We started off the week making stars for our Christmas trees at home.

 

 

 

As you know, we have been decorating our classroom Christmas tree.  It gets redecorated every day!  I also brought in some Christmas cards for us to look at.

 

 

 

This activity was "color recognition".  What color is Rudolph's nose?  Anna also thought the reindeer needed legs!

 

 

 

Some more fun with reindeer..................

 

 

 

This week we celebrated two birthdays! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also made our own wrapping paper last week.  See if you recognize it this week in the backpacks.  :)

 

 

 

Some random fun....................

 

 

 

 

As I put these photos together, it makes me realize even more how very special these children are to me and I know they are to you.  This is a wonderful time of the year, cherish it with your families and please pray for the families in Newtown, CT.  God bless.









 



It has been another busy week in our classroom.  We have been working on making Christmas Wreaths, Manger Scenes and Candy Canes. 

Christmas Wreaths

 

Manger scenes still in progress. This is step one.

 

 

Candy Canes.......................

 

 

 

 

We have had fun decorating our own Christmas tree!  Notice how all the ornaments are hung on the lower branches, even though they can reach them all?

 

 

 

More classroom Christmas fun :)

 

 

Sharing                                                                        Christmas wreath

 

 

Random fun......................

 

Outdoors fun.....................

Trying out a Hoola Hoop

 

VICTORY!

And the rest of the class followed!

 

 

 

So glad everyone is feeling better and we are back to our usual crew!





 



 

 





I hope that you all enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving Week!  We are busy getting ready for Christmas.  We started off the week by making Christmas lights for the "house" in our classroom.  The "lights" will be sent home later and you can use them as ornaments for your Christmas tree.  This activity involved the use of glue and glitter.  What a great combination! As you can see, this was serious business!

 

 

We read Mercer Mayer's, Merry Christmas, Mom and Dad.  The little critter tries very hard to help his parents with Christmas preparations.  He doesn't always get it quite right but with a little help from mom and dad, he does just fine, including decorating the tree.

 

 

We also worked on a surprise this week, so no pictures of that activity!

 

We read Nicky's Christmas Surprise by Harriett Ziefert.  It is a story  about a little kitten who is looking for just the right gift for his mom for Christmas.  He gets lots of advise from his animal friends and none of the gifts sounded good to us BUT we learned that mom and dad would love anything that we gave them as a gift because it would be a gift from the heart. :)

 

 

 

 

We saw a play this week by the Timeless Tales Theater group.  They presented Frosty the Snowman. The always do a marvelous job and the kids really enjoyed it!

 

Some random fun.....................