We attended a great local festival based on the Autumn Moon celebration of the Chinese Moon Festival or Festival of Lanterns. It was so fun. I love it when Homeschool Projects turn out perfectly. We studied the festival all day-making lanterns, reading about the fable and culture online, looking at pictures of dragon dances, the Moon Goddess, Mooncakes and lanterns, making dragon masks, reading picture books on China, and most obviously dressing up in ethnic costumes. Then we attended a wonderful little festival at the Riverside Heritage House and actually ate mooncakes, noodles, did tanagrams (Chinese math diagrams), made paper lanterns, got the girls names written in Chinese, listened to a Chinese Storyteller, and enjoyed the beautiful Full Moon and red lanterns strewn in the gardens. We even topped it off with Chinese Food at Mr. You's. My fortune said "You will always be surrounded by true friends." (I hope so-hint, hint) It was a beautiful night with my family. It was a beautiful night as a homeschool teacher. Fun, Fun!
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that is such a cute pic of aggie!!! me and mars and dad hung out this weekend - went to the beach, and we fell asleep on the beach together, and then a wave came and woke us up :) it was pretty funny...
thinking of you, and really excited to see you at the end of October!
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