Go Fly A Kite!

This week we spent some time learning about the Chinese Kite Festival, which is honored on September 9th. This festival remembers China's history in creating and flying kites and is very fun! We watched some videos on youtube of people celebrating the Kite Festival and we saw all different kinds of kites! There were mermaids, an octopus, dragons, and some that were just pretty designs. We also saw some kite competitions where the kites flew in choreographed routines. It was very cool!

On Thursday we made our very own kites using grocery bags and other craft supplies. We have talked a lot about recycling since our theme this year is "Go Green, Go Blue" and this was a fun way for us to put this into practice! The children had great ideas for their kites. Some of them used some of the ideas we had seen in the video. I know for certain we had an octopus and a monster truck kite! Many of them just decorated and made pretty kites!

On Friday, we had our own kite festival with Mrs. Reece's class. The children had a wonderful time in the cool weather flying their kites. The almost fall temperatures and breeze made it a perfect kite-flying day!