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Jan 27, 1945. Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the nazis largest and most nefarious concentration camps, is liberated. Last summer Tyler and I got to go to the Holocaust Museum. If you have never visited the Washington DC Holocaust Museum, it’s a museum you’ll never forget and hopefully the closest you’ll ever feel to witnessing the dread of genocide. For hours we roamed the museum and probably said like 4 real sentences (not including “whoa, read this.”) to each other all morning as we just took it all in. And if you know me, you know that that’s a big deal 😅 Swipe right to see a memorial that really wowed us- etched, not with names of people, or even family names, but names of cities. Because the death toll is so high that we can’t even begin to represent the people but can fill a halfway with the names of cities ravaged. In modern Hebrew, Shoah is the name given to the events of the Holocaust. It literally translates to meaning “catastrophe”. And that’s what it is. Every hate crime is a catastrophe.

Tomorrow is the pinnacle of the whole month long Chinese national Spring Festival - CHINESE NEW YEAR! The world has the Chinese to thank for so many things, including a couple of small things that are a big part of tomorrow’s celebrations! Fireworks, for one, were invented in China and have a special connection to New Years. The legends say that a beast called Nian used to terrorize Chinese villages. Eventually, someone wise learned some of Nian’s weaknesses - loud noises and fire. That night, rather than cowering under the wrath of the monster, the man instructed everyone to fire this new weapon into the sky to scare Nian away. Every New Year they continued to do this to remind the monster to keep his distance. The fireworks represented our power to ward off evil and make our own good fortune in the upcoming year. And then there’s the food.🤤 of course today this part is much more relevant although fireworks are still exciting. Dumplings are the most popular New Years dish, according to my students. Follow the link in my bio to learn more about Chinese New Year and the zodiac tradition. And to keep the China theme going for one more month, look for my multicultural holidays calendar too! KUNG HEI FAT CHOI!!!

My students giggle and enjoy correcting me every time I try to say anything in Mandarin. But I still have a couple of days to figure out the intonation of this New Year greeting! It translates roughly to “wishing you prosperity this year!” So all you polyglots, in what other languages/ways can you wish someone a happy new year, and how does it translate in English??

🤩🤩🤩 y’all. I’m so pleased with how this came out! I’ve been trying so hard to learn how to draw (it’s for reals a struggle to make the simplest things 😅), and I just think this is so cute and simple. And just in time for Chinese New Year this Saturday!!! This game illustrates the zodiac story (which I’ve included a short version of) by racing the animals to the finish line. But there’s a twist. Every animal is assigned a different number of spaces they can move forward based on their characteristics! This is also the last activity I’ll be posting to my TPT store ☹️ BECAUSE ... 🥁 drumroll 🥁.. I’M UPDATING MY WEBSITE. You’ll be able to shop right from my blog soon, and I’m super excited about that 🤗🥳🥰🙌 If you’re also excited about that, then please SHARE this post and drop some love in the comments 🥰

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Jan 27, 1945. Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the nazis largest and most nefarious concentration camps, is liberated. Last summer Tyler and I got to go to the Holocaust Museum. If you have never visited the Washington DC Holocaust Museum, it’s a museum you’ll never forget and hopefully the closest you’ll ever feel to witnessing the dread of genocide. For hours we roamed the museum and probably said like 4 real sentences (not including “whoa, read this.”) to each other all morning as we just took it all in. And if you know me, you know that that’s a big deal 😅 Swipe right to see a memorial that really wowed us- etched, not with names of people, or even family names, but names of cities. Because the death toll is so high that we can’t even begin to represent the people but can fill a halfway with the names of cities ravaged. In modern Hebrew, Shoah is the name given to the events of the Holocaust. It literally translates to meaning “catastrophe”. And that’s what it is. Every hate crime is a catastrophe.

Tomorrow is the pinnacle of the whole month long Chinese national Spring Festival - CHINESE NEW YEAR! The world has the Chinese to thank for so many things, including a couple of small things that are a big part of tomorrow’s celebrations! Fireworks, for one, were invented in China and have a special connection to New Years. The legends say that a beast called Nian used to terrorize Chinese villages. Eventually, someone wise learned some of Nian’s weaknesses - loud noises and fire. That night, rather than cowering under the wrath of the monster, the man instructed everyone to fire this new weapon into the sky to scare Nian away. Every New Year they continued to do this to remind the monster to keep his distance. The fireworks represented our power to ward off evil and make our own good fortune in the upcoming year. And then there’s the food.🤤 of course today this part is much more relevant although fireworks are still exciting. Dumplings are the most popular New Years dish, according to my students. Follow the link in my bio to learn more about Chinese New Year and the zodiac tradition. And to keep the China theme going for one more month, look for my multicultural holidays calendar too! KUNG HEI FAT CHOI!!!

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