Trinity Preschool Activities for Friday, December 14 , 2012

Willow Room- MWF class

We read "If you give a cat a cupcake" by Laura Numeroff
We asked the children "What is your favorite kind of cupcake?

We painted on cup cake shapes with spatulas as brushes, We used a mixture of shaving cream and glue as the frosting and added paper sprinkles on top. - see this previous blog post for pictures -Cutest cupcake ever- preschool art idea-.
We had holiday stencils with glitter paint at the easel.

We practiced our songs for our holiday program.

We did a cookie counting rhyme and we baked Christmas cookies for our holiday party.


Maple Room- morning class

We read "The gingerbread Baby" by Jan Brett

We painted gingerbread shapes using brown paint with cinnamon mixed into it.  We painted using spatulas.  We had silver bell shape paper at the easel with bow paint brushes.

We practiced our Holiday songs for music time.

We worked on some letter J activities on our dry erase boards.

Maple Room- afternoon class

We read "Gingerbread Mouse" by Katy Bratun

We painted tree shapes with corks and paint and at the easel we had ornament shapes with "tinsel" brushes.

We practiced our Holiday songs
We also read The bakers dozen" a counting book by Dan Andreasen


Oak Room- Pre- kindergarten class

We read another Eric Carle book- Dream Snow

We made holiday cards for our parents.
 We did a counting Rudolf rhyme- "call Rudolf" and "Must be Santa" for music time

We talked about words that start with the letter M

Stay  and  Play:

We read "There was an old lady who swallowed a bell" by Lucille Colandro

We used white finger paint and added reed, green and gold glitter to it for art.

"We sang "Do as I am doing" and "Bean Bag Alphabet" for music time.