This week we have continued exploring the Christmas story and have used the costumes and our ‘stable’ to understand the characters and events in the story. We have also enjoyed sharing and talking about Christmas books.

We have been developing our understanding of numbers by ordering numbers and placing numbers on a number-line. We have been problem solving to create and experiment with the marble run and we have been using sticks to make triangular Christmas trees, which has developed our understanding of different shapes and their properties.

Christmas crafts and making snowman biscuits have been fun ways to develop our fine motor skills and we developed our creativity and problem solving skills when we used bricks of all shapes and sizes to build an obstacle course. We have also worked together to build Santa’s Grotto.

We have been playing with the Frozen  characters in our Small World area, which  has stimulated a lot of discussion about cold, ice and freezing.

We have also talked about why we are washing our hands regularly and covering our mouths when we cough, so that we don’t spread germs.

On Tuesday we celebrated Mrs Martin’s special birthday with a Birthday Breakfast at morning snack time. We all sang ‘Happy Birthday’ and had a lovely time celebrating together.

On Friday we had another firepit snack time, when we learned about campfire safety. We enjoyed having hot chocolate and marshmallows and singing Christmas songs.

Finally, just a wee reminder to please complete and return the Feedback sheet that came home with your child’s Interim Report and Wellbeing Flower. It would be much appreciated if these could be returned before the end of term on Thursday 23rd.