As part of our ongoing year long unit ‘Who We Are’ with the central idea ‘Communities can be diverse’ we focused on the line of inquiry ‘How communities evolve’ by finding out about the different ethnicities that make up Singapore. We had a selection of photos of foods, clothes and people as well as languages. We had to group them into similar groups. We found the four ethnicities in Singapore and Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian. Next we want to find out how many of each ethnic group there are. Zooming into the Indian ethnic group of Singapore we learned a bit about the celebration of Deepavali. First we did a see, think, wonder thinking routine with some different artefacts, pictures and objects related to Deepavali. Then Ms Shradha gave the class a presentation about Deepavali which helped to answer some of our wonder questions. Next Mrs Hayward set up a Rangoli making activity with beans and lentils. We glued them in circular patterns on plates. Some of us also coloured in Rangoli patterns.
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