Blog Author: Mrs Coleman Harris

We have enjoyed a super Christmas week in class one! We took part in our Christmas service, had a special visit from Santa, watched a pantomime and enjoyed lots of Christmas treats! 

Wishing all at St Mary's a very Merry Christmas!!!

With love from Care Club xxxx

Today we made Christmas pomanders! We enjoyed using our sense of smell to smell the cloves and orange.

We received some very special mail from Santa today! We opened up our letters, read them together and talked about the things we have already done this Christmas to celebrate and spend time with our families. 

We worked as a team to role play and act out the story together in teams! We used some expression, story language and performed the story to the rest of the class! We have shown great imagination and creativity today!

We enjoyed taking part in our Christingle service this morning. We talked about what the different parts of the Christingle represent and lit our Christingles together. 

Next week we will be learning the sounds th and th. We will continue to recap all of the sounds learnt so far over the next 2 weeks and play some exciting monster phonics reading games to support our reading development. After Christmas we will get ready to learn all about the long oo  sound and…

Today we have enjoyed learning more about Christingle and we created our own Christingle for our service tomorrow. We talked about what the different parts of the Christingle represent. We were all very indepedent when creating our Christingles and it was a great activity to build our fine motor…

Thank you to Finley's nan for giving us all a special Christmas wish bag. We have enjoyed talking about and writing our Christmas wishes! We then hung them on our tree. We thought about our school value of generosity as we made our wishes and made wishes for others too. 

We are taking a super interest in writing! We love to visit the independent writing area. 

This week we have continued our learning all about the first Christmas! We have sequenced and retold the story. We are also amazing at discussing the story and talking about how Jesus was sent to Earth by God to help teach everyone about love, respect and friendship.

When we arrived at school…