Our Friday “Purple Day” Class welcomed December with a new Color of the Month…red. This means we had red things at the Project Table, Tiny Things Table, red ornaments for our little Christmas trees, red Play-Doh, red magnet wands and jingle bells in the Tub Table and lots of new books.
We also sang Christmas songs, did jumping dot paint, made candy cane J ornaments and went on a wintery walk to hunt for snow. We read about a missing mitten and all the things the girl imagined might have happened to it…like it growing into a Mitten Tree! So silly. We had three Golden Letter friends to celebrate too: Jackson, Jacob and Julian!
Here are five questions to learn more about today…
What J things that we have for snack today?
What did we do with our Dirt Pumpkin today?
Did you jump today?
How many people said no, there wasn’t any snow at their house?
What was your favorite candy cane?
1. What J things that we have for snack today?
With our snow cloud hanging in the middle, we enjoyed Jell-O, jam sandwiches and jumbo goldfish. Thank you, Theo!
We ended up coming up with other words to describe the Jumbo goldfish, introducing the concept of synonyms.
2. What did we do with our Dirt Pumpkin today?
We had a pumpkin funeral. We decided that it was time to let the pumpkin seedling die all the way and take it to Ms Brenda’s compost pile.
We referenced our book about Grandpa Abe who died, processed our experience with the pumpkin thus far, talked about things that went wrong with the pumpkin and then wished it well.
3. Did you jump today?
Jumping Land was in full swing again today! We have 15 pillows that can be piled up in variety of ways for people who want to jump on them. We also hold or sit on those pillows during Circle Time.
Fun Fact: we’ve named each pillow…fuzzy purple, smooth blue, mermaid, circus, You Matter, red ball, yellow ball, orange ball, big pickle, fuzzy brown, quilt block, rainbow, ketchup and mustard, Ms Kristin and Clifford. Sometime we’ll take a picture of them all lined up.
4. How many people said no, there wasn’t any snow at their house?
Zero! Every single person in our school did have snow at their house earlier this week. We counted and we have 49 people altogether.
However, during our wintery walk aka Snow Hunt we checked and almost 100% of our preschool snow has melted. There was a tiny bit by the bike rack and some in the neighbor’s yard. Incredible!
5. What was your favorite candy cane?
Either green or red.
We first determined by sight only which were real and which were plastic. Then we taste tested together and shared property words: hard, sweet, sticky, spicy, minty, fruity. There were varying opinions on them and we were all able to choose a favorite.
P.S. The candy cane J poem is on repeat: You might think it’s just a J from our alphabet song, but really it’s a candy cane about to be gone! So if they say we ate the letter J, this is why.
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