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We practiced painting some more Chinese characters and painted papers red in anticipation of creating "chunlian" the Chinese New Years banners that contain hopeful phrases.  


We had a lot of fun dumping and pouring and filling the rice with colanders and paper towel rolls!


The children helped me move buckets of rock mulch under the swings to protect us if we fall, thanks kids!


We each took a spot on the floor and followed directions from a song.


I instructed the preschoolers how to play dominoes and then they taught each other.  A great activity for being visually aware and good exposure to numbers in different forms.


Thanks, Drew for helping me clean off the black board!

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