The Nativity

Preparing for Christmas

We are learning all about the Christmas story. We are also rehearsing for our Christmas Play'Christmas with the Aliens', where the story of the First Christmas is explained to some aliens who have landed on earth, as their space ship has broken down. The children are rehearsing for their Christmas play and explain the true meaning of Christmas to them.

We also have both a Christmas calendar and an Advent calender in our class. The Christmas calendar helps us to count down the days until Santa comes (and teacher has put sweets in the calendar and a different person gets a sweet each day). The Advent Calendar helps us to get our hearts ready for the coming of Jesus. Each day we pray for different intentions on the Advent Calendar.

We have put up the nativity scene on our altar in class.

Holy Souls

Each day in November, we remembered all those who have died. Our parents helped us to write down the names of all those we wished to pray for and then we decorated the crosses.

Advent wreath

 We have an Advent wreath in class.

The wreath has 5 candles:- 3 purple, 1 pink and 1 white.

The purple candles represent hope, peace and joy, the pink candle represents love and the white candle represents the birth of Jesus.

We light one new candle each week until Christmas, purple, purple, pink, purple and the last one, the white one, is lit on Christmas Day.

Learn all about Advent on:

Advent wreaths

Advent is a time of preparation.

We are getting ready for the birth of Jesus Christ.

Advent starts on Sunday.  We made Advent wreaths today.  We used paper plates and crepe paper.  They look nice now but will look even nicer when they are finished.

A visit to the church

We went to visit the church beside our school last week. We saw the altar, tabernacle, lectern, baptismal font, organ, crucifix and  beautiful stained glass windows. We prayed for our family and friends. 

Ash Wednesday

Today is Ash Wednesday.

It is the first day of Lent.

Lent will last for 40 days (and 6 Sundays) and will finish with Easter.

Some of us will give up things we like for Lent, or we will try and be nice to others.

We got ashes on our foreheads today to remind ourselves that we have come from dust and ashes and that when we die we will become dust and ashes again.

We are alive now.

Now is the time to live like good Christians and to love God and love others.

We will try to be nice to each other, especially this Lent.

We also wear the ashes so other people will know that we are trying to be good followers of Christ.

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