Trinity Preschool Activities for Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011

We played outside today- unusual weather for our area this time of year, but we will enjoy it as long as we can!

Willow Room- T/Th class

We read "Mr Cookie Baker

We decorated Christmas stockings with snowflakes, stickers and glitter glue.

We did a "dress rehearsal" for our holiday program.

We are still having fun with our bakery shop. We also made cookies to eat at our holiday party on Thursday.

Oak Room:

We read "Froggy eats out" by Jonathan London and Llama Llama Holiday Drama" by Anna Dewdney

We baked cookies today for our holiday party. We have a great cookie recipe that the children can help with, but no little hands touch any dough!

We did "Must be Santa", "5 little cookies", and "S-A-N-T-A" for music today.

We did a guessing game with the letter M today.

Cutest cupcake ever- preschool art idea

We gave the children a large piece of construction paper with a cup cake shape drawn on it. We made the lines in the bottom portion- but older children could do it themselves.

We mixed shaving cream and glue and the children spread it on like frosting and then they sprinkled little colorful cut up squares to look like sprinkles....adorable!

Trinity Preschool Activities for Monday, December 12, 2011

For music today we all went to the gym to practice our holiday program together- they sound great. Remember to come on Friday- we start at 10:45 but you can come earlier. The children come at the regular time (9:15)

Stay & Play:

We read "The little Bitty Bakery" by Leslie Muir

We used stampers and markers for art.

We did "Reindeer Pokey" "Call Rudolph" - a fingerplay

We went to the playground! Yea from some warm winter weather.

We played number Bingo.

Willow Room:

We read "Mr Cookie Baker" by Monica Wellington

We decorated stocking shapes with snow flake stickers for our room.

We made cookies to share with our parents at our holiday party on Friday.

Maple Room-

"We read "The gingerbread girl" by Lisa Campbell Ernst

We baked cookies for our holiday party on Friday.

We used rollers to paint over snowflake shape stencils.

We did letter "I " activities.

Oak Room:

We read "Froggy's Best Christmas" by Jonathan London

We made Christmas trees for our windows using snowman and snowflake stampers on wax paper. Then we added a tree shape cut out over the top.

We are working on learning the letter M this week.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Friday, December 9, 2011

Stay & Play:

We had pancakes today and everyone had more then one serving. We also had fruit, grapes, strawberries, cantaloupe, and pineapple.

We read "The cookie store cat" by Cynthia Rylant

We glue wrapping paper pieces to present shapes for art.

We played Bingo Bear's Bingo in small groups today.

We did Head, shoulders, hips, knees and toes and Face the facts for music
We played in the gym.

Willow Room:
We read "If you give a cat a cup cake" by Laura Numeroff

We had a cup cake shape made out of large paper. On the bottom the teacher drew lines to make it look like a cupcake wrapper. On the top we "frosted" our cupcake with a mixture of glue and shaving cream and sprinkled it with colorful paper squares to look like sprinkles. Adorable! We will post a picture soon.

We made airplanes with our bristle blocks and we worked as a group on a large floor puzzle.

Maple Room:

We read "Gingerbread Friends" by Jan Brett

We scrunched up tissue paper and dipped it in glue; then we put them n tree shapes to look like ornaments.

We had rollers with paint and plastic grids at the easel. We painted over the grid to see the design.

We sang The December song, SANTA, Pass the Santa and our holiday songs for our program. we did a Christmas cookie rhyme.

We did the letter H on dry erase boards,

We made snow by adding water to a powder mixture. The kids liked playing with it in our sensory table, but it was very messy....we like ot bring in real snow better.





Oak Room:

We read "Snow bears" by Martin Waddell

We made cards for our holiday gifts for our parents. We used cookie cutters dipped in paint and pressed onto paper.

We did the reindeer pokey

We talked about words that start with the letter L

We had scooters in the gym.

Snowman and Christmas bulletin board at Trinity Preschool

We used fun foam shapes that the children added pom poms, glitter paint and sequins to make them sparkle. They added a hat and we added a picture of the child for the snowman face. A fun keepsake.









The children painted paper plates green and scrunched up tissue paper to look like ornaments. We combined them to make a tree shape. We hung their ornaments on the tree.















We added the ornaments to our snowman bulletin board.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Thursday, December 8, 2011

Willow Room: T/TH class

The gingerbread boy story was our book today.

We painted gingerbread boy shapes with puffy paint ( a mixture of shaving cream and glue) with a little liquid water colors mixed in to tint it to look like pastel frosting.

We had holiday stickers at free art.

We are practicing our holiday songs- they sound great!

We are enjoying the dramatic corner as a bakery and the peppermint playdough.

Maple Room:

We read The amazing Christmas Extravaganza" by David Shannon


We had paper shaped like ornaments and we glued on various items to decorate them.

We sang songs the children picked to sing today.

We played a learning game "Find the number" and "Where is the rainbow? " A memory guessing game.

Oak Room:

We read "A city Christmas tree" by Rebecca Bond

We cut out a bell shape and painted it with glitter colors. They are in the hall on a string like a string of garland.

We did a song called "Christmas ornaments" a felt board rhyme. We did the ABC sounds song with flash cards, and we sang our holiday songs for our program.

We did a graph of the answers to "Does your name have the letter L in it?

Ginger Bread House- Maple room project

The teachers made a house shape out of cardboard and the children used a mixture of glue and shaving cream mixed with liquid watercolors to look like frosting. They then added a variety of materials to decorate the gingerbread house.

We even have a gingerbread family.