Chinese New Year Kindergarten Integrated Unit Jamie Lopez by Jamie Lopez

Chinese New Year Kindergarten Integrated Unit Jamie Lopez

I am starting to plan my unit by looking at children's books about the topic.  This is reflected in my map.  Having some trouble with the site but I am working on it!

Two of Everything: A Chinese Folktale by Lily Toy Hong

Math: Doubling; Counting by 2's

Art: Mirror Images

Language Arts: What would you put in the pot?

Happy Chinese New Year, Kai-Lan by Lauryn Silverhardt

Arts: Foreign Languages: Words in Chinese

Daisy Comes Home by Jan Brett

Social Studies: Families; Maps

Science: Animal Families

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

Art: Paper Lanterns; Cardboard roll firecrackers

Celebrating Chinese New Year by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith

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

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

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

Social Studies: Celebrations; China on the map

Science: Sorting/ Categorizing

Math: Word Problems

Movement (P.E.): Dragin dancing

Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert

Math: Tangrams; Shapes

Social Studies: families

One is a Drummer A Book of Numbers by Rosanne Thong

Math: counting

Arts: Music - drumming

Sam and the Lucky Money by Karen Chinn

Math: Money

Art: Red envelopes

Language Arts: Good luck wishes

My First Chinese New Year by Karen Katz

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

Language Arts: My favorite holiday; how I celebrate

Science/Social Studies/Math: Cooking dumplings

Movement: Tai Chi