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Santie, whaar’s du gyaan?

We had some sleepy pupils in school on Friday after their two performances of, ‘Santie, whaar’s du gyann?’  They all did brilliantly with special thanks going to those who took on extra parts at the last minute!  We were sorry not all pupils could make it in that day.

This year, there was quite a bit to prepare before our rehearsals could begin.

We had to use our French time with Mrs Henderson to research how Christmas is traditionally celebrated in France.

We had to learn a French song to sing and also learn the signs that accompany it.  The class picked these signs up so quickly and could keep up with the fast paced tune too!  Great work!

Some pupils were keen to play instruments along to this tune and worked hard on this with Miss Moar in Music time.

Many pupils were keen to take on talking parts for our classroom scene and they worked hard at memorising lines and speaking in loud voices so that they could be heard in the hall.  This takes quite a lot of courage when faced with a large audience on the day.  They all spoke so clearly and with confidence.  😊

We also enjoyed singing in Shetland dialect as Santie made his journey around the world.  There really was something for everyone to enjoy in this concert!

On Thursday and Friday, we needed something calming and relaxing to do so the instrumental Christmas songs went on and we spent time creating our Christmas cards to take home next week.

We used oil pastels to create a ‘driving home for Christmas’ picture and then used water colour paints to paint within the lines.  The oil pastels help to keep the colours within each part of the picture.

 

The first stage was to use oil pastels to create our scene.
Next came the water colours.
Happy at our work!

Please look out for the finished cards in bags next week!  They really have turned out beautifully!

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

To prepare for Christmas, we made advent calendar gnomes with a little treat hidden under each one to help us count down to the big day.

We are also really enjoying learning a new Christmas sign each day.  Today was reindeer.

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We have helped to decorate our class tree…

The highlight of today was our Christmas lunch.  A huge thank you goes to P6/7 for setting out the hall so nicely and to the cooks for the amazing food!

As well as all this, we managed some Christmas Show rehearsals, finished off our First Christmas writing and started our cards.  It’s been a lovely, lively day!
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Please save us from the bottom of your bags!

The recent snowy day closures have meant less time to work on our concert and Christmas crafts this past week.  However, please look out for these gorgeous Christmas cards coming home next week and rescue them from the bottom of bags!

We talked about how lino cut paintings are created and then designed a simple picture that we could draw into polystyrene before using ink and rollers to create our prints.  We hope they help spread some Christmas joy!  🎄

Which one of these gorgeous cards will you be receiving?
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Our Day

Friday 3rd December…

Our class is beginning is get ready for Christmas.  Each morning, we open the light bulb advent calendar we made and we also learn a new “sign” each day when we open a door on our Signalong calendar.   We are taking part in the reverse advent calendar again this year and want to thank you all for your kind donations to the Shetland Food Bank too.

We started our day with a reading session.  Lots of quizzes were taken with some great scores being recorded!  We’ve had a new delivery of books from the Sandwick School Library so lots of pupils had a look through them and chose stories that they think they will enjoy.  We have some very keen readers in P4/5/6.

We are working hard on handwriting in the class.  Some pupils worked alone on joined sentences while others copied my examples from the board.  Getting to grips with joining can be tricky but all pupils worked hard and did not give up!  It was great to see their confidence grow in just one short session.

Maths time was spent exploring 3D shapes and their nets.  We built up various shapes using construction, then folded it flat so that we could see how we needed to draw our own nets on squared paper.  There was a lot of learning in this activity!  It didn’t always work out but we spoke about how we’d improve on what we did next time!

After lunch we looked at two Christmas cards and spoke about the different themes that appear on them.  The class have been asked to look out for this over the coming weeks at home.  Do the cards link to the Christian faith and festival of Christmas or are they more winter themed with images of Santa, snowmen, robins and things we associate with this time of year?

Then we started to think about creating a Christmas card to take home.  We painted the background ready to start decorating next week.

We took advantage of the calm day to go outside for a longer Class PE session while Ruben and Ryan grabbed the chance to rehearse their guitar pieces for our Christmas Play in peace and quiet.  Two of our violin players also celebrated success in their individual lessons.  See the photos below!

Have a lovely weekend all!

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