Happy Friday, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year...all wrapped into one!!!
It is hard to believe that the first semester is over and the second half of the school year is upon us! Prayers for each of you for a safe and happy holiday season. I am looking forward to a GREAT rest of the school year with your wonderful kiddos!
You could feel the excitement in the air today...Christmas is almost here! But, still one more day of fun and learning with our friends!
Korrinne and Harper spent some quiet time this morning reading to self.
Many of us improved fine motor control with the extra Santa nativity stickers we found in the writing center!
I am quite certain we have an artist in the making!!!
What great creativity and imagination, creating the world as they see it! Brady, Gibson, and Ben became candy construction workers. Using their pockets as tool belts!
Ava strengthens her finger, wrist, and hand muscles as she uses scissors to cut straws into tiny pieces!
Check out the teamwork between Natalia and Andi!
Syler discovered, "It's a Y!"
Woo Hoo!!!! Outside Time!!!!
Have I mentioned we LOVE the big playground!
Happy 4th Birthday Ben! Thank you for sharing your special day with us!
To wrap up morning meeting we read a book using a gingerbread man, placing him in the correct position on or around the gingerbread house! Understanding spatial relationships is an early math skill!
Time for small groups (centers)!
Some large motor time dancing to Veggie Tales Christmas music!
We had candy canes of all different sizes...our job was to put them back in order from smallest to biggest or biggest to smallest! (Sequencing is an early math skill)
With Mrs. Dose we "rolled a Christmas tree"! Each child took a turn rolling the dice and counting the number of dots. Each then found that number on his/her paper, and added the corresponding ornament to the tree (i.e. the "6" had a picture of a star by it, so if a 6 was rolled each child added the star to his/her tree). Quantifying and connecting numeral to their quantities are early math skills.
I needed help with my snowflake pictures! I knew each picture had a rhyming match and thought my friends could help me out. For some, success was working together with a friend to find a rhyming match. For others, success was finding the match on his/her own! (Rhyming is an early literacy skill)
For Jesus Time, and a special Christmas treat, we watched the Veggie Tales movie "The Little Drummer Boy". We even had special visitors watch the movie with us, Miss Kirby's class!!! We were reminded of the true meaning of Christmas when the little drummer boy stumbled across the birth of baby Jesus!
