Chinese Dragon dance

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Little Chicks celebrated Chinese New Year, Amy showed them how to use the fans and parasols to make a dance.

They met Dave the dragon and learnt a dragon dance.

 

Warm up exercises and learning dance routine.

 

Fans and parasols.

 

Dave the dragon and…

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Chinese new year Dancing

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Chinese Dragon Dancing workshop

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The Ducklings thoroughly enjoyed their Chinese Dragon Dancing workshop on Friday. They were so confident in performing to the rest of the school. Some children performed the dragon dance, others performed a dance with traditional Chinese fans or parasols to the audience. Amy, the dance teacher,…

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dance Understanding the World Chinese new year

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Chinese New Year

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Today, we were very lucky to have a visit from one of our Year 5 pupils to talk about her family traditions and how they celebrate Chinese New Year. We learnt a lot from listening to someone who has experienced these celebrations first hand.

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Understanding the World Chinese new year

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Chinese New Year

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We were very lucky to have a visit from Mrs Cheung who came to talk to us all about how she and her family celebrate Chinese New Year. We got to look at some red money envelopes that the children are given as gifts, try on some traditional costumes and and find out why tangerines and their leaves…

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Chinese new year

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Open Afternoon

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This week, we welcomed our families into class to celebrate Chinese New Year with us. We made dragons and lanterns, role played in our Chinese new year home corner, shared stories, did dragon dancing and lots more!

Thank you for coming!

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Open afternoon Chinese new year

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The Story of the Chinese zodiac by Dawn Casey

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Little Chicks listened to the story The story of the Chinese zodiac by Dawn Casey.
 

Miss Taylor “Can you retell some of the story and a character that was in the story.”

River “They made a calendar, a tiger.”

Aurelia “The Monkey, the rat pushed the cat

Hunter “Is a dog, there’s a…

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Chinese new year retelling story

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Celebrating Chinese New Year

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Little Chicks have been celebrating Chinese New Year and learning about their customs and celebrations.

 

The Chinese New Year Story and the characters.

 

 

Writing Chinese letter a and numbers.               Role play the dragon.

 

 

Tasting Chinese cuisine,…

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Role-play Chinese new year number describing food

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Mrs Chang’s Visit

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Mrs Chung is a teaching student in school who very kindly came to talk to Little Chicks and Ducklings about Chinese New Year. She told us how they clean the house and have a nice bath with orange or grapefruit leaves in.

Mrs Chung told us how they decorate the house with lanterns, fish and…

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Understanding the World Chinese new year

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Chinese new year in the home

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The children have enjoyed finding out about how families celebrate Chinese new year in the home. 

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Celebrations Chinese new year

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Chinese dragon dancing

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The Ducklings have enjoyed finding out about how Chinese new year is celebrated. They have loved watching video clips of the lion and dragon dances. Outside, they have reenacted their own dragon dances together, while some children played percussion instruments to dance along to.

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Chinese writing

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The Ducklings have been trying out some Chinese writing as part of our Chinese new year celebrations.

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fine motor Creative learning Chinese new year

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Chineses Zodiac Year of the Tiger

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Little Chicks have been learning the signs of the Chinese Zodiac. They have made a badge that shows the animal of the year they were born. 

 

 

Little Chicks were either a Rooster or a Dog.

Rooster                                Dog

Harley                                   …

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Understanding the World Multicultural Chinese new year

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