Hello, December!

We came in from our long Thanksgiving vacation ready to finish up November and jump into December! Each day at least one of centers was working on our holiday surprise for our family, so no pics of those yet.

We made our new placemats by lining up holiday paper strips from longest to shortest to make the shape of a tree. Our calendar needed us to carefully cut out a circle with numbers and turn it into a snowman that can help us countdown the days until Christmas. 

Just move his nose one number each day!

 

You might hear some more singing at home than usual as we practice our Christmas carols! Every day, we take 10 minutes or so to learn our songs for our Christmas program on Friday, December 16. We also used awesome cutting and glittering skills to make ourselves angel wings for our tree angels.

 Hark! Our herald angels sing!

Our tree shirts are beautiful! We have finished all the green trees, and have started taking turns to add shiny ornaments. We will be dressed to impress at our Christmas party!

Our sensory bin has changed again. We are loving the green noodles, red bows, stockings, jingle bells and nativity finger puppets.

It's starting to feel a little cooler outside. After reading our magazine together about how chipmunks gather up food and get ready to sleep the winter away, we went outside with the corn from November's sensory bin to help our squirrels and crows fatten up for cooler weather. We had a super fun time tossing all the corn in the woods, and imagining all those animals finding their snacks.

Our other reading center had us coloring in Christmas bulbs to go with our color words in a little book called Green Light, Green Light What Do You See?

We built lots of letters with our letter builders, and cool structures with the geometric magnet blocks. Our train track also came out for some track design.

 

Our class tree has been decorated, undecorated, and redecorated many times!

We also enjoyed using our felt boards to create Christmas scenes with trees, Santa, reindeer, and the nativity pieces. Ms. Heather got to hear some funny and creative stories being told as pieces were added to each scene.

After all the holiday learning and projects, everybody is ready to let loose with all that wild energy on the playground. Holiday fun with friends is the best!