December wall

Tree for them to take home

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Christmas dauber for the children to take home

Christmas tree to decorate

Christmas tree for our wall

our tree decorations are from my book call The preschool Calendar

Count down to Christmas

printed from DtLK Kids

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Counting 25 cotton balls (little hard for most of them )

Last years Santa cunt down.

Santa count down . Each child makes one to take home plus we do one for here.

We also do 25 days of reading . Each day a child picks a new book to read . When my own child where little I'd wrap 25 book Christmas story's of course .

December trays part 2

puzzle with matching mat
printable by 2 teaching mommies

clothes pin number game

stacking Santa

stockings are hung

Decembers trays

Three ideas cost $2.00
First I made holiday stamp set
Then made a pattern tray
All with a package
of foam stickers.
Then I bought this game for a $1.00
my 4 and 5 loved it . Roll the dice
move the peg . great math game

As am on christmas break and shopping around

I remember to pick up different items I use through the year in classroom . Tissue(.25cents ) paper as you seen or will over the year I use allot of it and love it . White boxes (.25cents.50) . I use these as trays for painting and different items . We will next month use them to write letters in the snow (flour) in them . I also picked up some form cut -out that I will make into lace cards next December (.50cents). I picked up a pack of bells to make bracelets or necklace next year , pack of 12 (.50). I saw but did not buy some form crafts like picture frames that would be a good parents gift and some other form crafts . I did pick up red shinny bag filler stuff we will use to make hearts with in Feb. (.50).
Then as this month am doing snowman , snow winter animals and snow flakes . I picked up a foam snowman kit , snow flakes to paint with.
I also picked up some sensor toys . They have the feeling and you can do your hand print and or face into them and it shows the image on the other side . Also remember holiday books finding .75% . of this time of year also tape . Preschool well all children love tape . Plus i use tons of it in my childcare . whatabout bows and wrap paper for your water table next year . or a matching game ? endless when i look around . that some stuff i been doing on break .

So what will the new year bring to your classroom , homeschool , child care or you as a teacher

So from September to now i had some classroom goal and personal teaching goals, i had individual children's goals i wanted to meet . So my personal goal was to blog my childcare ideas and get each theme and month organized . And a blog organized . Well i made 1/2 of it work . I missed a step in blog area about organizing it by theme or area . so on winter break i try to work on that . I did come up with a system for each month making folder or boxes depending what i have for each theme . Making sure everything labels but still not like i want . So that a work in process .( and i have many to find a home still from sept. until now ) but a good start .

We started September off with a big kick off of shapes and everyone seem to know their shapes now . Some other individual goals was learning her color another learning to write name and another learning number 1-5. It is interesting working with mixed ages two to 5. Goals complete with pretty much 100% . So am please also one that was learning to write can about 80% of time proper use.

For the classroom i wanted to bring in each month new recognition ideas and fine motor and i seem to come up and had a lot of fun making and using them in the room .

Goals for the new year . Keep blogging each day . Continue to organize my storage for curriculum . Continue in each child's goals . And have a great new year 2011 am ready !

Ginger Bread house

So i gather small milk carton form our local school . Next time remind me to check lunch menu was not a good day to go into school and dig in trash . Then i went and got gram crackers and a huge amount of candy as you see . Now you actual could do this all in paper and be really cute also . But i have one little girl that really wants to do a gingerbread house and has never done one and don't have one at home .So here we are . These houses are not to eat . We will try morels cookies with frosting and all the topping they want to try and decorate after . We will see if they eat these .(they did ) look at the one that a snowman . I did this project with 3 yrs through 11 yr olds . so you will see the different .All very creative and all really enjoy it . As we are not eating these i have hot glue gun handy for any frustrated children to help along the project.(actual only the youngest one i needed hot glue for and one roof pc on another child . So the frosting was strong enough .

Reindeer

Well today we celebrated Reindeer's I used to save this day for our party but i decide to change it up a bit this year. So first we start with Reindeer hats .
brown paper
red circle
tape
black marker
I make strips or older ones can cut two strips out . Trace there hands and cut two out . Glue red circle in the middle of the band , tape or glue hands on for antlers and give some eyes if like . (hint when i have kids cut strips i just have them cut the folded lines )

Then we played Santa says (Simon says) i worn a Santa hat and had a bell .(smile ho ho ho )
Santa say fly
Santa say prance
Santa say................

Reindeer food we made for Christmas eve night .
Oatmeal
sprinkles
zip lock bag
I pour oatmeal in big bowl and i let each child add sprinkles to the bowl then we each put a scoop in the zip lock bag .
we attach Reindeer poem

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We finished our reindeer envelopes to hold our parents gift . Reindeer ornament are in side .
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We also adding a picture ornament to the gift .
we color them just with markers and i added a picture of each child in a Santa hat . really cute wish i could show . We will take white tissue paper and let them add Christmas stickers ,

The Stocking hung with care (updated )

And already to be fulled . So the next two days we are going to be working on these over size stocking , This one was made a few years ago maybe 4 or 5 so we going to change it up some . Instead of water coloring painting we are going to glue scape's of paper and wrapping paper . Then we will lace the two together with ribbon . I might ad names when we are done .so we color , glue cut and laced this stocking last two days . They really cute and large kind of fun for the kids to make .

This week is going to be busy 4 days until Christmas break . we need to have a reindeer party . make gingerbread house , paint parents picture parent gift ornament and make these stocking .

So check for update all week .

Friday open ended

well today some where finishing up things they never finished this week . Others working on writing name and cutting skills . Just open play today. But here is a few extra ideas we have done this week .

This little 3d ornament cute easy and all levels can do it , the older ones like cutting the line to hook them together . We will add ribbon and a hole punch to hang from tree . www.coloring.we/christmas

The tree is they cut or you a triangle and we used water colors . Some also colored with crayon and then water painter over the coloring .

Twas the Night Before Christmas

we read two Twas the night before Christmas but two things in common it all the tales is Reindeer of course one is the classic soft fabric book and 2nd one by jump at the sun . so today we made classic i call them hand print Reindeer ornaments . Then we made a reindeer package to put our ornament in and i think we save it until Christmas and see what other ornament we can ad for a gift. A picture ornament with date be cute to add for a gift .

Ok see the can of empty coffee what do you see ? when i look at it i see a Santa so we will see if i can make one before end of week .

Tomorrow will be our letter Thursday i know it only Wednesday tomorrow but we having a birthday party Thursday . so letter I here we come ice , igloo ice cream . Guess what to we going to do tomorrow .