Being Thankful This Christmas.

Our classroom was in desperate need in decoration in preparation for Christmas. Therefore, this afternoon, we created our own paper chain decorations. However, they weren't what many people would expect because we took some time before we started to connect our decorations to our recent research linked to our Christmas single. (Feed the World)

We started off by thinking about what Christmas was like for us, in our own homes. As you can see, we all have lots to look forward to.

However, as we know from our Oddizzi work earlier in the week, life in other countries is not always the same as on in our own. Many people are a lot less fortunate than ourselves. We then thought about what it might be like at Christmas in these areas and compared them to what we expecting our own to be like.

We also thought about some of the lyrics from our Christmas single, Feed the World, to help generate some ideas.

We could clearly see that we had a lot to be thankful and grateful for in our own lives. Our groups then suggested some of the things we would stop to say thank you for on Christmas day. We also suggested some of the changes we could make to show greater appreciation of the issues in other parts of the world.

With all of this in mind, we then created the links for our Christmas decorations. Each link contains a message explaining something we will be thankful for this Christmas or one thing we would like to change to show appreciation of our own situation.

Everybody worked very hard to complete their decorations.

Thinking carefully about what we will be thankful for this Christmas.

A finished decoration ready to be put up (not on the walls Miss Hemmings)

Our finished decorations adding a little splash of colour to the classroom.

Our Christmas single, Feed the World, will be available to buy from Thursday 12th December with 50% going towards a hunger based charity (to be decided by the class).