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!