Christmas Party Fun

Our last day of school before Christmas break was lots of fun! We rotated through 6 different party centers with the help of a few of our class mommies.
Jesus and Santa bingo...

Tremendous Trees graphing activity...

'I Spy' Christmas items...

Christmas lights patterns...

Christmas trivia...

And, a reindeer craftivity...

Next, it was time to feast with friends!

 Christmas Cheers!!

A highlight of the party was singing Happy Birthday to Jesus!

Our FIRST Christmas Concert

Tonight was a special night for the prekindergartners! It was their very FIRST Christmas concert at St. Robert School. They arrived at school wearing their Christmas best and we tried to keep it that way, so we watched a movie in our own little theater!

Time to line up... here we go!!

Check out the videos below to hear what an amazing job they did and they look pretty cute too:)

Santa's Little Teapot

The Chipmunk Song

Yay! All done! They sang their little hearts out and had some pretty amazing moves as well!!

Merry Christmas!

Survey Says...

If you are considering making holiday treats this weekend, check out our question-of-the-day results to see what taste your child prefers.

 Happy baking!

Advent Kindness Tree

As the weeks of Advent are zipping by, our little classroom tree is getting brighter and brighter with all the 'kindness' and 'helpfulness' lights that the children have been earning. This is serious business for little people:)

Let YOUR light shine every day!

Christmas Light Science

Here is our latest STEM challenge.

Today the children found snipped Christmas light strings, along with a 9V battery, on our Discovery Table. No instructions were given besides informing them that there was something interesting for them to explore.

A few curious kiddos headed straight to the table and carefully examined all the pieces. They tinkered around for awhile, with no results and asked me what they could DO with these pieces. 

My response was simply... 'well, they are lights, I wonder if we can get them to turn on?'

That intrigued the children and they headed off once again. 

A bit more time passed and suddenly two LOUD squeals were heard. They got the lights to shine!!  Woohoooo!!

All the other little people came running and it was beyond joyful to witness the bright eyes of wonder and excitement as to HOW this was happening. Everyone had to get in on the action.

As the children took turns trying to turn the lights on, a few other discoveries were made. They figured out just what would turn the lights on and what combinations wouldn't.

We will definitely be revisiting this tomorrow!! These sweet little friends told me "the half-dayers HAVE to see this!!"

Just to put your mind at ease, the children were instructed that this was NOT something they could do at home unless a parent prepared the experiment for them.