LITERACY/ LANGUAGE/COMMUNICATION

The Willow Pattern Story

The Six Suns

The Turtle and the Crane

Sampan (poem)

The Lion Dance

Character voices & expressions

Voice overs on video

Retell Willow pattern story

Giving instructions/directions

Dragon – Descriptive Writing

Retell Lion Dance story

PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

Tai-chi

The Lion Dance/Crane dance

Flying Chinese Kites

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT Art

Willow pattern/story telling plates

Chinese characters/writing

Draw/paint/collage sampans

Draw/paint the Nien

Make Chinese lanterns

Music

Learn rhymes linked to traditional tales

Listen to and compose Chinese music

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

Design & Technology

Kites – observation/disassembly/designing

Designing & making shadow puppets

Designing & making fillings for Chinese pancakes/dumplings

Class Chinese Lion

Science

Kite investigation – tails

Sorting materials for puppets

Mixing and changing materials

Sound investigation

Geography

Locate China & discuss human and physical features

Compare China/Asia with Britain/Europe

Route to Yim Sung’s underwater home -mapmaking

Computing

Internet research

Roma – navigate the river

INSPIRATION DAY

Chinese New Year Celebration Sampling Chinese Food, exchanging envelopes, flying kites etc.

OUTCOME

Dragon Dance Performance

ROLE PLAY

Chinese home corner

Kitchen in the Chinese restaurant

Chinese Restaurant

Puppet Theatre

NUMERACY

Time

Using Timers

Timetables and calendars

P.S.E.D

RE - Festivals: Chinese New Year

PSHE Association Theme: Living in the Wider World – Different Groups & Communities –

Chinese Culture; SEAL Theme: Going for Goals Blue Set Y1 (Just Because …)

Revisit achievements/goals set as ‘New Year Resolutions’ for Chinese NY; Going for Goals Blue Set Y1 (Setting our Goals – the Miracle

Learner and Y2 Putting it Altogether – Going For a Goal)

Link to the idea of New Year resolutions being

goals/targets

Kung Hei Fat Choi