Week Beginning 17th December 2018

 

 

We enjoyed our lovely Winter walk...And thanks to Mrs Kett for making hot chocolate when we returned.

 

What a lovely surprise to see our special visitor this afternoon...


It has been a very busy term with lots to celebrate! Children have built on their strengths and successes. WELL DONE EVERYONE!!
We wish you all a very happy, restful family time and we shall see you all in the New Year!
Take care!

Week Beginnig 10th December 2018

This week Class One have enjoyed a little winter wonderland activity . The Polar Express is running and Christmas does not feel far away now.

 

 

A BIG thank you to all the parents and grown ups who managed to make it to our Christmas share. The stockings are now dry and sparkling away ready to come home before the holidays.

 

Christmas crafts have continued throughout the week; with tree decorations, Christmas cards and much more.

 

 

 

 

 

We cannot finish our blog this week without mentioning our Wednesday spectacular at the village hall... A Wriggly Nativity.

Well done to ALL of our fantastic actors, you were amazing in front of two very large audiences.  All staff are very proud of you.


This shows how the children were feeling by Friday afternoon...

I'm sure the children are all ready for a rest this weekend to recharge for our pantomime, Christmas lunch and much more next week.

Have a lovely weekend.

Week Beginning 3rd December 2018

                

 

Welcome back to our blog. It's beginning to look a lot like....Christmas in Class One.

We are working on our hands with our finger gym. We have used large tweezers to move colourful baubles on our Christmas tree.

 

Great little Elves.

 

We have added some sparkles to our writing and traced our names in the glitter trays.

Some of the children continued the activity writing words from our phonics board.

mum

sh...

Our cottage has been transformed into Santa's Grotto by the children. The elves are very busy in there making toys and wrapping them all up.

We had the pleasure to meet not one but three little Santas who cleverly disguised themselves as Mr Claus with fluffy white beards...

 Children have enjoyed the transformation of our role play area into Santa's workshop.

Here we have two busy elves, building new carriages to carry the presents so that the reindeers and the sleigh can have a rest.

 

 

 
Mr Sanders set the children a real challenge this week, to revisit and remember all of the skills we have been developing over the past few weeks.  he was very impressed with our co ordination and our memories.

 

 

 

Thank you for sending all of the lovely costumes in for next weeks play.  The children have tried them on in school this week so that they can all see what they look like ahead of our dress rehearsal next week.
Please remember the play is at The Village Hall not here in our school hall. This means that we do not have to limit tickets so you can bring other relatives too.  Parents are asked to pay £1 on the door to help cover hall hire. The PTA provide refreshments and a hold a super raffle in the interval.  The performances are both on Wednesday at 1 o'clock and 5 o'clock. Any further questions please see one of us in the playground.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Week Beginning 26th November 2018

Happy Hanukkah!
This week we have read the story of Hanukkah and how the Jewish people celebrate it.


We looked at a Menorah.  On the Hanukkah Menorah, eight of the arms are for the candles which represent the 8 miracle days, and the ninth arm is for the candle used to light the others.

Some of us enjoyed sharing facts we have learnt about Hanukkah with friends.

Whilst others made a wooden replica of the Menorah.

In PE we spent a session worked on keeping calm and peaceful. We did a bit of meditation and followed instructions well. Some of us felt very relaxed and a bit sleepy too after this exercise.

 Can you feel the warm air coming out of your nose?

Can you put any worries into a hot air balloon and watch it float away?

Can you feel your tummy when you take deep breaths?

More tummy breathing...

 

We have also found time for lots of lovely independent activities, such as trying out some tricky cutting tasks to create lovely star collages.

Independent writing.

'Yummy, look at all my doughnuts.'

Some excellent phonics.

 

Friday afternoon bought us a challenge, back to our Hanukkah theme, how do you make a star of David using only 6 lolllysticks?

 I think you make two triangles and stick them together?

 

Here's two triangles but they haven't made a star?

 

After lots of thinking and talking about what needed to go where, we all got there in the end.

Well done.

 

Practise for the play is coming along well and the children are all working hard to learn their parts, well done.
We look forward to the arrival of all of the lovely costumes in school next week.

Congratulations to Eli, our Golden Book winner today for trying hard to be more independent in class, well done.