Unicorn Class Blog                    Term 2 Week 7             Week Commencing 16th December  2024

Wow, what an exciting and busy week. 

As well as having our school Christmas dinner we had a special visit from Father Christmas on Tuesday. He loved the children singing and signing their Father Christmas songs to him and they had lots of questions for him such as, “How many reindeers do you have?” and “How do you deliver presents to a house when there is no chimney?”. This week we have continued to pretend to play Christmas, wrapping presents, cutting up carrots for reindeers, pretending to be reindeers eating carrots, pretending to be Father Christmas delivering presents, sleeping children and pretending to ride a sleigh using boxes and cardboard. We have enjoyed joining in with party games at our Christmas parties including playing musical statues, musical bumps, pass the parcel, pin the red nose on Rudolph and Searching for the hidden snowmen. We found 10 snowmen with blue hats, 10 with green, 10 with red and 10 with yellow hats. We did great searching and counting until all of them were found.

We used our fine motor skills to make Christmas wreaths using pegs, cotton wool, cotton buds and paint. We squeezed glitter glues to put on our paper plate angels, designed our own Christmas jumpers and made snowmen pictures using shaving foam, pva glue and bits of paper. We also enjoyed making pictures in the tuff tray using shaving foam that we thought looked like snow but felt warm, was very smooth, sticky and smelt nice. 

We have enjoyed sharing books as a class, in small groups and individually, discussing pictures and opening flaps in some books. The elves left us ingredients and made us a special recipe book that we followed to make our own Christmas puddings.

We have enjoyed playing with the compare bears, sorting, counting, comparing, making patterns and pretending they are sitting in a circle ready for carpet time.

During Forest School we loved playing with special Elf food, singing Christmas songs, using wood as a seesaw and playing the floor is Lava, finding a different place to stand off the ground each time. We also enjoyed working together moving wood around to make a door for the police station (hut), barriers across blocked roads (across paths) and making diversions for the traffic. 

The magnet shapes and Duplo have been very popular again this week, with excellent conversations around what they would like to make, how they are going to make something, what is being made and using their models to create imaginative and complex small world stories.

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and I look forward to seeing you all in the New Year.

Best wishes

Mrs Fenwick