Children may understand one of your family’s celebrations or traditions; exposing them to another culture’s ways of celebrating can expand their worldview and help them learn about others.
• What do you think is happening in this picture?
• What are these people celebrating?
Is there anything here that you’ve never seen or done before?
• Is there anything that you see that looks familiar to you or that you’ve seen or done before?
• Would you like to try doing what the people are doing in the illustration?
• This is a picture of people celebrating The Dragon Boat Festival. On this yearly holiday, many Chinese people celebrate and think about people in Chinese history.
• Racing on boats is a tradition of the Dragon Boat Festival! The racers paddle to the beat of a drum.
• It is believed that members of the winning team will have good luck for the next year.
• Is there someone in the picture you’d like to play with? Why?
• What foods would you want to eat?
• What are some ways we celebrate our holidays?
• Does this celebration remind you of any of our family’s celebrations or holidays?
• What holidays do we celebrate?
• What do we eat, wear, and do during our favorite holidays? Who do we celebrate with?
• What is similar and different about the Dragon Boat Festival from holidays we celebrate?
• How is this similar to or different from our experience celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival?
• What do we eat, wear, and do when we celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival? With whom do we celebrate?
• One day, a boy and his grandmother came to the park to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival…
• The children climbed into the dragon boat. One learned to paddle; one learned how to drum…
• One child was eating a zong/zongzi (a type of Chinese food) during the festival. A friend was eating a hot dog. They decided to share!
