Christmas Preschool

It seems like we did a lot for preschool the last few weeks and I didn't get pictures of it all, but here goes:

Natalie has had a lot of fun arranging and rearranging all the manger scenes

I did a Christmas tree bingo game (found here) and let Cyrena mark up 2 boards worth. We did mostly sight words and number words on this

The girls both colored a santa then cut his beard and rolled the cuts to make it curly

We played the Ho! Ho! Ho! game I made last year. This year in addition to identifying the number I had her count out that number of cubes as well.

Natalie likes to play with her letters. She's really into lining things up lately

The girls cut out a candy cane shape (mailbox magazine) then glued on red/white pom-pom's. Cyrena did a pattern, Natalie didn't

We also used patterns (found here) and made these reindeer and santas--they had a lot of fun with these and they made for great decorations!

We did some great Grinch stuff I downloaded from here. Some of it was mathematical thinking skills. For the 1st picture Cyrena had to make an ABC pattern with the cards. Other questions were like "The Grinch has 2 trees and 10 ornaments...how can he make sure each tree gets an equal amount of ornaments?" or "the Grinch has 3 friends and 6 ornaments, how can he share them all?" She had SO much fun with these, she wanted to keep going all day.

We made a Grinch and did a writing assignment "To make the Grinch grin I would...." Cyrena write that she would share her toys and then she drew a picture of her sharing her stuffed dog, Charlie, with the Grinch. The Grinch has lost some of his hat lining since we did this....

We did a lot with gingerbread as well. In this picture I put up pictures (in random order) of the process of baking/decorating cookies. Cyrena had to put them in the proper sequence and then she numbered the steps. These pictures were from mailbox magazine.

Afterward, Natalie played with her magnetic letters

We did a gingerbread bingo game found here. This was Natalie's gameboard. I just put letters that she knows or is working on....she did amazing! And she marked them well too, I was so proud of her. Now if only we could get her colors down....

The girls used their do-a-dot paints to make a Christmas tree from this unit. Natalie is getting much more accurate at actually getting the paint in the circle. Natalie's is on the left, Cyrena's is on the right.

Cyrena measured gingerbread (found here) using chocolate chips and then recorded the number in the box. Then she measured using Hershey Kisses and recorded. Before she used the kisses I asked her if she thought she would need more or less kisses than chips to measure the gingerbread. She answered less because they are bigger! It's just the little questions like that that really get her brain thinking.

This was a a gingerbread memory game I found here. Instead of making it a memory game, I made it a little easier so Natalie could play. I only cut up one of the sets and left the other one as a gameboard. So the girls just picked a card then matched it to the board. They played this about 8 times, it was a hit.

We read 4 different kinds of gingerbread man stories this week. Here Cyrena is reading the 'typical' one.

Then she completed a response sheet I found here. It was all about if she was the gingerbread man, she would run from...... and if a fox told her to jump on his back she would......This was fun and she did a great job writing!

I put up some cookie cards found here on the board and Cyrena would show me the quantity with her fingers. After she tired of that, I would put a few on the board, then take one away while she closed her eyes. She would then tell me which one I took away. This was fun.

This was a size sequencing sheet found here. She had to cut out all the pieces, put them in order biggest to smallest to make a tree. Instead of spreading them out to make a big tree, she decided to make it more of a topiary because she wanted a big trunk. :)

So there you go, hopefully it helps you with some ideas!