I have my classroom currently decorated for Chinese New Year. I decided to take some photos of my classroom in its festive state, before I take down a bunch of the New Year decorations. I am also including photos of our bulletin boards and one wall (I share the classroom with the Spanish teacher) and we have multilingual decorations. :-) We hang a dragon from the ceiling, but for Chinese New Year I also have a big banner and lots of hanging things. There's a couple paper lanterns and some pretend bunches of firecrackers too! The fire marshall told us we couldn't have curtains on the windows anymore. Other schools are no longer able to hang things from the ceiling either (fire marshall restrictions. I sure hope that's not going to be the case! We have two bulletin boards at the back of our classroom. I have one, and the other one is the Spanish teacher's board. Above my bulletin board is a timeline of the history of China. Obviously the events are not to scale on the timeline...but it is pretty cool to have it all there. I added in the Chinese names of the dynasties as well. The image of the Great Wall was made by the daughter of another Spanish teacher that I shared a classroom with when I first started teaching. Her daughter is very talented! Our classroom mascot. Several years before I started teaching here, the art teacher and some of her students made this dragon. It even has fabric to make up the body. They supposedly did a dragon dance with it. He sat guard over the cafeteria for several year, and then I volunteered to take custody of it. I suppose I should have a contest to name the dragon. I just call him "hong long" (紅龍) for "red dragon." He silently sits and watches over our classroom.
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About MeChristina has been a Chinese language teacher for the last 5 years and now teaches "Think Tank," a Critical Thinking class to elementary students. She is also mom to two amazing girls, wife to a wonderful husband, violinist, and Christian (not necessarily in that order). Archives
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