Advent: A Time For Waiting and Preparing!

This past Sunday, was the first Sunday of Advent. Our Advent wreath is on our classroom prayer table and the tablecloth has been changed to purple in order to reflect this new liturgical season! The first purple candle has been lit on our Advent wreath (we have a paper flame) just as it was done at church on Sunday. Yesterday we had our first school-wide Advent liturgy to celebrate the start of Advent and several of our students were readers at that celebration! Advent is an important time in our church. It is is a time to prepare our hearts and minds for the birth of Baby Jesus at Christmas. As a class, we discussed and shared the things we can do to get ready for Jesus' birth at home, school and in our wider community. We used our ideas to create a daily reflection and build our classroom Advent calendar. Throughout Advent, our morning sharing circle we take place at the prayer table. We will optn up our reflection for that day and discuss it as a class. This will promote the hope of the season and help to remind us of the true meaning of Christmas which is the birth of Jesus Christ our Saviour!

Each day, a special helper from our 'Jobs Chart' unwraps the Christmas read story for the day. This is another one of our classroom traditions that we are doing in anticipation of Christmas!