The children have been learning about Chinese/Lunar New Year. It has been fun to share in the celebrations and to compare the customs with their own memories of Christmas festivities. We watched a video about a boy called Ian and how he and his family celebrate. In response to this, the children have enjoyed a number of different activities at Pre-school. These include dragon picture mark making, finger painting dragon scales, creating vegetable spring rolls, dragon dancing with our dragon puppet, ribbon dancing, hearing the story of The Twelve Animals and how the new year got its name, making an animal mask to help act out the story, taking home a fortune cookie to open with their parents. This year is the Year of the Rabbit, by the way!
