A Very Merry Christmas

We had a wonderful week of Christmas fun in pre-kindergarten. Our party day was so much fun! The students enjoyed rotating through a variety of Christmas stations. 

Gingerbread House Making

Making Reindeer Food

Can you build a snowman?

Christmas Scavenger Hunt

THANK YOU!!

Thank you to all of our families for making our party day so much fun. We could not have built houses without all of that candy, thank you for your donations! Thank you to the parents who made icing for us, we know that can be a messy job and we appreciate your efforts! Thank you to Christina Plowman, Jillian Halliday, Misun Martens, and Serena Grimson for volunteering at our party, your time and help is very appreciated! And of course, thank you to the parents who sent in party food, we thoroughly enjoyed our party snacks, it is always fun to share a special snack together on party days.

P.S. The gingerbread houses are 100% edible! They were put together with melted sugar.

Christmas Baking 

We had fun baking Christmas cookies this week. This yummy activity works on early numeracy (counting and measuring), turn taking, and fine motor skills (dumping, scooping, stirring). Here is our recipe:

CAKE MIX CHOCOLATE CHIP SANTA COOKIES RECIPE

Ingredients:

• 1 box of white cake mix
• 2 large egg whites
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 3/4 cup chocolate chips + extra to press on top of the cookies prior to baking
• 1/4 cup red white and green holiday sprinkles

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Combine the cake mix, egg whites, flour and oil, mixing well. Add in the 3/4 cup of chocolate chips.

Roll the cookie dough into 1-2″ size balls and place 2-3″ a part on your baking sheets.

Gently press down on the cookie dough balls and place a few extra chocolate chips and sprinkles on top.

Place in the oven and bake 8-10 minutes. Do not over bake.

This Cake Mix Chocolate Chip Santa Cookies Recipe makes approximately 2 dozen cookies.

Looking for Boxes!

Please think of us and save any boxes you collect over the holiday season. Big, small, we will take them all! We want to make a box city with the students in the New Year. Feel free to send in any boxes you may have during our first week back. Thank you in advance!

Staffing Update

Robina Baker has had some staffing changes and it has created a domino effect for some of the educational assistants throughout our school. We will be having a couple of changes to our pre-kindergarten team in the New Year. Miss C is off to be a kindergarten educational assistant in Beaumont. Ms. Sloan will still be with us in the mornings, but will be supporting students in the older grades in the afternoons. We will be welcoming Mrs. Smith to our team full time. Ms. Sloan and Miss C, you have both been an amazing gift to our PK team. Miss C, the morning class will miss you, Ms. Sloan, the afternoon class will miss you - be sure to pop in for hugs when you can! 

Click here to see the many, many pictures we took this week!

Coming Up

We are excited to dive into our outer space theme in the New Year!

• January 8th and 9th - Early Dismissal Days
• The morning class will dismiss at 10:25 am
• The afternoon class will dismiss at 2:25 pm

Wishing You a Very Merry Christmas

From our entire pre-kindergarten team, we would like to wish each and every one of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We hope your Christmas has time for relaxation, family time, and fun! See you in 2020!

It's Been a TOP Secret Kind of Week!

We have  been busy this week working on a couple of top secret projects!! Sorry Moms and Dads, you are going to have to wait until Christmas to find out the special surprise!

Winter Walk

We enjoyed a mindful walk around the school yard on Tuesday. The students had fun looking at the trees and taking time to enjoy nature.

Christmas Joy Sing and Share

Our Tuesday morning students did a fantastic job at the Christmas Joy Sing and Share. We were so proud of our little singers, it was a beautiful little way to share some Christmas joy.

Our Tuesday afternoon class worked on their fine motor skills and pincer grasps by painting Christmas lights with corks.

Christmas Fun

We had different Christmas centers set up for the students to enjoy this week. They had fun exploring the light tunnel, decorating the mini Christmas trees, as well as participating in Christmas yoga.

Most of our pictures from this week are top secret! However, you can see the ones that don't give away our surprise by clicking on this link. 

Coming Up

• December 19th - Christmas Party Day! All students are invited to attend
• Every child needs to bring one bag of candy for decorating gingerbread houses (you can just send one kind and we will mix all the candy together for the kids to share).
• We have enough parent volunteers - thank you to those who have offered to help out!
• We are still looking for a couple of more volunteers to make icing for our gingerbread houses. Please let us know if you can help out and we will share our favorite recipe.
• Wear you pajamas for this fun filled day!
• December 20th - January 5th - Christmas Break, no School
• January 8th and 9th - Early Dismissal
• The morning class will dismiss at 10:45 am
• The afternoon class will dismiss at 2:25 pm

Christmas arrives in Pre-K

It was a very special week in Pre-K as we started our Christmas festivities. We put up and decorated the tree, met Snowflake the elf, and of course, had our Christmas concert performance.  We are so proud of all our Pre-K's for getting on stage and giving it their all! Thank you so much for getting your little one all dressed up and bringing them to school for this magical evening. We hope you enjoyed the adorableness as much as we did!

We engaged in some pretty cool learning experiences this week.

Snowman Science

What happens when we bring snow inside? The students made predictions of what they thought would happen. Some thought it would melt or explode. We set outside to find out! The Pre-K's made a snowman in a bag and then we brought them inside to observe. After our first observation, we saw the snow had shrunk. The next day, all the snow was gone! It had changed to water! It was fun to explore this science concept.

Games Day

We hosted a Games Day this week. Students had the chance to play three different games: Pop up Pirate, Penguin Pile up, and Who Knows Whose Nose. Taking turns, sharing, cooperating, and building language skills are all developed when playing simple board games. We really enjoyed this time together.

Check out more pictures of our week here.

Upcoming

• December 10th - Christmas Joy Sing and Share. 
• We will be walking the Tuesday/Thursday morning kids to this fun event at the community center. Parents, you are required to sign the online permission slip through your child's Power School account in order for your child to attend.
• December 19th - Christmas Party Day! All students are invited to attend
• We have enough parent volunteers - thank you to those who have offered to help out!
• We are still looking for a couple of more volunteers to make icing for our gingerbread houses. Please let us know if you can help out and we will share our favorite recipe.
• December 20th - January 5th - Christmas Break, no School