A child's drawing of a snake and the year 2025, depicting that this is the Year of the Snake in the Lunar or Asian New Year.

Kindergarten students at Caryl E. Adams Primary School led the school's celebration of the Year of the Snake with a festive Lunar New Year Parade on Thursday, February 13, 2025. The students "snaked" their way through the halls of the school waving Chinese fans they created in art class and following a dragon. In addition to the fans, each Kindergarten student also made an oil pastel and tempera-paint patterned snake. 

Kindergarten students wave the paper fans they made in honor of Lunar New Year

A teacher wearing a cardboard dragon head leads Kindergarten students through the halls of Carryl Adams Elementary during their Dragon Parade in honor of Lunar New Year.

Kindergarten students with their Chinese fans.

A smiling Kindergarten student holds up the paper fan he made in honor of Chinese New Year.

Kindergartners walk through the halls of their school with their fans during a Dragon parade.

A Kindergartner holds his fan in one hand and a noisemaker in the other during the Dragon parade at Caryl Adams Primary School.

Students in Grades 1 – 3 were spectators for the parade, lining the halls and holding artwork they made in celebration of the Lunar New Year. First graders showed off the pleated fans they made in art class. They spent a great deal of time learning about Chinese culture and drawing things they know about China on the paper prior to folding their creations.

First Graders hold the pleated fans they made for the Lunar New Year parade.Second graders learned about how secondary colors can be created from primary colors when they made 3D-model magic dragons for good luck in the new year.  

Paper lanterns fashioned by third graders also hung in the hallways during the parade, and they are full of information that the students learned about Chinese culture.  

Paper Lanterns made by third graders hang in the hallway at Caryl Adams Primary School

C E A  Kindergarten students holding the paper fans they make to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

A second class of Kindergartners display the paper fans they made and carried during the Dragon parade on February 13, 2025.