December

Before returning back from Christmas break to start a NEW semester of preschool let's look back at December! 

It was a great month filled with so many activities.

Our month began with the Christmas Program.
The kids did great!

Town of Bethlehem
This was a hit.

Cookie Making for Santa
Glitter galore.

Pattern Work - Putting Christmas Lights on houses

Gift making for Mom and Dad
We hope you enjoyed your present. They were made with such love.

Snow didn't come until our break so we were still raking leaves.

Gift Wrapping was once again a hit this year.
They wrap up any item in the classroom and put it under the tree.
Then the 3/4 year old class opens our presents and wraps new gifts for us to open.
You haven't enjoyed the fullness of wrapping presents if you haven't wrapped with ten 4 or 5 year olds.
It is AWESOME!

 

I Spy Christmas Items


Ornament making

  

 

A little snow did come one day and with a little work a tiny snow man was made.

 

We had one December birthday!
Happy Birthday!

Looking forward to 2013!! 

See you on Tuesday.

Gift Wrapping

This is going to be a great season in our class with so many fun activities.
Our December theme is WELCOMING JESUS.
Today kicked off the season for us.
Week one is Letter G: Gifts - Jesus is God's gift to us.

Today we talked about gifts, how great it makes us feel to receive a gift.
We talked about the first gift of Christmas - Jesus.
He was wrapped too, but not with wrapping paper and we all agreed He probably didn't have a bow on Him either.

Our NEW center opened today -
The Wrapping Station.

We spent a good hour wrapping presents.

I think this station will be a hit.

It will also be messy.

Everyone seemed to have a different method.

Some wrapping took team work.

One thing is for sure; we will be using a lot of tape this month!

This activity involves so many steps.
Picking a box.
Deciding if you want to put something in it or just pretend.
Choosing a paper.
Thinking about the size you need to cut.
Cutting in itself is a very big job - rolls of paper are long.
Figuring out how to get tape and hold the paper down.
Deciding if you want a friend to help or if you are going to go at it alone.
Making a card or picking a bow for the gift.
Then comes the big decision if you want someone to open it after all your hard work or if you want to leave it wrapped for the class time.

We came up with a system.
A system was needed.
If you want your present to stay wrapped during the class time then you put your present under the tree.
Those presents are SAFE from being unwrapped.
All present left under the tree will be opened by the next class that comes.
This is how we'll circulate the boxes all month long.

This center will be an option all month during our "work time".
I'm sure I'll have more pictures of this activity throughout the month.

- Mrs. Nicole