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I will do the blog again after the winter holiday break.

Activities for Fri, Dec. 11

We played in the gym today with trikes, alligator ride, balls and hoops.

Willow Room MWF class

Our story was "Who stole the cookies?" by Judith Moffat

We did a doughnuts at the bakery rhyme at circle time too

We used glitter paint water colors on muffin shapes

We did some counting activities using color chains and a holiday matching game
We practiced our Christmas songs



Maple room- MWF class

We read "The gingerbread girl" by Lisa Campbell Ernst

We baked cookies and at the easel we had trees with glue and sparkles

We practiced our holiday songs

Oak Room:
We read Rudolf the red nosed Reindeer and later we had a book on Cd called "snowmen at Christmas"

We made a picture by poking holes with a tack through a stencil to make a design.
We also did bead stringing on pipe cleaners, and shape matching.

We had our holiday party today.

Activities for Thursday, Dec. 10

Willow room:

Mr. Cookie Baker by MOnica Wellington was our story today.

We made gingerbread men using puffy paint and did stamper painting as part of a surprise for our parents. We also baked cookies today!

We had a color matching game out, some matching erasers, a puzzle book.

We practiced our holiday songs.

Oak Room:

Messy Bessey's Holidays by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack was our story today.

We baked cookies for our holiday party. We also did bead stringing on pipe cleaners.

We had a button sorting game out.

We rehearsed our music for the holiday party.

Activities for Wednesday, Dec. 9

All classes played in the gym today with scooters, tunnel, balls and hoops.

Willow Room: MWF class

We read "Snowmen at night" by Caralyn Buehner. This is a book on CD.

We asked the children if they made a snowman?

We made holiday wreaths by gluing green triangles on wreath shapes, we used silver glitter glue and crunched up red tissue paper to make "berries" for the wreaths.

We had out a shape puzzle book, a shape box and a game where you make a picture using colored dots.

We did a lot of pretending to make bread and cookies in our bakery shop.

We are still practicing our holiday songs for our party.

Maple Room- MWF class

We read "The gingerbread boy" by Paul Galdone

We made some wrapping paper to wrap our presents for our parents- we used holiday stampers and stamped designs on tissue paper. At the easel we had tree shapes with tissue and glue.

We practiced our December songs and our songs for our Holiday party.

Our gingerbread man escaped again and took several friends.....we found them hiding all over our room.


Oak Room-

We read "Gingerbread Mouse" by Kate Bratun and we also read "D.W."s Perfect Present" by Marc Brown

We worked in our journals today writing "L" words. We also took out small groups to do a patterning game.

Activities for Tuesday, Dec. 8

All classes played in the gym- it was a snowy day today! We had out hoppy balls, basketball hoop and balls, and balance beam.

Willow Room: T/TH class

Our story today was The gingerbread boy and our question today was "Do you like snow?"

We made gingerbread boys at art and painted them with puffy paint which is a mixture of salt, flour and paint. We had stocking shapes at the easels and painted them with glitter paint.

We had a number peg game, a shape match game and some shape puzzles out today.

We are having fun in our bakery and with our minty green soft playdough.

We practiced our holiday songs for our party.


Oak Room-

We read "Arthur's Christmas" by Marc Brown

We made stockings to hang by our classroom "fireplace". the children used foam letters to make their name.

We practiced our holiday songs for our party.

The children were playing in our bakery today.

Activities for Monday, December 7

All classes played in the gym today with the trikes, tunnel, basketballs and hoops

Willow Room: MWF

We are talking about "the gingerbread man" and we read "The gingerbread boy"

We had our first snow today too so we talked about snow- our question today was "Do you like the snow?" and at our 2nd circle we asked the children to tell us what they know about snow- it is posted outside the classroom.

We made gingerbread boys with puffy paint ( a salt and flour mixture mixed into the paint). We used pastel paint and it looks like frosting.

We had some color pegs out, letters and magnets and Mr. Potato head out on the tables today. Thge children are loving our bakery. We have corn flour in our sensory table.

We have minty green playdough.

Maple Room-

We are talking about the gingerbread man this week. We read "The gingerbread man story"

We made gingerbread men out of Cinnamon and applesauce. We took our gingerbread men down to the oven to bake, but when we went back to get them out, the biggest gingerbread man had escaped from the oven just like in the story. We went on a search around the building and found clues, but could not find the gingerbread man until we got back to our classroom- he was hiding in our room!

we had gingerbread shapes at the easel.

we practiced our songs for our holiday party.

