{"id":618,"date":"2015-03-01T21:17:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T21:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aqua14.minchacademy.net\/?p=272"},"modified":"2022-01-20T09:14:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T09:14:30","slug":"first-week-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/2015\/03\/01\/first-week-back\/","title":{"rendered":"First week back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was a busy one after our week away. \u00c2\u00a0On Monday we celebrated Chinese New Year in Aqua Class. First we cleaned the classroom to ward off the evil spirits, then we decorated the classroom with red and gold lanterns and even made some Good Luck banners with Chinese writing. We then performed a Lion Dance using drums and cymbals to make the music. Finally we ate some Chinese food (Prawn Crackers) whilst we listened to a Chinese story &#8211; The Magic Paintbrush.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMAG4172.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMAG4172-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG4172\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMAG4171.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-282\" src=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMAG4171-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG4171\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday we learnt the story of the Great Race &#8211; how the Chinese Zodiac was made. It was very interesting and we found out that those of us who are 5 years old were born in the Year of the Ox and those of us who are still 4 years old were born in the Year of the Tiger. This year is Year of the Sheep \/ Goat. \u00c2\u00a0We then started thinking about goats and we were introduced to our new story of the term &#8211; The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We went out onto the playground with Midnight and Teal class where we used scrap to make bridges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMG_0235.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-273\" src=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMG_0235-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0235\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMG_0242.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMG_0242-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0242\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday We drew small, medium sized and big goats in our books and watched Noah from Midnight class&#8217;s goat videos. They were great and taught us what the goats look like, where they sleep and what they eat. In the afternoon we put on our wellies and got out onto the school field searching for treasures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMAG41773.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-293\" src=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMAG41773-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG4177\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMAG41773-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMAG41773-768x1278.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMAG41773-615x1024.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMAG41773-1200x1997.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMAG41773.jpg 1231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 85vw, 180px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMAG41791.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-5\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-291\" src=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMAG41791-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG4179\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMAG41791-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMAG41791-768x1079.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMAG41791-729x1024.jpg 729w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMAG41791-1200x1686.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMAG41791.jpg 1457w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 85vw, 213px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMAG4181-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-6\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-289\" src=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMAG4181-2-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG4181 (2)\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday we were very lucky to have a PE lesson with Mrs Bugg who taught us how to do forward rolls safely. It was such fun and most of us had managed it by the end of the session.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMG_1330.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-7\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-276\" src=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMG_1330-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1330\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMG_1331.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-8\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-277\" src=\"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/IMG_1331-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1331\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Friday came around all too quickly and we ended the week with a trip down to the pond to take a sneaky peek at the frogs. Spring is on its way and lots of frogs are in the pond getting ready to lay their frogspawn. We managed to stay very quiet so that we didn&#8217;t frighten any of the frogs away. There were lots!<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what next week will bring&#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was a busy one after our week away. \u00c2\u00a0On Monday we celebrated Chinese New Year in Aqua Class. First we cleaned the classroom to ward off the evil spirits, then we decorated the classroom with red and gold lanterns and even made some Good Luck banners with Chinese writing. We then performed a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/2015\/03\/01\/first-week-back\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First week back&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/reception\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}