat Festival and let them experience the atmosphere of traditional Chinese festivals.
Event name: Chinese Culture Week
Class: K3
Date: February 1 to February 29, 2024
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Content:Through the “Chinese Culture” project study, children can learn more about traditional Chinese folk toys and simple Chinese culture. The teacher first uses picture books to arouse children’s interest, and then continues to explore and discuss. During the process, the children learned more about folk toys through collecting information and conducting interviews. In addition to cultivating children’s interest in calligraphy, the activity also cultivates children’s temperament by learning about different fonts and writing techniques of Chinese characters through the use of Chinese calligraphy brushes. It can also encourage children to have the spirit of self-exploration, “learn” from “doing”, and enjoy the fun of learning.
Event name: Chinese Culture Week
Class: K2
Date: February 1 to February 29, 2024
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Content:Through the “Chinese Culture” project study, children can learn more about traditional Chinese folk toys and simple Chinese culture. The teacher first uses picture books to arouse children’s interest, and then continues to explore and discuss. During the process, the children learned more about folk toys through collecting information and conducting interviews. Through activities, children’s interest in paper-cutting art is stimulated, allowing children to understand the unique value of Chinese folk art in real life. By trying to make soup balls, you can experience the special features of Chinese food and enjoy the fun of making them.
Event name: Chinese Culture Week
Class: K1
Implementation date: February 1 to February 29, 2024
Objective:
Content:Through the “Chinese Culture” project study, children can learn more about traditional Chinese folk toys and simple Chinese culture. The teacher first uses picture books to arouse children’s interest, and then continues to explore and discuss. During the process, the children learned more about folk toys through collecting information and conducting interviews. Children can learn about the characteristics of traditional ethnic music, various traditional Chinese musical instruments, traditional Chinese gadgets and food culture.
Event Name: Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Festival
Date: September 9, 2022,
Objective: To let children experience the lantern play activities during the Mid-Autumn Festival and learn about the festive foods of the Mid-Autumn Festival
Contents: Our school will hold a celebration party for children, so that children can learn about the festive food and celebration activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival through interesting stories, and experience the fun of lanterns, and the children can also share the festive food and feel the joy of the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion.
Event Name: New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Activities
Date: January 18, 2023
Objective: To learn about the traditional Chinese New Year, try lion dance and drumming, and taste traditional Chinese snacks.
Contents:Parent volunteers are invited to participate in the celebration of the Lunar New Year and enjoy the festive moment of this important festival. In addition to feeling the lively atmosphere of the Chinese New Year stalls, the children were able to try lion dance and drumming, and taste traditional Chinese snacks, and everyone blessed each other to welcome the beginning of the new year.
Name of the event: Chinese Cultural Activity Week
Date: 6 February to 24 February 2023
Objectives: To cultivate students’ appreciation of traditional Chinese culture, enhance children’s understanding of Chinese culture, and enhance their interest in learning Chinese.
Content: Our school conducts Chinese cultural activities according to the abilities of children at all levels, including introducing Chinese culture, art and technology development through games, experiencing Chinese arts, such as dance, martial arts, ink painting, tasting and making traditional Chinese food, etc. In this way, children can learn about Chinese history, experience the interest of Chinese culture, and be willing to learn. In addition, our school organizes the Chinese Culture and Arts Day to let our children appreciate each other and summarize their learning experience through performances.
Activity Name: Chinese Cultural Experience Activity
Date: March to June 2023
Objective: The school hires a professional team to come to the school to carry out different Chinese culture experience activities for children
Contents: Activities include Chinese martial arts, folk dances, flag dances and lion dances, allowing children to experience the unique art of Chinese culture for the first time.
Event Name: Chinese Art Day
Date: February to 24 February 2023
Objective: The school regularly demonstrates children’s learning activities to parents through large-scale parent-child activities
Content: To show parents children’s learning activities and bring Chinese culture, art and essence to their homes.
Parent-child lantern riddle guessing and Mid-Autumn Festival lantern party activities
Our school will hold festival activities for children according to different festivals to feel the festive atmosphere and joy. Through interesting stories and games, children can learn about the origin of the festival, festive foods, customs and celebrations, etc. For example, during the Mid-Autumn Festival activities, they can experience the fun of jacquard lanterns in the dark, share festive food together, and experience the joy of Mid-Autumn reunion.
On-campus New Year’s Eve and New Year activities
China’s traditional festivals have a long history, especially the Chinese Lunar New Year, which has more colorful customs. Our kindergarten will held different activities of different levels according to children’s abilities, so that children can gradually deepen their understanding of the Lunar New Year. Parents will also be invited to participate in the New Year’s Eve celebrations, where everyone can experience the lively atmosphere of the New Year’s Eve stalls, try lion dancing and drumming, taste traditional Chinese snacks, etc., and celebrate the beginning of the new year.
Chinese cultural activity week
Chinese history and culture have a long history, are extensive and profound. In order to cultivate children’s appreciation of traditional Chinese culture, enhance their understanding of Chinese culture, and increase their interest in learning Chinese. Our school holds a Chinese cultural activity week during Chinese Lunar New Year. Children learn about Chinese culture through personal experiences with different Chinese cultural activities, art, food, etc., such as dance, martial arts, painting, technology and other activities. In this way, children can not only understand Chinese history, but also experience the fun of Chinese culture and be willing to learn. In addition, a Chinese Culture and Arts Day will be held so that children can summarize the experiences they have learned through the activity week, learn to appreciate each other through performances, and build up their self-confidence.
Chinese cultural experience activities
Our school hires a professional team to come to school to conduct different Chinese cultural experience activities for children, such as Chinese martial arts, dances, lion dances, etc., so that children can feel and experience the unique expressive arts of Chinese culture in a pleasant atmosphere.
Exhibition for Chinese culture learning results
In order to share the learning experience and happiness with different stakeholders, school will also hold different parent-child activities to show different stakeholders about different children’s learning activities.