Letter Gg

The Gingerbread Man by Karen Schmidt and The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett have always been classic books to read for the Letter Gg.  Thanks to my mother helpers for baking the gingerbread and helping the students decorate their Gingerbread Men.

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is always such a great day.  Everyone makes sure they let each other know how much they mean to them.  Here are some fun pictures showing griddle painting, heart patterning, exchanging valentines and of course we wished Principal Val, "Happy Birthday" because his birthday is on Valentine's Day!

Lions

Ll is for Lion.  For my granddaughter's career day she came and taught my students about Lions' habitat, characteristics and how to draw them using oil pastels.  It was a treat having her at preschool.  The students enjoyed the activity.  Take a look at their creations.

Hibernation and Bears

Intern Teacher McKenna taught the students about hibernation, which means to sleep all winter.  Bears are not the only animal that hibernates, so do chipmunks, bats and even ladybugs.  Pictured below are the bears getting ready to hibernate and then they crawled into their cave for a long winter's nap.

Intern Teacher Jenna is teaching the students about the BIG Brown Bear that eats lots of fish, berries and grass so that he can sleep all winter long.

Teacher Marilyn, Intern Teacher Jenna and students are pictured with their bears for the Big Bear Celebration.  Each student brought their bear so that they could measure, weigh and dance with them. It was a Beary fun day!

Mittens

The letter Mm is for Mittens.  A favorite book that the students love to read is THE MITTEN by Jan Brett.  This year a preschool student's grandparents came and shared the book with us and brought  animal puppets that go along with the story.  Afterwards, the students crawled into a very large white mitten and when the mouse's whiskers tickled the bear's nose, all of the students flew out of the mitten!

Another favorite book of the students is THE MISSING MITTEN MYSTERY by Steven Kellogg.  In this story Annie loses her red mitten, but is found in a very special place.  After the story was read to the students, they all sewed their own red mitten on the sewing machine.  They did a great job!

A Netherland Christmas

This Christmas we had a new tradition of Christmas introduced to the students by a new student and her mother who are from Holland.  In Holland Santa Claus is called Sinter Klaas. Instead of elves to help Sinter Klaas, he has Black Piets.  Sinter Klaas and his Black Piets deliver their candy and gifts on December 5th.  Below you will see some fun games they played with the students. 

The day Sinter Klaas and his Black Piets are to arrive with candy and gifts, the children fill their shoes with food for Sinter Klaas' horse and sing songs so that Sinter Klaas will hear them. 

Pictured below is some of the festive food that is eaten during the holiday.