Week #20 brought brand new quiet boxes which the students were excited about.  Some of the new boxes include rolling dice and counting bears,

 sorting candy hearts, and

 counting bubbles for fish.

 If a child chooses not to play in their quiet box, their other options are to work on a puzzle or read a book.

 The 4s classes finished their collage art projects this week by gluing their cut paintings onto a piece of paper.

 The 3s class worked on fine motor skills by tracing lines and

 painting snow pictures with water bottle lids.

 The 4s classes created some pretty watercolor hearts by first tracing the hearts with glue, then sprinkling salt over the glue, and finally painting over the salt.

 The 3s class enjoyed playing with play dough this week.

 During week #19 our letter was Nn and our number was 10. We read the book "10 Black Dots" and then each student created something in their journal using 10 dots.  We had a variety of ideas from a crooked tree stump to a snowman and a lot of things in between.

 We also started an art project by painting our papers. We will continue next week by cutting our painted papers into pieces and then gluing the pieces onto a second piece of paper to make a collage.

 We dotted the letter N and talked about narwhals. We also talked about heavy vs. light by clapping, stomping, and jumping.  We practiced counting forward to and backwards from ten with our fingers. 

 Week #18 brought a new center-Gingerbread Decorating.

 We read the Napping House in the 4s classes and then did some watercolor painting with the characters from the story.  We practiced making L which was our letter of the week. The 3s only had one day of school again this week because of some bad weather but we practiced tracing the letter L and also some lines. We also colored a ladybug with 9 black dots.

 Week #17 was another short week. Our letter was Jj and our shape in the 4s classes was star so we traced stars with glue and then covered them with glitter.

 Our number was nine and we practiced our cutting skills.  The students have come a long way with their scissor practice. The 3s class only had one day this week and we used it to get back into our routine, but we had fun while doing it.

 We had our Christmas parties during week #16.  We had fun playing games and eating treats. THANK YOU to all of the parents who helped make the parties a success! We beaded candy canes.

 We stacked snowmen with large marshmallows.

 We went fishing for candy canes and got to take home the ones we caught.

 We had an indoor snowball toss where we tried to throw cotton balls into clear plastic cups decorated like snowmen.

 We went ice skating in the hallway with paper plates.

 We played a memory game with Hershey Kisses that had stickers on the bottom.  Each student was allowed to find and keep three matches. Finally we tried to get through the hula hoop without making the bells jingle.