Spring festival activities were held on Jaunmārupe Primary School

当地时间2月22日下午14点10分，拉脱维亚新马露白小学的还在们在学校餐厅厨房体验了包饺子春节活动。此次活动参加的有新马露白小学汉语课堂的老师和学生，以及非汉语课的其他孩子们。制作饺子春节活动之前，汉语教师开展了一系列的春节活动，其中包括唱《新年快乐》歌、剪生肖和春字剪纸、筷子文化介绍、制作鞭炮手工、介绍春节文化。通过PPT演示、视频播放和文化活动体验课等方式向学生深入介绍中国春节活动，包括春节的起源，习俗和饮食文化等等。生动活泼的春节视频和文化体验活动让学生开始期待明年的春节的到来。边学边做的汉语课让学生们爱上了春节，爱上了汉语和中国。此次春节系列活动之一制作饺子让学生爱上了饺子。活动开始之初，学生已经了解了中国饮食，也知道相关词汇，因此在制作饺子的时候，学生们在老师的安排下分工协作，洗菜、切蔬菜、制作饺子馅、切面团、做饺子皮、包饺子。除了基础的饺子包法，学生们还制作了“猪猪”饺，因为今年是猪年。此外，孩子们充分发挥了拉脱维亚学生的想象力和制作能力，制作了各式各样的饺子。最后当学生们整齐坐在厨房的桌子旁等待着老师盛来热腾腾的饺子时，眼神中充满着期待，“老师，我还要一个”“老师我可以带回家吗？”。在欢笑声中，学生和老师一起品尝着自己制作的饺子，便觉得饺子更加的美味了……随着下课铃声的响起，饺子制作活动也结束了，可是在学校的餐厅厨房里，孩子们还恋恋不舍他们做的中国饺子，有的在打包带回家，有的在打包送给学校其他老师，有的打包给他们的朋友。孩子们都说：“期待明年的中国春节”“期待明年的中国饺子!”

At 14:10 PM local time on February 22, Jaunmārupe Primary School Chinese class held some activities about Chinese Spring Festival and making dumplings in the school restaurant kitchen. This activity is attended by teachers and students of the Chinese class in Jaunmārupe Primary School, as well as other children and teachers who are not in Chinese class. Before making dumplings for the Spring Festival, Chinese teachers carried out a series of Spring Festival activities, including singing ” Happy New Year” songs, cutting zodiac signs and spring character paper – cutting, introducing chopstick culture, making firecrackers paper by hand, and introducing Spring Festival culture. Through PPT demonstration, video broadcasting and cultural activity experience classes, students are deeply know Chinese Spring Festival activities, including the origin of Spring Festival, customs and food culture, etc. The lively Spring Festival video and cultural experience activities make students look forward to the Spring Festival next year. The Chinese lessons that students learn while doing make them fall in love with the Spring Festival, Chinese language and China. Making dumplings, one of the Spring Festival series activities, made students fall in love with Chinese dumplings. At the beginning of the activity, the students already knew about Chinese food culture and related vocabulary, so when maked dumplings, the students worked together under the arrangement of the teacher, washed vegetables, cut vegetables, maked dumpling stuffing, cut dough, maked dumpling wrappers and maked dumplings. In addition to the basic dumpling making method, the students also made ” pig”shape dumplings, because this year is the year of the pig. In addition, the children gave full play to Latvian students’ imagination and ability to make various dumplings. At last, when the students were sitting neatly at the kitchen table waiting for the teacher to bring hot dumplings, their eyes were filled with expectation, ” teacher, I want more” and ” teacher, can I take it home?” . In the laughter, the students and the teachers tasted the dumplings they made together, and they felt that the dumplings were even more delicious … with the ringing of the bell, the dumpling making activities were over, but in the dining room kitchen of the school, the children were still reluctant to part with the Chinese dumplings they made, some were packed to take home, some were packed to other teachers in the school, and some were packed to their friends… The children said, ” we are already Looked forward to the Chinese Spring Festival of next year” and ” Looking forward to the Chinese dumplings of  next year!”