Ho Ho Ho!
It has been a very busy week across the school and Room 13 has been no exception!
First of all I would like to again say a massive WELL DONE to the boys and girls for their superb Christmas Performance on Wednesday afternoon. They certainly did all of their families proud.
Christmas has also managed to weave its way into our learning recently:
For our “Christmas Around the World” topic, the children have loved learning about how other countries celebrate the season. Here are our favourite 5 facts:
- In Hawaii, Santa comes by boat and wears a Hawaiian shirt and shorts!
- In the Philippines, people start playing Christmas as early as September.
- In Spain, children put carrots and straw in their shoes and leave them outside for Santa’s reindeer.
- In Brazil, people will leave out a sock by their window and ‘Papa Noel’ will swap it for a gift!
- In Italy, a good witch called ‘La Befana’ is known to fly around on her broom and leave gifts for children on the 6th of January.
In P.E. we have enjoyed practising our social dances in preparation for our party on Thursday 21st. We have learned the Canadian Barn Dance, Military 2 Step, St Bernard’s Waltz, Virginia Reel and even the Gay Gordons.
In literacy we have been learning about Acrostic Poetry and we had a go at creating our own acrostic poems about Christmas. Steven and Bailey have been kind enough to share theirs:
