Tuesday 9th February

Live Lesson this morning

Thompson Park at 9.30 am. Please bring pen and paper.

Suggested activities for Tuesday 9^th February

Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It falls on different dates each year. In 2021, it starts on February 12 and is the year of the ox.

Read all about the celebration below.

Please watch this story

The story of the Chinese Zodiac  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVClAj8q_lY

30 mins of reading time

• Use Bug Club and read with an adult 

• Read a story with animals in.

30 mins of physical exercise

• Take part in the Cardiff City home festival https://www.lansdowneprimary.co.uk/wellbeing/
• Go on a dragon hunt (yoga) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyI3qukcTiI

Maths activities 

• Continue to practice your ordering and sequencing by playing the Chinese dragon game again https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/chinese-dragon-ordering
• Order the animals  https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5157614de4b06ce8229f34fb/t/5feb0563894e6e178a7e72d7/1609237862220/Chinese+Ordinal.pdf
• Children are given money in red envelopes for Chinese new year. How much is in each envelope?

Literacy activities

• Find out what animal you are here https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/chinese-horoscopes/
• Play this listening game about animals https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/1/welcome-to-the-zoo
• Make a Good Fortune card to give to someone who is special to you. Wish them good luck, happiness, good health and wealth. Talk about what all of these things mean with someone.
• Can you find these tricky words?

• Write about the story of the animals race. 

Creative activities

• 2021 is the year of the OX. Do you know what an ox is?  Read about the ox in the PowerPoint above and learn how to draw an ox here.
• Make a Chinese flag and a welsh flag like these. Look where China is on a map. Do you think it is bigger than Wales?