FESTIVAL FUN FOR THE EARLY YEARS introduces a range of multicultural celebrations into the Foundation Stage setting. Share two Chinese festivals with the children in your setting. For Chinese New Year, make paper lanterns, bake fortune cookies and dance like lions| For the Dragon Boat Festival you can learn to count in Chinese, hold a dragon boat race and have a yin yang celebration.

 

This book is part of a book series called Festival Fun For the Early Years .

This book is at the foundation stage (early years) of the key stage system. The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) covers children from birth to age 5 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2004 by Scholastic .

Meg Jones is an early years consultant and NVQ Assessor. She has previously been a Playgroup and Childminding Adviser, a Lecturer in Community Care and Manager of Early Childhood Services for Leicester City Council. She has had books published by Ginn and How To Books and has had many articles published in magazines such as Nursery World and Nursery Education.