Today Holly and Jolly left us a secret note asking us to create our very own elf names!

A lot of children were asking for the website url so they could continue this at home…

https://www.namegeneratorfun.com/christmas-elf-name-generator

I just wanted to say thank you to all of the girls and boys in 3D for their hard work this term. We have learned a lot, progressed significantly and have been very creative! I’m very proud of you all.

Parents – Thank you for all of your support this term and all of the very generous Christmas cards and gifts I have received. It is very much appreciated.

I hope you all have a lovely, relaxing, festive Christmas with family and friends and I wish you a very happy New Year.

See you all in 2019 for another busy and exciting term….!

Miss Dow 🙂

Christmas Cards

We created our own Christmas cards with a mountain scene. We could choose whether we wanted to have snowmen, penguins, reindeer or anything else on our mountain design.

Christmas Elves

We have been using paper plates to create our own Santa’s elves! We started by painting the plates with a skin colour and attaching ears (they looked like pigs to begin with!!) and then we gave them a top and hat before finishing off with cotton wool.

Wrapping Paper

We had to use repeating patterns to create our own wrapping paper design. We could even do this at home to wrap up our families presents. We had to think of a pattern that would work for winter/Christmas wrapping paper.

Design Booklets

We have been reflecting on our topic this term and everything we have been making. These booklets were shared with parents on Thursday afternoon and we hope you liked them. They include a reflection page where we have had to think about our favourite decoration to make.

Christmas Party

We all had so much fun at the Christmas party on Monday. We were dancing, playing pass the parcel, corners, musical statues and enjoyed lots of lovely party food. Miss Dow tried to capture some of our best dance moves and party clothes…

Scavenger Hunt

Since all of the P4s and 5s were at their Christmas party on Wednesday afternoon we got to take part in a very special activity since we had the entire Blue Unit to ourselves! We worked in teams of 2 to complete a Christmas themed scavenger hunt. We used clipboards and had a sheet with 12 Christmas pictures that Miss Dow had hidden around the unit. We had to work together to find all of the pictures and tick them off of our list. We all loved this activity and had lots of fun working together and listening to Christmas music since we had the unit all to ourselves!

Cheeky Elves

Holly and Jolly have been very mischievous again this week! Santa has even been in our classroom on Sunday night as he left a magical, glittery footprint on the floor next to the elves’ door which we found on Monday morning. They even took an Elfie-Selfie and stuck them up all over our classroom on Friday!

Cinderella Panto!

We all thoroughly enjoyed the M+M Panto on Wednesday morning. We were very lucky that we got to sit at the very front! Since we were early to go through, we were allowed to get our photo taken in front of the backdrop… They even had some of the teachers and PSAs up dancing with them! (Miss Dow was glad it wasn’t her that was chosen!!)

‘Let’s Create’ Parents Visit

Thank you very much to all who came to our topic afternoon on Thursday this week. The children all seemed to enjoy showing you their work and sharing their learning experiences with you. We hope you enjoyed our song and thank you very much for all of your kind donations. These will be collated and as a whole, go towards a trip/event before the end of P3.

We are very excited to have you all in to see us tomorrow from 2.45pm.

We have officially finished creating our lovely decorations and we are very pleased with how they are looking after all of our hard work over the last few weeks!

We have also been working on our ‘design booklets’ which we will be sharing with you tomorrow too.

See you tomorrow…

It’s been a very busy, Christmassy week here in 3D…

Christmas Shows

I was so impressed at the narrating, singing and actions in our Christmas performances. We have worked very hard and definitely saved the best till last! Everyone looked fantastic in their Innkeeper costumes – even if Miss Dow did find it a little stressful sorting 30 tea towels and headbands! Well done everyone – I am very proud of you all 🙂 We hope you all enjoyed watching us too. Here are some nice photos of us ready for our dress rehearsal and some silly face ones we insisted on being taken!

Let’s Create

This week we have started to make sock snowmen and sock penguins. A few of us still have to finish.

We have been making gift bags to sell to you all. First we had to make a plan so that we knew how our final design would roughly look. We had lots of fun and used many different textures and resources to finish our designs.

