This week has been extremely exciting in Class 2 - at the start of the week we found a mysterious door had appeared in the corner of our classroom with 'Under Construction' signs on it!

We thought for a long time about who might have built it there and why and thought it could be Elves - we wrote some letters to leave by the door asking lots of questions and kept a close eye on it all day.

The next day we found the letters had all gone and in return we had been left a letter and some presents and Christmas stories to enjoy!

Each day we have enjoyed coming in to see what the Elves have left us - lots more Christmas stories and a few challenges!

They sometimes leave some children gold chocolate coins if they see they have been trying their best and being kind and helpful too.

Here we are completing a treasure hunt - we had to work together to find out how much money was in each picture on the challenge sheet, then find the card with that amount on which was hidden somewhere around our classroom - this would give us a letter which spelled out a secret message once complete. The whole class showed great teamwork to complete this challenge, well done!

We are enjoying our Post Office where we can write letters to the Elves too.

We have been learning new ways of writing sounds we already know this week - Year 1 learned some new ways to write the long 'ee' sound....

...and Year 2 practised some more words with 'silent' or quiet letters in words with the 'l' sound at the end!

There is no extra home learning task this week - we have a busy week next week with Christmas performances and other end of term activities, so please have a relaxing weekend in preparation - please just make sure to practice your spelling words from this week and read your school reading book to a grown up, as usual!

Don't forget, our Christmas play performances start at 1pm and 5pm on Wednesday - we hope to see lots of you there!