Mulan: Chinese Writing

After finishing the story of "Mulan", the boys and girls were excited to get to try some Chinese writing of their very own!  We talked about how Chinese writing is made up of pictures called characters.  A long time ago the pictures looked like the things they stood for.  But over the centuries, the characters changed.  Over one billion people use this writing! 

In class we used a key to help us decide what characters we wanted to represent our art.  We made rough drafts and then hung the final drafts up above our Reading wall :)  These will be sent home next week!