So, while I was taking a hiatus from this blog, I was still traveling and visiting schools. There were so many amazing ones that I feel obligated to share about them, even though it is rather belated.
For example, all the way back in February, I celebrated the Lunar New Year like this:
First, Chinese Spring Greetings met me at the door:
And I did my thing with some cute students, seeing different age levels a time:
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| look how short my hair was! I haven't gone for a haircut since it was first cut because of the novel. You know how athletes sometimes have "playoff beards?" I have finish-the-novel hair. |
But after I finished, ALL the students started to stream in--each holding special projects they had done inspired by my books:
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| I thought this was especially clever--a dragon noisemaker! |
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| Students made dragons out of paper cups and then taped streamers to one end and cut a hole in the other. When they shouted in the hole of the cup, the streamer flew out. |
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| Chinese rattle drums! |
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| paper lanterns |
And why were the all there? Why to see the dragon, of course:
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| each student made their part of the dragon! |
It was an awesome dragon parade!
And a great way to start the Lunar New Year!
