Write Good Fortune: Chinese Character practise

Chinese New Year is a time when many different luck-bringing rituals are performed. In this activity your child will create a lucky trinket.

During the Chinese New Year, giving red envelopes full of money is a custom that symbolizes good luck. Use this lesson to teach your students about holiday traditions as they practise counting money.

These cats are encountering a charming cat statue, also thought of as a "good fortune cat."

Wouldn't you want to sail away in this majestic Chinese junk? Find out how long this ship has been around as you add your artistic flair to this coloring page.

Read about a few traditional Chinese New Year dishes, then use your counting skills to make your own banquet.

Encourage your child to make a Chinese scroll painting as part of his world history or art studies, or just to pass the time on a weekend.

Celebrate Chinese New Year with this dragon dance coloring page.

Have students think about each character’s journey with this character-specific beginning, middle, and end story map. Students can complete maps for different characters, then compare and contrast!

Help your students break down individual character responses to major story events with this graphic organizer.