We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Merry New Year!

The children had a great time at our class Christmas party.

Playing pass the parcel and musical statues.

 

And of course our lovely party food.

 

 

 

 

 

Our Christmas performance - Christmas Around the World.

 

Thank you for all our Christmas cards, greetings and presents!

Have a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year.

Dear Santa...

It's so exciting.. Christmas is nearly here!!

Early Years sang, danced and rocked out in their Christmas performance and we are really proud of them. Due to the snow day, they didn't have a chance for a dress rehearsal and even though they are so young, they were very brave and performed their best in front of such a large audience - well done to all of your children and to you for showing your support!  Please watch this space for photos of the performance.

Our role play is now Santa's wrapping station. We can send and make cards, dress up like Santa and dress our Christmas tree.

 

Our text this week is Dear Santa by Rod Campbell

We made up our own version of the story by unwrapping different presents and talking about why each one wasn't quite right.

Blowing out the Christmas candle in the Christmas assembly.

 

Decorating biscuits to help us with our fine motor skills - they were very yummy to eat too!

 

 Christmas jumper day!

Lunch club have lots of fun joining the whole school for a special lunch. We enjoyed pulling our crackers but our hats may have been a little too big...

 

 

 We had great fun in the snow.

 

 

Please remember the last day of term is Tuesday 19th December.

We will be having a Christmas party next week and a letter will come out tomorrow with more details (Thursday 14th).

Nativity

This week we have been reading the Nativity story.

We have retold the Nativity story using small world figures.

We have been learning that Christians believe that baby Jesus was born at Christmas.

We have been busy learning our Christmas songs for our performance on Tuesday. We hope you'll come and see us.

We made baubles for our Class Christmas tree using characters from the Nativity story to help us remember what happened and who was there.

We have also been thinking about cold and arctic weather. We used the penguins and polar bears in the 'snow' and thought about how it feels and what it would be like to live somewhere freezing cold.

We have been making snowflakes to decorate our classroom for the school fair on Saturday. We practised our cutting skills to make our snowflakes.

We have practised our fine motor skills by making Christmas stars and decorating them in different ways.

We looked at patterns this week, using movements, colours and voices. We thought patterns were a bit like taking turns - first one then the other.

At home you could try making patterns of your own with colours, sounds or movements.

Next week we will be continuing our Christmas theme by thinking about Santa Claus and using this as a focus for our learning.

We will be having a class party on the morning of Monday 18th December. There will be a letter coming home to confirm details about this.