Oak Room:

We read Arthur's Perfect Christmas " by Marc Brown

We were working on our frames for our ornaments, we glued winter itmes to the frames.

We are talking about the letter "L" this week.

We practiced our holiday songs.

The children enjoyed the bakery today.

Activities for Friday, Dec. 4,

All classes played inside in the gym today. We had balls, bouncers, a tunnel, bowling and some other toss games out.

Willow Room: MWF class

Our book today was "If you give a cat a cupcake" by Laura Numeroff and our question today was "Do you like cupcakes?

We made candy canes to decorate our room- we used red glitter paint, they look so sparkly.

We also decorated the wrapping paper to wrap our presents we made for our parents. We used holiday stampers and red, green and yellow paint.

We had markers at the easels.

We had a cookie monster puzzle out, a Holiday matching game, and a Giant Brown Bear book.

We practiced our songs for our holiday party.

Maple Room:

"Mr. Cookie Baker" by Monica Wellington was our story today. We made special clay with the children today and used it to play with and then used holiday cookie cutters to make clay cookies for our bakery. We baked them in the oven and will paint them on Monday, It will be fun to have them be our special cookies for our classroom bakery. We had doughnut shapes at the easel and "frosted" them with paint.

We are having fun in our bakery.

We practiced our holiday songs. we also did our favorite- Jump, Jim, Joe.

Oak Room:

We read "Gingerbread Friends" by Jan Brett

We painted on foil that was first crinkled up and then opened up. We then made a print of the paint on the foil and will use it for a special project we are making for a gift for our parents.

We also made a salt/flour clay to make cookies for our bakery. We will paint them next week and use them in our class bakery.

We played a sequence game- 3 and 4 steps, what comes first, second third and fourth.

We practiced our songs for our holiday program.

Activities for Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009

All classes played in the gym today. We had trikes, balls, hula hoops and the rocking alligator out.

Willow Room: T/TH class

Our story today was Spot bakes a cake

We worked on our holiday gifts for our parents today.

We painted candy canes to decorate the room too.

We had some bakery puzzles, bead stringing, and a holiday sorting game out today.

We practiced our songs for our holiday party today.

Oak Room:

We read the Gingerbread Pirates by Kristin Kladstrup because we are taking about gingerbread men. There are many variations of this story and some fun extensions.

We decorated large gingerbread men cookie shape paper with a mixture of shaving cream and colored glue which we then embellished with buttons and beads.

We had a button sorting activity sorting buttons by shape. We practiced our songs for our holiday party.

we had new playdough- minty green and so soft.

The children are loving the bakery and have such fun wearing their baker hats.

Activities for Wednesday, Dec. 2

We were able to get outside again today- each day now is a bonus!

Willow Room: MWF class:

Our book today was "Spot bakes a cake" by Eric Hill

Our question today was "Have you been to a bakery? and what did you see there?" We have our bakery set up and we discuss with the children what a bakery is, what they make there and how it smells.

We are working on some special Holiday gifts for our art today- shhhh!
We had mitten stencils and markers at the easels.

For music we are practicing our holiday songs.

We have new soft minty green playdough with Holiday cookie cutters.

We have corn flour in our sensory table.

Maple Room:

"The Little Red Hen" by Paul Galdone

We did a gluing project to make our holiday project
At the easel we had round donut shape paper and puffy paint.

We practiced our songs for the holiday party, and we sang our December song and our winter song.

Oak Room:

We worked on our journals today drawing pictures of the letter "K". We also took small groups of children to another classroom and played some small group games working on letters, shapes, and some word recognition.

The children are loving the bakery and the special food puzzles we have too.

Activities for Tuesday, Dec. 1

All classes went outside again today-how wonderful to be able to still get outside for some fresh air and exercise.

Willow Room- T/TH class

Our story today was 'The best mouse cookie " by Laura Numeroff

We painted using prickly balls which make a dot pattern. We will be using these for a "special project" we are making.

We had puzzles, stacking cups, magnetic shapes, and a game of matching holiday objects out on the tables today.

We have fine ground corn meal in our sensory table- it feels soft.

Our dramatic corner has been transformed into a bakery and the children each have their own baker hats.

For music today we practiced our songs for our Holiday program.

Oak room:

We read "Froggy bakes a cake" by Jonathan London

We made snowflakes out of coffee filters using glitter and paint.

The children are enjoying our bakery in the dramatic corner and they are building with Legos.

We practiced our songs for our Holiday party.