During the full moon, thousands of families will get together to celebrate Mid-autumn Festival. Let's look at how Newton's children celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival!
What are the traditional folk customs of Mid-Autumn Festival?
In the teacher's vivid introduction and explanation, the children learned about the ancient customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival, such as worshiping the moon, worshiping the moon mother, admiring the moon, and watching lanterns. The children in our K1 and K2 classes also learned from listening to stories and watching performances. They even created performances that travel through ancient and modern times to show and express one’s understanding and interpretation of these customs.
How does the moon change from a crescent moon to a full moon? The children listened and learned from their teachers about the moon's phases.
What's on the moon? Is it the pretty Chang 'e (ancient legend figure) or the lively moon rabbit? The children are immersed in a mysterious shadow puppet show and learned more about the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival. After watching the show, they were inspired to use light and shadow to make something magical of their own, creating round three-dimensional moon and rabbit lamps to brighten up Mid-Autumn Night.
On this festive day at Newton, children wore all kinds of traditional costumes and crossed into ancient times, leaving exclusive memories of this beautiful festival with all kinds of antique festival scenery.
There are so many ways we can celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival like making a folk-style fan with natural objects, folding a lotus lamp full of good wishes, making a moon cake that symbolizes reunion and sweetness, blending sweet honey with osmanthus to make a jar of nectar, drawing Hanfu full of ancient charm for Chang 'e’s moon Rabbit, and then playing a happy game with the moon rabbit. Mid-Autumn Festival is full of colorful scenery, fashioning a creative experience for Mid-Autumn Festival.
Hand-made is always a unique form of children's connection with the holiday in every festival at Newton. We made lanterns from paper flowers and cellophane, paintings of Mid-Autumn scenes, and cute little rabbits... With a pair of skillful hands, the children made lanterns, sculpted moons, fashioned moon cakes, created moon rabbits and other Mid-Autumn Festival elements, bringing a full sense of ceremony to Mid-Autumn Festival.
Mid-Autumn Festival is a poetic festival. From ancient times to the present, there are countless classic poems and songs about this special holiday. During this Mid-Autumn Festival, children and teachers enjoyed traditional poems, sang songs, listened to Mid-Autumn Festival stories, and learned about traditional culture and customs through ancient rhymes and fairy tales.
We enjoyed all kinds of elegant Mid-Autumn festival food and tasted Newton's homemade moon cakes is another kind of poetry for Mid-Autumn Festival. Children were full of the taste of reunion and the poetry of this magical festival.
We see the ancient moon no more,
But it has shone on men of yore,
Like flowing stream, they passed away;
They saw the moon as we do today.
Wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
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