WELCOME BACK EVERYONE!I for one am excited to be back and focused on all the exciting things happening in the Library for 2018 (like Book Fair!!!!) The second half of the year is super fun and packed full of events! To kick start 2018, I decided to put our Fiction/Nonfiction and Digital Citizenship units on hold so we could enjoy a look into how people and places around the world celebrate the New Year. We read all about Shante Keys and the New Year's Peas by Gail Piernas-Davenport - a gorgeous story that has Shante searching the neighborhood for black-eyed peas in order to add them to her grandmother's feast and thus guarantee good luck for the year. On her journey to find peas from various neighbors, she is introduced to the different ways some of them celebrate New Year.
This was the perfect segway into a group discussion on similarities and differences around the world in New Year celebrations. We compared peas in the South, to Diwali in Northern India, grapes in Spanish-speaking countries, the carp scales in Germany, rice cakes in Korea, St Basil cakes in Greece and Soba noodles in Japan. We couldn't of course forget Chinese New Year too. Students very quickly noted the connections between all cultures being that celebrations revolve around food bringing people together as a means of starting the New Year with good luck, health and good fortune. So here is to 2018 - may it bring all of you health, wealth and happiness!
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