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Chinese New Year

Price: $2.99, format: 7 page PDF, grades: 1,2,3,4,5,6

One of the benefits of living in a country with great diversity is sharing the celebrations of multiple cultures. Chinese New Year is different from regular New Year's celebrated on January 1st of each year. Chinese New Year arrives sometime in January or February and comes with a parade, a dragon, fireworks, and lots of good will! This issue explores the legends and traditions of a celebration full of snap, crackle and fizzle! Join the dragon as he winds through the activities in this issue's fun-filled pages.

In this issue students will:

• understand the origin of the 12 new year animals
• use a code to spell words
• use the newspaper to explore diversity in their own community
• create a newspaper ad