During December we looked at different December festivals. We found out about Yule and created Yule cats. We learnt about Chanukah and made paper menorah and learned to play the dreidel game. We learnt that some people celebrate the birthday of Isa in December. We also looked at Christmas. There is a sad-looking tree up in the staff room at school. As a gift to the staff we made decorations to help improve the look. People admired our decorations but not the tinsel tree. Many of our ideas for the decorations came from the PM book “The Christmas Tree” by Beverley Randell. We are proud of what we did and happy we could give a gift to the staff of Hokowhitu School.

We also discussed Santa. We had many interesting ideas around this. We learnt how Bishop Nichollas evolved into Santa.