{"id":9938,"date":"2019-02-04T23:05:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T23:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?p=9938"},"modified":"2019-02-04T23:05:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T23:05:27","slug":"chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?p=9938","title":{"rendered":"Chinese New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ni Hao!<\/p>\n<p>We were visited today by our Mandarin teacher Peggy and four other teachers from the Confucius Institute in Aberdeen. We were taking part in lots of Chinese activities to celebrate the Year of the Pig.<\/p>\n<p>We learnt how to play different games with string. We enjoyed surprising our friends with our magic string tricks!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-9938 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?attachment_id=9942'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" src=\"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image2-300x224.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?attachment_id=9945'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image6-224x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image6-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image6.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We made red envelopes. These are red because red is a lucky colour in China. Often they are filled with money and given as gifts at New Year.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-9938 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?attachment_id=9944'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" src=\"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image5-300x224.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image5-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image5.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?attachment_id=9943'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" src=\"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image3-300x224.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image3-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We also designed Chinese masks.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-9938 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?attachment_id=9947'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" src=\"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image-300x224.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?attachment_id=9946'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image7-224x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image7-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image7.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We liked playing with the zhuazi catching cube game. It was quite difficult.<\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed learning lots about Chinese New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ni Hao! We were visited today by our Mandarin teacher Peggy and four other teachers from the Confucius Institute in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,13,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-p5-7","category-p45","category-p5-6-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9950,"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions\/9950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}