Welcome back to school! I pray that you had a restful and Happy Thanksgiving!
The friends were excited to see that we have something new in our sensory table! Dried corn! (It's quite obvious that we went to Nebraska for Thanksgiving! ;) ) The children exercised their fine motor skills by pulling the corn off of the cob. It is tricky to do!
Claire, Joey, and Megan added the balance to the sensory table to investigate more, less, and equal. Learning how to use scientific tools, such as the balance, lays the foundation for future scientific investigations.
We worked together to set up our Christmas tree today! First we sorted the parts of the tree by color. Then we worked together to fluff them and add them to the tree!
Some of our friends put on a show of rockets for us! Imaginary play such as this enables children to build and extend their knowledge and skills as they interact with their environment, with others, and on their own (Glover, 1999).
For the next three weeks, we will investigate Christmas. We will play Christmas themed games, create gifts at the gift making center, and we will learn what Christmas is all about.
We will add Christmas words to our Christmas word wall throughout the next three weeks. We will call it our "stocking word of the day." The stocking word of the day today is candles!
Some of the friends noticed that the letters in this word look different. We discussed the difference between upper and lower case letters as we looked at the word.
We learned that candles are a part of Christmas in our Advent wreath! We learned more about the Advent wreath during Jesus time.
We then webbed what we knew about Christmas. Before Christmas break we will web again what we know about Christmas to see how it has changed.
During small group time, we practiced counting, one to one correspondence, and number recognition with a count and clip number game. These skills are foundational math skills!
We mixed colors to paint the background night sky for a nativity scene that we will work together to create in the next few weeks.
We engaged in creative thinking as we used various items to make gifts and ornaments!
During Jesus time we learned more about the Advent. If you would like to learn more about Advent, click HERE.
We learned that Christmas is important because God sent us a Savior- Jesus! Jesus died on the cross and rose again to save us from our sins. That is why Christmas is important!
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