To celebrate Chinese New Year we had a Chinese meal over the weekend and talked about how its tradition to use chopsticks to eat in China. Tommy even tried to use some chopsticks to eat his noodles!
We learnt where China is in the world (it’s very big!) and looked at their flag (red with yellow stars). We looked up pictures of Chinese festivals and I loved the massive colourful dragons!! My mum read me the story of how all the animals were chosen for the Chinese calendar. I can’t wait for the chopstick challenge next week!!
Well done Nathan and Mum, did you use the internet to find the pictures? I think the photos of the chopstick challenge will look really good on the Learning Page 🙂
I have been looking at the map to see where China is and I can see it is next to Vietnam where my Daddy is from. Vietnam is only very little and China is really big. We celebrate the Vietnamese New Year, which is called Tet. This is the same new year as the Chinese new year. We have the same animals as the Chinese zodiac except for 1 animal. We have a year of the cat and the Chinese have a year of the rabbit, instead. For, Tet, we ate some banh cuon, using our chopsticks. It was delicious.
We looked at how people use chopsticks to eat. We watched you tube to see how they hold chop sticks.
Kai’s auntie lives in China, Auntie Sarah is going to celebrate on Tuesday they are going to visit yuan gardens and take some pictures and send them to us so we can bring them into school for all the children to see.
Sophie and her mum made a dragon together. They looked at a globe and an atlas to see where China is. They looked at a Chinese film that had some Chinese writing – Sophie thought it looked more like pictures than words. Sophie and her dad also discussed Chinese food – Sophie loves rice and noodles!
Rosa typed: I made a dragun and rot my name in chinees
Rosas daddy filmed the dragon at the new year celebrations in birmingham and brought home a flag and a horse mask for the year of the horse. Rosa made a chinese dragon and learned how to write her name. She will bring them to school tomorrow.
We’ve looked at Darcy’s singing globe and seen how big China is compared to England. It showed us that Panda’s and silk worms come from China. We listened to some Chinese music and seen some amazing dancing dragons on the computer. We’ve found out that 2014 is the year of the horse and that she was born in the year of the ox, Scarlett is a rabbit, Mommy is a dragon and Daddy is a baa baa sheep!!!
We have had some lovely chinese food tonight, sweet & sour chicken and egg fried rice. But we didn’t try chop sticks!!
Oliver and Jacob have been to their Grandparents this weekend and tried eating crisps with chopsticks, some crisps were easier than others to pick up! They have coloured in pictures of the year of the horse, talked about which animal they were born in, apparently they are the year of the rat! They have also talked about China, the Great Wall and learnt how to count in Chinese (Jacob did this as part of his kung fu classes). The boys have also made red envelopes with their names written in Chinese on the front and some Chinese money inside. They have talked about why the colour red is important for luck in the new year. They will be bringing their horse pictures and envelopes into school.
We can’t wait to see them The children watched the story today about how the Emporer decided to name the years. Can you remember which animal won the race, and how do you think the Ox felt about this?
We spent some time looking at what Chinese year we were born in. No one in our family was born in the year of the horse.
Euan , Mummy and Daddy were all born in the year of the Ox and Eleanor was born in the Year of the Dog. Euan would prefer to be born in the year of the Dragon or the Tiger the same as either his Uncle or Grandad as he thought that it sounded more exciting. Euan also helped dye some t-shirts red for PE this week and whilst stirring the t-shirts in the dye we had a chat about why red is an important colour in China.
To celebrate Chinese New Year, we had a Chinese takeaway, we talked about how Chinese people eat there food with chopsticks not knifes and forks! We also looked at the map to see for far china was from the UK, Jamie said china is bigger than where we live mommy. We also looked to see what year it was when Jamie was born and it was OX, we also found out it was the year of the DRAGON when Jamie’s sister Ellie was born and it was the year of the RAT when mummy and daddy was born. We also looked to see what Jamie’s name looks like in Chinese, he said wow it just looks like pictures mummy. Jamie tried to write his name in Chinese and he will bring it in to school to show you.
Jamie’s writing is fantastic, thank you very much for bringing it in! We could see he was very proud of it when he showed it to the staff 🙂 We have had lots of super things being sent in this week. Have you ever tried to eat with chopsticks Jamie?
Joel came home from school today very excited about The Chinese New Year celebrations in school, we looked at the World Map on his bedroom wall and saw China. After school tomorrow we are going to go to the Library to look for a book about China (and if we can’t find one we’ll have a look on the iPad!)
I love going to the library, I hope you do find an interesting book full of information about China and the Chinese New Year. Can you let us know what else you find out?
To celebrate Chinese New Year we had a Chinese meal over the weekend and talked about how its tradition to use chopsticks to eat in China. Tommy even tried to use some chopsticks to eat his noodles!
That sounds tricky Tommy, well done! Which Chinese food do you like to eat?
I like to eat Chicken Chow Mein and BBQ Spare Ribs they are yummy!!
We learnt where China is in the world (it’s very big!) and looked at their flag (red with yellow stars). We looked up pictures of Chinese festivals and I loved the massive colourful dragons!! My mum read me the story of how all the animals were chosen for the Chinese calendar. I can’t wait for the chopstick challenge next week!!
