it’s getting festive and friendly around here! with only a few new props, play has evolved to santa, jesus, reindeer, trees, chimneys, mary and joseph… and a couple days of spontaneous pageants with theology i wish i would have written down
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d is for decorating for christmas
with a little sparkly rick rack, our preschool village is looking ready for christmas!
c is for christmas card station
with a word wall, pencils, old cards and envelopes, there is a lot of writing going on. we make this type of “station” for other reasons too (e is for envelope, v is for valentine, p is for pencil, a is for address, t is for telephone number, etc).
j is for jingle bell poem
we used our cutting muscles again to cut foil (folded over 6 times) circles. the teachers helped seperate them. one we glued in our journal and the rest we used for a jingle bell project to go with the poem we wrote at circle time: the preschoolers glued strips of paper on so they touchedContinue reading “j is for jingle bell poem”
j is for jingle bell
we used j week to explore metal vs non-metal with huge bags of thrifted wooden beads and more bags of jingle bells, we made necklaces and tree ornaments. before we made them, all the bells and wooden beads were mixed in a large bucket. when we sunk a magnet wand in and pulled out, itContinue reading “j is for jingle bell”