Alaska Life

Anchorage Chinese language students celebrate Chinese New Year

Chinese language students and their families packed the theater at Anchorage’s Bartlett High on Friday to celebrate Chinese New Year, which in 2020 is ushering in the Year of the Rat.

The Anchorage School District’s Chinese immersion program began at Scenic Park Elementary in 2016, and that first batch of students is now in third grade.

A new group of kindergartners sat wide-eyed as older students performed the dragon and lion dances.

Correction: The first class of students in Scenic Park’s Chinese immersion program are now in third grade, not fourth.

Loren Holmes

Loren Holmes is a staff photojournalist at the Anchorage Daily News. Contact him at loren@adn.com.

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