This year, the Chinese New Year celebration started on Jan 28th, but it will last 15 days. The Chinese New Year is considered the most important holiday in China and in a lot of other countries. There are many ways to celebrate it. In Medfield, this is how each school celebrated it.
In the high school, students decorated the lobby near the main office. They combined traditional Chinese New Year decorations with some Medfield spirit decorations. The New Year posters throughout the school also showed people information about the Chinese New Year. In the classroom, students learned a traditional, yet still very popular Chinese board game: Mahjong. Many Chinese still play it during the New Year time.
At Blake Middle School, 6th, 7th and 8th graders made dumplings, sweet rice balls and spring rolls. Dumplings and spring rolls represent wealth, sweet rice balls represent family togetherness. All three are must-eat foods during the Chinese New Year.
The students at Dale school learned what the twelve zodiacs are, what this year's zodiac is and which song is popular during the Chinese New Year. They made some crafts of roosters and twelve zodiacs lanterns. They also sang a New Year song, called " Gongxi Gongxi" .
At Wheelock, the Mandarin students celebrated the New Year with the Chinese club. They made a great wall in the hallway, which was full of students' work. They made the terracotta warriors, Chinese painting, calligraphy and stamps.
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