Heathrow Primary School
Heathrow Primary School
Week 4- Chinese New Year
We learnt about Chinese New Year this week. We listened to the story of the animal race and then ordered the animals correctly from first to last using ordinal numbers and positional language.
The children enjoyed using the role-play masks to act out the story.
We learnt about how people celebrate Chinese New Year across the world and compared it to some other celebrations we have learnt about so far throughout the year such as birthdays, Diwali and Christmas. The children drew a picture of the different ways it is celebrated.
This year is the Year of the snake. We made snakes by curling the strips of paper and threading them through to make a paper chain. We cut our Chinese lanterns and collaged them.
We learnt about length this week, focusing on the vocabulary 'long' and 'short,' 'longer' and 'shorter' and 'longest' and 'shortest'. We compared and ordered different snakes.
We counted out gold coins to put in the Chinese New Year envelopes. We had to use our one-to-one correspondence, stop at the cardinal number and match the amount to the numeral.
We made ‘blotto dragons,’ by squirting dots of paint on paper and folding it over to create a symmetrical Chinese New Year Dragon. The children were astonished at how it turned out when we opened the paper back up. We cut different materials to add features to our dragons.
The children then used these Dragons to do a Chinese New Year Dragon Dance. We learnt a new Dragon song and danced along to it with the actions.
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