Chinese New Year - Brooklyn Children's Museum

Activities to do with your students
6. Once you have read the story, have the students go in zodiac
order starting with the rat, and bring up their ornament and
template to the front of the room. Have the students place their
ornament and template on a table. Have each group follow suit
to form a classroom zodiac calendar.
7. Once each group has placed their animal and template, hand
each student a Zodiac Chart. Explain to the class that Chinese
tradition says a person’s personality reflects the animal for
the year they were born. Have the class figure out what animal
year they were born. How does that make them feel? Are they
like the animal that marks their birth year?
8. Hang the classroom zodiac calendar in the classroom for the
duration of the unit.
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