Pumpkin celebrated Chinese New Year with her classmates at Montessori this year. Mamma Pumpkin created a slide show about the holiday with a brief history of China and where Pumpkin was born. (Her teachers seemed surprised that we knew where she was born and that we'd discussed it with her.) I also helped with a craft project of hanging lanterns, did a coloring/activity book for her classmates, made a "Fu" sign for all the students to take home and hang on their front doors and stamped each students hand with a good luck symbol and Chrysanthemum.
Pumpkin seemed most happy that Mamma was at school that day. Her classmates liked the Dragon parade at the end and the older children in the next grade level seemed to have a little better attention span for the slide slow, but also liked the Dragon parade the most.
It was fun sharing Pumpkin's culture with others and being in full-fledged "Homeroom Mother" mode.
Gong Hey, Fat Choy everyone!
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