Today we celebrated the Chinese New Year! We learned that this celebration is for 15 years. Legend has it that long ago, a monster used to scare the village people. However, the monster was afraid of three things: the color red, loud noises, and light/fire. Therefore, the village people dressed in red, made loud noises with their drums, and built fires and lit fireworks to scare the monster away! We loved making our lion masks and participating in the school parade.