By Colleen Flanagan, Maple Ridge 鈥� Pitt Meadows News
Students at two Maple Ridge schools celebrated the Lunar New Year and the incoming year of the snake.聽
At Albion Elementary 蜜桃传媒 a lion dance parade聽took place where three lions, two students in each, led a parade of kindergarten and Grade 1 students around the school, collecting red envelopes, hung from the top of door frames along the way.聽
“The idea is that the lion dancers will be eating these red envelopes which sort of symbolizes bringing good luck into the year,” explained Kana Wiens, English language learner聽teacher at the school, and co-organizer of the celebration.
The event was organized over the past two weeks, and students practiced the lion dance and wrote up an explanation of the Lunar New Year which they read to their peers over the intercom to teach them about the event’s meaning.聽