Our after school literacy club has been learning about Lunar New Year! Over the last few weeks students have read articles on the meaning of the holiday as well as what special foods to eat to bring good luck, wealth, and happiness. 

After learning about the meaning of the holidays, students had the opportunity to make a lunar new year craft. They chose between a lantern and two different types of dragons. 

The following week students read about special foods people eat on Lunar New Year. They learned how to use chopsticks and got to try a variety of foods: seaweed snacks, dumplings, red bean buns, and pocky. We took a poll: students overwhelmingly loved the pocky as well as the chicken dumplings. However, most students were not a fan of the seaweed snacks. It has been fun learning about different cultures!