Happy Holidays!
I hope everyone is enjoying celebrating the holidays with their families and classes, I know our kindergarten class certainly has!!
We started off the month with an Arctic Animals unit plan.
We learned about polar bears, penguins, reindeers and much more!
We made these polar bears with two kinds of paint. For the snow we mixed salt and white paint. Then to paint the polar bears we made a shaving cream paint with shaving cream, glue and a little white paint. When it dried the kids were amazed that he felt like a real polar bear! Really cute project.
Here is our last minute penguins. We were supposed to make the ones from my unit plan with egg cartons, but I forgot my egg cartons at home on the day of the project! So we made these cute paintable penguins instead ;)
This is a handprint and footprint reindeer, another fav of the kiddos. They trace their foot for the head and then two hands for the antlers. Cute and simple!
The elf on the shelf, Sheldon, has been causing some mischief at night!
He changed our milk and water red and green, he left us magic seeds which grew candy canes the next day, he left us a coloring book, he covered himself in bandaids, and we found him drinking syrup in our cabinet! Today we took a vote of what his favorite candy is. The kids voted on voting sheets and then we created a class graph. Hopefully we will find out in Sheldon's note tomorrow what his favorite really is!
We read the book "The Littlest Elf" Then made these cute elves with a writing prompt.
What would your job be if you were an elf at the north pole?
Help the reindeer
Help Santa make the presents
Last friday we had Grinch Day!
The kids wore their grinchiest outfits to school and we had a great day.
We made this cute Grinch project with a writing prompt
"How To Make The Grinch Grin"
Make a funny face!
Another cute writing idea that I found on Pinterest,
Santa's Stuck!
The kids assembled the pieces and drew bricks on the chimney.
Then the wrote about what they would do if Santa was stuck in their chimney.
Help Santa down the chimney.
We also learned about other holidays celebrated around the world.
We made a scrapbook of journal pages for each holiday and made a cute craft.
Glitter Menorah
Handprint Kinara
Fir Tree- Germany
And finally, the kids... and their teacher :) worked SO hard on their gifts for their family.
They made a handprint calendar. Each month has a different handprint with a poem to go with it.
That's right... 12 kids... 12 months... thats a lot of messy hands! :)
More pictures of this adorable project to come and hopefully posted on teachers pay teachers soon!
Happy Holidays!!
