Happy Chinese New Year!

To celebrate Chinese New year, which is tomorrow, we have been learning all about the celebration!

Today we had a visit from 'Grace Tong' who told us all about the special festival. We learnt about the Chinese dragon and learnt how to do a 'dragon dance'.

We tried on some traditional Chinese costumes and looked at some special objects like bamboo paper and lanterns that had come from China.



We watched Grace do a beautiful chinese fan dance.

At the end of our session we learnt some Kung Fu! We were very good at remembering all 10 moves in the sequence.



When we got back to the classroom we tasted some different Chinese foods.

Lots of the children in Willow class tried all the foods - some of which they had ever had before!
We had; - egg rice, egg noodles, prawn crackers, spring rolls, curry sauce and sweet and sour sauce.

The most popular food in our class was the 'Prawn Crackers', followed by the 'egg noodles'. The least popular was the 'sweet and sour sauce'





 Tomorrow we are going to go on a Chinese Parade around the school.
We have learnt a Chinese song to sing!

We have been busy making a lucky dragon for the parade!

Go to our Book Blog!

The children love choosing a new Jane Hissey (our focus Author) book to read each week. Click on our 'Book blog' - the picture in the top left corner to find out about the books we read and to watch a video with this weeks story!

Arctic Adventures!

To finish our topic on Winter we have been looking at the Arctic.
We learnt all about what it is like there and what animals live there.

Today we were given some Arctic character masks.

We had to make our own story that was set in the Arctic

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We had great fun acting them out for our friends to see!

Treasure Hunters!

This week we have started to learn about Chinese New Year.
We learnt that Grandparents give children red envelopes with coins in for a present at New Years.

We played a brilliant game where we all had a lucky red envelopes and we had to go and hunt for lucky gold coins! We found loads!

Some of the coins had numbers on them - we put the numbers in order from 0 - 20!

 Naughty number '12' was missing!

 We had a fantastic time searching for gold!

Happy Chinese New Year for next Friday! 

Winter Tweety Treats!

As part of our topic on Winter we have been thinking about the birds. We know it is very difficult for them to find food in the winter so during Wellie Wednesday this week we made them a special 'Tweet treat'.

We found a fir cone and tied a raffia hook on it.

We smeared it with lard.

We rolled the cone in breadcrumbs - look a lovely treat for the birds!

We hooked out treats in the bushes, we'll have a look to see if they have been snacked on next time we go out!
I think there will be lots of full up happy birds around Greenfields :-)

Happy New Year!!!

A big big thank you for all of the lovely Christmas gifts and cards that many parents sent in - we were touched by your kindness! We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and break.

We are really looking forward to another fun packed term in Willow Class! This half term we are going to be learning about - Winter,Chinese new year, the weather and Noahs Ark.

The children are fantastic at coming into school and sorting their belongings now, we would ask that you further encourage this independence by allowing them to come into the cloakroom/ locker area alone. Staff will be on hand to assist with putting belongings away, changing books etc. This will be a great confidence booster for the children and will also reduce the bottleneck of incoming people when school begins. We will remind the children that this is what we expect and reward those who freely come in and independently organise themselves.

As always in Willow Class if you have any quick queries or issues you wish to discuss feel free to still come and grab a member of staff between 8.50 - 9.00am. 

All of the staff in Willow Class would like to wish all the parents and children a very 

'Happy New Year!!!'