It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

My Tree and my favorite owl ornament!!!

                 Just my Maggie dog cuddling...

Preview of our "Elf" Pictures!!!

Tonight we had our Christmas program, I'm happy to say that they all managed to walk in by themselves and no crying. We even had Lila our oldest show how "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" was done! :)


The boys looked really handsome in their sweaters and the girls looked so pretty in their dresses!

Our Christmas art we've done this week. Yes, I was silly and used Red Glitter today, I know out of all the days to do glitter! So if your child comes home tonight and you find little pieces of red glitter on them. I'm sorry in advance!

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Messy Friday!

So today we did a lot of sensory. We were going to do pudding paint with vanilla pudding, but Miss Joyce the cook threw out my pudding so we used chocolate instead which was smelled really good! I'm sure the Baby Bears loved Miss Joyce for giving them that flavor!

For Art I painted their feet white and made snowmen.Quite a few ticklers in the bunch! While I was doing this, my distraction for them was an ice block I had set outside last night. Who knew the toddlers loved Ice so much!

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Icky Sticky Cotton Balls during our fine motor activity!

This week of activities are messy. We used glue twice today, which they usually love but apparently we don't like using cotton balls.

Posted a few videos down below, that just made us teachers laugh! :)

 

 

 Our Cutest Moment:

Starting our winter crafts!!!

Today we made the cutest snowmen. I took the palms on their hands and painted them white and made prints. Then I decorated them up to be super cute!

We had so much extra white paint left over that we used a paint brush and painted on a sheet of paper, then we used salt and sprinkled it on top! For some reason they really liked playing with the salt. I might do a sensory bin with little construction cars to dig in.

We went outside this afternoon, it was really wet outside so we put on our snow pants, and hats. It's a good thing we did, because as soon as we got outside a few of them sat right down in the muddy water.

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Snowman Lesson Plan

Finished all my themed lesson plans for the month of December, so I can begin working on other projects! Go figure though, I created the snowman theme for the week that we don't have snow!

Baby Bears Weekly Lesson Plan

Theme: Frosty The Snowman	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Music And Movement	Welcome Clapping Song!	Amy Grant Music	Susan Boyle Music	Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star Finger Play	Veggie Tale Christmas Music
Arts And Sensory	Sensory tub filled with snow	Making a snowman using our palms	Gluing cotton balls to a snowman	Sensory tub with Shaving cream and Ice	Finger painting with vanilla pudding
Language Development	Reading: Polar Bear, What do you hear?	Reading:  “No, No, David”	Reading: Frosty The Snowman	Reading: Santa from head to toe	Reading: 12 Days of Christmas
Motor Development	Indoor or Outdoor Climbers	Tearing up white paper and gluing it	White Tissue Paper Fun	Stamping with circle shapes	Painting our feet to make a snowman

Venturing out into the snow with the toddlers!

We explored outside today. Half of the class loved the snow, the other half couldn't move and just wanted to go back inside! They were pretty bundled up. It was a lot colder than than it was this morning. It took Miss Sarah and I almost 30 minutes to get everyone bundled up and we were probably outside for five minutes!



So we come back inside after chasing a few toddlers that decided they wanted to be in the snow longer come into the hallway trying to undress all of them which most were now crying because they were cold, tired and cranky! And during the process of doing this. This is what Gavin decided to do. Now mind you I had this paint underneath another box that was covered up. But Gavin loves paint so just look to see what happens next!

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Every child is an artist!

My toddlers love painting with water colors! It's messy but they will actually paint for 15 minutes and that is a record! Great for fine motor too! I'm so proud that they all used their paint brush's and no fighting over their paints!

Since some of the Baby Bears forgot to bring in their snow pants, we decided again to bring the snow indoors, this time we used bowls, muffin tins and plates with the snow! They had fun trying to serve us the snow! As you can see we still have quite a bit of eaters!

They also learned that you can only play in the snow if they wear their mittens. Once they came off, they had to go somewhere else, they didn't like that very much! So I'm guessing that when we do go out and explore they will leave them on!

 

Our Cutest Moments:

 My Grandma showing off her new shirt I got her!