The first day of December began with activities to prepare our hearts and minds for the birth of our Savior Jesus. The following activities were chosen to enhance Jesus Time and to develop each child's fine/gross motor skills, to foster problem solving skills, peer interactions, language skills and social and emotional growth, while providing age appropriate experiences.
Activities available for the children:
Understanding the workings of locks and keys/nuts and bolts
Cooperative play with new classroom toys
Painting with water colors-Jesus Time craft, The angel Gabrielle visiting Mary
and Joseph
Mini stamps to depict people featured in the Nativity story
Sensory table filled with "manger paper" and items that are green
Matching Christmas pictures
Stamping a green #5, 5 times and counting the 5's
ABA patterning of foam pegs by color
Counting to 5 using pegs
Lobby art-glitter angels
Class Library-Christmas and winter books
Commons-motor development
Campus Walk looking for signs of Christmas
Bow Toss game
Exploring the Christmas story with a flannel board
Threading disc-using a pipe cleaner
Story time-3 seasonal books
Jesus Time- The angel's visit to Mary and Joseph, Learning about
Advent/lighting the first candle, Hope candle practicing our Chapel
service message for Dec.17th
Finding green objects in the stocking
Here we in action!
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