Happy Chinese New Year!

Yesterday I was in Jessica's classroom. They were doing centers that infused ideas about the Chinese New Year celebration. I got to help them make fun hats. "Teacher" was sharing some of the traditions at her center and taught them how to say "Happy New Year" in one of the Chinese dialects. It was fun. "Teacher" has some hookups in Chins that friend-ster her with fun things she shares with the kiddos. They learned too, about their horoscopes... ones that they have on the paper place mats at some restaurants. Jessica discovered she was a sheep, and her parents were rats! We had our own little celebration that night. We made hats like Jessica's, had "Chinese" food (complete with fortune cookies), and read our horoscopes from the paper Jessica brought home. (Jessica would like like me to add that I also made " Chinese brownies" for dessert). All evening long she called me rat so I called her sheep. She wanted me to give her a sheep-back ride. I did for a minute and then I told her that sheep were bigger than rats and she should be giving me a rat-back ride. She agreed. We were by the bed so I just tumbled her to the bed and squished her a little for fun. I heard a little voice peep," Sheep can't breathe." It was hilarious! Sheep is fine.