Circuits in Physical Education

Hop, jump, crawl, pull, climb.... being active for 15 minutes.

Chinese New Year

Reception Bears prepared themselves for the Chinese New Year.

First we learnt how to say Happy New Year.

新年快乐

(sshin-nyen kwhy-ler)

We learnt about various Chinese traditions.

People visit one another and present their hosts with

 tangerines and oranges, which mean "luck" and "wealth."

Our first guest taught us how to make dumplings

and also steam a rice cake/pudding - nian gao.

We all had a go at making dumplings.

 The dumplings were delicious with the soya bean sauce.

Jing used a special pot to steam the nian gao.

We all had a taste of the rice pudding, but we did not all like it.

Our next guest taught us how to make pretty patterns with paper.

Paper was invented in China, they are very good at
making things from paper.

 We cut a monkey and a Chinese character

that means "double happiness."

See the story bellow to find out why this is the

year of the Fire Monkey.

Do you think the Jade Emperor was clever?

The New Year is also called the Spring Festival.

This is the character for Spring.

We folded and cut this intricate pattern.

Our third guest taught us how to draw some

Chinese characters.

We used brushes and special ink on red paper.

We followed instructions carefully.

We wrote numbers from 1 to 10.

Our last guest lived in Singapore and has celebrated

the Chinese New Year ever since.

Sarah makes cupcakes and decorates them with tangerines.

She helped us make the frosting and decorate our cupcakes.
Rodrigo's family provided some delicious tangerines.

We all had a taste and there were still plenty to take home.

The Chinese New Year was also a good excuse for a rickshaw ride.

It takes skill as well as strength to pull a rickshaw.

新年快乐

Pyjama day

Reception Bears raised over 130 euros to sponsor foster families and children's homes for children who cannot live with their own family.

Pyjama day is a fun day at school to help celebrate children's right to live in a home with a family.
We wore our pyjamas to school and got ready for bed.

Before going to bed we got a little something

ready to eat with a warm cup of milk.

We went up to the kitchen and made some pumpkin jam tarts.

Yum, they were delicious.

Now before going to bed we need to brush our teeth.

 Up and down, up and down and all the way around.

We tried to get to sleep...

but that did not really work. So we decided to count sheep.

 We counted all the way to 100. 
We sorted the numbers in tens 
and then ordered the units.

 Excitement was certainly in the air and
jumping on the bed is always fun.
Follow this jump video and jump like us.

Talking of videos. We viewed a couple of episodes of 
Bananas in Pyjamas

Bananas in pyjamas, what a wonderful idea!

Bananas coated in chocolate and dipped
in hundreds and thousands.

If after all this the little children in pyjamas were not tired,
the teachers in pyjamas certainly were.

Yoga insights

Shoes off, X position, Namastê.

As we spread butter on our 'sandwich' we stretch our body.

We need to follow instructions, concentrate and focus.

Some positions: butterfly and turtle

We move to the right and we move to the left,

 and we pull our legs up high.

We help each other to complete tasks

 and to stretch our bodies.

During our yoga session we do funny things with our bodies.

At the end we think about our breathing.

Colourful PE

Can you follow instructions? 
Can you run around, go under, skip, change places,
walk fast and faster, change direction, stretch, pull, roll,..

We had loads of fun using the parachute in our PE lesson.

Yoga is...

Energy

Strength

Agility

Cooperation and interdependence

Relaxation 

We do like our carrots and fruit

Some of today's healthy snacks

3 healthy snacks

Cutting and sorting shapes

Cutting required a lot of concentration!

After cutting we sorted the shapes by colour, size and shape.

You are welcome to come to the classroom to see the results.

We also sorted shapes on www.poissonrouge.com

                           by colour by Alexandre                                                 by shape by Barbara

We saw these short videos about shapes.