Chinese new year provocations

Happy New Year! We've been reading up on the Chinese New Year, which is a 15-day event that starts today. To kick off our celebrations, we...

Chinese New Year inspired maths 🧧

Check out this cute Chinese New Year I Spy Game printable! Great for practicing counting up to 10, 1:1 correspondence, visual discrimination, number recognition, and more! Your preschooler or kindergartner will love it.

Revisiting an exciting or fun event can help embed a child's learning. Last week we saw our local Chinese New Year celebrations complete with dancing lions and dragons. The Frog was very transfixed by the dancers and drums (so much so we have had several sessions of dragon dancing at home this week). To extend this experience I made some red and yellow playdough (the colours of the dragons and lions we had seen) and gave him some 'loose parts' to add. We looked at pictures from Google of…