Christmas Time

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

As much as I think it would be fun to have snow for Christmas, I am definitely happy that it does not snow here! :) So, it's fun to pretend! Our preschool room was covered in pretend snow and snowflakes. The kids loved doing rubbings and watching the snowflakes magically appear on their paper. :)

We also played with "snow," probably the kids favorite part of the day.

We also talked about different places where it snows, like the North Pole, which is where we went for our Christmas party!

The kids had a great time at the "north pole." First the kids made bags of food for Santa's reindeer. They had fun decorating the bags and then filling them with special treats to sprinkle on the lawn on Christmas Eve.

We read "The Night Before Christmas" (one of my favs)

We ate some special north pole treats and had hot chocolate of course!

The kids made a special star ornament to hang on the tree.

The kids LOVED running around the yard looking for a few of Santa's things that fell out of his sleigh while he was flying over our preschool. (he left us a note to tell us what to find)

Merry Christmas!!! :)

MICKEY MOUSE

This week was letter M- and if you know me, you'll know that I LOVE Mickey Mouse! :)

The kids did a Letter M worksheet and played a few different Mickey games. One game was memory with different Mickey faces. They also did a letter M maze to help Mickey find Minnie. The kids enjoyed watching a little of Mickey's Club house and dancing along to the "hot dog" song. Our craft for this week was cutting, cutting and cutting. The kids really enjoy cutting when there are no lines for them to stay on. We made Mickey faces with different scraps of paper. We also had some really cute Mickey snacks (Thanks Kristen!) and did some more letter matching- capitol to lower case.
We also reviewed all our letters again, A-M.

Oh, and our spotlight for this week was Sydnee. :)

Last week our spotlight was Maverick.

We also finished our transportation unit. We talked about buses, trains and airplanes.

The kids each had a turn to be our bus driver and to drive us to wherever they wanted to go. We traveled all over, we went to Tennessee, the mountains, the ocean and Utah!
But first our driver had to pass out the tickets...

And then the passengers had to find their seat that matched their ticket.

The kids did a great job making ABC trains.

It was fun talking about airplanes and how they can fly. We made a list of other things that can fly too. We flew our pretend airplanes around the room and wached a short video on airplanes.