Christmas and New year 14th December 2018 - 7th January 2019

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We have been preparing for Christmas and enjoying all the fun outings and visits to family and friends.

We enjoyed doing yoga every day of advent using the Cosmic Kids Advent Calendar.


We saw carol singers at the park and at Scotney Castle.


We made mince pies.


Vin cut out bits to make snowmen, matching the number of dots with the number on their body.


Vin helped wrap presents, and wrote tags and lots of lovely christmas cards to people.


We made bird feeders at the park. Vin coloured a nice picture.


We did a word search from an "Man on the moon" theme activity pack. Vin wrote him a nice letter.


We checked out fancy christmas decorations at Batemans and at Leeds Castle.


We had fun making some words with the alphablocks.


We met a cute friend and did some dressing up (and more christmas decoration admiring) at Standen house.


We went for a walk at Beachy head and eastbourne pier.


Our theme for a while is going to be space. We read lots of books including a few about sharing and jealousy. One had a cool space station in it. Astronauts must need to be good at sharing and staying calm while they're up in space!


We wrote down some things we knew about space and some questions. We are going to start by learning about our solar system, starting with our Sun.
We watched a short mystery science video about how close could an astronaut get to the sun? We looked up a bit of information about the parker solar probe.

Vin drew a picture of the sun and we both wrote a fact to go with it on the wall.

Vin started painting a model solar system.


Vin got some hydrophobic sand for Christmas. It was interesting to see the way it behaved in water and how you could lift it out and it was dry and flowing!


We're looking forward to learning more about the Universe!

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