It's Christmas

Hello Everyone,

Well we've made it to Christmas - phew. We have had such a busy week in Grasshopper Class. It started on Monday with our fabulous Christmas party. We played lots of games and everyone managed to be a good loser aswell as a good winner. We dressed up in our party clothes and even had a visit from Father Christmas. He brought us a sack full of presents - it was fantastic new dolls house furniture (just what we needed) and we've had great fun setting it all up in our dolls house.

Lara is brilliant at playing musical statues - even when she can't see

 

 

We all loved playing pass the parcel

 

 

 

 

Father Christmas and his lovely elf came to visit

 

 

Dylan was so good at being patient in the games we let him open one of our presents

 

 

We had lots of party food to eat

 

 

 

On Wednesday we all went to the church for our carol concert

 

 

On Thursday we all loved the pantomime especially Thomas and Sidney who couldn't stop laughing.

 

Well that's all for this week, Mrs Young, Mrs Ball and Miss Carter wish you all a very happy Christmas and we'll see you again in 2013

 

 

HOPPY CHRISTMAS GRASSHOPPERS XXX

 

 

 

 

Christmas Play Week

Hello everyone,

Phew what a week - we have been so busy with our Christmas Play.  We have had a dress rehearsal for all of Year 1 and Year 2 to watch on Wednesday and then we have performed our play 'The Christmas Star' twice for all the mums and dads.  We have done really well to remember all the songs and the Stars have danced brilliantly.  Didn't we look great all dressed up?  I think we all enjoyed ourselves and Mrs Young, Mrs Ball and Miss Carter all felt very proud.

                                                             Sidney made a great cow

 

Pictures from our dress rehearsal 

 

 

 

                             Bailey did a fantastic job at remembering his lines - well done.

We have been working hard in maths this week learning how to find one more and one less than a given number.  It's quite tricky - you have to listen really carefully so you know what to do.  Why not try this game at home?  more and less game

We have been assessing our Phase 2 phonics this week and we have all done really well at remembering all the sounds.  Today (Friday) we will be bringing home the Phase 3 booklet and our new tricky words have been written in our tricky word books.  You can have a little look over Christmas and get started on learning those new sounds and words.

Not many photos this week - sorry - our camera has broken but should be fine again after Christmas.

Bailey making Christmas trees

 

 

                                            Thomas busy making Christmas decorations


Next week we are going to be really busy - remember the Christmas party is on Monday and you can bring party clothes to wear. 

Monday - Christmas Parties
Tuesday - Christmas Fayre at 2.15 (you can pick up early)
Wednesday - Carol Concert in the Church - 9.45
                      Christmas dinner
Thursday - Pantomime for the children 1.45
Friday - School closes normal time

Must be hopping along now - see you next week.

Grasshopper Class

Brrr - chilly chilly!

Hello,

Guess what? We won 'On Time Turtle' last week - this means that our class were all on time for the whole week.  Well done everyone - keep up the good work.

This week we have been thinking about winter so the freezing weather has come at just the right time.  We have thought about what clothes we need to wear in the cold weather and have found out all about inuits who live in the arctic.  Do you know the inuits can build an igloo in just 30 minutes.  We have also found out all about how they move about on the snow and ice and what special clothes they wear to keep warm.

In class we have been investigating ice too.  We left our water tray out overnight and in the morning all of our fish had frozen solid into the ice (don't worry they were not real fish).  Dylan thought the ice looked like icebergs and felt we just needed a few seals to make it perfect.  Mrs Young filled some balloons with water and put them in the freezer - we had fun the next day watching what happened as they melted.

 

 

 

And today it snowed so we made the most of it and had a play out in the snow.  It was very cold and slushy - not much good for snowmen.

 

 

We have finished learning all the sounds in Phase 2 phonics now so we will soon be bringing home the Phase 3 booklet so that you can start practising at home. We have also been working hard on sharing and co-operating with each other.  Sienna and Charlie worked together on these jigsaws.  What good team work !

We have continued to work hard on our Christmas play and we think you will love it.  Thank you to everyone for bringing in the costumes so quickly.  Look for the posters in school or on our website to find out more details about times and days.

Hope you can hop along next week - we should have lots of good photos from the Christmas play.

Grasshopper Class