This year is the Year of the Rabbit. On Thursday 3rd February 2011 we celebrated the Chinese New Year by completing different crafts and cultural activities in Reception class.
We made Chinese paper lanterns and wrote messages using Chinese characters. We also made a rabbit card for the New Year animal, and some dancing Chinese dragon puppets.
We tasted a pomelo, a large Chinese grapefruit and smelt different Chinese cooking ingredients like black beans, Chinese mushrooms, star anise and sugar cane. We cooked traditional Chinese rice which tasted lovely. Our day ended with a visit from the Lion Dance team who performed an amazing Lion Dance in our school hall.The drums and cymbals were so loud we had to cover our ears! We gave the lion a lettuce to eat as part of Chinese New Year tradition.The lion spat out bits of the lettuce and if we caught a piece, it would bring us good luck all year.
Please leave a comment below if you enjoyed looking at or taking part in our chinese celebration.
Comments (2)
The lion dance was amazing! I Ioved the part when the lion was dancing! It was great!!
Posted by neve proud | February 13, 2011 9:11 AM
It was great! I loved the dragon! Lucky for me I caught some lettuce!
Posted by lauren gillespie | February 18, 2011 7:32 PM