This week there have been lots of special days.

In Nursery and Reception we have found out about Chinese New Year.  Reception listened to the story of the animal race.  Each year is named after an animal.  The order of the years is the same order as the animals finished in the race.  This year is the year of the dog.  In Reception we used the story to help us learn about ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd…)

In Nursery we found out about how Chinese people decorate their homes and write good luck messages for each other.  People also give each other money in red envelopes.

We made our own decorations and good luck messages.

Both Nursery and Reception also watched a video of a traditional Chinese Lion and Dragon dance.  We all had great fun copying the moves and moving in time to the drums.