🦡🦉🦔 🐻 🦊 🧤 THE MITTEN 🧤 🦊🐻 🦔🦉🦡
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HANNUKAH
Most of the Quarter Notes already own the Jan Brett book, The Mitten, so they were familiar with Nikki and his Baba (Ukrainian grandmother) and the animals who squeezed into the white mitten.
The children colored, stamped, and cut out color copies of Brett's illustrations, then glued them onto a pre-cut white mitten. I laminated the artwork and made hole punches along the edges of the mittens. It took awhile to sew the lacing string through the holes. Everyone was very patient and persistent once they saw that they could "knit" a mitten, just like Baba did for Nikki. The mittens looked so cute that I made a bulletin board of their work. The picture is below. This activity and lacing is a wonderful fine motor activity.
The class practiced writing numbers on mittens, cutting skills, and gluing the pieces on paper in numerical order.
There are some beautiful mitten designers in class. After they wrote the word, mittens, the children colored two pre drawn illustrations and glued pom poms and shapes to them.
❄ Please remember that we will enjoy daily outside time, weather permitting. The Quarter Notes will need snowpants, boots, mittens, and hats in their cubbies all winter long. Labels are strongly encouraged to ensure no personal items are missing. Names can be written with Sharpie and labels can be ordered on line. Thank you! 😊
Hannukah started on Thursday, December 10th. We celebrated as a class singing Hannukah songs, spinning dreidels and collecting gold coins. The children "lit" their manorahs with construction paper flames glued to paper candles. We will continue to "light" our candles until Hannukah is over.
The Quarter Notes learned to play the dreidel game. They learned the words, nun (do nothing), shin (put one in the pot), hay (take half of everything in the pot), and gimel (take everything from the pot). But we mostly had fun trying to spin our dreidels.
🕎 Have a great weekend! 🕎
Alison Dressler
Mandarin: Learned new colors (red, blue, orange, purple, green). Clothing (shirt, pants, gloves, hat, vest, jacket, socks). Sang a counting song (vocab. for applauding, nodding, and washing hands) and listened to the song to cue us to clap, nod, or pretend to wash our hands.
Music: Practiced Hannukah and Christmas songs. Mississippi Stop Stop on our bodies and with Ms. Lisa's cat, Sophie. Made a bridge with our hands on our shoulders and held the box violins with our chins.
Sports: No Sports.
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