Christmas Stocking activity and Trinity Preschool Activities for Monday, December 10, 2012

Willow Room- MWF class

We read "The gingerbread boy" by Paul Galdone

We asked "Have you ever seen a Real Gingerbread boy?"
we made Gingerbread boys- we painted a gingerbread boy shape with a flour and salt and paint mixture.
We had magnetic colored sticks at the easel.
We practiced our Holiday songs.
We also did a 5 little gingerbread rhyme.

Maple Room: morning class

We read "The gingerbread girl goes animal crackers" by Lisa Campbell Ernst

For Art we made tissue paper trees.  The children used small pieces of tissue paper and  scrunched them up to make decorations for the tree. At the easel we had ornament shapes and glitter paint.

We practiced our songs for the holiday program and we did some letter J activities.  The alphabet monster ate some items that start with the letter J and we have to guess what it might be.  We also looked to see who has the letter J in their name.

Maple Room- afternoon class

We read "If you take a mouse to the movies" by Laura Numeroff

We are stamping designs on a Christmas stocking shape and adding their names to the top.
We have brushes and paint at the easel.

We did "Brightly colored ornaments" and "Santa, Santa, what do you see? " formusic time.

We did a book on CD, 5 little monkeys sitting in a tree.

Oak Room- Pre- K class

We read "Arthur's Perfect Christmas" by Jonathan London
We gave the children two stocking shapes and they strung them together , then they added Christmas stamper designs and glued the letters to their name on the top. We will hang them on our bulletin board.

We practiced our songs for the holiday program, and we did "There's a little elk" and "Santa in the Red suit."

We did the mystery bag of items that start with the letter M.
We made bread dough using flour and yeast.  The children had fun playing with it instead of play dough.

Stay & Play

We read "The little bitty bakery" by Leslie Muir

We dipped cookie cutters in paint and pressed it on paper.  They filled the shape in using paint brushes.

We did "The reindeer Pokey", and "I can dance"

We had fun with the bread dough at the sensory table. 

Wax paper print trees and Trinity Preschool Activities for Friday, December 7, 2012

Willow Room- MWF class 

Christmas stockings by gluing our names on the top and decorating them.  We will hang them in our room.

We practiced our songs for our Holiday program.

We decorated the Christmas tree we painted by sticking bows all over it.

Maple Room- Morning class

We read "The gingerbread girl" by Lisa Campbell Ernst

We used potato mashers with glitter paint on waxed paper.  We will frame them with a triangle tree shape as a frame.

We had candy cane shapes at the easel with green and red paint.

We practiced our songs for the holiday program.

morning and afternoon classes in Maple room made these prints using potato mashers

we use glitter paint on wax paper

add a triangle tree shape "frame", to anyplace on the paper.  Leave the excess showing

one of our favorite projects.

Maple Room- afternoon class;

We read Bruno the baker" by Lars Klinting

We used potato mashers with glitter paint on wax paper.  We will frame them with a triangle tree shape. They will be helping ot decorate our hallway for the holidays.

We practiced our songs for our holiday program.

We also read Mr. Cookie baker" by Monica Wellington

Oak Room -pre- k class

We read a couple of variations of the gingerbread man books- "Gingerbread Friends" by Jan Brett and "The Gingerbread Pirate" by Kristin Kadstrup

We painted on crinkled up foil, then made a print of our painting.

We did some board games, an oreo cookie shape match activity and some 3 letter word puzzles.

We did 5 little Christmas trees rhyme and practiced our holiday songs.

Stay & Play:

We read "One Christmas Night" by M Christina Butler

We decorated a Christmas tree that we painted the other day - we used pom poms, fun foam pieces. etc. We did it as a group project.

We did "Deep in the jungle" and "Ring around the rosie" using different actions like "and they all stomped their feet".

group art project in stay & play

Cute Christmas Art Ideas and Trinity Preschool Activities for Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012

Willow Room- Terrific 2's and 3's class

We read "Snowmen at Christmas" by Carolyn Buehner
We asked the children "What do you think the snowmen do at Christmas?"

We glued red tissue paper pieces and green triangles on a wreath shape.  We painted Christmas light shapes at the easel with glitter paint.

We practiced our holiday songs.
We did a special song "Santa, Santa, what do you see?"

Maple Room- Thursday class

We read "The gingerbread Bear" by Robert Dennis

We made doughnuts as a group project today. We followed a recipe, measured, and mix the ingredients to make doughnuts.

We did "down around the corner at the doughnut shop", "5 in the bed" and "Jingle Bells" for music time.

Oak Room- Pre- K class

We read "Gingerbread Baby" by Jan Brett ( a book on CD)

We painted gingerbread shapes, with pastel colored glue and shaving cream mixture.  We added ribbons, buttons, and beads to decorate our "gingerbread cookies".

