Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! 

Have a wonderful holiday and a joyous New Year!

Bits and Pieces

I haven't been in school for a few days, but I've heard reports that the kids have been very busy with holiday activities, singing and special visitors! Last Thursday, we had Pastor Andy come to class to share a bible reading of the story of Jesus' birth. We made cut out sugar cookies in class on Friday that were absolutely yummy. This past week the kids have finished up some Christmas gifts, practiced for the holiday program, and been entertained by some wild animals. Check out the school blog for more pictures of the animal visit- apparently the monkey jumped right on Ms. Eiermann's head!

great listeners!

Mary was this big when she had to ride the donkey to Bethlehem! 

 

         

Deck The Halls!

There are some very busy little elves in our classroom this week! So far, we've worked on painting our alphabet with red and green, painting some color words, counting jingle bells (ask the elves how hard THAT was using our ears to hear Ms. Heather drop them instead of our eyes to see them! ), finishing up our stockings and making some Christmas surprises. Our list of words we can read keeps growing as well as we read together at circle time. We also visited the library today, and had singing practice in the church for our Christmas program.

BUT, the real excitement this week so far has been for the decorating!! Our big and little tree have been decorated and undecorated many times at our cooperative learning center on the rug. Every group has done a beautiful job! When not decorating the trees, many students have also loved using our new flannel board sets- including trees, ornaments, gifts, and reindeer. While fun and educational just as a cooperative activity, there has also been a lot of sorting, patterning, and counting skills being incorporated into their play! 

We even added a decorative holiday flair to our snack- yum!

 

Highlights from 11/28-11/30

We had some fun math, language and holiday activities over the past few days!

In our math centers, we used picture, numeral, and dot dominoes to make matches and we built Christmas trees by ordering paper strips from longest to shortest.

We also worked on "unpainting" shapes at circle time, and creating shape pictures with magnets.

We had some very busy letter builders on the carpet! Using our set of straight and curved letter builder pieces, we made lots of letters (and numbers) that we checked using our circle time carpet. The rug was especially handy for figuring out some of the tricky ones, like the capital B!

We had some fun art projects too! We drew candy cane shapes with a pencil at morning work, then used red and white paint to cover the lines with fingerprints. These will be our December placemats. We also carefully cut out tracings of our hands and used them to make reindeer antlers. Lastly, we laced paper cutouts to make stockings to hang up in class. Check out the fancy stretch of blanket stitching on A's Christmas stocking!

Last, but most certainly not least, we had a birthday celebration this week! Another friend turned 5, and brought in some yummy chocolate and pretzel treats for us to enjoy. Happy Birthday to you!