Fu ler an kang ๐ฎ
Wan shih ru yee ๐๐
Translated as:
Happy new year ๐งง
Blessings, happiness, peace and good health ๐ฎ
Thousands of things going smoothly as willed ๐๐
May Allah ๏ทป reward Umm Mikail for coming up with the ideas for the CNY event earlier this week for the homeschoolers plus teaching us the wishes above and their translation. Sounds like a beautiful du’a to make for one another!
We started the event with a zodiac animal craft plus story-telling and race. Then the children learnt the common Chinese practices during CNY through storytelling. It was so lovely to have a Chinese mother sharing the practices with her own knowledge and experience, while translating Chinese books to English for the children! She also shared some Islamic red banners and red packets which she had gotten from China. The one shown below has the words BarakAllahu feekum on it. MasyaAllah it was truly a feat considering Umm Mikail had her 4 children with her too.
Then they tried their hand at a little lion dance with percussions at the side. The 3 brothers immediately took up the offer for the lion dance with cardboards and kain batik. Too cute! We wrapped up with another storytelling of a reunion dinner with sampling of CNY goodies of cookies and love letters.
And here’s a song to sing to your kids, sung to the tune of London Bridge is Falling Down, from the book Rhyming Round Asia - Festivals and Customs:
Putting on my new red dress
New red dress, new red dress
So that I can look my best
For the New Year
Welcome, welcome honoured guests
Honoured guests, honoured guests
Bringing luck with mandarins
Gongxi, gongxi!
Have some tarts and red date tea
Red date tea, red date tea
Grandma’s special recipe
Please enjoy them
For your hongbao, xiexie ni
Xiexie ni, xiexie ni
For your hongbao, xiexie ni
Happy New Year! ๐
During the event, looking at mothers with big bags and children in tow, I thought to myself that MasyaAllah only homeschooling mothers would do such things because school-going kids would celebrate and learn about CNY in school. That very night, I opened a letter from MOE regarding the upcoming P3 home visit by an MOE officer and the documents and pictures to send prior to the visit. And I thought to myself again that Alhamdulillah for such events by the homeschooling mothers so that I could include them in my report.
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