There has been lots of excitement this month preparing for Christmas. We have made our own salt dough decorations; making the dough, rolling it, cutting out Christmas shapes,cooking them, painting them and adding a little sparkle to finish them off! We have also made beautiful glittering stars to hang on our Christmas trees. With Christmas fast approaching we were practising wrapping presents; carefully using scissors to cut the paper and then wrap it around boxes. It was a little bit tricky holding the paper and sticking it down with sellotape but we enjoyed working together with our friends which made it whole lot easier! We then put the presents under our Christmas tree in Nursery. We also painted Christmas pictures, made model snowmen, sorted bows, cooked Christmas dinner in the home corner, made chimneys for Santa and lots more!
We enjoyed writing our letters to Santa and were very excited when the Postman visited us in Nursery with a special delivery all the way from the North Pole!
We had a wonderful day, visiting Santa in his cottage and enjoying lots of fun activities.
We have been making friends with Year 1 children from Presentation P.S. and taking part in fun numeracy activities during our shared lessons.
The children have had lots of fun engaging in activities during playtime.
Stephen and Aaron from Portadown Fire Station spoke to both P5 Classes on the importance of Fire Safety in the home in the run up to Christmas. They were very impressed with the children’s listening skills and also the wide range of questions that the children asked. Hopefully, what the children heard and learned today will stand them in good stead if they ever are faced with a Fire in their home.
We had a great day at Spruce Meadows on our Nursery Christmas trip. We had fun doing some Christmas crafts, bouncing in the disco bouncy castle, learning about and holding the various reptiles before enjoying a train ride to visit Santa in his cottage and stopping off to sit up in his sleigh and see the animals on the way back. After such a busy day there were a lot of sleepy children on the way home.... always the sign of a brilliant action packed day!
Thank you to Mr Verner the postman who came to visit Nursery. Not only did we find out about his busy job as a postman but he delivered a very special letter from Santa.
