Welcome Back! Jan 6-9

Everyone was so excited last week to get back to school and see all of our friends! There was lots of hugs and excited chatter about family fun had over the holidays.  We enjoyed sharing about our favorite holiday moments and some of the fun Christmas gifts we received.  We were also excited to welcome a new student to our class!

Last week, we also began working on recognizing and writing our last names.  Giggles ensued as Ms. Hill called us by our last names to line up instead of our first names.  Here are some pictures from our week:

lower case alphabet bingo

Making our January calendars. Happy New Year!

Practicing writing the number 8. 

We had fun playing the bean bag game since it was so cold outside! 

We couldn't resist checking out the beautiful icicles in the bird bath!

  

  One morning last week, we set out paper, scissors, and crayons and let our creative juices flow.  Everyone was excited to hang up their creations for display in the classroom.

Puzzles with friends

Last week, we also had fun completing an activity about the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty.  We read the poem and then reenacted it using blocks (the wall) and Mr. Potato Head (Humpty Dumpty).  Afterwards we discussed solutions to the problem of Humpty Dumpty falling off the wall and breaking.  The students came up with some great solutions such as using band-aids, tape, and glue to put Humpty together again.  We also discussed ways we could prevent Humpty from breaking such as putting down items like soft blankets, a trampoline, and snow. 

Painting feet for our penguin placemat.

Check out our matching boots!

                                      

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!