Happy Birthday, Jesus has been our focus the last two weeks.  The children joined in the spirit of gift giving by making presents for their parents.  We hope you liked them as much as we like making them for you.  The new year promises to be exciting in many ways as grow in mind, body, and heart in a brand new building sometime in Jan. 

Matching the correct pattern blocks form various Christmas shapes. 

 A salt shaker with a handle makes glittering so much easier and fun.

 A masterpiece in the making.

 We're proud of our design.

 Sharing a great book together!!!!!

 We worked very hard to make these reindeer ornaments by stuffing the plastic base with shredded brown paper.

 There's nothing better than a homemade Christmas card for our dear parents. 

 You can tell the new listening center is a big hit by the smiles on their faces.

 Christmas Bingo with candy markers.  We had to know our color words and our sight words.

 We had a birthday party for Jesus with cupcakes and candles and singing.

The Polar Express Train week involved not only the magic of the book, but train safety and signs.  During gingerbread week, we continued our Christmas activities and projects. 

Given the shapes to the Polar Express train, the task was to identify and match them like a puzzle.



Painting red or green sticks so intently to make our jingle sticks.



Rhythm sticks serve many purposes.  They make a perfect clickety clack noise, we counted out syllables like our names, not to mention they are just plain loud.



The wheels on the train go round and round.  We went to the North Pole.

This Bridge class loves to create.

 



 

Train vocabulary words this week included engine and caboose.  She was able to put all 26 letters of the alphabet in order between the two cars.  GREAT JOB!

After doing train activities all week, the boys decided to build their own model.



Rubbing the sandpaper gingerbread men with cinnamon sticks sure made them smell yummy.



The boys in green show off their teamwork!!!!!



We made gingerbread boys and girls.



His job was to crack the egg with a little help:)



Each student got to stir the batter ten times.



Don't forget to decorate him before we gobbled him up. 



These gingerbread people didn't get away in this dice game of number recognition.



A game of Twister anyone?