Christmas Party!!

All I want for Christmas...... 

We used shared writing to help us write what we wanted for Christmas. Then we cut apart the sentences and figured out how to put them back together!

 Then we illustrated them!!

 Reindeer Games!

Santa Math!

Check out that beard!! 

 Gingerbread Houses! 

What FUN we had at our Christmas party!! 

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

Five Senses!

I like to use the month of December to learn about the 5 senses!!

Patterned after the Brown Bear Brown Bear, What do you see?, book - we make a Little Elf 5 Senses book! They turn out so adorable! The kids create illustrations to match each page. (Again, lost photos :(, but here are a few)

 Exploring our sense of FEEL with shaving cream!

 Can you see the word "The"?!

Dramatic Play Center

This is one of my very favorite Dramatic Play Centers! And it's one of the kids' favorites too!! Such Fun!! The possibilities are endless!

They are all SO excited for Christmas!!

Gingerbread Man!

Retelling the story of The Gingerbread man!

Gingerbread man "bite graph" 

We all took one bite, then graphed where our bite was taken: on the head, on the leg, or on the arm!

Gingerbread man Position Words:

Above

Below

On top

Next to

Underneath

Behind

Beside

 Finding the word THE hidden in SO many books!! We are becoming readers folks!! I love it!

 Shared writing and reading: 

Thanksgiving Feast!

I just LOVE our Thanksgiving Feast!!

We start out the day by having a Name Ceremony and each child learns what Native American name has earned. They then work all day to earn feathers for their head dresses! It's so fun to see them catch each other doing something good to earn a feather!

Throughout the day, we wrote in our journals about things we were thankful for, and  we used colorful noodles to make necklaces

This required some intense fine motor skills!

Afterward, we gathered our food items that each child brought to the feast and put together a FANTASTIC meal to share!

Abiyoyo

If you have never read the story ABIYOYO by Pete Seeger, you're missing out! It is based on a South African Lullaby, and the kids just love it!

After listening to Pete Seeger sing/tell the story, we discussed the beginning, middle, and end of the story. We discussed the characters, and then acted it out!

 After we acted it out, we illustrated the beginning, middle, and end. 

What GREAT illustrators I have!!!