What An Exciting Week!

So many exciting things happened this week in our classroom! We've been working on many holiday projects and made menorahs and Santas. We learned about the Dutch custom where the children place hay and carrots in their shoes on December 5 and then find little treats the next morning. We left out a pair of wooden shoes and found gold candy coins and candy canes in them the next morning.
We also have our elf, Ginger, back with us. Each day we find Ginger in a new spot. He has been a great motivation for us. In this picture, we found Ginger hanging on our neat work chart. We decided that Ginger wanted to remind us to work neatly.

 

The next day Ginger left us this message about our wonderful work and behavior!

 

On Friday we made our own gingerbread houses. We have them on display in our classroom, but will send them home before the holidays. It was a lot of fun, and a great fine motor task!