Hello, everyone!  Moon Festival is very near (September 22 this 2010), and our teacher-friends here at ChildBook may be starting on discussing the Chinese Moon Festival in their classes.

Besides our Moon Festival lesson plan, worksheets, powerpoint and coloring pictures, the ChildBook staff have put in their favorite sites about the Moon Festival.  We wanted you to have a ready-made list of sites about this Chinese festival so that it will be easier for you to plan your lessons.

Top 10 Sites about the Moon Festival Recommended by ChildBook:


Origin of the Moon Festival. Brought to you by the San Francisco Chinatown
http://www.moonfestival.org/overview.htm#Origin

The Legendary Stories of the Chinese Moon Festival
http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/midfallstory.htm

Wikipedia Chinese and Vietnamese Moon Festival
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival

All about moon cakes
http://chinesefood.about.com/od/mooncake/a/moonfestival.htm

Photos of beautiful, modern moon cakes
http://www.webcooltips.com/delicous-modern-moon-cake-design-photos.html

Moon Poetry (in Chinese Characters)
http://www.chinapage.com/Moon/moon-poetry.html

Links to Poems and Prose about the Moon
http://www.cnd.org/moon/

MP3 audio of Moon Festival-related Chinese words
http://mandarin.about.com/od/festivals/a/Moon_Festival.htm

Sample class activities for the Moon Festival
http://www.everythingesl.net/lessons/harvest_festivals_around_world_79423.php

Recommended books re: Moon Festival by tjmummy of Associated Content
(Nice thing is we have 4 out of the 5 books :-)
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/394924/resources_for_lesson_plans_on_celebrating.html


Plus of course, even if I already cited 10 sites, please drop by our Chinese Moon Festival Section.

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