Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Circle Time.  The kids are working on Jack Sprat, Hey Diddle Diddle, Dear Laddies and Jellyfish, and our Spanish song.  For Christmas, we got out our bells and shakers to sing Christmas Bells are Ringing and Jingle Bells.  We sprinkled in some other Christmas songs as well.

Literature.  We read Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel.  Mike took good care of Mary Anne.  How can we take good care of what we have?  Our earth?

Music.  The highlight of our day was having Billie's daddy, Josh, play the guitar for us.  We danced to  La Bamba and Christmas music.  Angel loves to dance and really got into everything.  Josh also played some slower music for our yoga and even meditation time.  He said he got a little choked up singing It's a Wonderful World to the kids.


Art.  We mixed glue and shaving cream together to make "snow".  The kids made a snowman.  It dries to such a fun and puffy texture.

The next class we did puffy paint on a plastic sheet.  You can peel this and hang it on the window.  I printed a snowflake coloring page and slipped in a sheet protector.  The kids did a beautiful job! 



Math.  We practiced sorting today.  I got some coins out and asked the kids how we could sort them in similar groups.  Gus was great at this.  We sorted by size, worth, and color.
    
Game.  I Love All My Neighbors.

Journal.  My Christmas plans are to...

Science Experiment.  We put Ivory soap in the microwave and let it explode.  It looked like snow (the only kind we can get in CA).  We did it twice and then went outside to let them play with them.
  

Madelyn is so good to play with the kiddos after school while I clean up.