In today's kindy class we learnt all about Chinese new year. We started off with story of 年 "Nian" monster and why people are wearing red and decorating their homes with Red colour. We took turn to have lion dance and make our own lion dance puppet!
The key phrases today are:
新年 Xīnnián - New Year
红色 Hóngsè - Red colour
恭喜 (Gōngxǐ) - congratulations
不喜欢 (Bù xǐhuān) do not like
舞狮 (Wǔ shī) - lion dance
很饿, 吃什么? Hěn È Chī shénme? - very hungry, what to eat?
And here is the song we were al singing today:
恭喜恭喜恭喜你呀,
Gōngxǐ gōngxǐ gōngxǐ nǐ ya
恭喜恭喜恭喜你
Gōngxǐ gōngxǐ gōngxǐ nǐ