I can't believe this is the last week before Winter Break. This year is going by so fast! This is going to be a really fun week at preschool. On Tuesday we will be going on a field trip to Bass Pro Shop's Winter Wonderland. Thank you to all of the parents who volunteered to come with us on this field trip, we appreciate your willingness to help but since this was a last minute addition and we had already had you all sign up for field trips and parties there was really no fair way to decide who could come. We will be taking 5 staff members and all of the activities do take place in a relatively small area so this will be plenty of adults to make sure all of your kids are well taken care of. We are also looking forward to our Holiday party on Thursday. The January calendars will not be coming home until we return on the 3rd. Some important dates are January 16, No School, Martin Luther King Day and January 19 in the tentative date for our field trip to Petland. I hope you all enjoy Winter Break and have a safe and happy holiday. We will see you all in the New Year.
Monday
Today the morning class will be practicing cutting while making Christmas trees. We will also be working on sorting and counting in math.
The afternoon class will be making wreaths and finishing their Christmas counting papers.
Our story today is Are You Grumpy Santa?
Tuesday
? of the day – Which has more? (there will be 2 bags of small objects)
Large Group – we will talk about more and less
Field Trip to Bass Pro Shop
Wednesday
? of the day – Do you have any brothers?
Large group – talk about the people in our families
Small Group – Second Step lesson with the Social Worker, Meg Will.
Story – Clifford's Christmas
Thursday
? of the day – Do you think that it will snow over break?
Large Group – We will be making a list of things that we can do in the snow.
Story – Hurry Santa!
Holiday Parties 10:30 and 1:15
Friday
Today we will play playing some holiday games . The morning class will have speech with Mrs. DeYoung and the afternoon will watch a short movie.

This week we will still be talking about tress and what they are used for. We will also be doing lots of gingerbread themed activities. Here are our detailed plans for the week:

Monday
Today the morning class will work on sorting by color. We will also be practicing counting to 5 using presents and trees. We will use bingo blotters to color a gingerbread man and play language lotto to work on classifying and vocab development. The afternoon class will be working on identifying and printing the numbers 4, 5 and 6. We will also practice our coloring and cutting skills by completing a gingerbread house. Both groups will read the story The Gingerbread Man.

Tuesday
? of the day – Which bag has more sticks?
Large Group – talk about more and less
Small Group A.M. - Counting Games
Small Group P.M. - ABC Games
Story – The Gingerbread Boy
At the art table we will be making paper gingerbread men and at the sensory table we will be making our own red and green play dough which we will play with the rest of the week.

Wednesday
? of the day – Do you have a Christmas tree at home?
Large group – discuss different things that are made from wood
Small Group – Second Step lesson with the Social Worker, Meg Will. This weeks lesson is about identifying feelings.
Story – The Gingerbread Boy
Today we will be making hot chocolate and having it with cookies for snack.

Thursday
? of the day – What would you like for Santa to bring you for Christmas?
Small Group A.M. - No small group we will be attending a holiday concert by the Prarieview band.
Small Group P.M. - letter L activity
Story – Gingerbread Baby

Friday
Today both classes will be doing a multi sensory candy cane art project. The morning class will also have speech with Mrs. DeYoung and the afternoon will continue to work on number identification and printing numbers 7&8. Our story today is Santa's Noisy Night.