Good afternoon all,
Cheeky elves! Christmas cows! Quadgraph! What on earth is happening this week! The children have told Miss McCrone and I many strange and hilarious tales of cheeky elves. Some have pinched Nutella, made terrible messes, snow angels in flour and my personal favorite story, pinched one of our students trousers before school – THE CHEEK! I hope these elves do not hang about much longer as Santa will need all hands on deck! Lights are twinkling, baubles aplenty and a festive looking trees are inside the classroom. It would be false to say children are ‘now’ in the Christmas spirit (as they definitely already were) but it has stepped up a gear. The children are ready for the Nativity next week. Please triple check all the details handed out via Seesaw and if you have any questions, big or small please ask. It is a day to celebrate your incredible children and the birth of Jesus Christ as a school. Children have reached a special milestone this week with our phonics reaching the end of phase 3 sounds. As mentioned we will constantly review these sounds and identify key sounds to work on. In our phonics we did come across something incredible a ‘quadgraph’ which simply is 4 letters that makes one sound! The children were excited to learn a very sophisticated word and share that with friends. Children have pattern made with shapes, creates pictures, hunted for shapes and created our very own snowflakes. We all discussed the properties of shapes as we advance throughout. In our literacy we have made observations about the world around us changing, create phoneme frames and turned into little segmenting and blending robots to be exposed to a plethora of sounds. We are also working on a top secret Christmas project. With many crafts, messages of love and Christmas cheer to share with you all. This will be shared with you before you know it. Thank you to the incredible Glee Club for showcasing incredible singing and preforming talent and thank you for the PTFA for the design a mug festive idea. All the designs were great and they ranged for the classic Christmas tree, pudding, Santa, elves and even a cow festively adorned with tinsel, hats and festive colours – who knew that was a thing! I will like to remind you all our Nativity is on Wednesday, please come to school in normal school uniform. On the Friday is the Christmas Fair. On an emotional note we say a temporary goodbye to the incredible Mrs Devine from Parlick Class as she leaves to have a baby. Rather selfishly she is not providing her baby for the school Nativity for a role he/she is seemingly is born to play, but my protests have fallen on deaf ears. I know as a school and community we wish her all the best of luck, a speedy recovery and a huge congratulations to her and her partner. You will be sorely missed and the children thank you for your love, support and smiling face every day! Rest up team, it is show time next week. Thank you and see you Monday!
With love,
Mr McGill
