It’s our most favourite time of year here in P4 and we’ve been getting right into the festive spirit. First of all, we started writing our Christmas Books last week! For the whole month of December we get to be authors of our very own lovely Christmas books. Two kind P7s showed us their Christmas Books from last year and we loved them…

 

Then it was down to business! First, we looked at pictures from the book that will be used as the inspiration for our own writing. We made predictions from the pictures…

After that we read the book and we started to look at the features of a book. We decided that we needed to write our own Blurbs. Then, we got cracking with the story. We learned how to open a story by describing the setting using amazing adjectives. Then it was time to begin adding the stories to our books and illustrating them…

 

As well as that, we worked hard to rehearse for the P4-7 Carol Concert and we were awesome on the day. We looked and sang like angels on stage…

 

Can you believe we managed to fit in maths on top of all that?? Well we did! We have been working on our number facts to 20 to help up with our strategies for addition and subtraction…

 

And finally, here are yesterday’s Star Writers…these girls wrote excellent story openers using amazing adjectives, super vocabulary and even exclamation marks and ellipsis! Well done!