Chinese New Year

This week (8th-12th Feb) we have been learning about how Chinese New Year is celebrated. The children tasted rice, noodles, prawn crackers and different sauces. They had fun eating the noodles as you can see from the photos! Some of the children were brave enough to try using chop sticks to eat their rice! We also had a go at "dragon dancing". This was quite difficult as they children had to hold, control and make the dragon dance in time with the music. It is the "Year of the Monkey". We have plenty of monkeys at Pre-School (!) so we have been singing 10 Little Monkeys this week. Thanks to all those parents who sent extra monkeys in (you know who you are...)
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Animal Week (1st-5th February)

[caption id="attachment_154" align="alignright" width="300"] Harry's guinea pig Merv.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_156" align="alignnone" width="206"] Bea's cat Henry.[/caption] What a great week! We had a number of different pets visiting, thanks to all those parents/staff who took the trouble to bring them in. We still have one or two to come on Monday. [caption id="attachment_160" align="alignright" width="209"] Islay's dog Ally.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_159" align="alignnone" width="231"] Don's puppy Stan.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_157" align="alignnone" width="300"] Poppy's Chameleon Mort.[/caption]     [caption id="attachment_155" align="alignleft" width="300"] Ada's pets, Tilly (dog) and Chip (cat).[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_153" align="alignright" width="206"] Ben's dog Sparky.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_158" align="alignright" width="300"] Joshua's hamster Mudgie.[/caption] See our new Songs page for the words to this week's song: Tom Farmer!
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Upcoming events

Next week (1st-8th Feb)  we are having an "Animal Week"! Each day, two of our parents are bringing in pets/animals to "show and tell". We have a variety of animals coming in including a puppy, dogs, a cat, a guinea pig, a hamster, a hen and a Shetland pony! The children are really looking forward to all the excitement! The following week (8th-12th Feb), we will be finding out about Chinese New Year. There will be Chinese-inspired art and craft, music and dancing, stories, pictures and food. How will we fit it all in??
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