{"id":1375,"date":"2024-02-10T09:48:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T09:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2024-02-10T09:48:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T09:48:08","slug":"chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/2024\/02\/10\/chinese-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week in music we have been learning about the importance of music during Chinese New Year. As part of our learning we watched a Musical Storyland episode called &#8216;The Great Race&#8217; by BBC Teach, where members of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra play a range of instruments and tell the story.\u00a0 We saw a new Chinese instrument called a guzheng which is played by plucking the strings.\u00a0 You can see all the instruments in the picture below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-377\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundp1a2324\/uploads\/sites\/3527\/2024\/02\/10093332\/the-great-race-instruments-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/> <em>Photo courtesy of BBC Teach<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We also learned that this year is the year of the dragon and in the clip below, you can see us using scarves to move like the dragon dancers that perform at Chinese New Year celebrations.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 525px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1375-1\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary1a\/uploads\/sites\/3434\/2024\/02\/10094703\/2a-Dragon-Dance-Scarf-Movement.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary1a\/uploads\/sites\/3434\/2024\/02\/10094703\/2a-Dragon-Dance-Scarf-Movement.mp4\">https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary1a\/uploads\/sites\/3434\/2024\/02\/10094703\/2a-Dragon-Dance-Scarf-Movement.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in music we have been learning about the importance of music during Chinese New Year. As part of our learning we watched a Musical Storyland episode called &#8216;The Great Race&#8217; by BBC Teach, where members of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra play a range of instruments and tell the story.\u00a0 We saw a new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/2024\/02\/10\/chinese-new-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chinese New Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":576,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}