Product Description

Red lanterns, fireworks, a dragon parade, and a different animal for every year: Chinese New Year is a holiday children enjoy learning about. These Chinese New Year Notebooking Pages give them a pretty place to write about it. Use them for a Lunar New Year unit study, a geography or “holidays around the world” project, a library book about China, or a quiet winter morning when you want a gentle writing assignment.

The set includes 58 printable pages in two writing levels. Each design comes with primary writing lines for younger or beginning writers and standard lines for older or more confident writers. One set can serve children at different stages, and a child can move up when he or she is ready. Matching generic pages are included at the end for overflow writing, so a child who has more to say never runs out of room.

What’s Included

The pack includes special pages for all 12 of the Chinese zodiac animals. Each page shows the animal and its Chinese symbol in a red circle:

• Rat
• Ox
• Tiger
• Rabbit
• Dragon
• Snake
• Horse
• Goat
• Monkey
• Rooster
• Dog
• Pig

Your child can write about the animal for his or her own birth year, a sibling’s year, or all twelve in turn.

Other colorful artwork includes:

• Panda
• Red fan
• Red envelope
• Lanterns
• Fortune cookie
• Fireworks
• Girl in traditional dress
• Boy in traditional dress
• Teapot and cup
• Takeout box with chopsticks
• Dragon head

Ways to Use These Pages

• Narration: your child tells back what he or she has learned about the holiday, then writes or dictates it.
• Copywork: copy a sentence from a library book, a favorite fact, or a short poem.
• Handwriting practice: short, pleasant writing sessions on a page worth keeping.
• Dictation: write a sentence or paragraph as you read it aloud.
• Creative writing: invite a story about the dragon parade, a letter to a pen pal, or a description of a lantern night.
• Unit studies and notebooks: add pages to a China, Asia, or “holidays around the world” notebook.

Use Them With

These pages go nicely with my Chinese New Year Unit Study.

These pages are flexible, not a curriculum, so use them in whatever way suits your family. Print only what you need, and print again for each child.

Format: Instant digital download (PDF). For personal and family use according to the Terms of Use.

Download a preview here.