Third Graders and Families Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival

Last Monday, the three third grade classes celebrated the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival with their families in our Black Box Theater. As a culmination of weeks of careful research and preparations, the celebration was a sharing of students' beautiful writing, storytelling, and detailed artwork.

At the festival, students shared their research about the important Chinese holiday, as well as a video they made about the moon and another video of an artistic retelling of a popular Chinese folktale, the story of Hou Yi and Chang Er. Third graders shone on stage as they presented poems they wrote about the beauty and magnificence of the moon, accompanied by their beautiful artwork. The third graders also shared a traditional Chinese song, The Moon Boat Song, that they learned in music class, as well as a moon poem the third graders wrote in Spanish class.