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Globe/T. Rob Brown Cadie-Marie Stapleton plays with a Chinese yo-yo during a summer session Wednesday at Galena Middle School. The Chinese Culture Camp is being offered to children in kindergarten through seventh grade.

Chinese culture part of summer session for Galena students

In teacher Jodi Russell’s classroom, another group of children was researching giant pandas after making figurines of the endangered animals. Russell said the children this week have learned about Chinese New Year and the Chinese zodiac. Today, they will learn about the lantern festival. The Silk Road will be the topic in her class on Friday.

“The kids are just eating it up,” Russell said. “They really love it.”

Lyndsey Dixon, 8, was researching pandas on the Internet.

“It’s cool, ’cause I love pandas,” Lyndsey said. “I have a million stuffed pandas at home.”

She said she would like to visit the Great Wall someday.

“I like the activities and the food,” Lyndsey said when asked what she liked most about the week.

The pupils on Wednesday were having a snack of chicken-fried rice. Today, they will be served dumplings. They also learned how to use chopsticks.

Children in Jennifer Bingham’s classroom were decorating Chinese fans with colored sand.

“The fans are very significant in Chinese culture,” she said.

She said that earlier in the week, they made a good-luck tassel and a cloth envelope for Chinese New Year.

Bingham observed as the children worked on their fans.

“There is no way to mess this project up,” she said. “It just makes it more unique.”

“My panda bear’s not going to look right,” said one pupil. “It’s going to be pink.”

In Ballantyne’s classroom, pupils worked with a Chinese yo-yo. She also noted that the American yo-yo originated in China.

They also performed routines with a Chinese jump rope.



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