This week the children have been creative by acting out the Nativity story in the stable role play area. We have been extending our knowledge and understanding of cause and effect by making Christmas themed biscuits and we have practised our phonic knowledge and mark making skills by writing lists and letters to Santa. We will be going to post the letters and lists to Santa on Monday!
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Here are some of Santa’s helpers busily helping him to get ready for Christmas. In Y6 our Christmas topic is called ‘Journeys’ and we are focusing on the celebration of Christmas in different countries and how we can get to these places. As geographers we will be using our navigational skills to find where Santa has to travel. As writers we will be using the poem ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas’ to write our own modern day versions. As mathematicians we will be exploring measures and the equivalents, as well as timetables that someone (possibly in a red coat) would have to use to get to his destination (in our sleigh in the classroom)! As scientists we will be learning about light and shadows plus the properties of light and materials. As historians we will be learning about the Christmas traditions through history. As designers and technologists and artists we will be creating Christmas party hats, calendars and place mats. This week Year 3 have been designing and creating tessellation patterns for their Christmas Dinner hats, mats and Christmas cards. They have been using a variety of media including paint, pastels, chalks and coloured pencils to practice fine motor skills. They have been exploring and developing their ideas so that they can make choices about how to be successful in their activities. As you can see our ‘Snow Den’ is getting lots of use! They children are using this to complete literacy and numeracy activities. Y5’s classroom has become a Victorian room, decorated for Christmas in Victorian fashion with holly, ivy and mistletoe, and with a Victorian fireplace complete with Christmas stockings. Our Christmas theme is Journeys, so as historians we will be travelling back in time to discover the beginnings of some of the Christmas traditions of today. As geographers, we will be making a journey round Europe to find out how Christmas is celebrated in different countries. As readers and writers, we will study some of the great stories and poems about Christmas and write some ourselves! As artists, we will be looking at some of the first Christmas cards ever sent, and trying out some designs of our own. As mathematicians, we will be finding out how far Santa Claus has to travel to visit all the countries in Europe, and working out how much it will cost to buy Christmas dinner for our families. |
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