Three CIE visiting teachers were invited by Landing Trail Intermediate School at Athabasca in northern Alberta, to provide the Chinese culture support to one of their annual international festivals, known as ‘Fly High’. This is an annual program of this school and the CIE has offered this support for the last 6 years.
On October 6, CIE teachers, Song Jia, Wang Jin and Deng Jitao drove more than 200 kilometers to share their skills in Chinese dough art, one of the most famous and traditional Chinese art forms, with about 100 students and teachers. All the students were worked very hard to learn how to make the lovely dough figure “Bee”. Some of the students were amazed about what they could do with the Chinese dough. Looking at all the bee figures they made, the students were very proud of their achievement. Some of the students, had worked with dough art previously and could still remember the Chinese names of what they made.