Chinese New Year dance

Last week in FS2 we found out about Chinese New Year and in PE on Tuesday, Mrs Cameron took the dragon head into the hall.

Here is a lovely video of the children moving to some Chinese music.

Chinese Dragon dance from MrsWarner on Vimeo.

Chinese New Year fun in FS2

This week the children have been learning about Chinese New Year and some of the customs associated with this celebration.

Here is the slide show of the activities in class.

Chinese New Year fun in FS2 on PhotoPeach

Photo of the week

Finger Gym activity - pick out the orange lentils

Tell your grown ups what you can remember from this week.

Chinese New Year fun

Here is a collage of some of the fun things we had in class this week. Look out for the slide show over the weekend for more photos.

Big Talk

What a wonderful week we are having finding out about Chinese New Year.
Here is the image for Big Talk on Friday. The illustration is by an artist called Vincent Noot, here is his website.

What can you see in the picture? 

Can you find the cat, dog and mobile phone?

What do you think is happening?

Chinese New Year

I am really looking forward to next week, we are going to be finding out about Chinese New Year.
Here is a video called The Great Race, it tells the story of the Chinese Lunar calendar. Did you know this is the year of the Horse?

 

What do you know about Chinese New Year? 

Jared brought a dragon in on Friday because it was the beginning of the New Year celebrations.
Would you like to take part in a dragon dance this week?