Chinese New Year!
/The pre-school children have been learning all about Chinese New Year and discovering all the special celebrations that happen over this period. The children took part in noodle and rice food tasting at snack time. Shyla particularly enjoyed the egg fried rice and told her friends, “This rice is so yummy and it’s just like the rice that we have with our chilli at nursery, but this one has special nice bits in it”. The children have also been listening and dancing to Chinese music along with various types of music from all around the world. Jasper, Ethan and Salvador were all dancing together and really laughing and enjoying themselves.
Outside in the garden, the children were practicing their writing skills whilst attempting to copy some of the Chinese writing symbols. Ezmie mentioned to Sophie, “This writing isn’t like the letters we have in our names because this one is Chinese letters”. The children loved getting messy and painting some boxes to make their very own 3D dragon to hang up at nursery. Once the boxes were all connected together, Emma got very excited and called her friends over to see, “Look, it’s the Chinese dragon from the great river race story!”.
The children have also been very active and loved football, hula hoop and frisbee games over in the football field. Zac and Amelia loved chasing each other around, kicking the football and laughing together when they got it in to the goal post. Joshua, Jasper and William practiced their frisbee skills, testing each other to see how far they could throw it, together counting, “1, 2, 3, go!” and then seeing who was the quickest to collect the frisbee again.
Some of the children decided to take a more relaxed approach and have a little lay down on the grass, looking for worms inside the holes in the ground. This then set in to a challenge to see who could get the muddiest hands ! After not finding any worms, Maya suggested, “Maybe we need to find some wet soil instead” and they all moved to the tree to have a closer inspection.