Happy New Year! This week we have been confidently wishing visitors to St. Mary’s class a ‘Happy New Year”. To coincide with this, we have created banners with hope for the New Year for our doors (school and home) as part of class prayers, blessing the classroom for the new year. We were very excited to present with Mrs Howells with hers, when she surprised us by being our Mystery Reader! Thank you Mrs Howells!
For RE our faith has been REACHing for the stars, as we focused on the journey the wise men made following the star to find the King of Kings – Jesus. We have been enjoying our role play area during our RE which is set up for our explorer topic and was just what we needed to act out the journey by the wise men. We also created constellation chalk pictures and set high expectations for ourselves to write words we thought the wise men would feel when they finally reached Jesus, with some empathetic responses.
With resilience we are working really hard at using our tripod grip in all our mark making and writing. We have loved exploring the ice and frost this week too.
We are all really excited for our EXPLORERS topic this term, and cannot wait to learn more, next week we will be learning about explorers past and present! If you are at a library over the weekend, you might like to look for books related to this topic to read with us at home.