The Year of the Tiger 🐯Kung Hei Fat Choi !

It is Chinese New Year and around a quarter of the world's population celebrate this festival, so we are celebrating this Spring Festival too - The Year of the Tiger 🐯

We are immersing ourselves in the festivities all this week which we hope will broaden our lickle peeps horizons and celebrate cultures and traditions that may already be familiar to many of our children and families.

We have decorated our classroom with red and gold lanterns, there will be lion/dragon dancing 🐲, dressing up in custom clothes, role play in our Chinese restaurant/take away, taking orders and serving food, mark making by copying Chinese symbols and writing characters, physical development using chopsticks to support fine motor skills and filling and emptying numbered containers with coloured rice* and there will be endless possibilities for arts and crafts and activities that cover every area of our EYFS curriculum.

*apologies if your children's hands come home slightly red, this should wash off in the bath fingers crossed🤞🥰

We will also be trying Chinese cuisine 🥢🥡– noodles, rice, soy, sweet chilli sauce and prawn crackers (we have found alternatives for those with allergies). We will also have oranges/tangerines which symbolise wealth and apples symbolising peace. The many traditions that make up this festival offer plentiful opportunities to extend our children’s knowledge and understanding of the world.

Kung Hei Fat Choi / gōng xǐ fā cái
Xin Nian Kuai Le
xīn nián hǎo
Sshin-nyen haoww
San nin hou
gōngxǐ fācái
(Happy New Year) 🎊