Welcome to December!
WOW!!! How is it that it is already December 01! 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.
Imaginative Play
Magnet Board
We have a Nativity Scene that we can practice learning all the different parts of the story and tell them to our friends.
Sensory Table
Is currently filled with different things you might see during the Christmas Season. Tinsels, Stockngs, bows, pine cones, ribbons and presents.
Puzzles
New and Excting Puzzles are available for us to try and experience.
Advent Wreath
Today some of my friends water colored 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 learned about the letter M and some friends worked with Mrs. Wegener in their letter books looking talking about the letter M.
Fashionistas
Emma and Reese had fun in the sensory table trying on different accessories!
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.
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.
Morning Meeting
Happy Wednesday!
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
Learning all about the Letter "M"
New month new pattern… Christmas Wreath and Candy Canes
We are learning another new prayer this month.
We read this book about Christmas all around the World
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.
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
We read this book about how Jesus was born and it was a Silent Night
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
Transition Game
Each Child had a part to the Nativity story and when there par twas called they had to bring it up and place it on the board.
Center Time Round 2
We listened to more Christmas Music during our Center Time it was funny to see how many of the songs they knew and when a piano version of Do you Want to Build a Snowman? from the movie Frozen came on they all knew the song and many of them were singing the words
Painting
Today we painted 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.
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 Imaginative Play
Christmas Tree
We started decorating a huge Christmas tree that we will be hanging up in our classroom this week. We painted ornaments yesterday and today we added some glitter for a little bit of sparkle and lights for our tree!
Music and Movement
We had fun dancing to Silly Dance Contest, Five Day's Old and Hands Are For Clapping
MLast book of the day was about some silly Christmas Mice and what they did to get ready for the Christmas Holiday.
Transition and Lunch Time
We had a great day in our classroom. We were busy, engaged and good friends to each other. Have a wonderful evening and look forward to seeing you all next week. Blessings on your evenings.
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