Grinch Day!

Happy Thursday! Today we were excited to arrive in our classroom to find that our elf left us a special book and movie!

Of course we had to read the story How the Grinch Stole Christmas! together. It was a great story!

We also shared a few more snowman family projects.

At the tables, we played Christmas tree bingo. We used m&m's as the markers for the ornaments on the tree. Of course, we had to eat them afterwards. Your child's bingo board is in his/her folder so you can also play at home to practice shapes and/or numbers.

Then we ate some special treats for snack! Thanks to everyone who sent in supplies for our special party! In the morning, we even made a Grinch snack out of grapes, bananas, strawberries, and mini marshmallows. Yum!

Afterwards we watched the recording of our holiday program. We were excited to see ourselves on the "big screen" and to hear how wonderful we sounded!

Then we watched the movie of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! so that we could see if it was the same as the story or different. We enjoyed watching it tremendously!

We also visited the second graders to see their beautiful gingerbread houses. We had a hard time deciding which house would be the best one for the Gingerbread Baby to live in!

Then it was time to go outside and play. Whew! What a fun day!

We did not do book check-out today, but will begin it again after our winter break.

Thank you everyone for your tremendous support! I hope you have a fantastic holiday break and I look forward to seeing all of you in the New Year!

6 More Days Until Christmas!

Happy Wednesday 4K Families!

Today all of our friends were a little tired today after our busy night of singing! We started out our day by sequencing rectangles to make a tree. The children had to put the rectangles in order from longest to shortest. They even topped their tree with a star! While the children made their trees we talked about our shape of the month . . . rectangle.

Miss McCabe's morning friends had some visitors in their classroom. Mrs. Severson's second graders came in and read the story 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and other Christmas stories. The 4K students loved having the "big kids" in their room!

Today Jingle, our classroom elf, brought Pete the Cat to our classroom! We read the story Pete the Cat Saves Christmas. In this story Santa gets sick and is not able to deliver  presents to all of the children. Pete saves the day and helps out. He's not sure if he can do it, but he tries and ends up doing a great job! The message of the story is to "always give it your best." In the afternoon, the children wanted to hear the story over and over again so of course we had to read it more than once! After we read the story, our friends make a Pete the Cat Santa. As we made them, we talked about the different shapes that make up the cat. Please review shapes together over the break. Since we have moved onto more challenging concepts, some of the children are regressing with their shape recognition.

The children were busy wrapping presents during playtime again. Some children were writing messages in holiday cards for their families. Other children made holiday cut-out cookies.

After snack, the children shared their snow friends that they created at home. We had some very creative snow friends! We had snow babies, snow moms, snow hot chocolates, snow princesses, and the list goes on!

Our friends are very excited for our Holiday Party tomorrow!
We have a fun day planned! :)