Chinese New Year

Busy Children

Joshua and Nancy’s Mum has been looking over our photos from the last few weeks.

“Joshua loved burns day, especially the irn bru 🤣 xx” and
“Joshua loves to do “cheers”” 😊 x”

She also liked the photos of Nancy working with friends to make our Chinese dragon.

“Nancy concentrating very well. Well done my baby girl” 😀 and “Nancy looks like she is waiting so patiently to have her turn at decorating with some glitter 😊 “

Thank you for taking the time to leave us comments. It’s good to know that our families are using the blog.

Fantastic Dragon

Jasmin’s family likes our recent photos of the Chinese dragon:

“What a great idea, the dragon looks fantastic! X”

Thank you for your kind comment. We think that the children made a great job of their dragons and they certainly enjoyed doing their dance round the school.

As tomorrow is Chinese New Year, both the morning and the afternoon children performed a dragon dance along the school corridor to visit a few of the classrooms. As you can see, we took both our dragons along and got a great reception from lots of people along the way. It was lovely to visit different rooms, including Primary 1, where some of the children will be pupils next year, and Primary 5/6 where it was great to see the Primary 6 buddies who usually come to visit us.
Thank you to all the staff and pupils who made us feel so welcome with our dragon dancing and well done to Nursery boys and girls for showing great confidence in the wider school environment. Gung Hay Fat Choy!
Click then click again on the photos to make them bigger.

Careful Work

As we are learning about Chinese New Year, the children have been developing their fine motor skills in the art area by using fine brushes to attempt painting Chinese words and numerals. As you can see, they have been careful in their work and lots of children have been keen to try out this activity. Click then click again on the photos for a clearer view and to see the name of the artist.

Chinese Dragon Dance

Now that the children have worked together to make their Chinese dragons as part of their learning about Chinese New Year, they have been taking turns to practise dancing with it. Well done boys and girls – your dragon is looking good.

Dancing Dragon

The morning children made their own decisions when planning their Chinese dragon as part of our learning about Chinese New Year and, as you can see, their dragon is quite different from the one made by the afternoon children although glitter was still very popular as part of the decoration.
All we need to do now is practise dancing with our dragon so that we look just like the real Chinese dragons that we have watched on the computer.

Chinese Dragon

As our learning moves on to the celebrations of Chinese New Year, the children decided that they would like to make their own dragon after watching a clip on the internet of Chinese dragon dances. We provided them with a selection of materials and the children thought about how we could make a dragon and what they wanted it to look like.
Here are the afternoon children very busy last week with their discussions and dragon making.

Lucky Red Envelopes

As part of our learning about Chinese New Year, some children chose to make special red ‘lai see’ envelopes which Chinese children receive at this time of year with a gift of money inside. It was tricky to work out how to make the envelopes stick together but the children showed good perseverance with this little problem and enjoyed decorating their envelopes. Hopefully the chocolate coins that were put inside made their way home.

As part of our recent discussion about Chinese New Year, we talked about the types of food Chinese people might eat and the children were given the opportunity to sample a few Chinese foods at snack. As you can see, some children made a good attempt at using chopsticks and most were confident to try different foods.

Chinese Writing

As we are learning about Chinese New Year, the children have been developing their fine motor skills in the art area by using fine brushes to paint Chinese words and numerals. As you can see, they have been careful in their work and lots of children have been keen to try out this activity.

Tag: Chinese New Year