December 2004

December has arrived, with anticipation of the holidays. We are having fun decorating the classrooms and sharing in the children's delight. This is such a hectic time of year for all of us. It is especially important to take time to share the magic of the season with the special people in our lives.

	Our Holiday Show is Thursday, December 16th at 7:00 p.m. at the Holiday Inn on Touhy Ave. Please have your child there no later than 6:45 p.m. Our 3,4 and 5 year-olds will delight you with songs of the season. When you come for the show, please keep your children with you until the teachers ask for them. Please bring your baked goods directly to the hotel, there will be a table in the back of the room for you to put them on.

	We'd like to extend a special invitation to our Toddler Parents to attend our Holiday Show so you can see what is in store for them next year. We have found that to put our littlest angels on the stage is very overwhelming for them.


Santa Claus will visit Tiny Tot on Tuesday, December 14th. It is customary for Santa to visit with the Kindergarten and Pre-Kindergarten together and then the Toddlers and Three-year-olds. It is a very exciting morning here and really gets us in the spirit.

Thank you for you cookie dough and popcorn orders. The goodies will be delivered on Wednesday, December 9th at 12:oo noon. If you work in the area and are able to pick up your orders on your lunch, please let us know.

REMINDER...

	Christmas is coming. We will close at 6:oo p.m. Thursday, December 23^rd and open on Monday, January 3^rd.

		The weather is getting colder. Please dress your child appropriately. Mittens, hats and scarves keep their little hands and heads warm while they are out on the playground. Please label these items. The children are welcome to bring a pair of slippers to school to wear during the day.

	December Birthday List Divitya V. December 13^th Addison B. December 16^thMiss Nicole December 17^th^{HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!}

WHAT'S HAPPENING...

Our Teddy Bears, the two's ... made a counting tree and caterpillar to learn to count. For our Fall Colors and Changes Week, we did lots of fun activities including looking at leaves. We decorated our own leaves. The Christmas season is here and we turned our room into a Santa Wonderland with a large Ho, Ho, Ho Santa and Mrs. Clause. We also made stockings with our names on them and welcomed snow by making our first snowmen of the season.



The Bunny Bunch, the threes ... bid farewell to the leaves of fall with leaf prints. During the first week of December we began creating a winter wonderland. We made snow scenes and snowmen to decorate our classroom. We also had fun with Circus Week. We made paper plate lions and circus clowns.



Our 4's, our Junior Kindergarten ... enjoyed making terrific turtles during "T" Week. Our stocking are put by the chimney with care... Our Christmas stockings hold our wish lists.



Our 5's, our Kindergartener's... during our unit on leaves we took a leaf walk and made a collage with the leaves we found. When we talked about our families, we drew a picture of a tree and drew our family on the tree or brought in pictures to put on our tree. We also talked about the sizes of our families and charted how many people we have in our families. We decorated stockings and hung them on our classroom fireplace in celebration of the holidays.



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