Hi everyone,

Happy Chinese New Year! We started the week off with a great assembly, we learnt all about Chinese New Year, the story behind the animals that represent time, how to count to 5 in Mandarin and we tasted some delicious food. The children loved the noodles and homemade prawn crackers. We had special visitors to our assembly and they donated boxes of fortune cookies.  Emma was the lucky girl chosen to try on the Chinese outfits and attempt to use chop sticks to eat her noodles!

We continued our theme of Chinese New Year throughout the week. We decided to get messy and create some beautiful red lanterns with lots of gold glitter. They look lovely hanging up in our classroom.

We had a sensory exploration session with coloured rice, coloured noodles and water play with Chinese bowls and spoons! The children experienced each section and were able to make a choice of where they would like to explore. Their favourite was definitely the dried rice and the exciting noises it made as it bounced off the tray and how it felt running their fingers. They also loved the water, we are learning how to fill and empty in class 1/2 and they loved the way the cellophane feels when it is wet – it also dyes the water!

I am sorry about the coffee afternoon mix up, I have rescheduled for the Thursday 13th February due to having a meeting (this one wont change).

Basheer was our Half Term Achiever, he has thrived and we are super proud of him. Well done!

Thank you and have a lovely weekend,

Jess, Lindsay, Corrie, Alyson and Michele