Autumn 2

Celebrations and our senses

This half term we have learnt about all different celebrations, including Diwali, Thanksgiving and Christmas. The children have been able to understand more about how people have different beliefs and celebrate special times in different ways. We have used our senses of taste, touch, hearing, sight and smell to explore these different celebrations.

For Diwali, we looked at the traditions that Hindu worshippers do when they are celebrating. We learnt all about the special food they eat and how they pray to a special God called Ganesh. We learnt the story about Rama and Sita and even had a try at being the different characters.

We particularly enjoyed making our own Diwa lamps from salt dough. We sculpted our lamps into a shape big enough to fit a candle in and then waited for Miss Charles to put them in the oven. Once this was done, we painted them in all different colours and then put a candle in the middle ready to take home.

We loved writing our letters to Santa and telling him all of the things we want for Christmas. We drew pictures to represent our Christmas present wishes and then an adult wrote down our ideas for us. We tried our best to write our names at the bottom of the letters so Santa knew who it was from. We then went with Miss Charles and Miss Clarke to the post box to make sure Santa got our letters in time. We can’t wait for him to send us a letter back!

For Christmas we have made some decorations, cards and calendars to take home to our families. We have also been enjoying lots of Christmas activities in the classroom, including these playdough reindeer. The children had to mould their playdough into the shape of a reindeer before using pebbles for eyes, a bead for the nose and lolly sticks for antlers. These turned out so well!

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