All is Merry and Bright in the OC - Teacher Meghan

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the OC this week. Santa's little helpers were busy making decorations for the classroom, weighing presents and "baking" cookies.

At the light table we had translucent trees and a bunch of fun things to decorate them with.

We had candy builders at the building table which were used for building and for an elaborate game of candy hide and seek.
 

 Trucks and cars got cleaned at the Small Friends car wash this week.

Christmas trees got decorated all around the room! This was such a fun and festive way to work on fine motor skills.

The kids made string paint Christmas trees on Wednesday and hand print wreaths on Friday.

The kids used scales this week and made predictions about how many plastic bears it would take to equal the weight of  different presents of varying weight.

On Friday the kids learned how to make paper chains. They made a HUGE collaborative paper chain that we have hanging in class.

Creation station was a busy place this week and the kids imaginations always astound us. 

Here is a peek at your sweet kids at play around the room.

At circle time this week we read several variations of the gingerbread man. We learned a new winter yoga sequence and some fun new songs and finger plays about bears and bells.

The holiday fun continues next week as we get busy making presents for our families!
We are so thankful for your wonderful kids,
Meghan and Christine

Holiday Happiness in the YC - Teacher Christine

It was wonderful to welcome everyone back from a long weekend break. The children enjoyed all of the holiday themed fun that we had out for them this week!

On Tuesday, we decorated bear cut outs with coffee grounds.  The children had fun painting on glue and sprinkling coffee grounds on their "furry" bears. These are hanging in the hallway and look oh so cute.

At our math and science table the children worked on shape and color recognition as they decorated a little tree with different shaped button ornaments.

On Thursday, we started a top secret holiday gift making project! :)

The children were delighted by our Candy Land shape game. 

We filled the water tub with cars, trucks, scrubbers and soapy water. They had a lot of fun at the car wash!

We had pretty trees to decorate at the light table.

The play dough station was quite popular this week.

They LOVED playing with candy builders at the building table!

This week was full of fun, imaginative play all around the room.

At circle time we sang songs about hibernation and the classic song, Jingle Bells. We also learned a song about the weather and learned how to sign the words umbrella, rain, thunder, and lightning in ASL.

We read Ten Gingerbread Men and There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell along with a funny book about kittens in winter. We also enjoyed a beautiful pop up book about animals in winter.

We learned a new winter yoga series and sang a cute song about a teddy bear.

Recess in the cold is fun!

Next week we continue with more winter and holiday fun!

Warmly,

Christine and Meghan