The children were overjoyed to discover a gingerbread house in the Exploratorium this week! We have been reading many wonderful books about Hannakah and Christmas learning about special traditions. In the gingerbread house they have enjoyed using hammers and blocks to make special gifts to give at holiday time. They are excited about the Holiday Gift Drive and giving to the children that are in need.
After reading the book "A Blues Clues Chanukah" by Jessica Lissy the children were making latkes and having a having a Hanukkah party in the dramatic play area.
The children really experienced the holiday spirit making gingerbread cookies. First we measured the ingredients, mixed with a spoon and used rolling pins to flatten our balls of dough. Next we chose a cookie cutter shape to cut our cookie. The tricky part was removing the extra dough from the edges in order to see our cookie!
Mrs. Mundell introduced us to the star shape and then we glued different sizes and colors of stars onto a large star. We are going to hang them on the branches of our classroom tree!
At the easel the children used blue, red, yellow and green paint to paint stripes, dots, ovals and zigzags designing our own special holiday gift paper!
Others enjoyed drawing with craypas at the easel and then writing their own names on their work!
Some of us had so much fun at the sensory table exploring with muffin tins, cookie cutters and flour!!
The coolest thing was using droppers of watercolor and squeezing it onto a tray of shaving cream. Then we took a picked scraper to blend the colors gently together. NEXT we placed paper on top and tickled it all over. When we pulled the paper away it was covered with the beautiful colors we had made and of course a little shaving cream that we scraped onto the table. Then we got to put our hands in it and PLAY!
During Exploring on Friday the children enjoyed decorating the gingerbread cookies they had made with icing and a variety of sprinkles. The best part was when we were finished and could take a bite!
We used red, yellow, white, blue and green beads and a jingle bell to make a jingle bell necklace! The children will wear their necklaces at the "Holiday Sing" on December 16th.
Mrs. McIvor joined us for Exploring and shared many musical instruments! The children used jingle bells, cymbals and tambourines to make beautiful music as they listened to holiday tunes. Triangles, bells and musical holiday animals were also enjoyed and created a delightfully festive atmosphere!
Mrs. Samuel read the book " Little Blue, And Little Yellow" by Leo Lionni and combined droppers of yellow and blue food coloring to make "GREEN." How exciting!! The children used a little yellow and a little blue finger paint to make their own green. They also experimented transferring green water into test tubes with pipettes.
Books read this week:
"Ten on the Sled" by Kim Norman
"Sleepy ABC" by Margaret Wise Brown
"Harriet and George's Christmas Treat" by Nancy Carlson
"Madeline's Christmas" by Ludwig Bemelmans
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