Playing String Games

We have discovered that String games are played both in Chinese and Maori culture. Ashton is our class expert and he taught us a neat trick.

Here we are and here we SHINE!

Our first story writing was about things we were good at. We wrote I shine at.....
We then published them on a sunny yellow balloon. It was tricky to keep the balloon still.
We shone at lots of different things!!

Celebrating Chinese New Year at Sunnyhills School

 We had visitors come to the school to tell us about and demonstrate "The Lion Dance"  It was really interesting and skillful. Some children including Hayley were given the opportunity to play the cymbals. Mrs Dijkstra loved the drums. They reminded her of the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing where there were one thousand of those drums. They were AMAZING!

Mrs Dijkstra was very proud of these children who wore their Traditional costume to school to celebrate their culture. Everyone in the class made an origami pig to take home.

 We had a special day!

We went on to make our own dragons. Check out the display in our classrrom!