Getting Into the Holiday Spirit

Winter Holiday books that we read for the month of December

 Show-and-Tell: Gingerbread Man Unit

 Show-and-Tell: Christmas Tree Unit

 Christmas Tree Unit: Creating a Christmas Tree (Working on organizing strips from largest to smallest) and adding snow for the final touch!

6th Annual Parent's Night Out

The kiddos gather together in their jammies under their presents

 Welcome to our 6th Annual Parent's Night Out

Ms. Ashley's gift to families

A Saturday night without the kiddos!

 Time for our pizza party!!!

 Smushing bananas for our home-made banana bread

A gift for our parents! Shhh.... It's a surprise!

 What little chefs we have!

 Silly Faces

 Each preschooler pours their batter into the loaf pan

 Time for a Christmas movie and popcorn!

 Here are our presents for our parents

 Doesn't the banana bread look scrumptious!

 Opening our Secret Santa gifts from our friends

 Painting our crafts for our parents

 Look how beautiful our ornaments turned out

 Who wouldn't love these cute little faces???

`What an AWESOME Parent's Night Out!!! We can't wait to do it again next year!

Thank you mom's and dad's for allowing me to care for your little sweethearts. Merry Christmas and have a wonderful New Year! A big thank you for all the special gifts you got me this Christmas. I truly feel loved and appreciated and am blessed to have such great families in my life!!!!

Love, Ms. Ashley

Creating Christmas Wish Lists

All We Want For Christmas...

 We worked on cutting out pictures and gluing them onto the paper

Now Santa will know exactly what I wish for!!!

Donating Food to the Kansas Food Bank

Look at ALL the food we collected to donate to the needy.

We learned that some people are not as fortunate as we are and that it is important to help people in need. We also talked about being thankful for having food to eat each day. This was such a special way for the children to learn about giving back to the community!

 We donated a bucket of food to the Kansas Food Bank Warehouse

 Adding boxes of food

 We discussed the different items that each child donated

 We counted and organized the cans and boxes that we brought to preschool

Kansas Food Bank Warehouse

VISIT: kansasfoodbank.org        For more information about donating food and your time!

Whether you are interested in providing money, food or time, the Kansas Food Bank can use your help!

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Pumpkin Unit

Pumpkin & Leaf Patterning

 The older preschoolers worked on more advanced patterning

 Pumpkin Show-and-Tell

 Sensory Play with Gourds

 Counting Pumpkins

 Counting Candy Corn Guessing Game

The winner of the Guessing Game will receive a Halloween Prize Bucket