Holiday Traditions

This week we started talking about traditions around the world. We have learned so many interesting things. We have also been working really hard on our projects this week. Some of our projects will decorate our stage next week at our Holiday Sing (psst, it's Wednesday the 20th at 5:30pm) and one of our projects is a top secret mystery project that we hope you will love!

Please remember that books for the Holiday Book Exchange are due on MONDAY DEC. 18TH. Your child should bring one book that is wrapped and has a label with only his/her name on it.

Silverwood Field Trip

AM Class Holiday Sing a long time

PM class enjoying some hot chocolate

AM class on their hike

AM class hanging home made edible ornaments

AM class enjoying their hot chocolate

PM class hanging their edible hand made ornaments

PM class on their hike and enjoying their holiday sing a long

The Night Tree

This week we started our unit for December on Traditions and Holidays around the world.  We will talk about Kwanza, Hanukka, St. Lucia, La Posada, and of course, Christmas.  We also discuss that some friends do not celebrate any holidays, not even birthdays.  We started with our book, The Night Tree.  It is a wonderful story of a family that goes out every year and decorates an evergreen tree for the animals with edible ornaments.  This is why we went out to Silverwood.  We sang holiday songs, decorated trees for animals to enjoy and had hot chocolate.  It was really cold out there! 

This set of photos, we are making night trees by sizing different colored strips of paper.  These will be decorating the stage for our Holiday sing, on Wednesday, December 20, 5:30 pm, at St. Joseph's Church-lower level.

A Short Magical Week

What a magical (short) week in 4K. We talked about the story ‘Abiyoyo’ this week. On Tuesday we made our own magic wands. We had to use our strong finger muscles to bead for this project. On Wednesday we made a magic rabbit hat, has your child pulled out the magic rabbit for you? Thursday we talked about magic beans in the story ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and made our own beanstalks with a picture of ourselves.

If you thought about getting teacher gifts this year, please consider purchasing an item from our classroom wish list instead. Below is a picture with a few items on our classroom wish list.

Have a great weekend!

Pajama Day Fun!

What a fun way to finish up our Goldilocks and the Three Bears Unit.  We had a pajama day, with stuffed animal friends.  First we made a beaded bracelet/collar for ourselves or our stuffed friend.  We worked really hard to string them and make a 3 part pattern.  Then we went under the tables or as we called them, our "Bear Caves" to color pictures under the tops of the tables.  This was really difficult, we had to use new muscles to do this work.  What a fun day!

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Beary fun week!  We made large jointed bears that the legs even move on, and they are decorating our classroom.  We had more tummy time work, this is hard to hold my head and neck up, while laying down.  But man this builds core strength.  Lots of fun was had retelling the stories of Goldilocks.  We also worked on sizing our bears into large, medium and small categories. 

A Halloween Week

This week we talked about being brave like the "Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything". You can find this book on Amazon, it was a big hit with the kids.
We had so much fun at our Halloween Party with all of our friends. Check out the pictures below.