The children had fun singing Jingle Bell songs last week and creating Christmas cards and crafts. This week we will act out The Gingerbread Man with finger puppets and sequence the story. We will read The Polar Express, The Sweet Smell of Christmas, and Cobweb Christmas. We will listen to book and tapes of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Berenstein Bears Meet Santa Bear, and The Wild Christmas Reindeer by Jan Brett.
In Nature/Science we will learn about Penguins. The children will plant pansies in the flower bed at the front of the school and do a picture study of a pansy. We will also continue to explore our senses of touch in pouring center with Montessori exercises for the Thermic Sense.
In Bible we will read Luke 2: 2-19. The children will color and read God Sent Us a Savior and The Magi. We will also read “Angels Tell of Jesus’ Birth”, “Shepherds Visit Baby Jesus”, “Wise Men Follow The Star”, and Wise Men Give Their Gifts” from The New Bible In Pictures and answer critical thinking questions at the end of each story. (There is also a little prayer that we say at the end of each story).
In Art the children will make stained glass frames, button wreaths, candy canes, lacing wooden ornaments, and magic scratch snowflakes.
In Music we will learn about holidays in other countries. We will finish our Kwanzaa story. We will learn about Santa Lucia Day and sing “Santa Lucia”. We will also read The Eight Nights of Hanukkah and sing “Eight Little Candles” and “I Have a Little Dreidel”. The children will play a Hanukkuh matching game.
Our field trip to the Omni Theatre at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History is this Thursday, Dec. 9. Please meet at the school (Mrs. Hague and Mrs. Camp will be there by 8:30). We need to leave by 8:45 (they want us to be there by 9:30). The show starts at 10:00. We will come back to the school for lunch after the show, and we will have our party after lunch. Please send a lunch as usual that day.