We had out some board games with dice, a fruit pie sorting activity, and the letter "L" puzzle.

We did "5 little gingerbread" rhyme and "Down around the corner at the bakery shop" (with gingerbread shapes being what we bought.

We painted clay cookie shapes for our bakery.

We painted candy cane shapes at the easel.

Down around the corner rhyme:

Down around the corner at the bakery shop, all the yummy cookies with the sprinkles on top.  Along came _______ (name a child) with a penny to pay.  She took a cookie and went on her way.  (We change it up for doughnuts, cookies, pumpkins, Christmas trees, gingerbread men, etc. We give each child a penny to hold to pay- (Younger kids have the penny taped to a bigger card so we don't have to worry about them going into mouths)  

Gingerbread Ornaments & Snowman Christmas Bulletin board

Snowman bulletin board with gingerbread man ornaments

We add a picture of the child's face to the ornament.  

Trinity Preschool Activities for Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012

Willow Room- MWF class

We read "Snowmen at Christmas" by Carolyn Buehner
We asked "What do you think the snowmen do at Christmas?

We glued red tissue paper pieces and green construction paper triangles on a wreath shape.

We painted a big piece of paper as a group project at the easel.

We practiced our songs for hte holiday program.

We did a song "Santa, Santa, What do you see?  

Maple Room- Morning class

We read "The gingerbread boy" by Paul Galdone

We made "cookies" for our bakery using a salt and flour dough that we painted with food colors and baked them.  We will use them as cookies in our classroom bakery.

At the easel we had tree shapes with glue and circle shapes for ornaments.

We did the December song, Freeze dance and practiced our songs for the Holiday program at music time today.

We did letter I activities today.

Maple Room- afternoon class

We read "The gingerbread man" by Karen Lee Schmidt

We painted gingerbread shapes with puffy paint that had cinnamon added to it and used food spatulas to spread the paint.
We had " gift bows " as brushes at the easel.

We practiced our Holiday songs at music.  We read "Maisy makes gingerbread" by Lucy Cousins 

Oak Room- Pre- K class

We read "The Gingerbread Man" by Megan Lloyd and "Gingerbread Friends" by Jan Brett

We worked in our journals, we drew pictures of things that begin with the letter L and wrote the letter L.

We also took the children in small groups to play a game.

We practiced our Holiday songs.

We ad The letter L book today.

Stay & Play:

We read "Clifford's Family" by Norman Bridwell

We did dab a dot painting

We did "The circle", and "stomp and clap" for music time

Trinity Preschool Activities for Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Willow Room- Terrific 2's and 3's class

We read "If you give a moose a muffin" by Laura Numeroff

We asked the children "Do you have pockets on your clothes?"

We made ornaments using fun foam and glitter glue.

We had dry erase markers at the easel.

Oak Room: Pre- K class

We read "Froggy bakes a cake" by Jonathan London

We also read "MMMM, cookies" by Michael Martchenko

We painted on white paper with blue glitter paint, then we will cut them into snowflakes to hang around our room.

We did the mystery bag of items that start with the letter L

At the play dough table we made cookies to use at our bakery.  We make a salt dough that can air dry.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Monday, December 3, 2012

Willow Room- MWF class
We read "If you give a mouse a cookie" by Laura Numeroff
We asked the children "Do you have a pocket on your clothes?  How Many?

We made a special ornament just for our parents.  We had dry erase markers at the easel.
We are learning our songs for the holiday program.
We played a guessing game.  We hid a variety of Christmas objects under a blanket.  The children had to figure out what was removed.


Maple Room- morning class

We read "The gingerbread man" by Karen Schmidt and "Froggy bakes a cake" by Jonathan London

We made our own gingerbread men today and we baked one big one, but when we went back to the oven the gingerbread man had escaped!  We looked for him all over the building and finally found him back in our classroom!
We had gingerbread man shapes at the easel with brown paint.

We did the December song, and practiced our Holiday songs.

We did letter I activities- we guessed what the monster ate that started with the letter I and we asked if they had the letter I in their name.

 Maple Room- afternoon class

We read "Froggy bakes a cake" by Jonathan London
We made wrapping paper for our  special presents for our parents.
We painted Christmas trees with roller brushes at the easel.

We are learning our songs for the Holiday party.

Oak Room- Pre- K class
We read "The little Red Hen" by Paul Galdone


We painted paper plates with green glitter paint and added colored tissue paper to it to look like lights.  We will put them all together to make a tree for our bulletin board.

We practiced songs for our Holiday program.

We are learning about the letter K.


Stay & Play:

We read "Zoomer" ( a book on CD) by Ned Young

We did a group art project, we used green paint and roller brushes to make stay and play trees.

We did the opposites song, and I like my hat using bean bags.

We did puzzles, playdough cookies, and the farm set.