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How we are celebrating Diwali in Room 28

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Diwali is November the 11th this year, Auckland city celebrated it early in Aotea Square on the 17 & 18th Oct.

We are celebrating Diwali at school and have been using lots of ideas around Diwali to talk about and introduce to the children.

The school organised a lady to come in an give anyone who was interested a henna design on their hand for $5. Here is mine in the classroom just after being done and later on the evening when all the paste had come off.

We have used a selection of resources from Activity village to colour in,

  • Rangoli patterns to put up in the classroom.
  • A poem to share at home in our poem books.
  • A Diya to colour and
  • lots of ideas for crafts to do.

We are having a group coming in to do a performance and all the adults are borrowing Sari’s to wear to school.

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I am a British-trained teacher who has taught across years 1- 6 in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. I currently teach Year 1's in an MLE. I believe deeply that the Science of Reading is the best way to teach ALL children to read.

6 thoughts on “How we are celebrating Diwali in Room 28”

  3. Your mehndi is lovely. I’m an Indian who has lived in India all my life and never had mehndi on even once, and I see this picture of you in Auckland – makes me smile.
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