Chinese New Year in class 3: Dragon Dances and Mrs. Khoo's visit.

For PE we split into groups and made up and performed various dances including Dragon dances and dances retelling the Chinese Zodiac calendar story  how the years were named after the 12 animals .

A Dragon Dance ...

Retelling the animals crossing the river...

ox, rat and tiger.

Mrs.Khoo came into class to tell us more about the Chinese New Year festival.She brought clothes which children were keen to dress up in.

She told us some of the traditions, showed us some Chinese character writing  and answered lots of questions.

Carise gave us all special red envelopes as a celebration of the 7th day of the festival, known as Human Day which is considered to be the birthday of everybody.

Thank you Mrs Khoo and Carise, we now know more about the Chinese New Year.