Year 4 are learning about Christmas around the world. As part of our topic, we visited Waterstones to learn how Christmas is celebrated in many different countries. We found out many interesting facts about different countries and learnt how to say Merry Christmas in 8 different languages!
Do you know Christmas dinner in Jamaica is barbecued goat, in Mexico children go knocking on doors for treats and presents and in Kenya Santa delivers presents in a red Land Rover!
Mrs Finlay also read us a fabulous Christmas story called The Smelly Sprout. This is a story about a sprout nobody wanted to eat! When the mum and dad were making Christmas dinner, the smelly sprout fell out of the vegetable basket and mum threw it out of the window. He felt lonely until a mouse found him. The two friends were attacked by the fox. The fox tried to eat the mouse but sprout jumped into the fox’s mouth to save his friend. Finally, the fox spit the sprout out as he didn’t like it but the mouse was kind and ate him as he was hungry.
A lady from Waterstones also read 4S (the well-known story) The Night before Christmas.
Each group also completed a trail around the Cornmill Shopping Centre. We had questions to answer about different objects in the shop windows and we also had lots of maths questions to solve too. We looked at how Christmas is celebrated in Darlington – our town.
“The trip was fun and exciting. I enjoyed the Christmas trail because we had to answer questions and we got to explore the Cornmill and look in shop windows for the answers. I love shopping!” Maizey Y4
“I loved the Waterstones part because we got to look at all the books and heard a fabulous story. I was shocked to find out that they also sold toys, bags, glasses cases and lots of Harry Potter things.” Chloe Y4
Do you know Christmas dinner in Jamaica is barbecued goat, in Mexico children go knocking on doors for treats and presents and in Kenya Santa delivers presents in a red Land Rover!
Mrs Finlay also read us a fabulous Christmas story called The Smelly Sprout. This is a story about a sprout nobody wanted to eat! When the mum and dad were making Christmas dinner, the smelly sprout fell out of the vegetable basket and mum threw it out of the window. He felt lonely until a mouse found him. The two friends were attacked by the fox. The fox tried to eat the mouse but sprout jumped into the fox’s mouth to save his friend. Finally, the fox spit the sprout out as he didn’t like it but the mouse was kind and ate him as he was hungry.
A lady from Waterstones also read 4S (the well-known story) The Night before Christmas.
Each group also completed a trail around the Cornmill Shopping Centre. We had questions to answer about different objects in the shop windows and we also had lots of maths questions to solve too. We looked at how Christmas is celebrated in Darlington – our town.
“The trip was fun and exciting. I enjoyed the Christmas trail because we had to answer questions and we got to explore the Cornmill and look in shop windows for the answers. I love shopping!” Maizey Y4
“I loved the Waterstones part because we got to look at all the books and heard a fabulous story. I was shocked to find out that they also sold toys, bags, glasses cases and lots of Harry Potter things.” Chloe Y4
