1. Chinese New Year!

2. The Chinese New Year The Chinese New Year - late Jan/mid Feb
Goodbye old year, welcome new year.
End of winter, new plants, growing

3. Getting ready: what do they do?

4. New Years Eve

5. New Years Day
'ang pow'

6. Music
Red & gold = lucky and scares the monster.

7. They don’t…

8. Lanterns
Last day of celebrations.
Return of light & warmth of sun.

9. Chinese calendar Each year is named after an animal.
12 different animals.
2014 = Year of the Horse.
2015 = Year of the Sheep.

10. Dragon Dance Chinese believe dragons are kind & helpful.
Bring good luck.
Scare bad things away.
Dragon Dance

11. Sleeping Dragon
There is a very friendly Chinese dragon sleeping in the dragons cave just down the corridor.
If we creep down the corridor quietly we can watch the sleeping dragon.
Lets use all of our senses to think about what the dragon is like and try to describe the dragon.

12. Use this sheet to write your describing words on:
SHHHHHH – creep down to the cave very quietly !