Our Thanksgiving Tree. Every day through November, the students told me one thing they were thankful for. I wrote it on these little circles and hung them on our "tree." Next year, it would be a nice idea to do this with leaves.
I is for Igloo, Ice cream, Instruments, Icicles
Madison with the Christmas bear building a den of pillows.
Jakey
Casey
Mrs. M and Christmas bear!
Checking out the Christmas angel!
Indian or Native American headbands for Thanksgiving!
Casey wore his headband all day.
Jake's headband
Place the beans on the numbers: I had each child place the correct amount of beans on each number sheet.
Finally, a good sticky snow! Check out how big these balls of snow are getting. I was having difficulty rolling them once they got so big, but the kids were still willing to push them through the snow!
Snow fun!
The students made these crosses to correspond with our Bible lesson. The diamonds represent each child, who are diamonds in God's eyes!
Christmas muffin tins and pom-poms make pretty flowers!
Working on a few worksheets.
Madison has been asking me frequently if we could make gingerbread cookies, so today was the day!
Jakey loves when we have sprinkles. He ignores putting them on the cookies and just eats them!
Outreach project: The children helped pack Christmas bags for needy children. They were so great doing this, never asking anything for themselves and being very particular about what each child would have in their bag. They took it very seriously, and I was very proud of them.
These are the children's gifts to their parents. I laid out many, many Christmas cards, all over my table and all over the floor, and asked each child to choose 7 cards that they liked for this project for their parents. I traced their hands onto the cards and cut them out. Then I provided many buttons for the children to look at and asked each child to pick out 20 or so buttons t hat they like for the project. I used a glue gun and glued everything onto an artist's canvas. I got the canvases at Michael's craft store. I watched for them to go on sale and purchased them then.
Each child signed their project.
Now to wrap the presents. It was so sweet to watch how each student took pride in wrapping their presents just so!
This is a Christmas tree cut from old Christmas cards. My daughter Julia made a template out of cardboard. The children then chose several cards, and we cut out the design from the template and glued each card to a sheet of cardstock. Then I gave the children foam cutouts that they could decorate around the outside of the tree.
Madison's wrapping job. I enlarged this photo of the three students to attach to the gifts. Madison designed the card! I think it turned out very pretty.
Jake's card for his parents.
Casey put a lot of time and effort into adding lots of art work to his gift.
Our preschool Christmas party! All of the kids gave presents to each other.
Decorating ice cream cone Christmas trees. I purchased sugar cones, icing, and a variety of candies. The children spread the icing on the cones and then decorated with the candies.
Madison and her mom.
One completed tree!
Great pictures, Sue :)
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