PreK – Christmas style

We’ve been keeping it pretty simple lately and just trying to get some things done around the house.  School has mostly consisted of life school lately although we’re desperately trying to get back into our regular schedule!

We’ve been posting our Christmas crafts daily, so I’m not going to repost them.  Here’s a little link cheat sheet though:

1.  Reindeer Handprint Craft (our post)
2.  Marshmallow Snowmen (our post)
3.  Make Christmas Cards (from Baloo!) (our post)
4.  Chocolate Striped Pretzels (our post)
5.  Foot Christmas Tree craft (our post)
6.  Make snow! (our post)
7.  Peppermint Bark (our post)
8.  Noel Banner (our post)
9.  Thumbprint Cookies (our post)
10.  Hand Ornaments (our post)

We got out our Fisher Price Nativity set and talked a bit about Jesus and his birthday.  I’m hoping to go into more detail the closer we get to Christmas, although the boys have really enjoyed playing with the set.

They loved setting up the tree, but even more they have enjoyed sitting next to the tree and playing with the string of lights.  They like to see how the light changes if they cover it with their hands, or get it close to their faces.
 

I cut out these trees and some ornaments with felt.  We’ve played a few games with them.  On this one I had Baloo tell me how many of each color there were (and get the corresponding number) and then we added together all the colors and figured out how many there were total.

We made patterns with the ornaments and I had Baloo reproduce the patterns.

We attempted to play the Dreidel game.  They mostly enjoyed eating the cheerios and just spinning the dreidel.

Baloo has surgery schedule this upcoming week so I’m not planning to do much.  I have found so many printables that I want to try though!!