Thursday, February 19, 2015

Post #4: Chinese/Lunar New Year

Kung Hei Fat Choy   or   Happy Lunar New Year!


 Chinese New Year is an important festival celebrated at the turn of the Chinese calendar. In China, it is also known as the Spring Festival, the literal translation of the modern Chinese name. Chinese New Year celebrations traditionally run from Chinese New Year's Eve, the last day of the last month of the Chinese calendar, to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, making the festival the longest in the Chinese calendar. The first day of the New Year falls between January 21 and February 20. Because the Chinese calendar is lunisolar, and because the holiday is not solely observed by "Chinese" cultures, the Chinese New Year is often referred to as the "Lunar New Year".

 Often, the evening preceding Chinese New Year's Day is an occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annual reunion dinner. It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly cleanse the house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for good incoming luck. Windows and doors will be decorated with red color paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of "good fortune" or "happiness", "wealth", and "longevity." Other activities include lighting firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes.
  1. This year is the year of the SHEEP! The Chinese Zodiac, known as Sheng Xiao, is based on a twelve-yearcycle, each year in that cycle related to an animal sign. These animal signs are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.
Use the link below to find your Chinese Zodiac animal, then read the description of your Zodiac animal. After you have read the description, tell me about a few of the characteristics of your animal. Does it describe you or is it totally off? Why?

When you are done with your blog...
  1. Go to 5 other blogs, read them and make a comment.  
  2. Go to Typing Club and complete lessons 57-63
  3. Go to Google Drive where I have shared a Google Doc with you called "Infograph Assignment"
  4. Read the instructions and look at the sample given... then create your own "Infograph" using Google Draw.
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13 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 19, 2015 at 1:13 PM

    Cool

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  2. Mrs. HodgeFebruary 19, 2015 at 1:14 PM

    Hi Amanda!

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  3. Mrs. HodgeFebruary 19, 2015 at 1:14 PM

    Hi Amanda!

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 19, 2015 at 1:21 PM

    Are you feeling better?

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 19, 2015 at 1:22 PM

    Nice pictures and hi Mrs.Hodge

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  6. Mrs. HodgeFebruary 19, 2015 at 1:27 PM

    Not feeling better yet! I'll explain everything to the class when I come back.

    Thanks Kendall!!!

    Let me know if you have any questions about today's assignment. OK?

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 19, 2015 at 1:39 PM

    Ok.

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  8. AnonymousFebruary 19, 2015 at 1:44 PM

    Should I do Amelia Earhart or Bill Gates for the infogram?

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  9. AnonymousFebruary 19, 2015 at 1:44 PM

    graph

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  10. AnonymousFebruary 19, 2015 at 2:06 PM

    Mrs.Hodge I hope you mite get better soon.

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  11. AnonymousFebruary 19, 2015 at 2:43 PM

    hope you feel better soon:)

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  12. Mrs. HodgeFebruary 19, 2015 at 3:03 PM

    Thanks for all the well wishes😊

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  13. AnonymousMarch 10, 2015 at 1:06 PM

    That rule is so true.

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