Bang! Bang! Bang! Ting-Ting! Phsst! Pop! Bang! Bang!
Let the Year of the Rabbit begin!
Today we celebrated the start of the Chinese New Year with our traditional Nestor Chinese New Year Parade. It is a VERY noisy activity with the sound of loud firecrackers and Chinese music coming over the PA system and the entire school cheering and waving Chinese lanterns and dragon puppets along the hallways.
We have a very special dragon… the head was made by Nestor teachers in 1998 and the body was made by Nestor parents in 2000 with material donated by almost every student in the school! We also have a traditional Chinese Lion head, as well as a “little” Lion head, brought back from Hong Kong by one of Mrs. Boekhout’s parents. Our Grade 5 Buddy class takes care of the heavy dragon head and the big banners, but Classroom 2 kids get to have a turn in the looooonnnnng dragon body, as well as the two lions!
Our class is all born in 2003, which is “Year of the Sheep” (or Goat), except for our students born in January, who are “Year of the Horse”!
You can check out some Chinese New Year information at Mrs. B’s website.
Here is a short VIDEO of the beginning of our parade!!!
and our dragon made it on to the front page of the local newspaper too!!!
http://www.thenownews.com/PHOTOS+Gung+Choy/4226427/story.html
What an EXCITING time!!!