Welcome back after the midterm break everyone! This week we will be celebrating Chinese New Year with the children; it is the year of the Dog, and we will be talking about some of the traditions associated with the Chinese New Year – cleaning the house and decorating it (mainly in red the lucky colour), the red packets of money given to children, the New Year’s Eve family dinner, and the fireworks to drive away evil to name some! We will be doing process art making dogs, and also creating dragons in the classroom!

Later in the week we will ‘wake up’ our hibernating animals who have been sleeping since October, and talk about the changes that are happening for them in spring time and how it’s getting easier for them to obtain food and energy now.

Chinese New Year Poem

Dragons, lions,
Red and gold,
In with the New Year,
Out with the old.

Banners flying,
Bands playing,
Lions prancing,
Dragons swaying.

Fireworks crackling,
Lanterns swinging,
People laughing,
Dancing, singing.