Dates: December 1-10
Theme: Books: "The Mitten" and "The Hat" by Jan Brett
From: Tanya

Language Experiences:

• We read "The Mitten" by Jan Brett and used stuffed animals to demonstrate how each animal went into the mitten because it was cold outside.


• We made a mitten craft.


• We made masks of the animals and acted out the story of The Mitten.


• We made snowman and snowflake cookies.


• We will read "The Mitten" and act out with flannel board materials.
  


• We will read "The Hat" by Jan Brett and act it out with various props.


• We will make a sock (aka "The Hat") craft.


• We will talk about how the hedge hog has sharp prickles on it's body to protect him from other animals. Then we will touch other objects and talk about how they feel (i.e., rough, bumpy, smooth, soft, hard etc.).


• We will hide various objects in the snow and dig for them.


• We will pain ant animal from one of the two stories.

Vocabulary: winter, snowman, snowflake, sneeze, mole, icicles, badger, sweater, pumpkin pie, hedgehog, freezing, present, hot cocoa, scarf, snowpants, cave, tunnel, fire place, yarn/string, prickles, clothes pin, laugh, stocking

Notes: Grandparents Day is December 14th at 11:15 am. Please invite your child's grandparents and/or a special guest to join them in the making of a gingerbread house! In addition, we will be having a bake sale that goodies can be purchased during this event. If you would like to contribute to the bake sale, please send your baked goods in by Monday, December 13th. Also, please send in a pint size milk or half and half container by this Friday, December 10th. We will be using these to build the gingerbread houses. Thanks!

Show and Tell Dates:
Monday: Grace and Blake
Wednesday: Tommy and Anisah
Friday: Aubrey and Matthew