Dressing Up in January!

We have gotten off to a great start in January!  It's been a fun month with a lot of activity.  We have celebrated two birthdays.  Happy birthday to Marshall and Caroline!  

Our new Creative Curriculum unit has been "clothing." We have been learning about different types of clothes and why we wear them.   In cold weather you have to bundle up to stay warm.....in warm weather you have to dress lightly to stay cool.  Some people have to wear a uniform when they work and others don't.  The children have had fun dressing up in our clothes collection from home.  It has been a lot of fun!

We have also continued to work on our fine motor skills to strengthen our pre-writing hand muscles.  We have enjoyed cutting scrap paper in our sensory table, learning how to weave, playing with buttons in play dough, and discovering our touch sense on a sticky table top with manipulatives.  

Come check out all of the fun. . . . . .

Christmas Fun!

We had a merry little Christmas in Pre-K 3! It was a busy month of crafts, ornaments, making gifts, our book fair, singing, partying, and lots of fun.  Right before we got out for Christmas break we had a special school wide chapel service and birthday cake for Jesus.  Then back in the classroom, we had a very special visitor....(thanks to Burke's daddy!)  We hope you enjoy some of the Pre-K 3 Christmas memories we made! :)

 One day in December we each had to leave a shoe out in the hallway...and we weren't sure why...

 We were surprised to find out that while we were in our classroom, St. Nicholas came and put a candy cane in each of our shoes!

 We had fun counting stickers....

 making stockings.....

working the nativity puzzle....

reading books....

making Rudolfs...

making jingle bell pasta necklaces....

decorating cookies....

playing pin the nose on Rudolf....

following the rules to earn stickers on our stockings...

and celebrating our 4 birthday boys!!

Marshall, Burke, Jackson, and Boyd

Last, but not least.... a visit from Santa!!!

Thanks Santa, we've all been very good this year! :)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in 2012!!

Run, Run As Fast As You Can....

You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!  It was a lot of fun reading different versions of The Gingerbread Man story last week.  We also got to hear the story of The Gingerbread Girl, who was the gingerbread boy's sister.  Even though her brother wasn't so lucky, she out-smarted the fox and tied him up with a piece of licorice from her hair!  We thought it was so funny that she said "Run, run with a leap and a twirl, you can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread girl!"

We decorated gingerbread men cookies on Friday and after we read our book, our gingerbread men cookies had run away!  We went on a hunt around the school, and finally found them back in our room, safe and sound, with our gingerbread house!  And boy, were they good to eat!  :)

 Mrs. Krista loved the birthday cards we made her and her birthday cookie cake!

 Playing in our "gingerbread" playhouse!

 Decorating gingerbread men cookies!

 Listening to The Gingerbread Girl story with Mrs. Dore's friends.

 Going on our hunt around the school.....

 There they were, back in our room!

We want to thank Tiana's mom for coming to the class last Friday and reading us a story on her Ipad!

If you weren't able to come to Trinity School Sunday this morning, we'd love for you to stop by our book fair this week in the school library.  There are many great books and gifts for you to check out , just in time for Christmas!!