Celebrating Chinese New Year

With perfect timing, the Ladybirds have landed in Asia as we complete our trip around the world. We have been learning how other cultures celebrate special occasions and this week we found out about Chinese New Year. We have enjoyed lots of art and craft including making a Chinese Dragon to perform a dragon dance. Other activities have included making lanterns, a red purse for special coins and writing a number track using Chinese symbols. For our writing task, we explored which animal represents the year we were born. Then we wrote a sentence to say, I was born in the year of the…

We had great fun creating a dragon dance with a partner and have even learned how to say happy new year in Chinese, Kung Hei Fat Choi!