EYFS - Chinese New year 'super learning day'

Lesson: Understanding the World

Class: Miss Wilson - Nursery Year: 2015 - 2016

The children in the EYFS enjoyed a day of activities focusing on Chinese New year, learning about the year of the monkey. They started the day by listening to the story of 'the great race' and learnt how each year is named after an animal and how the Chinese calendar is compiled.

The children celebrated by sampling different Chinese Cuisine, they painted boxes to make small dragon puppets, they colour mixed to make lucky blossom pictures.

The children also looked at lots of different styles of Chinese writing, they each then made their own Happy new year cards attempting to copy Chinese writing.

The children then watched a DVD about celebrating Chinese New year, we watched a Dragon parade and watched how it is celebrated in Manchester with lots of fireworks.

We enjoyed lots of fun counting activities relating to 5 little dragons and ordered dragons 1-10 

We also enjoyed role play in our house, we decorated the home corner with some lovely decorations donated by a very kind family in our current nursery class.

GONG HEY FAT CHOI!