Chinese New Year!

                                      

Chinese New Year is on Saturday, January 28^th.  2017 is the year of the rooster.

We will read books about the traditions of this holiday and will make fierce dragon puppets on Friday. Since red is a lucky color, please try to dress your child with some red on Friday, January 27^th (I know this is last minute, so if your child does not have anything red, please don’t worry!). We may have our own little parade through the Roxbury halls!

Gung Hay Fat Choy

(Have a happy and prosperous New Year)!

Don't rush when you brush!

We had a surprise visit from Mrs. P to teach us how to keep our teeth healthy and to check our teeth!

 Mrs. P read "The Tooth Book" by Dr. Seuss!

We loved hearing all of the silly rhymes!

Then, we met "Mr. B" who helped teach us how to brush our teeth and even our tongue!

We learned a few cool rhymes that our helpful when brushing our teeth....

"Don't rush when you brush!"

and 

"Just a dot, not a lot!" when using our toothpaste!

Thanks for visiting Mrs. P! We promise to brush our teeth and eat healthy foods and drink!

Happy Birthday Matthew!

 Happy birthday to you! We hope you have a fabulous year, Matthew! We enjoyed the yummy cupcakes! xoxo

Happy Birthday Sloane!

We hope all of your wishes come true! Thanks for your "pinkalicious" cupcakes! xoxo

We may look different, but we are all friends!

On Friday, we learned about MLK's dream....for all people to get along. In Pre-K we talked about how we should not care about what people look like on the outside, but who they are on the inside! We read "It's Okay to be Different" by Todd Parr and read a scholastic digital magazine about Dr. King. Our little scholars made our own "I Have a Dream" hats and wore them proudly! I hope you enjoyed the day off!

Enjoying some fresh air! :)

They may look different....

But they are friends!!!!

Our Pre-K dream is that we are all nice to each other and two thumbs up to Pre-K for accomplishing this!

xoxoxo

Holiday Fun!

We kicked off the holiday season with Kwanzaa! We read Kwanzaa stories and decorated Kwanzaa mats. We learned about Kwanzaa traditions such as lighting the Kinara and the colors of Kwanzaa...red, green, black and yellow!

We then read Hanukkah stories and learned about Hanukkah traditions! We learned that Hanukkah lasts for 8 nights, you light the menorah and a game played is spinning the dreidel! Thank you to Mrs. Pachter and Mrs. Cooper for coming in to teach us some Hanukkah traditions! 

 

Delicious Dreidels!

Last, we read Christmas stories and learned Christmas traditions! We learned that we decorate Christmas trees and our houses, sing Christmas carols and the colors of Christmas are red and green!

Decorating the Christmas trees that were made  ENTIRELY ourselves! They are displayed in our classroom! :)

Reindeer Hokey Pokey!

                                     

Our beautiful holiday display!!!!

December was so busy....and FUN!!!!

Cookie Decorating!

Thanks to Mrs. D in Ms. Tenk's K class....we decorated gingerbread cookies! Mrs. D was nice enough to make them for us! Thank you Mrs. D...they sure were yummy!!! It was especially fun after reading so many "Gingerbread" stories!

 Do you recognize these adorable little elves who decorated (ate ate!) the cookies?!?

 Love our cozy fireplace scene for the holidays!!!

All Aboard!!!!

We grabbed our tickets and are ready to board The Polar Express! 

This is one of my favorite Pre-K/K traditions! We were so cozy in our PJs! 

Thanks to all of the Pre-K families who contributed goodies to make our day a success! 

 

This conductor looks very familiar!!! Tickets...tickets!!!

 Showtime!!!!

  Now time for hot chocolate and donuts! 

My nephew, Mikey, in Ms. Tenk's class! 

                 It was a magical day! 

Pre-K is so lucky that they will get to go on The Polar Express next year again!

                                                                        We had SO much Fun!