Chinese New Year Kindergarten Integrated Unit Jamie Lopez

by Jamie Lopez

1. Two of Everything: A Chinese Folktale by Lily Toy Hong

1.1. Math: Doubling; Counting by 2's

1.2. Art: Mirror Images

1.3. Language Arts: What would you put in the pot?

2. Happy Chinese New Year, Kai-Lan by Lauryn Silverhardt

2.1. Arts: Foreign Languages: Words in Chinese

3. Daisy Comes Home by Jan Brett

3.1. Social Studies: Families; Maps

3.2. Science: Animal Families

4. Lanterns and Firecrackers: A Chinese New Year Story by Jonny Zucker

4.1. Art: Paper Lanterns; Cardboard roll firecrackers

5. Celebrating Chinese New Year by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith

5.1. Language Arts: What would be your favorite part of the celebration?

5.2. Science: Orange investigation; Living and nonliving parts of celebration (categorizing)

6. Dragon Dance: A Chinese New Year Lift-the-Flap Book by Joan Holub

6.1. Social Studies: Celebrations; China on the map

6.2. Science: Sorting/ Categorizing

6.3. Math: Word Problems

6.4. Movement (P.E.): Dragin dancing

7. Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert

7.1. Math: Tangrams; Shapes

7.2. Social Studies: families

8. One is a Drummer A Book of Numbers by Rosanne Thong

8.1. Math: counting

8.2. Arts: Music - drumming

9. Sam and the Lucky Money by Karen Chinn

9.1. Math: Money

9.2. Art: Red envelopes

9.3. Language Arts: Good luck wishes

10. My First Chinese New Year by Karen Katz

10.1. Social Studies: When is Chinese new year? (calendar); Where is China? (map); How do we celebrate?

10.2. Language Arts: My favorite holiday; how I celebrate

10.3. Science/Social Studies/Math: Cooking dumplings

11. Movement: Tai Chi