Monday, December 15, 2014

It's Christmastime!

We have been busy in the month of December!  We started the month with a sleigh ride and have enjoyed all of the fun Christmas centered activities we have been engaging in.


The students really enjoyed the Christmas tree decorating center this month.  After everyone had a chance to decorate and un-decorate our little Christmas tree, we moved the tree and ornaments over to our Christmas inspired sensory bin which contains red and green pasta, cotton balls (snow), and toy candy canes.



Christmas tree math
The students used their fine motor skills to place the correct amount of pom-poms on each Christmas tree using tweezers.



Another fun Christmas tree activity we completed was ordering strips of colored paper from shortest to longest to create a Christmas tree.  It took a couple of tries to make sure all pieces were indeed ordered from shortest to longest, but the end result was super cute!






Christmas tree ornaments
For our ornaments the students painted craft sticks green.  Once they were glued together, they had fun decorating their tree with pom-poms and sequins. 



 


Another activity the students enjoyed was painting with a Christmas tree branch.  They dipped their branches in red and green paint and painted away creating some unique paintings.

 

 


Christmas present dot-dot picture.  The students had to gently dot each circle on the picture.



Christmas present wrapping
The students had fun wrapping and then unwrapping boxes with Christmas wrapping paper.  They did a great job!









We glued cotton balls on our Santa hats.


We also practiced our lacing and sewing skills to make stockings.


Reviewing our color words by coloring the Christmas light the correct color in our Christmas light book.


Using hand-eye coordination to toss bean bag presents into a chimney.



More fun activities

show and tell


practicing writing the number 10


Counting down the days until Christmas. 
 Every day the line leader puts an ornament on our Christmas countdown tree on the door and then writes the number of days left until Christmas!









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