Lunar New Year: Celebrating the Year of the Rabbit

Students in both our Junior and Little Schools participated in Lunar New Year activities last month.

The SK Oranges Class had a lovely Lunar New Year celebration with lots of fun crafts. The students enjoyed playing with firework play dough, making rabbit crowns and learning how to write Chinese characters. The Oranges were super excited to use chopsticks, eating the tofu vegetable fried rice we made in class.

The Grade 1s had a wonderful time celebrating Lunar New Year. They learned how to make rice balls and they also enjoyed some fun crafts to celebrate the year of the rabbit. A big thank you to the class parents for organizing this day and to all the parents who came to volunteer to run the stations. Pablo, our class rabbit, was particularly excited and was our guest of honour! It was a beautiful and memorable morning for all of the students. 

Parent volunteers shared some special Lunar New Year activities with our Grade 2 students. Students rotated through several stations in both classrooms, including paper bunny chain making, paper lantern making, and writing Chinese characters. Thank you, Grade 2 parents! 

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1Y Celebrates Lunar New Year

On Thursday, February 19th, 1Y celebrated Lunar New Year.

The girls were encouraged to wear red, gold or traditional Chinese dresses. Parent volunteers ran different stations including: building hand drums, making dragon sand art, folding sheep fans, beading ‘Year of the Sheep’ necklaces, eating rice with chopsticks and dancing with dragon puppets.

Nicole Sobieski
Gr. 1 Teacher