Happy Lunar New Year, everyone!
Tomorrow, I’m visiting my daughter’s kindergarten class to give a presentation about Lunar New Year. Since I put a lot of effort into creating my slides, I thought some parents or teachers might find them useful, so I’m sharing them here!
📌What’s Included?
- As mentioned in the slides, many countries celebrate Lunar New Year, but my presentation focuses on how Korea celebrates Seollal (설날). If you’re more interested in other countries’ traditions, you can still use the first part of the slides, which explains the difference between the solar and lunar calendars.
- I originally made these slides in PowerPoint, since I wasn’t planning to share them publicly at first. If I had, I would have used Google Slides from the start! I tried converting them, but the formatting didn’t stay the way I wanted. So, I’m just sharing the PowerPoint link and file instead.
- I ran out of time and couldn’t include information about the zodiac signs (띠). If I do this presentation again next year, I’ll be sure to add a section so the kids can find out their zodiac signs, too!
- I also created a worksheet where kids can write down both their solar and lunar birthdays. Since my daughter’s class consists of kids born in 2018 and 2019, I only included conversion examples for those years. 👉 If you’re working with kids of different birth years, you can use this Lunar & Solar Birthday Converter (Google Sheets)
- One quick note: Since this was made for my daughter’s class, her name (Ruha) appears in the slides. If you’d like to customize it, you can search for “Ruha” and replace it with your child’s name, or delete it if you’re a teacher using this for your class. (Check slides 15 and 16!)
🎨Interactive Activity with Kids
I have one hour for this presentation. During this time, I will spend some time presenting the slides and then transition into a fun hands-on activity with the kids! We’ll be coloring and playing with acorn spinning tops (도토리 팽이).
When I visited Korea, I bought a bunch of them just in case I had an opportunity like this!
If you’d like to include a craft or interactive activity in your lesson, I highly recommend checking out the Korean Cultural Center New York’s Lunar New Year Classroom Kit by author Aram Kim—it’s a fantastic resource for young learners! 🎊
⏳A Little Late, but Hopefully Still Helpful!
I had hoped to finish this earlier, but my daughter was really sick and even missed school recently. That set me back a bit, so I’m only now getting this out.
If you’re presenting tomorrow, this might not be super helpful. However, when my daughter’s teacher reached out, she asked what days I’d be available this week—so maybe some of you still have time to prepare!
Hope this helps, and Happy Lunar New Year! 🐉
