Show and Tell was off to a great start this week. There were some very special things brought and everyone did a great job treating them with care. During Show and Tell everyone has the opportunity to ask questions and give comments. Right now we are working on the difference between a question and a comment.
This past week we learned about and celebrated Chinese New Year. We learned that long ago, according to legend there was a monster named Nian, whose name means year, that would come to scare everyone on the night of the new moon. Many years later a wise man taught them the 3 things Nian was afraid of; loud noises, fire and the colour red. These things keep Nian away, and now the new moon is celebrated.
To celebrate Chinese New Year we created many arts and crafts. We started with colouring and cutting out our own Nian and gluing it to a piece of red paper that folded over and over to form and accordion. We had lots of fun pretending to be a Nian, like the costumed ones we see in parades and festivals, and preform a Lion Dance. The performers of the Lion Dances are very skilled at dancing and balancing without fully seeing where they are going. For us, being under a large sheet with nowhere to look accept to the feet of the person in front of you can be quite tricky but we learned how to dance and follow each other’s feet very well. It was really sweet seeing them pretend to go to China and be Nians during their free play time as well.
This year is the year of the Monkey, so we made monkey masks and celebrated with origami paper Chinese lanterns. We also made a frame out of popsicle sticks for our Chinese name.
This week we also continued to learn about more about penguins. We pretended to be a daddy penguin keeping the egg warm before it hatches. It proved to be quite tricky to hold an egg (stuffy) between your legs and waddle like a penguin does (holding the large pillow to represent the girth of a penguin). We had a great time going penguin sliding down the hill at the park this week! And we made a torn paper penguin craft.
This week we also re-visited our rotting food science experiment from last week. This involved drawing what we see, ie: shapes that build the object, and sounding out words in order to label each of the 3 types of food we have been observing.
Can’t wait to see what this coming week holds!
Xoxo Miss Audra
This past week we learned about and celebrated Chinese New Year. We learned that long ago, according to legend there was a monster named Nian, whose name means year, that would come to scare everyone on the night of the new moon. Many years later a wise man taught them the 3 things Nian was afraid of; loud noises, fire and the colour red. These things keep Nian away, and now the new moon is celebrated.
To celebrate Chinese New Year we created many arts and crafts. We started with colouring and cutting out our own Nian and gluing it to a piece of red paper that folded over and over to form and accordion. We had lots of fun pretending to be a Nian, like the costumed ones we see in parades and festivals, and preform a Lion Dance. The performers of the Lion Dances are very skilled at dancing and balancing without fully seeing where they are going. For us, being under a large sheet with nowhere to look accept to the feet of the person in front of you can be quite tricky but we learned how to dance and follow each other’s feet very well. It was really sweet seeing them pretend to go to China and be Nians during their free play time as well.
This year is the year of the Monkey, so we made monkey masks and celebrated with origami paper Chinese lanterns. We also made a frame out of popsicle sticks for our Chinese name.
This week we also continued to learn about more about penguins. We pretended to be a daddy penguin keeping the egg warm before it hatches. It proved to be quite tricky to hold an egg (stuffy) between your legs and waddle like a penguin does (holding the large pillow to represent the girth of a penguin). We had a great time going penguin sliding down the hill at the park this week! And we made a torn paper penguin craft.
This week we also re-visited our rotting food science experiment from last week. This involved drawing what we see, ie: shapes that build the object, and sounding out words in order to label each of the 3 types of food we have been observing.
Can’t wait to see what this coming week holds!
Xoxo Miss Audra
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