Traditions

It has been wonderful at Show and Tell time hearing different family traditions.  In class we have discussed Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa and St. Lucia.  We also found out that some families do not celebrate and holidays. 

Monday, we read A Wish To Be a Christmas Tree, and created a tree with different size triangles.  These will be on display at our Holiday sing, Wednesday, December 19, at St. Joseph's Church lower level stage area, 5:30 pm.

Tuesday we worked on our coloring, counting and colors with dreidel's.  Ask your 4Ker about Sammy the Spider and Hanukah.

Wednesday, for Kwanzaa we decorated our gift bags for our parent gift.  Hope you enjoy them.  We finished the week with stamp painting, making wreath's for our classroom and learning about St. Lucia.

Giving Tree Classroom Wish List

The Bear Facts & Silverwood Trip

This week we wrapped up our Goldilocks and the 3 Bears.  We read more versions of the story and did some more comparison and contrasting of the stories.  On Monday, we drew and wrote our name for our person book.  Tuesday we worked on positions, I hope you read it together at home!  Use the bear and book to review shapes, colors and placements.  During playtime we created animal feeders with bagels, Crisco and birdseed to hang at Silverwood.  The kiddos recreated and told the story of the 3 Bears, on Wednesday. 

Silverwood Field trip was the highlight of the week and started our next unit of traditions.  The book of focus is called, Night Tree.  Enjoy our photos of our trip.  We hung our feeders, had hot coco and snack and sang songs with Jack, playing the guitar.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

A Beary fun week.  We started reading may a variety of versions of the classic, Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  We have been comparing and contrasting the stories.  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. 

Little Red Hen

This was a whirl wind short week. I read about, The Little Red Hen.  We talked about helping others and being kind.  For snack, we enjoyed fresh baked bread as friends do.   It was warm and yummy and went great with our snackers fruit.

Tuesday we focused on what we are thankful for.  The kiddos created turkeys and I wrote for them what they were thankful for.  I hope you get to hang them up and share them for Thanksgiving.

Music & Movement

A great week!  Monday we patterned jingle bells to use for our Holiday Sing.  We started practicing songs that we can't wait to perform for you.

Egg maracas were fun to create and make music with on Wednesday, since we didn't have 4K on Tuesday.

 

Thursday we created drums.  Hope you enjoy all the musical instruments.  We are going to perform with some class instruments at the holiday sing.  We also made Mickey Mouse ears for Mickey's 90th birthday.  If you take a picture of your kiddo in their ears and post with #ShareYourEars, $5 will go to the Make A Wish foundation.

 

Magic of Abiyoyo

It was a magical week of fun!  We learned about an African Folk Tale called Abiyoyo.  It is about magic, music and understanding.  I  even performed several magic tricks. 

On Monday, the we strung small beads on chenille sticks, then wrapped the beaded wires around sticks to create magic wands.

Tuesday, we painted Abiyoyo, the giant from the story.

Pulling a rabbit out of our magic hat was our fun for Wednesday.  I hope you 4K student performed the trick for you with the hat and rabbit they created.

We finished the week by creating magical sensory bottles.  We were scientists, measuring and pouring our formulas together to create these calming bottles.