It is GREAT to be back in school!  We started off our first day back with some fun music!  We got to play drums with The Giving Tree!  The children really seemed to enjoy this activity!

Some Fine Motor Skills practice, picking up pompoms with tongs and putting them into boxes! This takes a lot of concentration.

The children have now started to go to chapel on Wednesday.  So far, we are learning about kindness.  They have done very well in chapel!

Hot chocolate and mittens!

Painting with an ice cube! This activity combined art with science. The children worked with powdered tempera paint and an ice cube.  As the ice cube melts, the water mixes with the powder to create the paint.  With this activity, we were able to discuss temperature. When they touched the ice cube while painting with it, they discovered it was COLD!. We were able to discuss liquids and solids. When the solid ice melted, it turned into a liquid, water. Some of the children discovered that if you bang the ice cube it will break and then we have pieces of ice instead of a nice big chunk to paint with. :) It was all great fun and is one of my favorite projects. I have hung the picture up in the classroom and have affixed each child's initial on their art so they can identify which one is theirs.

 Painting on bubble wrap to make snowmen, or women!

 He was so busy creating.  I think he told me he was making a fire engine.  I love to watch them when their imagination starts in!

Sometimes, when you are waiting your turn at art, you have to try something else!

See you Monday!