We have had an awesome week in our classroom and today was not exception what a great way to start the last month of 2015!!! I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving Holiday and you all were able to find time to spend with family and friends. As the holiday season is now upon us and it is a very busy time of year please remember the true reason for the season is that God gave us the greatest gift he ever could give and that is his one and only son Jesus. We will be spending the month of December talking about the birth of Jesus and the Christmas Story. Also during the month of December we will be talking about the Christmas Holiday we will not be focusing on the man in the big red suit, but we will talk about all aspects of Christmas. We will be learning to count to 5 and recognize the number 5, the shape of a triangle, the color green and the letter M-N-O. We will continue to work on our fine motor skills, pre-writing skills, gross motor skills and working on expanding our vocabulary and language. Lots of things will be done and I encourage you to talk with your child about the Christmas Holiday and what it means to your family and what traditions you may do to help with getting ready for the Christmas Holiday.
Enjoy viewing pictures and reading about our day below! If you have any questions or concerns please contact me at hhorn@zionharvester.org. God's Blessings on a warm and happy holiday season to you and your families.
Free Choice/First Round of Centers
Today and through out the Christmas Season we will be listening to a wide variety of Christmas Music. Some will be very familiar to your child and others will be new and different songs. We had fun exploring the classroom as it has been changed around a little bit and we had new toys, puzzles and activities to explore and learn with.
Advent Wreath
Today we finished water coloring an advent wreath. We talked about how the advent wreath helps us get ready and prepare for the coming of Jesus Birth. During our Jesus Time we looked at an advent wreath and talked about how this is the first week in Advent and that we light one candle that signifies Hope.
Letter M Alphabet Books
Today we wrapped up learning about the letter M and some friends worked with Mrs. Wegener in their letter books looking talking about the letter M.
Puzzles
This particular puzzle has become a favorite in the classroom and we have had a lot of fun with it. Lots of sharing, cooperation and communication taking place.
Green Play dough
We had fun cutting out different Christmas shapes with our new green play dough.
Cutting Center
Today some friends practiced their cutting skills as they cut out pictures of Mary and Joseph and Baby Jesus. Once we had them cut out we had to match up the pieces to make a picture of Mary and Joseph and Baby Jesus. We were working our cutting skills as well as our problem solving skills as we had to put the picture together the correct way. These will displayed in our hallway for you all to see. We are doing really well with cutting with scissors and will continue to practice with them weekly.
Christmas Wreath
Today we also worked on placing 5 red stickers (berries) on a Christmas Wreath. This exercise helped us with our fine motor skills and pincer grasp as we had to take the sticker off the sticker sheet and place it in the proper place on the wreath. Once we got all 5 stickers on our Christmas Wreath. We practiced counting to 5 and then we worked on our coloring skills and pre-writing skills as we colored our entire wreath Green. Green is also the color we are working on this month.
Imaginative Play
It was exciting to see some of my friends really branching out in the classroom today. Playing with new and different toys and exploring all we have to offer!
Painting
Today we finished painting a green Christmas Tree that we will be displaying in our classroom soon as well. We are studying the color green so this helped to reinforce the color green today.
Painting
We painted a fireplace to hang along with our big Christmas tree we made earlier in the week. We each took turns painting different parts of the tree. It will be displayed in our classroom next week and we will continue to decorate our room for the Christmas Holiday.
We got serious about our painting today that some of us ended up looking like Rudolph!
Morning Meeting
Happy Thursday (and it was a very Happy Thursday!)
New month new Calendar we will be putting up different parts of the Christmas Story during the month of December.
Mr. Weather Frog is ready for the Christmas weather
Our studies for the month of December
Green Board
New month new pattern… Christmas Wreath and Candy Canes
Learning all about the Letter "M"
We are learning another new prayer this month.
Transition and Snack
Today we put up different ornaments with our name on in them. We are working identification of color when we put them up as well as name recognition and the what the first letter in our name is. As well as our listening and following direction skills.
OUTSIDE TIME!
We did get a chance to play outside for about 25 minutes today and it was great!!
Jesus Time
Today I brought in a special Nativity Set, that Cheryl Haun, the Early Childhood Director purchased for our classroom. We talked about the Christmas Story today and looked at all the different pieces to the nativity set and why each one is important and a unique part of the Christmas Story
Advent Wreath
We also talked about the Advent Wreath and sang the Advent Song Light One Candle for Hope.
Circle Time
Five Yummy Ginger Bread Men!
A flannel board story we will be hearing through out the month of December
A silly book done along the same lines of If your Happy and you Know it
Center Time Round 2
We listened to more Christmas Music during our Center Time
More Imaginative Play
Books
We have a collection of new books in our classroom and some of my friends really enjoyed looking at them through out the center time today.
Christmas Tree Farms!
We had fun stamping green triangles on a piece of paper and making a Christmas Tree Farm. This helped us with our study of the color green and the shape of a triangle. We also talked about how some of us have our tree up at home and some of us don't and some have theirs up with lights and ornaments and some are not decorated yet. We also talked about who has a real tree and or an artificial tree
More Painting the Fire Place!
Christmas Tree we decorated Yesterday
Decorating a Christmas Tree
We have a flannel Christmas Tree that we are able to decorate till our little hearts are content with tree ornaments
Music and Movement
We were busy today and we went outside so we only had time to do The Hokey Pokey for Music and Movement but we had a lot of fun dancing and shaking!
Final Book of the Day was about the First Christmas.
Transition and Lunch Time
As I said at the beginning of the blog we had great week in our class and we ended today on a great note. We sang our new good bye song and packed up for the day. I am looking forward to seeing you all next week as we continue to prepare for Jesus Birth Have a wonderful evening and look forward to seeing you all next week. Blessings on your evenings.
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