Advent/Christmas

4 Weeks of Advent

Hope Peace Joy Love

Books

• Merry Christmas Curious George
• Minerva Louise on Christmas Eve
• Kipper's Snowy Day
• The Winter Visitors
• Hanukkah!

Crafts

• Salt Dough Ornaments for class and friends
• Coloring Christmas pages
• Decorating a picture of a Christmas tree (didn't get to do this one)

Music

• Disney Family Favorites (Christmas)
• Wee Sing Christmas
• Piano Sing-a-long
• Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel

Cooking/Baking

• Christmas Cookies for the neighbors

Activities

• Decorating the House
• Polar Express Parade at Gramsie's School
• Lighting the advent candles each morning to begin prayers
• Opening a door on the advent calendar
• Placing one stick a day into Jesus' bed to prepare for Christmas

Making ornaments

Sneaking into the presents (and pulling on the tree).

Wrapping ornaments for class

Santa comes after the Polar Express Parade!

Standing by with his Polar Express Ticket

Nature Appreciation/ Camping

November 1-5

Books


When We Go Camping


Amelia Bedilia Goes Camping


Maisy Goes Camping



Toasting Marshmellows


Fred and Ted Go Camping

Crafts

• Coloring a forest and camping equipment

Music

• How I Love to go Camping-Larry Groce on the Disney 4 Album

Activities

• Setting up sleeping bags, a tent, chairs, pretend food and animals inside.
• Observing nature in the front and backyard with a magnifying glass.
• Camping for dinner in the backyard. We set up a tent, grilled hobo dinners, and ate outside.

Halloween

October 25-31

Books

• My First Halloween- Tomie DaPaola
• Pumpkin Time
• Apples and Pumpkins

Activities

• Library Story Time- Dressed up in costumes
• Stuffed animals go trick or treating
• Pumpkin Carving Day in Louisiana
• Kite Flying
• Trick or Treating on Halloween!

Flying a kite with Paw paw Berch II

Zachary's Elmo Pumpkin! He did a great job digging and hallowing.

And the Saints pumpkin just behind Elmo.

Creepy Creatures

October 18-22

Books

• Stellaluna
• The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carl

Crafts

• Making a bat
• Making a spider web
• Free drawing

Music and Signs

• The Itsy Bitsy Spider
• Signs for Spider

Baking

• Sugar cookies of Halloween things

Autumn Fruits and Vegetables with a Pumpkin Emphasis

October 11-15

• Books- The Littlest Pumpkin, It's Pumpkin Time, Eating the Alphabet
• Crafts- Painting a pumpkin picture (MDO), Painting fall fruits and veggies picture
• Music- Autumn Leaves are Falling Down, 1 Little 2 Little 3 Little Pumpkins, 5 A Day
• ABC- Letter H
• Baking- Pumpkin Pie and Roasting Seeds
• Activities- Carving a little pumpkin and putting a candle inside, Pumpkin Patch

Discover Autumn

October 4-8

• Books- Apples and Pumpkins
• Music- Autumn Leaves Are Falling Down
• Craft- Leaf painting and gluing on construction paper. Will make into a place mat.
• ABC- Letter G
• Activities- Decorating the House in Autumn

We of course had to have one blue leaf. :)

These were used for the Autum placemat. Found on google images

I Can See, Hear, and Touch

September 27- Oct 1

We did not do anything this week b/c we went to visit my Mom and Dad. :) But this is what we were going to do.

• Music- Make a sound garden similar to one that was done at Little REaD Wagon with pots, pans and other items hanging on a string and using mallets or spoons to experiment with sounds.
• Crafts- Rainbow Rocks- Heat rocks in the oven and color with crayons when hot enough. Macaroni art-Color different shapes. Glue macaroni around shapes.
• Baking- Blue jello/gelatin squares for texture and home made play doh for texture
• ABC- Letter E