Chinese New Year

This week we have found out about Chinese New Year.

This year it will be the Year of the Rooster.  We watched the Chinese dragon dancing and made some of our own dragon puppets.

We learned a song about dragons.

Dragon, dragon, dance around.

Dragon, dragon, touch the ground.

Dragon, dragon, shake your head.

Dragon, dragon, tongue so red.

Dragon, dragon, stamp your feet.

Dragon, dragon, coming down the street.

We also made some paper lanterns and sang about them!

Paper lanterns all around, all around, all around.

Paper lanterns all around.

Chinese New Year!

Paper lanterns red and gold, red and gold, red and gold.

Paper lanterns red and gold.

Lucky colours!

We made special fans and decorated them with bright colours and gold for luck.

Space 1

This week's theme has been space.  

We started our space theme by reading the story "Whatever Next!"  

The children enjoyed the story and began our space related activities very enthusiastically.

We made rockets from shapes

We started a space display for the corridor

We used moon-sand to make craters

We made cosmonaut pictures

We made models of space craft using recycled materials

We also read a story called "Aliens Love Underpants".  

We decorated some paper pants, but we haven't seen any aliens yet!

Our song this week was "Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer".  You can listen to it here.

Happy New Year!

This week we have been using technology to take digital photographs of activities in the classroom.  We hope you enjoy seeing some of the pictures taken by the children this week.

Our beautiful view.

Here are some of the activities.

  

 Two mystery objects.  Can you guess what they are?

(Answers at the bottom of the page)

...and finally, a different perspective of learning!

Answers:  Picture 1 is the ceiling of the classroom and picture 2 is Miss Pauline's blouse.