'Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.'
Luke 1:30
Wow what a fantastic Nativity, the children were amazing it is such a huge thing to perform to lots of people. It was beautfiul I am so proud of everyone and how hard they have worked, we also ended our week with our walking Nativity some of our children were in the stable too. This was such a lovely way to end our week.
We retold the story of the vistit from the shepherds and thought about how they would feel seeing baby Jesus for the first time.
A huge thank you to Mrs Summersall who has created some beautiful RE displays this week,
Each week we will give you a question that we would like you to think about and discuss together at home. This could be over dinner time as a family, at bedtime, on a walk or even in the car. However you choose to discuss this question is up to you, but the idea is that it will help to give an insight in to what we talk about in school, help children to understand more about themselves or others.
Conversation starter:
Can you retell the Christmas story?
What adventures have we been on this week?
We had some special visitors who left us an advent calender and advent books for us to open each day.
Drawing Club: We read bear snores on linking to our hibernation topic and we will start writing our sentences next week: I can see a den. The bear is not up.
Ask your child can they remember the vocabulary and the actions at home?
Bear Snores on vocabulary:
Slumbering: Sleeping deeply (action: Close eyes, arms crossed head resting on arms)
Creeping: moving slowly and quietly (action: tiptoe across the room)
Whirling: spinning or swirling around (action: spin around in a circle)
Flickering: light that moves quickly and softly (action: wiggle fingers upwards to the sky)
Tremendous: Very big or powerful (action: Stand tall, arms stretched wide)
Startled: Surprised or shocked (action: Jump slightly, hand to chest)
UTW: Due to how busy we have been with the Nativity we will discuss family tradions next week, it has been lovely to see your photo’s and hear about events you celebrate at home.
Home challenge: from the week beginning 8th December we will be discussing our family celebrations and traditions, please could you send me photos of any special family traditions/celebrations, it can be things you do at certain times of year (Christmas/Easter etc) or things you like to do as a family, and a bit of information if possible.
Once again thank you for those who have shared photos with me, it really helps your child learn as it is something that is relevent to them and their friends. They are so proud to share their photos with the class and it gives them confidence to talk in front of an audience.
Phonics: my group and Mrs Krols group have joined together to review some sound we have been practising our handwriting on whiteboards.
Let’s Celebrate:
Well done to our certificate awardee: How could I pick one, the whole class recieved a certificate with all the learning characters for their Nativity once again I am so proud of them.
Whole School Virtues - Faith filled and Hopeful: My stars this week go to Mrs Summersall, Mrs Krol and Mrs Ely they work so hard and I’m so lucky to work which such an amazing team who go above and beyond for your children.
Henry the Dog: Well done your were very clear with your lines and know when to come o the stage :).
Important Information and Upcoming Events:
Reception Plea:
Please can you bring in any old socks, shoes and return any you have borrowed from school we don’t have any left so we are struggling if anyone has an accident or gets wet feetfrom being outside in the rain.
We are always trying to enrich our enviroment, if you have any old wrapping paper, christmas cards etc we would love them for our Christmas workshop role play area.
If you have any old baking trays, toasters, kettles, kitchen utensils we would love them for our mud kitchen. Thank you we are grateful for anything you can donate.
These next few weeks are very busy please check the blog and share any information with each other, our text message system was down again this week as it is currently being updated so some people still aren’t recieving messages. Hopefully it is working now, if you have any questions or are not recieving texts please email.
Travelling Nativity: everyone in our class will take the travelling Nativity home, in this bag there is a Nativity book and figures that you share together. You can email us photos to be printed off or draw a picture in the book, please bring the bag back the next day so each child can take it home.
Forest School:
On Thursday afternoon we are going to have some time in forest school, Mrs Tierney has kindly offered for us to have a mini forest school session before we break up. You can come in Forest school clothes to stay in all day, bring lots of extra layers. Please look at the picture below for more information:
Important Reminders:
Polite reminder that we are a Nut free school. Please can you bring in healthy snacks please refer to the poster for suitable snacks, we always have fruit avalible too.
PE
Our PE days are Tuesday (outside) and Friday (inside). On these days, children can come to school in their PE uniform and will remain in this for the day. We kindly ask that velcro trainers (white, black or navy) are worn as this allows the children to be indepoendent when taking their shoes off and putting them back on. Polite reminder that for health and safety reasons, no jewellery is to be worn on PE days. We kindly ask that this is removed at home before coming into school.if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me at:
d.drummond@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk
Thank you for all of your support
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Drummond, Miss Woodend, Mrs Summersall, Mrs Krol and Mrs Ely