Happy Chinese New Year From all of Froglets. We have continued our learning about the Chinese festival this week.

Mrs Aplin-Moore has been really impressed this week by the children’s story telling skills. Following on from learning the story ‘The Great Race’ last week, the children have been retelling the story for themselves using the story map and actions we learnt.

Here are some of the children’s actions for the animals…

On Wednesday we had the opportunity to try some Chinese foods. The kind people at Fung Sing in Kingsteignton gave us some fortune cookies and prawn crackers to try. We also made a stir fry of vegetables and noodles in the wok. We listened carefully to the sizzle and could smell the food cooking before we had a taste.

Froglets have started their learning about a new topic. For the next 2 weeks we will be learning about Chinese New Year and how it is celebrated.

We have been learning the story of the Great race. This is all about how the Jade Emperor decided to have a race between 12 animals to find out which to name the new year after.

The children have been learning actions for the each of the animals and together we have made a story map to help us retell the whole story.

The children have also been having a go at their own races using the animal puppets.

We have also been making our own dancing dragon puppets this week.

Froglets had lots of fun on the playdough tables, making noodles and playing with chopsticks.