The Catholic tradition of celebrating All Saints Day.
All Saints’ Day is a solemn holy day of the Catholic Church celebrated annually on November 1. The day is dedicated to the saints of the Church, that is, all those who have attained heaven. It should not be confused with All Souls’ Day, which is observed on November 2, and is dedicated to those who have died and not yet reached heaven.
Although millions, or even billions of people may already be saints, All Saints’ Day observances tend to focus on known saints –that is those recognized in the canon of the saints by the Catholic Church.
All Saints’ Day is also commemorated by members of the Eastern Orthodox Church as well as some protestant churches, such as Lutheran and Anglican churches.
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English | Handwriting, Phonics and Word Study
This week the children are revisiting the digraphs and sounds ch and qu. The children have been asked to look for words in their readers that contain these sounds.
Mrs Norris read the book The Chilli Challenge.
Mrs Norris read the book The Very Quiet Cricket.
Health
Today the children made their own phones and learnt about the emergency phone number 000 and the school phone number.
Maths
The children searched for, identified, described and drew some of the patterns in the school environment today.
The next day the children made patterns using materials from the classroom.
Design and Technology
The children designed a robot today. They labelled it, showing what materials they will need to make it.
Book Making
The children are making books with the intention to write a story from their life.
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- A page form Yom’s book about a puppy.
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- The front cover of Lovenne’s book about parrots.
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- A page from Emily’s book about Halloween.
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- Nixon’s book about the holidays.
Religion
Advent was the topic of conversation today and what it feels like to wait for something you are really looking forward to. We viewed a story about Mary waiting to give birth to baby Jesus.
Maths and Patterns
On Wednesday the children created movement patterns using stomps, claps, twirls, hops and so on.
Next, the children discussed the rangoli designs. Their aim was to look carefully at the shapes and colour them in repeating colours.
Maths Mini – domino more or less game.
HASS – My special place and how we look after it.
Art in the sunshine!