We have been making our ‘4 Season’ Calendars this week. This has involved step-by-step drawing, colouring, painting and sticking! It’s been a long process but the finished calendars are looking great – we can’t wait for you to see the finished results on Thursday!

Christmas Alphabet

We have been thinking about as many words related to Christmas as we can. Our challenge was to try and think of a word that began with each letter of the alphabet – some were easier than others!

Christmas Maths

We have been learning about grid references. We should use ‘along the corridor, up the stairs’ to remind us to look along the bottom first and then up to find the correct square. We had to follow instructions to create a Christmas tree that we could then decorate. We also had to complete maths addition and subtraction questions and colour them the correct colour to find a hidden Christmas picture.

Christmas Jumper Day

On Friday we all wore jumpers for Christmas Jumper Day.  As part of our topic we had to design our very own Christmas jumper for the charity.

3D would like to invite you to our…..

Christmas Decoration Selling Afternoon

Thursday 20th December

2.45-3.15pm

3D classroom (Blue Unit)

We kindly ask for a £1 or more donation towards your child’s decorations. All decorations will come home whether you wish to donate or not. This money will be collated and as a whole, put towards a future trip/event for the class.

As you are aware we have been very busy with our ‘Let’s Create’ topic and have been designing and creating our very own Christmas decorations. The children would like to ‘sell’ their decorations and will have a Christmas gift bag with at least 4 Christmas decorations/items inside.

If you cannot make it to our selling afternoon but would still like to donate, please send the money into school with your child on the day.

We look forward to seeing you!

Happy December! We have a very busy last few weeks ahead of us. ..

Hanukkah

We have been learning about the ‘Festival of Light.’ We listened to the story of Hanukkah and discussed it altogether. We had to complete a wordsearch and match artefacts to their official names. If we were finished we could design our own menorah.

Christmas Rehearsals

We have been so busy this week with Nativity rehearsals in the gym hall. The Narrators have been using louder, clearer, fantastic voices each day we practise and the choir have been adding in actions to our songs and singing loudly. We can’t wait to perform for you all and hope to see you next week.

Science

The weather has finally dried up a bit which allowed us to get outside and test our parachutes! We used the climbing frame to get off of the ground and we had to drop our parachute and see how straight and how quickly or slowly it fell to the ground. As we predicted, the bigger parachutes did fall slower than the smaller designs.  We also found that the wind affected our results so if we were to test them again we might get slightly different results. We had lots of fun testing our designs, it was definitely worth the wait.

Maths

This week we have been continuing with time and looking at o’clock times, half past, and some of us have also been learning quarter to and quarter past the hour. Miss Dow was very impressed that a lot of us already knew that the hour hand should be half way between 2 hours when it is a half past time. We have been telling the time on given clocks, drawing the hands on our own clocks and using digital clocks too. We have been using small clocks to show Miss Dow the time that she asked us.

Special Visitors

We have had some special visitors in class with us this week. Their names are Holly and Jolly and they are elves from Santa’s workshop. We think they came through their own ‘elf door’ which has appeared on our wall. Every morning when we come in, they are up to mischief. So far they have been hanging up their elf washing, hugging the Christmas tree and they even put up the Christmas tree for us! We can’t wait to see what else they get up to in the coming weeks.

They asked us to decorate the tree so we each got to put up a few baubles and decorations.

Gym

In gym we have been learning Scottish Country Dances. Some of us were a bit unsure to begin with when we were told we had to hold hands with a partner! But we soon got used to it! We had lots of fun and were very sweaty by the end of it! Our best dance so far is the Canadian Barn Dance.

Let’s Create! (Topic)

This week we have been using our design plans (completed last week) to stick our lollipop sticks together, paint them and then finally decorate them ready for hanging.

Art

We have started and completed the first few steps of a piece of Winter art. First we had to choose a colour to paint our Winter background. Secondly, we had to paint snow on the ground of our picture. We have also been drawing and colouring the  Winter trees before we finish it off with more snow and lots of glitter! We have had to use a lot of different materials for this piece of art and think about size, position, texture and layering.