We really enjoyed celebrating the Chinese New Year on Jan. 23, 2012. This year the zodiac animal is a WATER DRAGON, and Mrs. Boekhout is a water dragon too! We have been reading and writing “How to” stories lately, and we found a wonderful “How to draw a dragon” on the internet! Then we wrote “dragon interviews“! When we did a webquest about Chinese New Year and found out that Chinese dragons have 5 toes, Korean dragons have 4 toes, and Japanese dragons have 3 toes! It seems the further away they get from China, the more toes they lose! We also learned how Chinese dragons are very different from Western dragons. Chinese dragons are snakelike, wise, and often benevolent whereas Western dragons are usually fat, nasty, and breathe fire. In celebration of Heritage Week, we paraded our Nestor dragon (with our Gr. 5 buddies) around the gym, along with our two Chinese lions! You can read more about the history of our dragon on the school website.

Here are a few photos. Unfortunately, the dragon videos did not turn out. 🙁