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=**//Hello Year 1 Massie Girls!//**=
 * //We are glad that we can share our exciting Chinese New Year celebrations with you a//****//nd we can't wait to hear all about your celebrations!//**
 * //Soon we will send some photographs of our Chinese New Year Day to you.//**
 * //Let us know if you have any questions for us.//**
 * //From your new friends in HK.//**
 * //1W//**

Hello 1W!

 * //We were so excited to see you! What a lovely class.//**
 * //We know quite a bit about a celebration that we just had in Australia called 'Australia Day'. Please ask us anything you would like to know about it!//**
 * //Chinese New Year looks like a very exciting celebration. We have thought of lots of questions to ask you://**
 * Do you play special games at Chinese New Year? **


 * Do you wear certain clothes for Chinese New Year? **


 * What is the role of the Dragon in Chinese New Year? Is it scary? **


 * Do you eat certain foods on Chinese New Year? **


 * Who do you celebrate Chinese New Year with? **

=**Dear 1J and 1S,**= =**We were very happy to see your letter and the photgraphs of you all. We also have a sports uniform (we call it a PE uniform) and a normal school uniform.**= =**Thank you for your questions about Chinese New Year. We don't really have any special games for Chinese New Year but we do have lots of activities such as making dragons, firecrackers, banners and beautiful decorations with gold and red colours. We have amazing Lion Dances that bring good luck and scare away the bad spirits. Here is a photograph of the Lion Dance we had in our school playground. The other photo is of the children doing Chinese Drumming. The older children did it. It is a giant sound that sounds like "Bam, bam, boom! Bam, bam boom!"**= =**We wear beautiful clothes at Chinese New Year. They are usually traditional clothes and are of many colours. Here are some photos of us in our Chinese New Year outfits.**= = = = = = = = = =The dragon is one of the animals of the zodiac. Have you heard the story of the Animal Race? Most of us are born in the Year of the Dog. Maddie is a Rooster and Mrs Wishart is a Pig!!!!!! The dragon is very good luck and is not scary at all. The luckiest year to be born in is the Year of the Golden Dragon. The last Year of the Golden Dragon was in 2000. This year is the Year of the Water Dragon.= = = =We have to go and do our Maths now so we will write more again later.= =Love From 1W=
 * Here are 2 pictures to introduce ourselves. The first one is a picture of 1S, and the second photo is 1J:**
 * We look forward to your reply.**
 * 1S and 1J :-)**

= HELLO 1W! =

==Dear 1W, We loved seeing your photos of Chinese National dress. We thought you had nice clothes. You all looked beautiful. We looked up our Chinese Zodiac sign and we are Roosters too! Mrs Tilley is a rooster as well.==

=Does the Dragon get put up every new year or just in the year of the dragon? What kind of food do you enjoy on Chinese New Year? Is it different to what you normally eat?=

=On Australia Day we just wear normal clothes but we stick on tattoos of the Australian Flag. We put them on our cheeks, arms, legs and foreheads!=

=On Australia Day, we eat special food like lamingtons. Here is a recipe for them if you would like to make them:=

=Hello Girls,= =Thank you so much for the Lamington recipe. We are very excited to have a go at making (and eating) them!= =At Chinese New Year it is traditional to make and eat dumplings. It is good luck to eat them on New Years Day. We made some in class and then ate them at lunch. They were delicious. They can have lots of different kinds of fillings in them.= =Here are some photos of us making them....=

=Most of the decorations for Chinese New Year are of the Year's Zodiac animal, lanterns and gold and red banners. Dragons are a lucky symbol though and so often people use them too.= = = =Please let us know if you have any more questions.= =From 1W= = =