Sunday, February 12, 2012

37|366 Tet Celebration



 I had the day off on Monday (a flex day we get if we don't have snow days) so I went to school with Aiden and we had a little Tet celebration.  Aiden was very excited to show off his ao dai....I didn't check it ahead of time and a few of the buttons had fallen off.  He didn't care!  We read two books- Ten Mice for Tet and a book about the Dragon Dance, watched a lion dance video, shared toys from Vietnam and had choco pies and moon cakes for snack.  I hadn't planned on the moon cakes but when we went to the Asian market to get red envelopes to pass out, Aiden saw them and insisted on buying them.  I cut up very small pieces and most of the kids at least tried them!
 We also made dragon masks that I found here.  Thanks Christine! The kids loved coloring them and adding jewels.  We had a great celebration and I was happy to be able to share Aiden's heritage with his class!

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Posted by Kelli at 12:01 AM

6 comments:

Tammy said...

Very cool! Love the masks. How wonderful to get the whole class involved.

February 12, 2012 11:16 PM
Julie said...

Very fun! Aiden looked like he was loving sharing his heritage with the class. I really enjoyed doing it in Claire's class too, and I keep hearing from other parents that their kids talked about it at home. I hope to make it a tradition as long as Claire wants me to do it.

February 12, 2012 11:49 PM
Christine said...

It looks like a wonderful celebration! What an opportunity to share something so special to Aiden with his whole class!

(And you are welcome - LOVE how they came out!!!)

February 13, 2012 9:02 PM
Sherri said...

Kelli,

Thanks for stopping by our blog and becoming a follower. Your little Prince is beautiful. I love your blog, very well done.

Sherri

February 16, 2012 7:24 AM
JimandJackie said...

This is so special! and wonderful you and Adiden could share with the class. So great for him to be so proud!

February 20, 2012 9:59 PM
Michele said...

Terrific. We had a celebration at Jammer's class too. There is another boy adopted from VN and a little girl whos whole family is Chinese so we worked together on it. And the girl's mom made a ton of the best home made dumplings that I've ever had Yummo!

February 24, 2012 8:02 AM

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