Chinese New Year is almost here

These packs are all about creating an understanding of a Chinese New Year - the traditions, the symbols and the zodiac. 








This Chinese New Year pack is huge! There are posters and pages for Interactive Note Pages. Explore the zodiacs and understand what the traditions are that surround the Chinese New Year. 

This pack includes
• An introductory page for each section complete with detailed instructions.
• Options to print for sheep or goat at the end of the pack. The Chinese refer to goats and sheep. In English, it is based on a horned animal. In Vietnam, it is goat. In Japan - sheep; in Korea and Mongolia the sign can be sheep or ram. 

Tasks include - 
• KWHL – what do you know, want to know and what is your new learning?
• Our Class Word Wall – add to this while you are learning about the Chinese New Year.
• Posters for Chinese Zodiac Animals – information on each one. 
• Interactive Journal pages – to discover new information and record what you know.
• Fact sheets on all the zodiac animals.
• Venn Diagram – compare our New Year to a Chinese New Year
• Can-are/is-have/has on traditions that are significant to Chinese New Year.
• Graphic Organizers to help record learning. 







This is great for younger students....




Chinese New Year
146 pages



This Chinese New Year pack supports you to graph the year that your grade were born into according to the Chinese Zodiac. Build a dragon and match the animals on the zodiac to their name and number.



Ram is used in some parts of the world as one of the zodiacs. There are options to print for sheep or goat at the end of the pack as some countries use these instead. 
The Chinese refer to goats and sheep. In English it is based on a horned animal. In Vietnam it is goat. In Japan - sheep; in Korea and Mongolia the sign can be sheep or ram. 



This pack contains -
• Printing options for full color, save your ink and some tasks have black/white versions.
• There are a series of posters to display. These provide information for discussion. 
• Matching task – match the ordinal, name and the picture of the animal from the zodiac.
• Graphing task – use a sample group across your school as your grade will be only two or four animals on the Chinese New Year Zodiac.

• Craft task - Make your own dragon, photos provided to show you what to do. 






Read to Self - Day 2

My grade, our grade this year are AMAZING!!!!!

Read to Self on our second day was 25 minutes.

The day before Stacey (my teaching team buddy) and I explained that they had a job tomorrow to impress us with READ to SELF

DID they ever!

They came in - sorted their bags, organised their book box and just got down to business.

We have Year 3/4 an the Year 3 kids were part of my Year Preps and they have had 3 years of Daily 5 d they got on with it. 

The investment we made as a staff has paid off.

It was like - do not wake a sleeping baby - we got to 25 minutes and stamina was gold.

Tomorrow we map out our anchor chart......I think we will be seasoned pros at this. 



Love my room this year

I have put off posting pictures of my new space as I have been waiting for our new whiteboard to be installed. 

This week will be our first full week back after summer break. 

I am team teaching with Stacey this year and we have Year 3/4. 
Her and I have come from the 5/6 team and will miss our 2014 team, but change is okay. 

Still a little messy - but my teacher space with Six Traits posters behind my desk. 

This is a close up of my posters....


Here is the start of my Word Wall and Learning Intention area. There are my interactive notebooks on the shelf
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Anecdote Books waiting for notes......

Daily Plans and Interactive Books ready to go


Clocks are ready to discuss the school routine


Daily 5 prompts ready to have anchor charts attached 


The all important Cafe posters for the Cafe Menu are up. These kids will have had Daily 5 and Cafe for the past 3 or 4 years already. I taught so many of them in the first year of school (Prep or Foundation)



Classroom jobs are organised too


Mailboxes and conferencing cubbies


Word Work wall ready for lists


Writing prompts and story wheel


I will post more this week as we settle into the space. 
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