Merry Christmas!

This week we started our Christmas preparations with a  couple of festive books. We read "When Christmas Comes"  and had fun pretending to be characters from the book....

   

We learnt about Santa's reindeer and sang "Rudolph the red nosed reindeer" before making our own reindeer to decorate our snow splattered night sky...

 We practised counting all Santa's Christmas gifts and watched him travel around the world delivering all his presents in the book "Santa's Christmas Gifts"

 And then we let the class loose on the Christmas tree... They were so excited to put the tinsel and baubles on! They all did a fabulous job and NP definitely has the best dressed tree in Early Years!

We made our own Christmas trees and decorated them by punching holes and covering them with coloured tissue paper to make lights.

Some outdoor play pics...

We had a go at being Santa's elves and set up a gift wrapping workshop. A fiddly and tricky job but with some surprisingly good results. 

Sorting the branches by size for our Christmas tree ornaments..

 Finally we used a heart template to stencil some great Father's day cards 

and then used glitter and glue to write our special messages, some more practice needed with this technique I think!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Father's day weekend and look forward to seeing you all for our Early years Christmas concert on Thursday at 9.30am. 
Please join us for a Christmas party on Friday afternoon and to say a very fond farewell to Kru Na, who is sadly leaving us this term. We will all miss her very much!
 Casual clothes and festive snacks very welcome!