On the morning we did some maths work before getting ready to go to our chinese new year event.
A librarian at our local library offered to put on a session for our home ed community. Around fifteen other children came along and joined in the session learning about chinese new year celebrations, what its all about and what year it is (year of the pig btw).
Everyone enjoyed themselves. There was lots to do.
There was a table full of props and dressing up clothes.
A and X liked looking at all the props. The lion and the dragon were A’s favourites. X liked the drums.
Mummy put the jade emperor mask on which made X laugh.
F liked the wooden puzzle.
X and A made their own dragons.
A tried her hand at using chopsticks correctly guided by the librarian.
It took her a few goes but she eventually picked it up.
We then looked at what animals are for the years that we were born (we already knew this as we have been doing a chinese new year topic at home, but we did it again).
Mummy and daddy are the year of the ox.
X is the year of the rabbit.
A is the year of the snake
F is the year of the dog.
Family fun - Our journey as a home educating family of five. 