08 Bright Sparks

Last weekend the Chinese and Vietnamese people celebrated their New Year. Large parades were held in many suburbs all over Sydney, including a very big celebration in Chinatown in the city.

This year is the Year of the Rat, which is based upon the Chinese horoscope calendar. To celebrate the new year, dragons made out of silk are carried through the streets to scare away the evil spirits and red money envelopes are given to the children by their family and friends to wish them good luck. Large banquets of food are prepared, including moon cake, especially made for the celebration.

To celebrate the New Year, we made dragons from cardboard and streamers and hung them in our classroom. Hopefully they will keep the bad spirits away and bring us good luck for the rest of the year.      

Bright Sparks would like to let their fellow bloggers know they’re back from a long and restful holiday and can’t wait to get back into their school work. There will be many changes made to the Bright Sparks Blog in 2008 and lots of new and exciting challenges and discoveries will be made. So stay tuned.   To the 2007 Bright Sparks, we’d like to wish you all the best in your new class and don’t forget to take a peek every now and then to see what’s happening, and leave a comment or two.