We held our Advent Prayer Service and thought about how we could bring peace to others. We made peace hearts to let Year 4 we are thinking about them this weekend.

We found out how people in Poland and Italy celebrate Christmas.  Pietro helped us to learn about Italy and Julian about Poland.  Thank you for the lovely spiced cake Pietro.

We had a fun day on Friday in our Christmas Jumpers and we also recorded our part for the Christmas video.   The jumpers can be worn again on Christmas Dinner day next week. Next Friday will be our last day before Christmas so we are going to watch the Polar Express and have some hot chocolate and treats.  The children in Reception are invited to come to school in their Pyjamas.

We started the week by making an Advent Wreath.  We all helped to put in the leaves and holly.  We then held a lovely Prayer Service.

We made shortbread to celebrate St Andrew’s Day.

On Tuesday Mrs Cannon came down to say that she had just had some very exciting visitors.  They were two of Santa’s Elves who brought us a reply to our letters for Father Christmas.

We continued our preparations for Advent by making cards and writing a letter to the Residents of The Spinney.  We hope that they make them smile.

We listened to the Annunciation Story and then took it in turns to act out the story.  We talked about how Mary would have felt and if we would have said ‘Yes’.

On Thursday we had a very special  Advent Service when we joined with Nursery to link with Father Paul.  It was lovely to  feel part of the Church community again and share the service.

We also managed to fit in daily phonics, number 5 work in Mathematics, learn a new word in our Word Aware programme and make Nativity pictures!

We have been talking about the season of winter and made some winter pictures.

We practised our scissor skills cutting out hands to make a very important wreath for Advent.

In our Literacy lesson we wrote a very important letter to Father Christmas.  We are hoping that we might get a reply this week.  We will let you know!

Our Word Aware word this week was ‘side’. Next week we will find out about ‘Up’.

We celebrated Bonfire night by making firework pictures, recording our firework noises and making chocolate apples. 

We have been exploring numbers 1-3.  We have sorted objects and ourselves and also practised writing numbers.   

We met Concept Cat who is going to be helping us to learn all about words and their meaning. This weeks word was ‘Back’. 

This week we will be finding out about Diwali, Remembrance Day, wedding celebrations and ending on Friday by dressing down for Children in Need. A very busy week!

We have been counting and matching, exploring Autumn, desinging and making brick houses

We have been very busy this week counting and matching, exploring Autumn, practising phonics, building bricks houses for the Three Little Pigs and looking at different homes around the world.  We ended the week playing some board games to practise sharing and turn taking.  Next week we will be finding out about our class saint Mother Theresa and learning how to measure height.