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guest
nderful way to share all the students learned through hand-drawn pictures and photos. A great way for the 2nd grade students to express themselves and the end product is just stunning!
Mrs-Shorts
Amazing project! I am inspired by your creativity!sound:Laugh
vanhookc
awesome job mrs. vanhook and students! :) i hope to do more work like this. -- emily west
guest
love it, love it - supreb work!sound:Laugh
guest
I learned things I never knew before, such as it being impolite to look a Chinese person in the eye. Thank you so much for sharing. This was truly beautiful and creative.
vanhookc
It's fun to collaborate with others in learning!
guest
What a great presentation! Thank you!
guest
This is amazing!! I love the music and looking at the artwork and seeing what the SEP secondgraders learned and the pictures are all so beautiful!!! The artwork done by the secondgraders is also amazing!!
vanhookc
Thank you flickr members for your Creative Commons pictures: Brian Yap, Brian Snelson, Dereck Bradley, and Steve Evans. We also appreciate Iowa AEA's subscription to Schools.Clipart.com for pictures.
vanhookc
We hope you enjoy learning about the people, history, and customs of China. Nice work high schoolers assembling the show!
guest
I loved it, thanks for using my photos :-)
vanhookc
Never look a Chinese person in the eye!
vanhookc
Beautiful dresses
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The main drink in China is tea.
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Tea can be bought in bricks, disks, and loose bags. It was first used in China in 600 BCE as medicine and later as currency.
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The Great Wall of China took many years to build.
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The Great Wall of China is the only man made structure, on Earth, that is visible from the Moon.
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The construction began in 1474. It is made of earth, stone, and brick and rises and falls with the terrain of China.
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A terra cotta soldier
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The first emperor of China died in 210 BCE and was buried in a tomb guarded by 8000 soldiers and horses.
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The meanest Emperor of China was greedy. He said, "When I die, I will make soldiers guard me."
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Neat and clean market place
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Rice
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The Chinese market in our classroom has kites, fans, food, rugs, and much more. Well done, second grade teachers! This learning activity rocks for the students of SE Polk!
vanhookc
We hope you have enjoyed the journey with our little SEP butterflies and second graders to places we are studying in our SE Polk schools.
vanhookc
Second graders from Ms. Joens, Johnson, and Wilson's classes at Willowbrook joined High School Book Club members to create a global travel book about China.
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"When we studied China, I learned that the Chinese think red is a lucky color."
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The high schoolers found precious pictures from flickr.com to help tell our story.
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Chinese people clean before Chinese New Year. They don't sweep out the door.
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Beautiful architecture
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The Chinese people clean their houses before Chinese New Year.
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Some of the pictures are from Schools.clipart.com, our school's database of pictures.
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On Chinese New Year, the children get red envelops that have money in them.
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The dragon is a creature often found in Chinese mythology.
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Chinese farmers found bones with strange carvings long ago which they named "dragon bones."
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Later, Chinese scholars discovered that the ancient carvings on the bones were an actual form of writing.
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Chinese dragons do not breathe fire; they actually bring rain in the spring, the opposite of fire. The dragon brings good luck.
