It\u2019s a week of special celebrations for families from different parts of the world. Take note of the special days we are about to celebrate!<\/p>\n
Monday the 8th is Chinese New Year Day<\/strong> Families reunite and do a lot of preparations for Chinese New Year. Some either visit their relatives or friends, or wait for their relatives\u2019 or friends\u2019 visits. These visits bring kids many opportunities to enjoy trips with their parents and have fun with other kids.<\/p>\n During New Year families love to go shopping, decorating their houses, and preparing special foods that include New Year cake, glutinous rice dumplings, biscuits, and desserts.<\/p>\n As the clock strikes 12:00, cities and towns are filled with a spectacle of colorful and sparkling lights and the bang of fireworks bursting in the air.<\/p>\n For kids this celebration is lots of fun because it comes with the long winter vacation that lasts about a month. Kids enjoy being with their parents and receiving many lucky red envelopes with money from family and friends. They get to wear their new clothes and participate in the decoration of their houses with red lanterns and red scrolls on their windows and doors.<\/p>\n Chinese wish each other good luck and happiness in the New Year by saying \u201cgongxi\u201d (\u606d\u559c \/gong-sshee\/, which means \u2018greetings\u2019 or \u2018best wishes\u2019.<\/p>\n Tuesday the 9th is Mardi Gras or Carnival Day<\/strong><\/p>\n Mardi Gras or Carnival is an annual festival celebrated mostly in American and European communities with colorful parades, dancing in the street, costumes and masked balls. Wednesday the 10th is Teddy Bear\u2019s Day.<\/strong> Thursday the 11th is Make a New Friend Day.<\/strong> Saturday the 12th is Hug Day.<\/strong> Saturday the 13th is Kiss Day.<\/strong> HUGS AND KISSES<\/strong> BESOS<\/strong> Sunday the 14th is Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/strong><\/p>\n For Valentine\u2019s Day you can teach kids these popular poems I learned when I was little. It\u2019s a week of special celebrations for families from different parts of the world. Take note of the special days we are about to celebrate! Monday the 8th is Chinese New Year Day Chinese people celebrate the New Year. 2016 is the Year of the Monkey in their calendar. They believe what they do on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":13040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays-and-celebrations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languages4kidz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nChinese people celebrate the New Year. 2016 is the Year of the Monkey in their calendar. They believe what they do on the first day of the lunar year affects their luck in that year.<\/p>\n
\nIt is said that the colors of Mardi Gras are:
\nPurple for Justice
\nGreen for Faith
\nGold for Power<\/p>\n
\nHere is a beautiful Picture Book about Teddy Bear that you can read to children in Spanish or English.<\/p>\n
\nGo around and make a new friend just like BEARY (OSI) in this colorful and sweet tender Picture Book.<\/p>\n
\nSmile and give little or big hugs to everyone. Remember that a HUG makes everything better than a 1000 words\u2026
\nOne of the best feelings in the world is when you hug someone you love and they hug you back even tighter.<\/p>\n
\nHere is a beautiful poem in English and and some verses in Spanish from author Carmen Gil.<\/p>\n
\nOur hugs and kisses we should share,
\nTo show others that we care.
\nHugs and kisses
\nHugs and kisses I\u2019d like to send,
\nTo my dear and great friends.
\nWith hopes and prayers that you have
\nA wonderful and great day!<\/p>\n
\nHay besos de caramelo,
\ndulces como una sonrisa.
\nY est\u00e1n los besos con prisa,
\nque hay que cogerlos al vuelo.
\nLos besos de mariposa
\nroz\u00e1ndote las mejillas
\n\u00a1pueden hacerte cosquillas!
\ny son de color de rosa.
\nEl beso con achuch\u00f3n,
\ntan calentito y tan tierno
\ncomo una manta en invierno,
\n\u00a1es un beso de algod\u00f3n!<\/p>\n
\nLos zapatitos me aprietan,
\nLas medias me dan calor,
\nEl beso que me dio mi madre,
\nLo llevo en el coraz\u00f3n.
\nRoses are red
\nViolets are blue
\nSugar is sweet
\nAnd so are you!
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