RD-Chinese New Year (Understanding the World)

This week we have been exploring Chinese New Year.  We have been very busy in our deconstructed role play area as we created a Chinese takeaway.  We took orders over the phone and in person and wrote them down ready for the chefs to prepare.

We learnt that the dragon is a symbol of China and is an important part of Chinese culture.  The dragon symbolises wisdom, power and wealth and brings good luck.  After learning about the Chinese dragon, we made our own dragons using split pins.  As a class we made a large dragon head in our creative area and used this to do a dragon dance.  We also explored Chinese symbols and had fun copying these in our painting and writing areas.