This week we have been revising all our sounds and common words. We played some Christmas games to help us practise reading our CVC words. For the first game, we had to build a Christmas tree shape with the letters and pictures. In the second game, we had to read the word and decide if it was a real word or a made up word. The real words went to Santa and the made up ones went to the Grinch. We loved reading the book Rudey’s Windy Christmas, it was very funny!

In maths, we have been practising our patterns and symmetry work. We played some Christmas games on Topmarks to help us.

We have been making lots of different Christmas decorations for the classroom. We made elves, reindeer, snowflakes and paper chains.

We have set up a hot chocolate station and Santa’s workshop in our role play area. Some of us enjoyed having hot chocolate while we were reading our books.

We had our dress rehearsal and two performances of our Nativity this week. Everyone said how wonderful we were and that our singing was fantastic.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Peyton – I enjoyed drawing on the smartboard.

Ollie – I liked playing with the mini cubes.

Matteo – I liked making the snowmen biscuits.

Maja – I liked making the snowmen biscuits.

Zuraib – I enjoyed eating lunch.

Joseph – I liked playing outside.

Davith – I enjoyed playing with the hammers in Santa’s Workshop.

Miss Stebbing – I was so proud of everyone at the Nativity. They had worked so hard for the past few weeks and it was lovely to share this with all the families.

Well done to Lily who is our Hot Chocolate winner this week and to Vikashini who is our Reading Champion.