Children's Day

When I was young, I remember thinking (and probably asking), "if there is a 'Mother's Day' and a 'Father's Day'..why isn't there a 'KID'S DAY'??" The response I got from the folks was most likely along the lines of, "Amy, everyday is Kid's Day for you!"

Fair enough.

But, Korea has not picked up on that yet (or, we are behind the times). In Korea there is "Children's Day" and "Parents' Day" (about a week apart from each other). Children's Day is a national holiday that everybody gets off from work and school, so I was ALL about it :)!

We celebrated the day before at Reading Town by playing games with all the different classes and having a 'snack party' the last 20 minutes of each class. We also had the kids spend the first 10 minutes of each class writing 'Thank You" letters to their parents which they would give to them the following week for "Parents' Day".

It was a super fun and light hearted day which was much needed in the usually highly structured and...rigid?..Hagwon (private English school) environment.

I made a TWISTER board on the ground for the lil kiddos:

For the middle aged kids (8-11) we did Bingo and Parent Letters:

For the oldest kids, we did an "Around the World with Reading Town" activity which turned out to be pretty fun. Each of the teachers were in a different classroom, and the students would rotate amongst us and practice 'real life' dialogues. The classrooms were Taxi, Airport, Hotel, and Restaurant. Once they memorized the line from each 'place', we gave them a stamp in these little passports we made them. I wasn't able to take pics during this, but it was a lot of fun :)

All in all, my first "Children's Day" was a hit, and I hope that America will catch on to this one day :)!

xoxo,

Amy