This week we have been inspired by learning about the celebration of Lunar or Chinese New Year.
The children have relished learning the story of how the years were named after different animals, and then enjoyed retelling it using small world toys, masks and chalks outside, and even acting out the story as part of our Helicopter Stories session.
We have explored the colour red as a lucky colour and practised making marks inspired by Chinese lettering and numerals.
We also did some maths, exploring ordinal numbers (first, second, third etc.) as we awarded numeral rosettes to the animals depending on where they finished in the race.
And in PE we celebrated by making our own dragon (puppet) dance with the parachute, before moving to the beat of the cymbals and drums as we became a body under the parachute, just like the ones we had seen in the clips of the celebration Lion, Dragon and Unicorn street dances. Lots of wonderful fun and learning together!
