One of my homeschooling goals for this new year is to introduce all the national holidays from both the United States and Korea to the girls. Eventually, I would love to learn and celebrate more of the Jewish holidays because they have such symbolic significance to Christians. I am almost prepared for Sul lar, Korea's lunar new year celebration which will fall on January 23.
My friend and I are going to host a small Sul lar party complete with (dduk guk) or dumpling soup. We will wear our hanboks and we will teach our children the new year bows in advance so they can give us their new year greetings. But instead of following the tradition of giving them money after they give us their new year greetings, we will give them beautifully wrapped chocolates or at least chocolate coins.
Books I plan on using to teach them about the holiday are:
New Clothes for New Year's Day (There's another version of this about a little boy from the same author that I am ordering from Korea.) You can also watch the video here.
손 큰 할머니의 만두 만들기 Son kʻŭn halmŏni ŭi mandu mandŭlgi by Chʻae In-sŏn ; illustrated by Yi Ŏk-pae (I found this in the state library database! Search by last name; it's easier.) See pictures here.
The latter book is so much fun. It literally translates as The Big Hand Grandma's Making Mandu (Korean dumplings). In Korea, having a big hand usually means that a person is very generous. Here this adage takes a comic bent to show a grandma whose generosity causes her to make the biggest mandu in the world. All the animals in the forest participate in filling the mandu and then of course eating it! The pictures have a lot of detail and my children asked to read this book over and over again. There are a few verses of the grandma singing and I couldn't help but create a melody (really easy to do if you hear traditional Korean music enough; it all begins to sound the same) to sing along. We used our version of play silks to wrap each other as giant mandus! Here's my mandu recipe if anyone's interested.
Finally, what's Suh lar without yut nori! Here's a fun twist to this traditional and still popular Korean game. I noticed that there is a computer game version of this that the kids like to play in Korea.
New Clothes for New Year's Day (There's another version of this about a little boy from the same author that I am ordering from Korea.) You can also watch the video here.
손 큰 할머니의 만두 만들기 Son kʻŭn halmŏni ŭi mandu mandŭlgi by Chʻae In-sŏn ; illustrated by Yi Ŏk-pae (I found this in the state library database! Search by last name; it's easier.) See pictures here.
The latter book is so much fun. It literally translates as The Big Hand Grandma's Making Mandu (Korean dumplings). In Korea, having a big hand usually means that a person is very generous. Here this adage takes a comic bent to show a grandma whose generosity causes her to make the biggest mandu in the world. All the animals in the forest participate in filling the mandu and then of course eating it! The pictures have a lot of detail and my children asked to read this book over and over again. There are a few verses of the grandma singing and I couldn't help but create a melody (really easy to do if you hear traditional Korean music enough; it all begins to sound the same) to sing along. We used our version of play silks to wrap each other as giant mandus! Here's my mandu recipe if anyone's interested.
Finally, what's Suh lar without yut nori! Here's a fun twist to this traditional and still popular Korean game. I noticed that there is a computer game version of this that the kids like to play in Korea.
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