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Third Grade Celebrates Chinese Moon Festival

Lower School Chinese teacher Fangfang Ma shared the Asian tradition of the Moon Festival with her third grade students over several days in early-September. She explained that the Moon Festival or “Mid-Autumn Day” is a time to reunite with family and celebrate the harvest. As she showed the students, who have been learning to speak Chinese, how to make the moon cakes they used their language skills to express how “yummy” the cakes are. In the spirit of family, Miss Ma’s mother who was visiting from China, helped demonstrate how to make the cakes -- a pastry filled with red bean paste.