We had so much fun this afternoon at our Christmas Party! Primary 3 joined up with Primary 1 and 2 in the gym hall to play some festive party games before being invited to join the upper school disco! It was great fun!

After showing off all of our amazing dancing and playing lots of games we went back to class for a snack!  What a lovely afternoon!

Primary 3 learned a new game today. We had a snowman drive where played against a partner. We took turns to roll the dice,  each number corresponding to a different part of the snowman. The first person to correctly build their snowman had to shout Merry Christmas! We had so much fun!

Today we went outside to make Christmas tree pictures using evergreen leaves! We went hunting around the playground for things we could use as decorations. We tried to stick to natural resources but couldn’t resist using litter to add some colour to our pictures!

This afternoon we were so lucky to be visited by Steve and Stewart. They came into class to talk about their exciting jobs and how they spend Christmas when they have to go to work.

After writing Christmas Cards to oil rig workers, pilots and cabin crew we were happy to see that in their Christmas card replies that they were going to come and visit us to answer lots of the questions we had asked!

After Steve and Stewart left we decided to write down one thing we had learned about either job… although we could have written lots! We put these on post it notes and talked about our learning!

To end our lovely afternoon we had another Kapla Challenge where children had to work together to build either an oil rig or an airplane! We had some amazing creations!

Primary 3 watched ‘The Snowman’ animation and used sequence cards to sequence the story. I heard some amazing group discussions  about the events in the story too.

Next we shared our ideas for our last creative story of the term! It had to be titled “The Snowman That Came to Life!” After lunch we are going to share these with the class!

Some of us even had the chance to decorate play dough Christmas Trees!

Primary 3 completed a Kapla Christmas Tree challenge! They worked in teams to build the tallest Christmas tree they could by using skills such a teamwork, communication and coordination!

Well done Primary 3!

We were so lucky today to see that our elf, Tinsel had helped us to deliver our Christmas cards to pilots on who will be working Christmas day! We were shocked to see the class Christmas tree covered with pictures of Tinsel helping to fly the plane!

He even managed to bring back a reply to our Christmas Cards! We were so pleased! We have had replies from Doctors, Physiotherapists, Nurses, Carers, Pilots, Oil Rig Workers and a Policeman.

Literacy this week was focused on the Sainsburys Christmas advert, The Greatest Gift.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?=bq5SGSCZe4E

This brought up lots of discussion points. First we discussed what we thought the greatest gift might be. At first lots of material things were put on our list before we realised that there were lots of things so much more important, like spending time with family and friends.

After watching the advert we talked about people that can’t spend Christmas with their families due to work commitments and made a list of jobs that can’t take the day off. These were jobs such as doctors, nurses, carers, jobs that work off shore like oil workers and pilots.

Primary 3 decided that a nice gesture would be to write Christmas cards to people who are working these jobs on Christmas Day.

In French this week we reviewed our learning of the French body parts by playing a little game of Simon Says! We managed to play without actions to help us and even managed to swap roles to be Simon too!

Primary 3 have a special advent calendar in class this year. Each day we click on a numbered present from the online Christmas tree and it takes us to a new Christmas advert each day. We love talking about the messages behind the adverts and discussing how we can relate to them.

This week one of our Christmas adverts was from Waitrose from back in 2016. This video tells the story of a Robin in search of food.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wCSgf9q71xw

This  started a discussion around how birds find food in the winter. We talked about how animals often struggle to find food in winter months when the ground has frozen over. We decided it would be helpful for us to make our own bird feeders and persuasive posters to encourage others to feed the birds too! We had great fun, although the lard was very slimy (P3 thought it smelled a bit too)!!