This week we have been learning about the ‘Chinese New Year’ which is also known as the ‘Spring Festival’ in China as it marks the end of winter and beginning of Spring. We learnt that the Spring Festival happens in the months of January and February for 15 days! We know that red is seen to be a lucky colour and on New Years’ Day children wake up to a red envelope under their pillows with money and sweets enclosed. We have taken part in paper cutting which is a form of traditional art in China, we have made paper lanterns in our creative area and we have learnt how to say ‘hello’ (Nǐ hǎo) in Mandarin!
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Today the Children of Team JF have explored Chinese New Year. To begin with, we explored the range of animals used and discussed, from the cycle, how we knew it was the year of the ‘rabbit’. From this, we read the story of how animals became significant and gained a better understanding of this tradition. As it is the year of the rabbit we identified what this means and how it symbolises many things. After lots of discussion and finding out our own birth years, we created a poster in groups to secure our understanding of this belief. Team CW have explored Chinese New Year from CBeebies "let’s celebrate" and watched dragon dancing. Team CW talked about the year of the rabbit and had lots opportunities in provision for making lanterns, dragon puppets, writing Chinese numbers and letters.
Team CH begin our learning by re-telling the story of the legend of Chinese New Year. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z9k996f/articles/z2byvwx. After this, we talked about things we might expect to see. Things like loud noises, bright red colours and flames, all things that keep the Monster Nian away during the New Year celebrations in China. Next, we listened to a video about a 12-year-old girl, named Angela who is from China. Angela explained why The Chinese New Year is so important, when and how it is celebrated. We were able to make lots of connections to the story and to what Angela was showing us. We also noticed some things we do the same during our new year celebrations, like spending time with family and watching the fireworks. Finally, we Re told a familiar story about the 12 animals that raced for the honor to have a year named after them and we attempted to write the Chinese word for Rabbit. The Chinese new year - Year of the rabbit.
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