Spectacular S

We had a super time learning about S last week! We made stockings, built santa and snowmen, learned how to spell Santa, made snow flakes and much more!
We set up a gift wrapping center. The students loved it but they went through a whole roll of tape in about 15 minutes. Next time I might have pre cut strips ready for them :)

Felt board Santa and Snowman! 

 We had a little Christmas tree decorating

 Tada! Our letter S Snowmen! I think they turned out great!

 The students cut out the beards themselves and glued on the cotton balls!

We used Strips to make Christmas Trees 

Misc. Thanksgiving

Here are some photos of what we were up to the two days of school before thanksgiving break. We had a lot of fun prepping for the Holidays.

We set up a table with for a Thanksgiving meal. We also practiced our fine motor skills by threading canoes.

 My favorite project for the week was our thankful turkeys. I loved hearing the kids responses when I asked what they are thankful for

Jingle J

We've "J"umped right into the Christmas season with the letter J. We made jingle bell shakers, tasted Jelly Beans, made Jelly fish J's and much much more

Here we are making our candles for the Holiday House

 We set up fireplace and miniature Christmas Tree

 We had a Jammie day! Here are the Jammies in front of our Jelly fish

Decorated felt Christmas Trees

 Painted some paper towel tubes and played with Jewels in sand

 Don't forget about the candy cane J's!

All in all it was a great week, even though it was cut short with a snow day on friday, Which leads perfectly into our snow filled week next week with S
Songs:
 Jingle Bells
 Jingle jingle little bell
Books:
  Jingle Bells around the world
  The bedtime book
  Llama llama red pajamas
  Jelly Fish
  The Joy of giving

Incredible I

We had a great time learning about I. We measured our height in inches, made insects, measured if ice weighed more than water, and learned about pilgrims and indians

 Indian handprints

 Popsicle stick turkeys

 Paper igloos

 We made our letter I Islands

 We used pipe cleaners and beads to build indian corn cobs

We also spent time playing in an ice cream shop! So much fun

Crazy C!

 We had a great time learning about C! We learned about corn, painted with corn cobs, shucked some corn on the cob, learned about cup cakes and had a bake shop! Here are some highlights from the week!

We painted with corn on the cob!

 Mixing Shaving cream and glue we made icing for cupcakes! The kids loved spreading it around on the paper and we had to top it off with sprinkles.

 We colored colorful cats and used Q-tips to dob corn onto our corn cobs

Totally Terrific T

We had a great week learning about T. So many wonderful words start with T. We focused on Thanks, Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Tigers, Turtles and Triangles. We tiptoed through the hallways, painted with toothbrushes, played tic tac toe, and made turkey tracks.

Here are some of the books we read

 Some toothbrush masterpieces

 Turkey tracks and paper bag tigers!

 Our letter T Turkeys!

 Making Thank you cards

 Toilet paper turkeys

Songs:

1 fat, 2 fat, 2 fat turkeys

4 fat, 5 fat, 6 fat turkeys

7 fat, 8 fat 9 fat turkeys

10 turkeys on thanksgiving

Practically Perfect P!

We had a wonderful week learning about P! We learned about pumpkins, penguins, pigs, had parties and a parade! So much fun squeezed into one week!

Here are our letter P Pigs! 

In the morning we made Popsicle stick puzzles and patchwork pumpkins with tissue paper

 Thursday was HALLOWEEN which was a lot of fun! We went trick or treating, made masks with parents, and had special Halloween snacks. 

 If you look close at my Happy Halloween sign you will see some drew little smiley faces in the letters, which I think is wonderful! They also wrote their own version of Happy Halloween!

 All the wonderful costumes!

 Earlier in the week we made some glitter faced jack o lanterns

Songs:
I have a little pumpkin that is round, not flat, and if you step on it, it goes KERSPLAT
5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a gate

Books:
Penguin and Pinecone
Penguins 123
5 pumpkins
Halloween Night
Pete the Cat
Puff the magic dragon
From seed to pumpkin