A New Zealand Christmas tale

In the last weeks of school we read a New Zealand Christmas tale - which is an adaptation to the Christmas song "A Partridge in a Pear Tree" 

Have a read below and enjoy!

 

 

 

A Merry Christmas and Oragami Hearts

As a last activity with the kids we made oragami hearts, for christmas decorations or to give as a gift, we had a lot of fun... MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone!

Short week!

This week is a short week and in the classes we have talked about ....

Finding differences in the pictures... can you spot them?



 

We started talking about....

CHRISTMAS!

 

And we listened to a great christmas carol, Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer.

Listen to the different versions below and tell me what is your favourite one!

 

 

 

Have a nice weekend and Merry Christmas!

 

The Seasons

This week we talked about the seasons.

First we did a puzzle about the seasons

Winter is in December, January and Februrary

Spring is in March, April and May

Summer is in June, July and August

and Autumn is in September, October, November

I asked the children what their favourite season is and why.

Then we looked at the distance between New Zealand and Spain, and we compared the seasons in New Zealand to Spain, it is VERY far away and all the seasons are the OPPOSITE!

Look at the map:

In New Zealand it is Summer in December, January and February 

In New Zealand it is Autumn in March, April and May 

In New Zealand it is Winter in June, July and August 

In New Zealand it is Spring in September, October, November 

 So as you can see it is all the opposite! 

We had a listen to a great song about the seasons, we talked about the "Fall" which is the same as Autumn.

In America they say "Fall" because what falls in Autumn? The leaves from the trees!

Here is the song:

On 25 December it is CHRISTMAS, and here in Spain it is WINTER.

But in New Zealand it is SUMMER!

So on Christmas day, we go to the beach and are outside in the sun.

Santa gets hot when he comes to New Zealand so sometimes he goes to the beach:

And sometimes Santa goes surfing!!!

THANKSGIVING November 2012

Well its nearly the end of November, my how time flies!

We have been looking at Thanksgiving in the classrooms.

Although it is not celebrated in my country it is a big festival in America and I have been telling the children a short and simplified history of Thanksgiving:

The Pilgrims left Europe in 1620 on a ship called the Mayflower

  It took a long time - 2 months before they arried in America.

When they arrived in America it was cold, and they had not food... Many Pilgrims died.

But they made friends with the Indians, 

who showed them how to plant food - like corn and pumpkins and to hunt the turkey.

            

The Pilgrims wanted to say thank you to their new friends and for the food so they had a big dinner altogether and this is Thanksigiving.

Here is a fun song to sing-a-long to:

FOOD

Hey, well time is going quickly by. We have taken a look at some typical food from New Zealand:

My pets!

After lots of questions about animals and pets I brought some photos of the animals/pets I have had over the years:

The duck called Vineyard:

 The big cat called Fraiser:

The dogs, Seba and Jess:

Seba, the golden retriver: 

Jess the black labrador:

 

The fish:

  Ruffles, the lamb: