Kwanzaa Pack

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Kwanzaa

47 pages

Kwanzaa is a celebration of African-American culture through community, family, justice and nature. It’s a celebration of unity and ancestry. In Swahili is means the first fruits of the harvest. This pack will give you an understanding of the importance of traditions and community. 

The pack includes - 
• Background information – includes What is it?
• How is it celebrated? Each day, symbols, feast and craft
• Suggested books to read 
• A Reader – to share before the following tasks 
• Concept Wheel – what do you know?
• Research Kwanzaa food
• Purpose of the candles 
• Ordinals for lighting candles 
• Candles in a Kinara – paper chipping
• Make a banner and a template to make your own banner
• How to make a woven mat with instructions and photos

• Day organizers – what is the candle being lit and what is the significance? There are two sets of tasks. One has colour and one contains color spelling.  

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Chinese New Year

These packs are all about creating an understanding of a Chinese New Year - the traditions, the symbols and the zodiac. 

Chinese New Year - Interactive Note Pages 

Chinese New Year Posters and make a dragon

Chinese New Year Bundle 

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This Chinese New Year pack is huge! There are posters and pages for Interactive Note Pages. Explore the zodiacs and understand what the traditions are that surround the Chinese New Year. 

This pack includes
• An introductory page for each section complete with detailed instructions.
• Options to print for sheep or goat at the end of the pack. The Chinese refer to goats and sheep. In English, it is based on a horned animal. In Vietnam, it is goat. In Japan - sheep; in Korea and Mongolia the sign can be sheep or ram. 

Tasks include - 
• KWHL – what do you know, want to know and what is your new learning?
• Our Class Word Wall – add to this while you are learning about the Chinese New Year.
• Posters for Chinese Zodiac Animals – information on each one. 
• Interactive Journal pages – to discover new information and record what you know.
• Fact sheets on all the zodiac animals.
• Venn Diagram – compare our New Year to a Chinese New Year
• Can-are/is-have/has on traditions that are significant to Chinese New Year.
• Graphic Organizers to help record learning. 

This is great for younger students....

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Chinese New Year

146 pages

This Chinese New Year pack supports you to graph the year that your grade were born into according to the Chinese Zodiac. Build a dragon and match the animals on the zodiac to their name and number.

Ram is used in some parts of the world as one of the zodiacs. There are options to print for sheep or goat at the end of the pack as some countries use these instead. 

The Chinese refer to goats and sheep. In English it is based on a horned animal. In Vietnam it is goat. In Japan - sheep; in Korea and Mongolia the sign can be sheep or ram. 

This pack contains -

• Printing options for full color, save your ink and some tasks have black/white versions.

• There are a series of posters to display. These provide information for discussion. 

• Matching task – match the ordinal, name and the picture of the animal from the zodiac.

• Graphing task – use a sample group across your school as your grade will be only two or four animals on the Chinese New Year Zodiac.

• Craft task - Make your own dragon, photos provided to show you what to do.