Year 4 - It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

 Year 4 have been getting ready for Christmas. The class has made our own personalised advent calendar. Each window has a part of the nativity story made by a different student. We're starting off each day opening a window and then adding characters to our crib. The three wise men have also been travelling around the classroom as they make their way to baby Jesus.

In RE, we learned about Jesse trees and how the readings during Advent help Catholics welcome Jesus into their hearts. Each student took a day and created little baubles to put on our tree. One the back, we wrote the readings and on the front we put the traditional symbols linked to the readings.

Our Christmas activities have even spilled into Maths. This week we started our area unit and created shapes with certain areas. We then created lots of rectangles and created paper chains for our class. We thought about which area and shapes worked best and found that if the width was too long in comparison to the length, it made creating the links more difficult.  

"The readings show how God has been preparing the way for Jesus."