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January 31, 2017 : Gong Xi Fa Cai! ( Happy New Year! )

The Mini Page is a syndicated, four-page tabloid written for young children found each Wednesday in The Denver Post. This issue of The Mini Page is available through the eEdition Archive to registered eEdition subscribers

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Activities:

1. Draw a large dining room table. Paste newspaper pictures of the foods used to celebrate the Chinese New Year on your table. Draw or paste pictures of decorations on your table.

2. Pick five comic strip characters you would invite to go with you to a Chinese New Year celebration. Explain why you choose these characters.

3. Look for newspaper stories about the Chinese New Year. What do the stories tell about food? What about traditions? What celebrations are happening in your community?

4. How are these part of the Chinese New Year: (a) dragons, (b) red paper, (c) lanterns and (d) the Rooster?

5. Research New Year’s celebrations in other Asian cultures. Write a paragraph comparing that culture’s traditions with Chinese New Year traditions.

Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them.

This week's standard:
Students understand the characteristics, distribution and complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics. (Geography: Human Systems)

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)

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