Trinity Preschool Activities for Tuesday, December 18, 2012

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

Remember the class holiday program for the Terrific 2's and 3's class will be on Thursday, Dec. 20 at 11:00 a.m.  

We read "The cookie Baker" by Monica Wellington

We asked the children "What is your favorite part about baking?"
We did a Christmas tree rhyme.

We baked today as our big project. We made cookies that we will serve for our holiday party.

We had brushes, glitter paint, and Christmas shape paper at the easel.  

Oak Room- Pre- K class

We read "Froggy eats out" by Jonathan London

We baked cookies today for our holiday party.

We did Pass the Santa and The little elf for music time.

We did the mystery box for the letter N today.

Winter Art Quilt - Prekindergarten room

We used snow flake stampers and dark blue paper to create our "quilt"

The children had made a beautiful fall quilt and now we added our winter version.  Each child creates a picture and we assemble them to look like a quilt.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Monday, December 17, 2012

Willow Room- MWF class

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

We discussed make believe and the different things we pretend when we play.

We painted using green, gold, red, and blue glitter paint with springy egg beater whisks.

We played with real bread dough instead of play dough.

We got together with all the children for a practice for our holiday program on Friday.

We did a Christmas tree rhyme and had Christmas stampers at our free art table.


Maple Room- Morning class:

We read "If you take a mouse to the movies" by Laura Numeroff
We cut stocking shapes out of paper and added stampers and cotton balls to decorate them.

We had ornament shapes at the easel with water colors.

We practiced our Holiday songs with all the other children.

We did letter K activities and checked out what items that start with the letter K the alphabet monster ate.  W asked the children if they have the letter K in their name?

Maple Room- afternoon class

We read "Froggy bakes a cake" by Jonathan London
We made wreaths using tissue paper and paper plates and we had rollers at the easel with tree shapes.

We practiced our holiday songs.
Oak Room- Pre- K class

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

We also read "Max's Christmas" by Rosemary Wells

We made tree shapes with snowmen abd snowflakes on wax paper to hang on our windows.

We practiced our holiday program songs in a big group with all of the other children.

We are talking about the letter N this week.

Stay & Play: 

We read "How the grinch got grinchy" 

We put a star or tree shape on paper in a box.  Then we rolled a tennis ball back and forth in the box that had been dipped in paint.  We removed the star or tree shape to reveal a shape in the paper that did not get covered by paint.

You can barely see the start shape laying on the paper. The children had fun rolling the tennis ball back and forth.

Great control keeping the ball in the box and  rolling it where you want it to go.

When we pull up the star you see the shape appear.  

We played board games, had the train set out and enjoyed the bakery.

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.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Thursday, December 13, 2012

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

We read "Christmas Mice" by Bethany Roberts

We painted candy cane shapes using rollers with a striped design on them.  We had magnetic trees at the easel with numbers on them and the children put that number of ornaments on the tree.

We practiced our songs for the holiday program.  We also danced around to Christmas music.  What fun!

We did a rhyme about Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer and his nose that changed colors.
We have ribbons and bows in our sensory table.

Maple Room-Thursday class

We read "Llama, llama holiday drama" by Anna Dewdney

We played a game that has shapes, colors, letters and numbers and is kind of like candy land game. 

We sang some holiday songs.

Oak Room: Pre-kindergarten room

We read "Fletcher and the snowflake Christmas" by Julia Rawlinson

We did some snowflake design and we will make a winter quilt ( like our fall paper quilt) to hang in our room.

We did some wooden bead sequencing activities, a rhyming sounds match up puzzle and number match puzzles.

We sang jingle bells while dancing with jingle belts on. and we sang Hot cup of cocoa.

We asked the children if their name has the letter M in it

Trinity Preschool Activities for Wednesday, December 12, 2012 (12/12/12)

Willow Room-MWF class

We read "Christmas Mice" by Bethany Roberts

We asked the children if they like to eat candy canes?

We painted candy cane shape paper with rollers.
We had magnetic numbered trees with ornaments at the easel.

We practiced our songs for the holiday program.

We did a rhyme about Rudolf's red nose and how it changes color.

Maple Room Morning class

We painted wreaths with circles and pom poms added in the  Maple Room- morning class

We read "Gingerbread Friends" by Jan Brett

We painted wreaths using glitter paint and added cut out circles and poms poms for decoration at art.  We had star shapes at the easel and we used dab a dot painters to add dots to them. 

 We did letter J activities and we practiced our holiday songs.   

Maple Room- Afternoon class

We read "Bunny Cakes" by Rosemary Wells

We are painting bell shape paper with sliver glitter paint.  We had dab a dot painters with start shapes at the easel.

We did our holiday songs and Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer.

Oak Room- Pre- K class

We read "Franklin's Christmas gift" by Paulette Bourgeois and we also read the letter M book.

We worked on letter M pictures and words in our journals.

We did some dinosaur activities with sorting and some small lego buildings.

We took the children in small groups into another classroom and played a Land of learning board game.  It is set up kind of like candy land, but the children have to name the color, shape, beginning letter, etc to move forward.

We did "two little candy canes rhyme" and Christmas ornaments rhyme" for music time.

We are doing an experiment, we put a stencil on colored paper in the window and we will observe what will happen.  None of the children guessed it will fade, they did think the window might explode though.

Stay & Play:  

We read "How the Ginch stole Christmas" by Dr. Seuss

We painted using wire whisks and glitter paint. This is one of our favorite activities.

Beautiful designs made with springy whisks.  The bouncy action is fun too.

Spring type egg beater whisks, great for art activities.

We did Jump Jim Joe, and The freeze dance for music time.

We also did an elves hide and seek game.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Tuesday, December 11, 2013

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

We read "the gingerbread boy" by Paul Galdone

We asked the children if they have ever seen a real Gingerbread Boy?

We painted gingerbread boys using a textured paint mixture of flour, salt and paint.
We had Holiday stencils at the easel.

We practiced for our holiday program.
We did a gingerbread rhyme today too.

We had stencils, scissors, markers Christmas stampers and stamp pads at free art.

Oak Room- Pre- k class

We read "Arthur's Christmas" by Jonathan London and "The gingerbread girl goes animal crackers" by Lisa Campbell Ernst

We made ornaments, we made gingerbread people, and we will add the face of the child on each one.

We did our Holiday songs, and Rudolf's colorful noses, five little snowflakes smiling at me for music time.
We do daily activities about the letter M.  
We have bread dough at the play dough table.