Monday, December 8, 2025

 Thanks for checking out the start of our week! 

Two quick reminders...

11:50 Dismissal on Friday, December 19…Our class will dismiss at 11:50 on this day to begin Christmas break. There is NO aftercare option, please make arrangements to pick up your child at 11:50. We will not be eating lunch at preschool, but we will have morning snack.

There is NO school Monday, December 22 - Friday, January 2…blessings on your Christmas Holiday! (school resumes on Monday, January 5, 2026).

Here we go...

Everly started and finished her 1/2 birthday crown! She is excited to get to wear it next week...

We sure had fun painting Nativities and Advent wreaths with watercolor paints!

Candy construction improves the imagination and persistence!

Faye deciding exactly what she's building this tunnel for...

Austin enjoyed retelling the Christmas story using our Little People nativity set...

Kyle, Charlotte, and Violet were hard at work making "hot chocolate" for the class!

We then finished up morning meeting with Wiggle Worm...he is back!!!  Today he brought with him uppercase letters on snowflakes.  If wiggle worm was picked from the bag...everybody WIGGLE, then stop!  Having to stop is tough, but it helps us learn self regulation!

If a letter is picked, that friend told everyone the letter name and the letter sound!

We enjoyed larger motor time in the commons, getting our wiggles out on a cold morning...

We enjoyed listening as Mrs. Mudd read "llama llama holiday drama"!

Time for small groups (centers)!

With Mrs. Mudd we had some poor snowmen that had tumbled apart!  The bottom had an uppercase letter, the middle a lowercase letter, and the top a picture!  Each friend was given the top of the snowman. He/she then had to find the matching upper and lowercase letters. Not only were we recognizing upper/lowercase letters, we also had to recognize letter sounds and the beginning letter sounds of words.  When each was found, he/she built a snowman!  Success for some was building the snowman by his/herself.  Success for others was working together to help each other build each snowman!

Uh oh!  Santa had some beautiful Christmas trees, but they were missing their ornaments!  Each friend was given "ornaments" with different colors and designs.  His/her job was to sort the ornaments and decorate the tree with ornaments that were the same.  He/she could choose to sort by color or design to decorate the tree.  Then...repeat using a different color or design!

With Mrs. Fahey we "rolled a gingerbread"!  Each friend took a turn rolling 1 or 2 dice.  He/she stated or counted the number of dots.  Then, every friend at the table found the gingerbread with that number on it and colored it in on his/her paper.  Identifying/recognizing numbers and connecting them to their quantity is an early math skill!

Each friend could choose to "read to self" or "read to a friend"!

We were quite excited to see that bikes were out again, for us to enjoy!

And...that there was still a pile of snow on the ground!

During Jesus Time we remembered how the shepherds must have felt afraid when an angel first appeared to them.  But, God brought good news through that angel, and the shepherds didn't want to be afraid.  Sometimes we feel afraid too.  But, God has given us a Savior, Jesus, to turn all of our fear into joy!

Thank you for spending a bit of your day reading about ours!