For Chinese New Year ( known here as Spring Festival ), it is customary for kids and young people to be given money in special red envelopes...

This is a really simple preschool or tot school activity that is great for fine motor skills. You can adapt it in many ways to suit the need...

For our unit study this January, we're learning about Chinese New Year . For a very simple activity, I got out our red and white candy c...

Matching pairs of characters This January, we're learning about Chinese New Year . This is one more twist on the Chinese Animal Memor...

This month, we're learning about Chinese New Year . This is a different twist on the Chinese Animal Memory Game . For this activity, I a...

For this activity, I used the Chinese Zodiac Memory Game from here , which is basically just the pictures of twelve animals that correspond ...

The boys received window crayons and markers for Christmas, and I think they are a really cool way to practice coloring and writing in a new...

To help the boys learn about the different decorations and symbols used to celebrate Chinese New Year (known here as Spring Festival ), I ...

I didn't blog much about our November and December school with the boys since we did less "official school." We had a wonderfu...

Beautiful Country This week, China is celebrating its National Day (guó qìng jié, 国庆节). The official National Day is October 1st, which ...

We've been having lots of fun adding unit studies into our days here, with America the Beautiful in July , D is for Dinosaur in August ,...

Archeological Painting: T-rex Discovered Here is another really simple and fun dinosaur themed craft suitable for a preschooler or a tot-...

We're studying dinosaurs this month and doing some fun crafts to go along with our theme. This is our first dinosaur creation: a Stick-...

The boys love dinosaurs, or as Andrew calls them, "bump, bump," so we decided we'd try to learn more about them for our August...