Week 4: Winter

This week we finished our activities related to winter.  It was a wonderful day, and we were so happy every time we could go outside.  It was brisk today, but we were able to play for quite a bit outside right after lunch.  At the end of the month, I'm always ready to move on to the next theme.  We're doing "Hearts and Shapes" for February.

Week 3: Winter

We did our "Snow Man" play dough station one more time for the month.

We played our snowman games this week too.  This kids really enjoyed a chance to get outside.  We had such a peaceful and pleasant day.

Week 2: Winter

Duplo learning center

The learning centers were a big hit this week.  I loved the snowman craft and the hot chocolate making, but I really enjoyed seeing the children's creativity with the toys.  I have a great duplo lego set with cars, a gas station, and they were making it come alive with tow trucks and the ambulance.  Also, the kitchen and tea set got great use.  They were great at setting up the table.  In February, we're going to have a day "Playing Restaurant" with menus and notebooks.  I look forward to it.

Week 1: Winter

This week we played with cloud "snow" dough and made snowman out of play dough.  It was a brisk morning, so we only spent a few minutes outside, and most of the time was inside.  We will be doing wintry activities for the next month.

Week 3: Christmas

Decorated cones

Instead of gingerbread houses, we decorated cones.  We also had station where everyone could wrap presents, and reopen them.  Both activities were so fun.  The Christmas activities were super fun, and I'm sad that it's over so soon.

Week 2: Christmas

Everyone lining up before we go into singing time.

This week we did a lot with ornaments.  We made Christmas ornaments.  One day we decorated the ornaments with glitter sticks, and the kids were really fascinated using glitter again.  The next day we actually mixed the ornaments and each child picked a color to mix in.  They were really cute, and I put the initials of the kids in the ornaments.  We also had some fun learning centers, especially the center with green play dough.

Week 1: Christmas

Today we decorated Christmas trees with glitter and pom poms.  This is the first time the kids played with glitter, and they loved it.   The pom poms alone would have been boring I think.  We read stories on Christmas and even got to play outside.  On Tuesday was decorated Gingerbread men and then ate them up.  I sent some samples home to share with their moms.  Christmas is so much fun!  It's too bad there are only 3 weeks this month.  I might sneak some activities into January.