Lunuar New Year: Tea, Sumi E & Poetry

 

 Every Lunar New Year we incorporate a little ink art in the style of Sumi E. We found a tutorial for creating dragons, fitting for this years zodiac.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPbXG65IMHA

After our Sumi E, the big kids were challenged to create poems based on Dragons, including alliteration, acronym, Haiku, cinquain, colour, five senses, adjective and list poems.

"Once there was an egg the colour of the bluest skies.

Once there was a mother who protected the egg.

Once there was three people who wanted the egg.

Once there was a net who caught the mother.

Once there was a question from the mother to another creature.

Once there was a beat of wings and then silence, complete silence."

~Story Starter, age 10

Red envelope

Intricate knots

Long dragons

Flowery qui pao

Good luck poem

Loud firecrackers

Stone name chop

Pretty papercuts

Bright lanterns

Thundering drums

~Colour Poem, age 10 

Dragons

Really

Are 

Good 

On 

Noodles

~Acronym poem, age 10 

Dragon

Big, beautiful

Dancing, leaping, smiling

The amazing dragon dance

Magical

~Cinquain poem, age 10