Chinese New Year Activities

LEARNING ABOUT CHINESE NEW YEAR

Chinese New Year is one of the significant event in Malaysia and we did a special topic on this event so that the children could understand the Chinese culture and traditions. The children learnt that : - Chinese all over the world celebrate this event, the legend behind this celebration, the animals in the Chinese calendar, the lion dance, the costumes, the decorations, ang-pow, etc. We had a lot of fun learning this topic and enjoyed the activities carried out. We hope a REAL lion dance troupe will drop by our school next week.

Thank you to all our parents for contributing the decorative items for the class display, for the oranges, for dressing up your children in Chinese costumes and in bright coloured clothings, for the noodles and most of all ~ for your support in making this topic a success.

The classrooms were decorated with Chinese lanterns and words for good fortune, prosperity and everything good !

The classroom with lanterns and the 'RABBIT' .

Chinese New Year greetings and rabbits made from angpow packets.

The children learned that this new year is the 'Year of The Rabbit' - the children pasted the ears, eyes, nose & drew the mouth , then attached the head to the angpow packet.

The lion head and angpow packet.

Another version of the lion head attached to the angpow packet.

The rabbit ears head bands signified the 'Year of the Rabbit'.

We had a special assembly to watch the 'Lion Dance' performed by the children and also learned to sing a Chinese new year song.

We watched a video of 'Lion Dance' show and also learned how the Chinese prepare their homes for the celebration.

Beautiful basket of oranges.

The traditional way of bringing oranges when visiting friends houses during Chinese New Year.

For break time, we asked parents to pack noodles and chopsticks. Here's one way to eat with chopsticks! Parents packed spoons & forks too so that the children won't go hungry on that day.

We also asked parents to pack a Chinese orange for break time. The children learned the shape and colour, how to peel the oranges and discovered that there were sour and sweet oranges.

We wore bright coloured clothings and Chinese costumes. Class photo of the four years old and Reception class.

Junior 2

Junior 3

Happy Chinese New Year!