Well done Nathan and Mum, did you use the internet to find the pictures? I think the photos of the chopstick challenge will look really good on the Learning Page 🙂
I have been looking at the map to see where China is and I can see it is next to Vietnam where my Daddy is from. Vietnam is only very little and China is really big. We celebrate the Vietnamese New Year, which is called Tet. This is the same new year as the Chinese new year. We have the same animals as the Chinese zodiac except for 1 animal. We have a year of the cat and the Chinese have a year of the rabbit, instead. For, Tet, we ate some banh cuon, using our chopsticks. It was delicious.
Happy Tet! It sounds like you have had a lovely weekend celebrating 🙂 Perhaps you could show us how to use chopsticks this week…
We looked at how people use chopsticks to eat. We watched you tube to see how they hold chop sticks.
Kai’s auntie lives in China, Auntie Sarah is going to celebrate on Tuesday they are going to visit yuan gardens and take some pictures and send them to us so we can bring them into school for all the children to see.
Thank you, we look forward to seeing them! Have you used chopsticks to eat any food yet Kai?
Sophie and her mum made a dragon together. They looked at a globe and an atlas to see where China is. They looked at a Chinese film that had some Chinese writing – Sophie thought it looked more like pictures than words. Sophie and her dad also discussed Chinese food – Sophie loves rice and noodles!
What a busy weekend! Well done Sophie, how do you think people would travel to China from England?
Rosa typed: I made a dragun and rot my name in chinees
Rosas daddy filmed the dragon at the new year celebrations in birmingham and brought home a flag and a horse mask for the year of the horse. Rosa made a chinese dragon and learned how to write her name. She will bring them to school tomorrow.
They are beautiful! Thank you for bringing them in 🙂
We’ve looked at Darcy’s singing globe and seen how big China is compared to England. It showed us that Panda’s and silk worms come from China. We listened to some Chinese music and seen some amazing dancing dragons on the computer. We’ve found out that 2014 is the year of the horse and that she was born in the year of the ox, Scarlett is a rabbit, Mommy is a dragon and Daddy is a baa baa sheep!!!
We have had some lovely chinese food tonight, sweet & sour chicken and egg fried rice. But we didn’t try chop sticks!!
That sounds like a delicious meal Darcy, and what a busy weekend you have had. Well done! What do you think a panda likes to eat?
Oliver and Jacob have been to their Grandparents this weekend and tried eating crisps with chopsticks, some crisps were easier than others to pick up! They have coloured in pictures of the year of the horse, talked about which animal they were born in, apparently they are the year of the rat! They have also talked about China, the Great Wall and learnt how to count in Chinese (Jacob did this as part of his kung fu classes). The boys have also made red envelopes with their names written in Chinese on the front and some Chinese money inside. They have talked about why the colour red is important for luck in the new year. They will be bringing their horse pictures and envelopes into school.
We can’t wait to see them The children watched the story today about how the Emporer decided to name the years. Can you remember which animal won the race, and how do you think the Ox felt about this?
Oliver and Jacob were very pleased the rat won the race and they think the ox would have been very sad about it!
We spent some time looking at what Chinese year we were born in. No one in our family was born in the year of the horse.
Euan , Mummy and Daddy were all born in the year of the Ox and Eleanor was born in the Year of the Dog. Euan would prefer to be born in the year of the Dragon or the Tiger the same as either his Uncle or Grandad as he thought that it sounded more exciting. Euan also helped dye some t-shirts red for PE this week and whilst stirring the t-shirts in the dye we had a chat about why red is an important colour in China.
What a super weekend you have had! I look forward to seeing your new red t-shirts 🙂 Why is red so important in China Euan?
Red is important because the dragon which came at new year was frightened of red !
To celebrate Chinese New Year, we had a Chinese takeaway, we talked about how Chinese people eat there food with chopsticks not knifes and forks! We also looked at the map to see for far china was from the UK, Jamie said china is bigger than where we live mommy. We also looked to see what year it was when Jamie was born and it was OX, we also found out it was the year of the DRAGON when Jamie’s sister Ellie was born and it was the year of the RAT when mummy and daddy was born. We also looked to see what Jamie’s name looks like in Chinese, he said wow it just looks like pictures mummy. Jamie tried to write his name in Chinese and he will bring it in to school to show you.
Jamie’s writing is fantastic, thank you very much for bringing it in! We could see he was very proud of it when he showed it to the staff 🙂 We have had lots of super things being sent in this week. Have you ever tried to eat with chopsticks Jamie?
Joel came home from school today very excited about The Chinese New Year celebrations in school, we looked at the World Map on his bedroom wall and saw China. After school tomorrow we are going to go to the Library to look for a book about China (and if we can’t find one we’ll have a look on the iPad!)
I love going to the library, I hope you do find an interesting book full of information about China and the Chinese New Year. Can you let us know what else you find out?
Ella looked up what sign she is and she is the year of the cow. Ella recently used chopsticks in wagamas with her friend Freddy.
That sounds exciting, what kind of food did you try Ella?
Immy found out that pandas come from China and that they eat bamboo. She also found out that the Chinese invented fireworks and kites.