The Salmonberry Garden class celebrates Chinese New Year

The Dragon dances through the Salmonberry Garden classroom

From Linda’s desk…

“In anticipation of the Chinese New Year the Salmonberry Garden class had fun charting the Chinese Zodiac animals for the children and their families. (It’s the only time you can call someone a pig or a rat without it being an insult!) We had the most monkeys and snakes with roosters and goats (sometimes referred to as sheep or rams) following close behind. There was only one dragon amongst our class families. Even the elementary children were asking during recess to see the list which showed the years for each animal so they could figure out which animal they were.

On Monday, we created a dragon head by adding wings, horns and a mouth to a cardboard box. On Tuesday, the children painted it and on Wednesday we added a red satin tail. On Thursday we had our dragon parade in the room with four children under the dragon and five playing instruments. We continued the parade until every child had a turn to be in the lead under the dragon head. On Friday, when we had just four children, we took our dragon parade “on the road” to visit the elementary class and Children’s House. The children rotated places inside the dragon while Becky and I played musical accompaniment. It was well received by all.”