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Chinese New Year
Posted: Jan 22, 2020 by: Mrs Parker (NHemingway) on: Reception
22nd and 23rd January 2020
For the past 2 days we have been looking at the festival of Chinese New Year, which is on the 25th January. This year it is the year of the rat. We began by learning a dance which helped us to prepare then celebrate the new year. We tried a vegetable stir-fry with prawn crackers, all of us had a taste and it was delicious!
We did lots of different craft activities including: hand fans, red money envelopes, making dragons with 2D shapes, lantern pictures.
In art we used brushes to create a symmetry dragon, wrote Chinese characters and numbers, and used recycled plastic bottles to make blossom trees.
We wrote our wishes and put them on the wish tree.
We learnt about the Chinese festival by reading different stories related to this including the story of the Chinese Zodiac. We worked out that in this class, we were either born in the year of the horse (2014) or the year of the goat (2015). We were lucky enough to see some objects and clothing that a member of this class wears during her celebrations with her family.
This week in maths, we have been looking at 2D and 3D shapes. We made 3D shapes out of playdough and pictures of everyday objects using 2D shapes.
What a busy two days we have all had celebrating!
Miss Hemingway
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