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Chinese New Year
Kung Hey Fat Choy!
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Teaching Resources for Chinese New Year
Click here to go to resources created by the Kent NGfL ICT team.
The pages includes images of animals and their chinese names
 Chinese lanterns- Chinese Fans
- Chinese Writing
Chinese characters are read and written from top to bottom.
- Sing a Chinese New Year song.
- Make Chinese hats (coolie hats)
- Make a dragon
- Make a dragon puppet
- Make a noisy dragon (creative steps)
- Kites
No one knows for certain where the kite originated, but many believe it was invented in China a couple thousand years ago.
- Make animal masks and act out the New Year story of the race of the 12 animals crossing the river.
 Literacy - animal noises- Literacy - sequence the animals crossing the river.
- Literacy - adjectives
- Maths - barchart of how many pupils are of each animal in the school.
- PHSE - Was it a fair race? Did the rat cheat? Is it a good way of deciding the order?.
- Tangrams
- Make the little red envelopes
When children visit friends and relatives they are given a money envelope. Buy chocolate gold coins to pop inside.
Talk about how red and gold is a lucky chinese colour. Red is the symbol of happiness and ultimate joy. (Click here to see Chinese money)
- Tasting Chinese food - spring rolls, noodles, stir fry
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 Writing a menu for Chinese Restuarant
- Eating with chopsticks eg try picking up broken biscuits, smarties etc
- Make a dragons head out of a cardboard box
- Perform a Dragon Dance (Click here to watch a video)
- Firework Pictures
- Fortune cookies -
Write messages for the inside of fortune cookies
- Read a book based in China (see examples here) A good one is 'Made in China' by Deborah Nash
Interesting Fact: Ice Cream was invented in China in about 200B.C.
Websites
 About China
Where in the World is China (map)- Ideal for the IWB
China flag to colour
What time is it in China now?
Photographs from China - Ideal for the IWB
Lesson Plans and Resources
Animals of the Chinese Zodiac
TES Resources
Photographs and Symbols of the Animals
Free resource from Resource Bank - www.tes.co.uk
What are people born in the year of the rat like?
www.c-c-c.org/chineseculture/zodiac/
Story
www.topmarks.co.uk
Chinese New Year Song- Ideal for the IWB
www.nancymusic.com/Gunghayplay.htm
More songs
Games and Activities
www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/chinesenewyear/
www.activityvillage.co.uk/chinese_new_year.htm
Paper Lanterns
www.kidsdomain.com/craft/lantern1.html
Tangrams
Tangam online activites
How to make a set of Tangram pieces (Flash file)
Chinese Artefacts
Photographs
Chinese Numbers
Enchanted Learning (Scroll down the page)
Chinese Words
chinapage.com
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